Principle Investigator
Ed Beighley
Edward Beighley, Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
427 Snell Engineering Center
360 Huntington Avenue
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Tel: (617) 373 – 3368 | r.beighley[at]northeastern.edu
Graduate Researchers
Sadia Khan
Sadia Khan is working on characterizing stormwater nutrient export variability in order to develop an optimized diversion and treatment strategy. As a part of the collaborative study between the City of Cambridge, Stantec, and Northeastern University, Sadia is focusing on data-driven solutions for managing stormwater nutrient export from a dense urban watershed. She hopes that her work will help in developing novel stormwater BMP capable of significant reductions in Phosphorus loadings which in turn, will improve the current eutrophication situation in Charles River. Sadia obtained her B.S in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology and was a Lecturer in University of Asia pacific (currently on study leave). She likes to cook, paint and travel.
Max Rome
Max studies eutrophication and is working to understand the dynamics of harmful algal blooms on the Charles River. He is interested in translating ecological research into tools that can be used by environmental engineers for better managing aquatic pollution. Max has been working to design and permit a pilot-scale floating wetland installed on the Charles River in the spring of 2020. He hopes that data collected from this project can be used to evaluate existing regulatory models and to understand the role that restored habitat can have in controlling toxic algal blooms. Max lives with his partner and baby in Allston and enjoys cycling, cooking, and gardening.
Bhavya Duvvuri
Bhavya is working on developing a global river discharge product from remotely sensed data. Her focus is on developing functional relationships between discharge and total water storage. The model parameters are regionalized to derive model river discharges in the ungauged basins. In another project, she is working on developing a surface water mapping method using simple unsupervised recursion techniques which would overcome the disadvantages of commonly used water indices like NDWI & MNDWI. This technique requires fewer data and can be used in measuring surface water change over time. Bhavya graduated with a master’s in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and worked as a senior design and proposal engineer with KIS Group in India. Bhavya enjoys hiking, reading, travel.
Jaclyn Gehring
Jaclyn is working on deriving river discharge for ungauged locations using remotely sensed water surface characteristics, mean reach characteristics, and optimized parameters. This research will provide readily available river discharge data at a near global extent for applications across disciplines, including hydrology and biogeochemistry. Jaclyn obtained her B.S. in Geology with a minor in Data Analytics from Union College in Schenectady, New York. Originally from Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, Jaclyn enjoys going to the beach, swimming, surfing, playing with her dog (Zeus!), reading books, playing the NYT mini-crossword, and eating/cooking good food.
Beth Bartuska
Beth is working on evaluating flood maps created from satellites and their associated complexities, including cloud obstruction of data. She also is working with the application of remote sensing in examining the effects of flooding in communities, which will help in furthering the understanding of environmental justice issues brought about by the harmful impacts of flooding. She is a graduate of Penn State University’s Schreyer Honors College, majoring in Biological Engineering with a specialization in Natural Resources Engineering. Beth loves being outdoors (especially hiking and swimming), crafting, bouldering, teaching herself to play guitar, and waterskiing.
Alumni
Cassie Nickles, PhD – 2021
Applied Science Systems Engineer Postdoc at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. At Northeastern Cassie’s research focused on NASA’s upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission. ORCiD
Roozbeh Raoufi, PhD – 2019
Senior Scientist at AON specializing in Forecasting US inland flood risk. . At Northeastern Roozbeh’s research focused on using remote sensing to estimate daily evapotranspiration. ORCiD
Dongmei Feng, PhD – 2018
Assistant Professor at University of Cincinnati . Dr. Feng leads the Terrestrial Hydrology Lab in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. ORCiD
Yanhao Zhao – 2019