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Clinton S. Willson, Ph.D., P.E. |
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Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Current Research Funding
Advanced Energy Consortium: Relating the transport properties of nanosensors to rock structure and fluid properties in geologic formations (co-PI) Collaborators: Karsten Thompson and Dimitris Nikitopolous
Exxon/Mobil: Modeling Inertial Flows Using Image Analysis and Image-based Pore-scale Modeling (co-PI) Collaborators: Karsten Thompson, Mayank Tyagi, Chris White, and Steve Sears
National Science Foundation, Hydrological Sciences Division, Biomass Imaging in Multiphase Systems Using Synchrotron X-ray Tomography (PI) Collaborators: Bill Moe and Karsten Thompson Student: Keegan Roberts
LA Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Restoration Division, “Physical and Numerical Modeling of River Flow and Sediment Transport in the Lower Mississippi River Delta” (PI). Students: Erol Karadogan, Samantha Danchuk, Ryan Waldron, Molly Friedmann,
Ascension Parish Drainage Board, “Hydrologic Analysis of Drainage in East Ascension Parish” (PI) Students: Jason Braud, Jessica Mason
Other Current Projects
Oil Spill Fate-and-Transport Modeling Students: Samantha Danchuk
South Florida Water Management District, “Hydrology in Mangrove Forests” Collaborators: Robert Twilley, Victor Rivera-Monroy, Ehab Meshele (ULL) Students: Joseph Tsai
Previous Research Funding
National Science Foundation, “SGER: Hydrologic, Chemical and Microbial Data Related to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, LA” (PI)
American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund, “Correlation of Multiphase Fluid Properties with Pore Geometry and Topology” (PI)
LA Board of Regents, LEQSF Enhancement Program, “Development of a fluid-structure-soil interaction laboratory”, (PI).
Coastal Research and Enhancement through Science and Technology Program (CREST), “PULSES: The Role of Very Large, Infrequent Diversions in the Formation, Maintenance, and Restoration of the Mississippi River Delta” (co-PI; PI: Day, LSU DOCS).
LSU Council on Research: Faculty Research Grant Award, “A Comparative Morphometric and Microarchitectural Study of the Dermal Papillary Body of Equine and Bovine Hooves, Canine and Feline Claws, and Pstittacine Beaks: Implications for the Evolutionary Biology and Veterinary Medicine Involving Corneous Structures of Mammals and Birds” (co-PI; PI: Hornberger).
National Science Foundation, Hydrological Sciences, “Collaborative Research: Measurement and Modeling of Pore-Scale Flows”, collaborative project with Markus Hilpert, Johns Hopkins.
National Science Foundation, Instrumentation for Material Research Program, “Acquisition of a Multilayer Monochromator for a Synchrotron X-ray Microtomography Station” (PI; co-PIs: Kurtz, LSU Physics, Ham, CAMD).
National Science Foundation, “REU Site: Tomography in Civil and Environmental Engineering” (PI).
CITGO, “Evaluation of Capping of the CITGO Surge Pond and Lagoon” (co-PI; PI: Reible)
Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute, “Use of Synchrotron Microtomography and X-Ray Fluorescence to Better Understand Contaminant Diffusion in Reactive Barrier Systems” (PI).
Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technologies (CICEET; joint project with the University of New Hampshire)
LA Board of Regents, Research Competitiveness Subprogram, LEQSF Enhancement Program
LA Department of Transportation and Development, “Evaluation of Aquifer Capacity to Sustain Short-, Long-term Ground Water Withdrawal from Point Sources in Chicot Aquifer for Southwest Louisiana” (co-PI; PI: Hanson, LGS)
LA Department of Natural Resources, “Evaluation of Aquifer Capacity to Sustain Long Term Ground Water Withdrawal from Point Sources” (co-PI; PI: Hanson, LGS)
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, “Climatological and Hydrologic Conditions and Trends in the Upper Ponchartrain Basin” (co-PI; PI: Suhayda)
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