Civil and environmental engineering

Professor Penny Chisholm (center) and post-docs Erik Zinser and Debbie Lindell survey a plankton sample.

Microbes' 'blueprints' promise insights into oceans, more

August 13, 2003

Department could be an Earth steward, head of CEE says

April 30, 2003

Department could be an Earth steward, CEE head says

April 25, 2003

Professor Elfatih Eltahir of civil and environmental engineering sits by a monitor showing rock art of a giraffe carved thousands of years ago when portions of the Sahara were still green.

Climate models need their veggies

Research explains climate change in Sahara Desert 6,000 years ago

April 2, 2003

MIT students weed a taro field at the farm of Kia Fronde (standing at left rear), who introduced them to native culture and agriculture as well as hydrology.

Hawaii trek blends hydrology, native culture

March 19, 2003

Students Amanda Sorenson, Amber Jaycocks, Barbara Southworth and Andrew Yip calibrate a hydrolab before going out on kayaks to take water quality data.

MIT TREX to Hawaii teaches hydrology, native culture

March 7, 2003

David Senn with the filtration unit he and Professor Harry Hemond built to take water samples from the depths of the Upper Mystic Lake.

Research on arsenic and old lakes points to nitrate pollution

September 11, 2002

Jaillet named head of civil and environmental eng.

September 11, 2002

Team probes arsenic and old lakes

August 29, 2002

Bacterial 'nano-machines' are focus of $15M grant

August 14, 2002

12 in civil and environmental engineering receive awards

June 5, 2002

MIT student Hannah Sullivan takes a water sample from a well in the village of Mahilwari, Nepal, assisted by a villager. Hannah and seven colleagues visited villages in Nepal to test inexpensive ways to make drinking water safe.

MIT team tests inexpensive ways to bring clean water to villages in Nepal

May 22, 2002

John Coyne mounts sensor boxes atop the flagpole in Dupont Court to monitor the motion of the flagpole in the wind for the iCampus Flagpole Instrumentation project in civil and environmental engineering.

Sensors atop flagpole measure movement

April 3, 2002

This map shows three of the railroads being tunneled through the Alpsï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½#1 is the 57km Gotthard Tunnel, #2 is the 36km Loetschberg Tunnel and #3 is the 53km Maurienne-Ambin Tunnel.

Civil engineer discusses railroad tunneling through the Alps

February 27, 2002

Site to help building designers save energy

February 6, 2002

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