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CEE Student Blogs 2011: Naomi Stein Reporting From Washington The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (known as TRB) in Washington, D.C. is attended by about 10,000 people from around the globe. M.S.T. student Naomi Stein is blogging. 2011: TREX in the Waiulaula Watershed in Hawaii Seventeen undergrads accompanied by four faculty members and three TAs will spend three weeks on the big island of Hawaii studying the Waiulaula Watershed. 2011: Claudia Espinoza Reporting From Nepal Claudia Espinoza and Maclyn O'Donnell are doing research in the Terai region of Nepal to find out why arsenic drinking water filters are failing under certain conditions. 2011: Katie Puckett Reporting From Honduras Katie Pucket and Kent Walker will spend January performing an assessment of the wastewater treatment in the Lake Yojoa subwatershed in western Honduras. 2010: Anthony Carrasquillo Reporting From LA Graduate student Anthony Carrasquillo is an atmospheric chemist working with scientists from many institutions to gather information about Los Angeles air quality, as part of CalNex2010. 2010: MIT Steel Bridge Team The MIT Steel Bridge team is preparing for the 2010 competition. Regionals will be held at Tufts in April; finals will be at Purdue in in May. Junior Emily Moberg is leading the team’s blogging effort. 2010: Denvid Lau Reporting From the Lab Ph.D. student Denvid Lau is interested in novel structural solutions in the design and construction of tall buildings. He studies the debonding of bi-layer material systems. 2010: Alex Cobb Reporting From Borneo Postdoctoral associate Alex Cobb is studying the peat forests of Borneo, exploring how the hydrological processes and the carbon cycle are linked and how they change over time. 2010: Travis Dunn Reporting From Washington Together with dozens of MIT students and faculty, transportation doctoral candidate Travis Dunn attended the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. 2010: Travis Watters Reporting From Ghana Travis Watters is an M.Eng. graduate student from Louisville, Ky., who is spending January in Ghana helping with development plans for a water filter factory.
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