 Email: bedient@rice.edu Phone: 713-348-4953 Office: 113 Mechanical Lab Websites: Personal Web Page SSPEED Flood Alert System 2 Envi 412/512 -- Hydrology and Watershed Analysis |
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Philip B. BedientProfessor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringSurface and groundwater hydrology, geographical information and decision support systems, flood control and water quality strategies, modeling, contaminant transport mechanisms in groundwater, aquifer remediation strategies and modeling. Dr. Philip B. Bedient is the Herman Brown Professor of Engineering in the Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. He teaches and performs research in surface and ground water hydrology and flood prediction systems. He has directed 50 research projects over the past 30 years, has written over 180 articles in journals and conference proceedings. He has worked on surface water problems including major floodplain studies, water quality assessments, and hydrologic modeling for a number of watersheds in Texas, Florida, and Louisiana. He has been actively involved in the area of hydrologic analysis for flood prediction and warning, and recently developed a real-time flood alert system for the Texas Medical Center, based on the use of NEXRAD radar data. Dr. Bedient is organizing the Houston testbed for the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center led by UMass Amherst, and the University of Oklahoma. CASA will focus on revolutionary sensing technology that will enable earlier and more accurate forecasts of weather emergencies and other atmospheric phenomena. Dr. Bedient has also performed research in areas of groundwater contamination and modeling for the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Air Force sites across the country. |
