What Is a ‘Flash Drought’? And How Did It Contribute to the Deadly Maui Fires?
Conditions were ripe for the Maui fires, said civil and environmental engineering professor Venkat Lakshmi, an expert in hydrology who...
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Conditions were ripe for the Maui fires, said civil and environmental engineering professor Venkat Lakshmi, an expert in hydrology who...
After a few months as chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, we asked Devin Harris what’s ahead for his...
Decades of public messages in the U.S. have pushed us in the wrong direction, say UVA Engineering professor Leidy Klotz and his co-...
Larry Band, environmental science and engineering systems and environment professor, is part of a UVA team partnering with Virginia...