Tania P. Lopez-Cantu
Ph.D. Candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering
119 Porter Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
I am a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University working with Prof. Constantine Samaras. My interests lie at the intersection of climate change, urban development, data analytics and sustainability. My recent work focuses on two complementary aspects of long-term water infrastructure adaptation to climate change. One aims at characterizing observed and future climate change, particularly the uncertainty in future climate projections that is relevant to the optimal performance of existing and design of future infrastructure. The second consists of developing tools that build upon the recognized future climate uncertainty and the specific system’s resilience to make robust adaptation decisions. I mostly use Python and Geographical Information Systems (ArcGIS and QGIS) software for my daily research.
See my resume here.
news
| Sep 5, 2020 | I will serve as chair in the Pratical challenges in the applications of DMDU session at the 2020 DMDU Annual Meeting. More information here. |
| May 27, 2020 | Our recent collaborative work with researchers at the Arizona State University about past and future challenges to infrastructure standards was published in the ASCE Infrastructure Systems Journal! |
| May 18, 2020 | I was awarded the Civil and Environmental Engineering Best Teaching Assistant Award! I am very grateful to my advisor, and the students in the Climate Adaptation course who supported my nomination. It was a tough semester, but we made it through! |
| Apr 9, 2020 | My recent work comparing different sources of downscaled climate projections for the U.S. was published in Geophysical Research Letters! The paper is open access, and you can read it here |
| Feb 10, 2020 | Read the Chemical and Engineering News article about climate change education featuring my and my collegues research here. |