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CONTESTED FACTORS FOR SUSTAINABILITY: THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF HOUSEHOLD ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS
(Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 2015-09)Onsite sanitation systems experience a high failure rate with resulting environmental and public health implications. In the USA alone, the EPA estimates that 10% of the 26 million homes served by onsite systems have failed. ... -
Cultured Construction: Global Evidence of the Impact of National Values on Sanitation Infrastructure Choice
(Environmental Science & Technology, 2015-09)Case study research often claims culturevariously definedimpacts infrastructure development. I test this claim using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and newly available data representing change in national coverage of ... -
Field-testing liquefaction models based on geospatial vs. geotechnical data
(6th International Young Geotechnical Engineers' Conference, 2017-08-08)This study assesses the relative efficacy of liquefaction models based on geospatial vs. geotechnical data. In particular, state-of-practice geotechnical models based on the Cone Penetration Test (CPT) are compared to ... -
The Fourth Pillar of Infrastructure Sustainability: Tailoring Civil Infrastructure to Social Context
(Construction Management and Economics, 2015-09)This research proposes technical performance over time as a fourth pillar of sustainability theory for infrastructure. It also describes a method that allows us to discover how changes in the technical pillar (operationalised ... -
Fragility functions for performance-based ground failure due to soil liquefaction
(2017-10)The severity of liquefaction manifested at the ground surface is a pragmatic proxy of damage potential for various infrastructure assets, making it particularly useful for hazard mapping, land-use planning, and preliminary ... -
The Internal Social Sustainability of Sanitation Infrastructure
(Environmental Science & Technology, 2015-09)While the construction of sanitation infrastructure is one of humankind’s greatest public health and environmental engineering achievements, its benefits are not yet enjoyed by all. In addition to the billions of people ... -
Lobe-Cleft Instabilities on a river plume front
(2016-05-12)These data accompany a paper submitted to Geophysical Research Letters. The abstract is below. Gravity currents represent a broad class of geophysical flows including turbidity currents, powder avalanches, pyroclastic ... -
A Meteorological and Snow observational data set from Snoqualmie Pass (921 m), Washington Cascades, U.S.
(University of Washington, 7/20/2015)We introduce a quality controlled observational atmospheric, snow, and soil data set from Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, U.S.A., to enable testing of hydrometeorological and snow process representations within a rain-snow ... -
Observations of distributed snow depth and snow duration within diverse forest structures in a maritime mountain watershed
(2015)Spatially distributed snow depth and snow duration data were collected over two to four snow seasons during water years 2011-2014 in experimental forest plots within the Cedar River Municipal Watershed, 50 km east of ... -
Predicting Liquefaction in Near-Real-Time (NRT): An Assessment of Geospatial vs. Geotechnical Models During the Canterbury Earthquakes
(2017-10)Semi-empirical models based on in-situ geotechnical tests have become the standard of practice for predicting soil liquefaction. Since the inception of the "simplified" cyclic-stress model in 1971, variants based on various ... -
Probabalistic Prediction of Severity of Liquefaction Surface Manifestation Using Geotechnical and Geospatial Models
(2017-08-08)The severity of liquefaction manifested at the ground surface is a pragmatic proxy of damage potential for various infrastructure assets, making it particularly useful for hazard mapping ,land-use planning, and preliminary ... -
Technology Development to Explore the Relationship Between Oral Health and the Oral Microbial Community
(2006)The human oral cavity contains a complex microbial community that, until recently, has not been well characterized. Studies using molecular tools have begun to enumerate and quantify the species residing in various niches ... -
THEORIZING THE INTERNAL SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF SANITATION ORGANIZATIONS
(Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 15-09)Onsite household sanitation technologies such as septic tanks or latrines serve a large percentage of the world’s population. Unfortunately, they experience high failure rates after construction, with resulting environmental ... -
Wave generation of gravity-driven sediment flows on a predominantly sandy seabed
(2018)Wave-supported gravity flows (WSGF) generate rates of sediment flux far exceeding other cross-shelf transport processes, contributing disproportionately to shelf morphology and net cross-shelf fluxes of sediment in many ... -
Wave-Supported Gravity Currents Project: Experimental data from UW Sediment-Wave tank. Zero slope
(2015-03-01)Paper abstract: We present results from laboratory experiments in a wave flume with and without a sediment bed to investigate the turbulent structure and sediment dynamics of wave-supported mud layers. The presence of ... -
Yosemite Hydroclimate Network: Distributed Stream and Atmospheric Data for the Tuolumne River Watershed and Surroundings
(University of Washington, 2016-04-26)Regions of complex topography and remote wilderness terrain have spatially-varying patterns of temperature and streamflow, but due to inherent difficulties of access, are often very poorly sampled. Here we present a dataset ...