Dr. Zhihua, Assistant Professor with the ASU’s School of Sustainable Engineering & the Built Environment joins the NCE as the Co-Director for Climate Systems Research.
Dr. Zhihua Wang completed his Ph.D. study in the Environmental Engineering and Water Research (EEWR) program at Princeton University. He obtained his B.Eng and M.Eng degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering [...]
Recently, the NCE completed a study for the Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA) on asphalt pavement temperature effects on overall Urban Heat Island (UHI) with focus on characterizing porous asphalt mixtures. A paper summarizing the study was presented at the Transportation Research Board meeting in January 2012. Excerpts of the study are presented as follows. Please [...]
The Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA) is one of the founding industry members and supporters of the NCE since its inception back in 2006. The NCE and APA have successfully collaborated on various research activities in the areas of sustainable asphalt paving materials and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. Many of these research initiatives have [...]
NCE Director, Dr. Kaloush, contributed his knowledge in basic terms about the problems and solutions of UHI in an article in Chain Reaction Magazine. Chain Reaction is a science magazine/website for grades 4-8 students. The magazine is published by the ASU’s Office of Research Communications highlighting the stories of science and learning from ASU. The [...]
Dr. Krishna P. Biligiri, Research Scientist with the ASU’s School of Sustainable Engineering & the Built Environment joins the NCE as the Assistant Director. Krishna obtained a doctoral degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from ASU in 2008. Dr. Biligiri’s experience is in pavement materials and tire / pavement noise. He has been involved [...]
