Current research projects: the Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination
Threats (PROTECT); induced partial saturation (IPS) through transport and reactivity for
liquefaction mitigation; and green remediation of contaminated groundwater by solar
energy conversion into electrolysis.

Articles

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Experimental Validation of a Numerical Forward Model for Tunnel Detection Using Cross-Borehole Radar (with Arvin Farid, Jose A. Martinez-Lorenzo, and Carey M. Rappaport), Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (2012)

The goal of this research is to develop an experimentally validated twodimensional (2D) finite difference...

 

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Cross-Well Radar I: Experimental Simulation of Cross-Well Tomography and Validation (with Arvin Farid and Carey M. Rappaport), Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (2009)

This paper explains and evaluates the potential and limitations of conducting Cross-Well Radar (CWR) in...

 

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Cross-Well Radar II: Comparison and Experimental Validation of Modeling Channel Transfer Function (with Arvin Farid, Sophia H. Zhan, and Carey M. Rappaport), Journal of Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering (2009)

Close agreement between theory and experiment is critical for adequate understanding and implementation of the...

 

Contributions to Books

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Electromagnetic Waves in Contaminated Soils (with Arvin Farid and Carey M. Rappaport), Electromagnetic Waves Propagation in Complex Matter (2011)

Soil is a complex, potentially heterogeneous, lossy, and dispersive medium. Modeling the propagation and scattering...

 

Presentations

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The progress of RapSoch (rapid soil characterization system) (with E. Corey, E. Kianirad, A. M. Farid, and R. Gamache), SoilBED Presentations (2007)

The objective of the program is to design and build a system (Hardware and Software)...

 

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Tunnel detection using cross borehole radar (with Clay Kurison, Arvin M. Farid, and Carey M. Rappaport), I-PLUS Presentations (2006)

Shallow tunnels present both military and homeland security threats. Smugglers with intentions of avoiding border...