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Recent Research

▼   Reinventing Rural Wastewater Management to Improve Water Quality (and Public Health) in Alabama
Agency: US Environmental Protection Agency
Dr. Kevin White
▼   Parking Lot BioInfiltration Swale Implementation on USA Campus in the Upper Three Mile Creek Watershed
Agency: Alabama Department of Environmental Management/USEPA
Dr. Kevin White
▼   Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning
Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dr. Bret Webb
▼   Evaluating the Capacity of Natural and Nature-Based Features to Reduce Coastal Storm Hazards
Agency: US Army Corps of Engineers
Dr. Bret Webb
▼   Green Infrastructure Techniques for Coastal Highway Resilience
Agency: US Department of Transportation
Dr. Bret Webb
▼   Fowl River Marsh Health Study
Agency: Mobile Bay National Estuary Program (National Fish and Wildlife Foundation)
Dr. Bret Webb
▼   Little Lagoon Extended Monitoring and Research
Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Bret Webb
▼   Development of the ALDOT Older Driver Safety Summit Program
Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Samantha Islam
▼   Evaluation of Safety Effects of Sight Distance Restrictions on Vertical Curves: A Proof of Concept Study
Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Samantha Islam
▼   Development of Safety Performance Functions (SPF) and Part C Crash Modification Factors (CMF) for Rural Local Roads in Alabama
Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Samantha Islam
▼   The Value of Open Space as a Waterfront Use: a Mixed Methods Study on the Gulf Coast
Agency: Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium
Dr. Samantha Islam
▼   Driven Precast Prestressed Concrete (PPC) Pile Design and Construction Optimization
Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDoT) Research Bureau; Joint Project with University of Alabama
Dr. Eric Steward
▼   Driven pile setup and LRFD resistance factor calibration in Mississippi soils
Agency: Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT);
Dr. Eric Steward
▼   Verification of WBUZPILE Designed Methodology and the Development of a LRFD Driven Pile Resistance Factor Calibration for Alabama Soils
Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDoT)
Dr. Eric Steward
▼   Dilemma Zone Protection (DZP) System - Characterizing Driver Behavior and Optimizing DZP Boundaries
Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Min-Wook Kang
▼   Flashing Yellow Arrow (FYA) Left Turn Phasing by Time-Of-Day - Design and Operational Guidelines
Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Min-Wook Kang
▼   DZP System Pilot Study: Implementation of DZP Systems at High-Speed, High-Risk Signalized Intersections in Rural Alabama
Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Min-Wook Kang
▼   Development of a Roadway Congestion/Safety Improvement Too based on Surrogate Safety Assessment Model (SSAM)
Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. Min-Wook Kang
▼   Post-2017 Hurricane Season Assessment of Critical Beach Access Infrastructure Vulnerabilities
Agency: University of South Alabama Research and Scholarly Development Grant
Dr. Stephanie Smallegan
▼   Life cycle cost analyses of adaptive strategies on Dauphin Island to rising sea levels
Agency: University of South Alabama Center for Environmental Resiliency
Dr. Stephanie Smallegan
▼   Building sea-level rise and flood resilience capacity in the northern Gulf through students and teachers
Agency: National Academy of Sciences Gulf Research Program
Dr. Stephanie Smallegan
▼   Evaluation of Bio-based Graphene Reinforced Asphalt Mixture
Agency: USA - Faculty Development Council Grant Program
Dr. Shenghua Wu
▼   Pavement Surface Treatments for Ice-Prone Locations in the Illinois Highway System
Agency: Illinois Department of Transportation
Dr. Shenghua Wu
▼   Integrating Team-based Learning in Improving Technical Writing Skill for STEM Students
Agency: TBLC
Dr. Shenghua Wu
▼   Pile Driving Vibration Monitoring of the Future Mobile River Bridge Project
Agency: Alabama Department of Transportation
Dr. John Cleary