External Collaborators: Yanlin Guo - Assistant Professor, Colorado State University, United States Department of Energy (DOE) Renewables Advancing Community Energy Resilience (RACER)
All nuclear power plants are required to have a significant level of resistance to the effects of earthquake shaking, but the safety-grade nuclear equipment is generally large and routinely custom-made for each nuclear plant. Whittaker’s team will simplify plant design and standardize the equipment to drive down cost and speed construction.
External Collaborators: Erie County (NY) Department of Environment and Planning, New York State Department of Health, Syracuse University, Ceres Nanosciences
Traffic incidents have significant negative impacts on the safety and efficiency of overall transportation system performance. The transportation community has consistently strive to improve the transportation incident management process. This project demonstrates the ability of the NYSDOT, GDIT and IIMS to improve traffic incident management.
At the 2023 Modeling and Simulation (MODSIM) World 2023 Conference in Norfolk, Virginia, ISTL Director Kevin Hulme, PhD, and his team of transportation engineering researchers presented their findings in the application of different video game engine simulations to enhance transportation research.
[JGR'21] X. Guo, L. Clarisse, R.Wang, M. Van Damme, S. Whitburn, P. Coheur, C. Clerbaux,B. Franco, D. Pan, L. M. Golston, L. Wendt, K. Sun, L. Tao, D. Miller, T. Mikoviny, M.Mller, A. Wisthaler, A. G. Tevlin, J. G. Murphy, J. B. Nowak, J. R. Roscioli, R.Volkamer,N. Kille, J. A. Neuman, S. J. Eilerman, J. H. Crawford, T. I. Yacovitch, J. D. Barrick, A. J.Scarino, and M A. Zondlo, Validation of IASI satellite ammonia observations at the pixel scaleusing insitu vertical profiles. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, doi:10.1029/2020JD033475
[GRL'20] R. Wang, X Guo, D Pan, J. T. Kelly, J. O. Bash, K. Sun, F. Paulot, L. Clarisse,M. Van Damme, S. Whitburn, P. Coheur, C. Clerbaux, and M. A. Zondlo, Monthly patternsof ammonia over the contiguous United States at 2 km resolution. Geophysical ResearchLetters, 47, e2020GL090579, doi:10.1029/2020GL090579
[JGR'20] Y. Zhang, K. Sun*, Z. Gao, Z. Pan, M. Shook, and D. Li, Diurnal climatologyof planetary boundary layer height over the contiguous United States derived from AMDARand reanalysis data, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, doi:10.1029/2020JD032803
[NatCommun'20] D. Pan, L. Tao, K. Sun, L. M. Golston, D. J. Miller, T. Zhu, Y. Qing, Y.Zhang, D. L. Mauzerall, and M. A. Zondlo , Methane emissions from natural gas vehicles inChina, Nature Communications, 11, 4588, doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18141-0, 2020
[EST'20b] M. A. G Demetillo, A. Navarro, K. K. Knowles, K. P. Fields, J. A. Geddes, C. R.Nowlan, S. J. Janz, L. M. Judd, J. Al-Saadi, K. Sun, B. C. McDonald, G. S. Diskin, and S. E.Pusede, Observing Nitrogen Dioxide Air Pollution Inequality Using High-Spatial-ResolutionRemote Sensing Measurements in Houston, Texas, Environmental Science & Technology,doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c01864,2020
[STOTEN'20] G. Huang and K. Sun, Non-negligible impacts of clean air regulations on thereduction of tropospheric NO2 over East China during the COVID-19 pandemic observed byOMI and TROPOMI, Science of The Total Environment, 745, 141023, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141023,2020
[EST'20a] L. Golston, D. Pan, K. Sun, M. Zondlo, S. Eilerman, J. Peischl, J. A. Neuman, andC. Floerchinger, Variability of ammonia and methane emissions from animal feeding operationsin northeastern Colorado, Environmental Science & Technology, doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c00301, 2020
[AMT'19] J. Bak, X. Liu, K. Sun, K. Chance, and J.-H Kim, Linearization of the eect of slitfunction changes for improving OMI ozone profile retrievals, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 12, 3777{3788, doi:10.5194/amt-12-3777-2019, 2019
[Icarus'19] T. Karman, I. E. Gordon, A. van der Avoird, Y. I. Baranov, C. Boulet, B. J. Drouin,G. C. Groenenboom, M. Gustafsson, J. Hartmann, R. L. Kurucz, L. S. Rothman, K. Sun, K.Sung, R. Thalman, H. Tran, E. H. Wishnow, R. Wordsworth, A. A. Vigasin, R. Volkamer, andW. J. van der Zande, Update of the HITRAN collision-induced absorption section, Icarus,328, 160{175, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2019.02.034, 2019
[AMT'18] K. Sun*, L. Zhu, K. Cady-Pereira, C. Chan Miller, K. Chance, L. Clarisse, P.-F.Coheur, G. Gonzalez Abad, G. Huang, X. Liu, M. Van Damme, K. Yang, and M. Zondlo, Aphysics-based approach to oversample multi-satellite, multispecies observations to a commongrid, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11, 6679{6701, doi:10.5194/amt-11-6679-2018, 2018.
Research in environmental engineering seeks to better understand the physical, chemical, and biological processes that influence the health of our environment and to pursue innovative solutions for its protection. Researchers in this area also focus on engineering sustainability.
Research in geosystems engineering addresses computational geomechanics, deep foundations, ground improvement, seismic response of soils, liquefaction, and retrofit of foundations, dams, slopes, and retaining walls.
Researchers in the structural engineering, mechanics and materials group enhance community resiliency to earthquakes, develop design guidelines for buildings and other structures, and conduct vital research in various emerging areas such as wind, fire and materials engineering.
Research in transportation systems engineering focuses on improving the efficiency, safety, sustainability, and resiliency of surface transportation systems.