our environmental resources
NOTE – this site is continuously being updated and does not reflect our full scope of work
We are a dynamic and innovative group in Cornell University's
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering (BEE)
Beyond the Lab
Our work does not stay inside
You'll find us in the sprawling hills of New York all the way to the shores of Lake Tana, Ethiopia
Recent Highlights
Happy 89th Birthday to Jean-Yves Parlange, a prolific member of the SWL! Read more about his life and career at the link below:
Some nice reads that our members have recently published:
A theoretical underpinning of the pesticide Groundwater Ubiquity Score (GUS)
Improved regionalization of the CN method for extreme events at ungauged sites across the US
Measuring pore water velocities and dynamic contact angles at unstable wetting fronts
Our course BEE 4270: Water Measurement and Analysis Methods was featured in an article from the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station:
Real-life learning: engineering students learn by doing at Cornell AES farm
Our very own Tammo Steenhuis led the Cornell chapter of Engineers Without Borders on an irrigation project in Sunuka, Tanzania:
in a spiral array,
a pattern so grand and
complex
Time after time we lose site
of the way,
our causes can't see their effects