Missouri levee failure investigation team

Investigating failures of flood defense structures in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

Professors Bea(l) and Seed(r) survey the water-side face at a recently improved levee near the Antioch Bridge in the California Delta, where an earthquake, considered long overdue, could weak havoc with the existing web of levees.

Development and validation of analytical methods to include human and organizational factors in quantitative risk assessments of engineered systems

Development and validation of approaches and strategies to improve the management of human and organizational factors during the life cycle development of engineered systems

Assessment of fitness for purpose for extended service of offshore oil and gas infrastructure systems (fixed and floating platforms, pipelines, shore based facilities)

Evaluation of measures to improve the resilience and sustainability of interdependent infrastructure systems in California’s Sacramento Delta region (with Profs. Karlene Roberts, Ian Mitroff, Emery Roe, Dan Farber, John Radke, Kathleen Tierney and Associates Howard Foster, Cheryl Bly-Chester, Kofi Inkabi, and Scott Nicholson)

Investigation of the failures of the flood protection structures in the Greater New Orleans Area during Hurricane Katrina (2005) (with Rune Storesund and Diego Cobos-Roa)

Investigation of the failures of the flood protection structures in Iowa, Missouri, and Illinois during the June 2008 floods (with Rune Storesund and Profs David Rogers and Jean-Louis Briaud)

Monitoring and assessment of patterns of changes in the performance of complex human based engineered systems to improve their reliability (with TaiLin Huang and Prof. Bill Kastenberg) • Life cycle reliability based restoration of rivers (with Rune Storesund and Profs. Matt Kondolf and John Dracup)

Assessment of the reliability of complex, interactive, interdependent, human-based infrastructure systems (with Kofi Inkabi and Profs Bill Kastenberg, Steve Mahin, and Karlene Roberts)

Analysis of hurricane initiated Shelf failures along the Mississippi River Delta front (with Walter Guidroz and Prof. Greg Stone)

Reliability based analyses for design of hurricane flood protection structures (with David O’Reilly and Profs. Shirley Laska and Norma Jean Mattei)