About

Dr. Piasecki holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan (1991 - 1994) where he worked on automated control of maximized load (effluent) release patterns to receiving water bodies. He received his Diplom-Ing. in Civil Engineering at the University of Hannover, Germany (1983 - 1990) with a specialization in Water Resources and Coastal Engineering. He has since worked as a PostDoc (1994 - 1996) at the University of Michigan, as an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon (1996 - 1998), as an Assistant (1998 - 2004) and Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Drexel University (2004 - 2010), before joining the Civil Engineering Department at the The City College of New York. He is also affiliated with the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) Environmental CrossRoads Initiative. He is a member of various professional associations such as the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the International Association of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), and the Engineers without Borders (EWB) organization for which he currently serves as a faculty advisor to CCNY student chapter of EWB. He has served as a member of the joined IAHR/IWA Hydroinformatics Leadership team (2010 - 2015), Chair of the Earth Space Science Informatics (ESSI) Focus Group of the AGU (2013 - 2014), and as representative of first Drexel and then CCNY on the Consortium for Advancement of the Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) membership assembly. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief for Computers & GeoSciences (2012 - 2014), and Earth Perspectives: Transdisciplinarity Enabled (2012 - 2016) Journals, and as Associate Editor for Earth Science Informatics (2006 - present) and Hydroinformatics 2010 - 2015).

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

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Dr. Piasecki's area of research focuses on engineering informatics and its application to GeoSciences in particular Hydrology. HydroInformatics: syntactic and semantic heterogeneities, use of Ontological Representations HydroInformatics: Data Storage for provenance and synthesis of scientific data. Metadata Annotations Hydroinformatics: CyberInfrastructure support for large Sensor Network deployments. Hydrology: Urban Hydrology, development of Sustainable Solutions for restoring urban ecosystem services. Hydrology: Sustainable construction of Water Infrastructure in developing countries both in non-disaster and post-disaster circumstances using participatory processes.

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