Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Forest Olaf Peterson, Ph.D.
Research Affiliate, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Staff, Civil and Environmental EngineeringBioAs a staff research affiliate, I bring both blue-collar and white-collar perspectives to my role as a scholar of infrastructure.
For seven years, I was a concrete laborer on large infrastructure projects with the Laborers’ International Union of North America. Those years taught me social and environmental dimensions from the ground up.
My fellow laborers wanted to work safely. However, though skilled, we often did not have the information to succeed without unnecessary hardship, for example, on a large highway project we could have worked on another task while a broken piece of equipment was repaired, however, neither the crew nor our supervisors had access to a task schedule to see that (there was a schedule, it was just permission that was missing -- though even with permission the schedule was your typical P6 Gantt which even at best wouldn't have been informative). As a result, our supervisors forced us to continue work loading miles of heavy concrete barriers with a damaged loader. Our choices were to work, quit, or be fired; we were not the operator of the loader, we were the ground crew [2023 Edit: we should have called our Union]. Eventually, a two-ton barrier dropped and hit something that flipped it over where it came to rest just inches above my chest. My fellow workers celebrated my life. One cried in memory of a recent work fatality. We were told to get back to work.
The futility of the situation has left a lasting impression.
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Justin S. Rogers
Research Oceanographer, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Staff, Program-Fringer O.BioPh.D. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2016
M.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
B.S. Civil Engineering (Minor in Chemistry), University of Arizona, 2004
Research interests:
-Coastal resilience, risk, sea level rise, extreme events, compound hazards
-Impact of climate change on human and natural systems in coastal and nearshore environments
-Core model development for coastal applications, storm surge, tropical cyclones, flood risk, bottom boundary layers, turbulence, and multiscale physics.
I leverage the power of cloud computing, HPC systems and modern code frameworks, and adapt multiple analysis methods including dynamical models, machine learning, statistical methods, and field observations. -
Carine Sauquet
Administrative Associate, Civil and Environmental Engineering
BioCarine provides administrative support to Prof.Jenna Davis & Prof. Alexandria Boehm & Prof. Meagan Mauter and their teams. Carine earned a Master’s in Computer Science Law and New Technologies, and Bachelor Degree in Business Law from University Paris XI in France. She has a background managing legal operational teams.
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Serdar Selamet
Adjunct Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering
BioAssoc. Professor with focus on Fire Engineering, Steel Structures and Numerical Modeling. Dr. Selamet specializes in fire protection engineering with focus on buildings and structures. His areas of expertise include heat transfer analysis, stability and critical temperature assessment of structural members, passive fire protection, building envelope (i.e. façade) fires, performance-based structural analysis under fire conditions and house fires in wildland urban interface. He specializes in providing origin and cause determinations for fires and explosions. Dr. Selamet has expertise in thermo-mechanical modeling and response using finite element software Abaqus and OpenSees Fire. In addition, he has gained experience using computer zone models such as OZone and Consolidated Model of Fire and Smoke Transport (CFAST) to simulate compartment fire dynamics.
