Journal Articles

Jeremy Weber

Work that was funded by MCSI resulted in an article in the top environmental economics journal. Dr. Weber also penned an Post-Gazette op-ed based heavily off the article. The op-ed was referenced in congressional testimony regarding funding for abandoned oil and gas wells

Blackhurst, M., & Matthews, H. S. (2022). Comparing sources of uncertainty in community greenhouse gas estimation techniques. Environmental Research Letters, 17(5), 053002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6084 (Impact factor 6.79. Published in April 19 and has 125 downloads).

Blackhurst, M. (2021). Identifying Lead Service Lines with Field Tap Water Sampling. ACS ES&T Water, 1(8), 1983–1991. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.1c00227 (ES&T-Water is a new journal but sister journal ES&T has impact factor of 9.03)

Hajiseyedjavadi, S., Karimi, H. A., & Blackhurst, M. (2022). Predicting lead water service lateral locations: Geospatial data science in support of municipal programming. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 101277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2022.101277 (impact factor of 4.92)

Blackhurst, Michael, R Walsh. “Integrating Distributed Environmental Monitoring to Support More Environmentally Just Housing Policy.” Submitted to Housing Policy Debate in February. (Impact factor of 2.36)

James L. Lansing, Lingyan Zhao, Tana Siboonruang, N. Harsha Attanayake, Angela B. Leo, Peter Fatouros, So Min Park, Kenneth R. Graham, John A. Keith, and Maureen Tang. Gd-ni-sb-sno2 electrocatalysts for active and selective ozone production. AIChE J., 67:e17486, 2021. doi: 10.1002/aic.17486. URL https://aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aic.17486

Wang, M. Harries, K.A., Zhao, Y., Xu, Q., Wang, Z. and Leng, Y. (2022) Variation of Mechanical properties of P. edulis (Moso) bamboo with moisture content, Construction and Building Materials 324 126629 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2022.126629

Liu, K., Jayaraman, D., Shi, Y., Yang, J., Jin, W., Shi, Y., Wu, J., Jacombe, P., Harries, K.A., Trujillo, D. (2022) “Bamboo: A Very Sustainable Construction Material” - 2021 International Online Seminar Summary Report, Sustainable Structures 2(1) https://doi.org/10.54113/j.sust.2022.000015

Harries, K.A., Trujillo, D., Kaminski, S. and Lopez, L.F. (2022) Development of Load Tables for Design of Full-Culm Bamboo, European Journal of Wood and Wood Products. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00107-022-01798-3

Ben-Alon, L. Loftness, V., Harries, K.A., and Cochran Hameen, E. (2021) Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Natural vs Conventional Building Assemblies, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 144, 110951 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.110951

Hamed, Ehab A., Jordan Athas, Xincheng Zhang, Noah Ashenden, and Inhee Lee. 2021. "A Low-Power GPIOBased Size Sensor to Monitor the Imbibition of Corn Seeds Beneath Soil" Electronics 10, no. 19: 2423. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10192423

Alshayeb, S., Stevanovic, A., & Dobrota, N. (2021). Impact of Various Operating Conditions on Simulated Emissions-Based Stop Penalty at Signalized Intersections. Sustainability, 13(18), 10037. The paper was presented at TRB 2022, DC Jan January 9–13.

Alshayeb, S., Stevanovic, A., & Park, B. B. (2021). Field-Based Prediction Models for Stop Penalty in Traffic Signal Timing Optimization. Energies, 14(21), 7431. The paper was presented at TRB 2022, DC Jan January 9–13.

Reeb, R.A., Aziz, N., Lapp, S.M., Kitzes, J., Heberling, J.M., & Kuebbing, S.E. 2022. Using convolutional neural networks to efficiently extract immense phenological data from community science images. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12.

Nagy, R.C., Balch, J.K, …, Kitzes, J., … [117 others]. 2021. Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science with a diverse and data-capable community. Ecosphere, 12(12), e03833.

Kitzes, J., Blake, R., Bomabci, S., Chapman, M., Duran, S.M., Huang, T., Joseph, M.B., Lapp, S., Marconi, S., Oestreich, W.K., Rhinehart, T.A., Schweiger, A.K., Song, Y., Surasinghe, T., Yang, D., & Yule, K. 2021. Expanding NEON biodiversity surveys with new instrumentation and machine learning approaches. Ecosphere, 12(11), e03795.

Lapp, S., Wu, T., Richards-Zawacki, C., Voyles, J., Rodriguez, K.M., & Kitzes, J. 2021. Automated detection of frog calls and choruses by pulse repetition rate. Conservation Biology, 35(5), 1659-1668.

Kitzes, J., Brush, M., & Walters, K. 2021. A unified framework for species spatial patterns: Linking the occupancy area curve, Taylor's Law, the neighborhood density function, and two-plot species turnover. Ecology Letters, 24(10), 2043-2053.

Chronister, L.M., Rhinehart, T.A., Place, A., & Kitzes, J. 2021. An annotated set of audio recordings of Eastern North American birds containing frequency, time, and species information. Ecology, 102(6), e03329.

Muñoz‐Sáez, A., Kitzes, J., & Merenlender, A.M. 2021. Bird‐friendly wine country through diversified vineyards. Conservation Biology, 35(1), 274-284.

Shamon, H., Paraskevopoulou, Z., Kitzes, J., Carda, E., Deichmanna, J.L., Boyce, A.J., & McShea, W.J. 2021. Using ecoacoustics metrices to track grassland bird richness across landscape gradients. Ecological Indicators, 120, 106928.

Habib, M., Lantgios, I., Hornbostel, K. (2022). A Review of Ceramic, Polymer and Composite Piezoelectric Materials. Accepted with revisions by Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics in May 2022.

“Discovery-based Organic Laboratory Experiment that Focuses on Green Chemistry Principles” Nigam, M.; Tracey, M., P. Osman, T.; Pirzada, E. at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown Symposium for the Promotion of Academic and Creative Enquiry, Johnstown, PA. April 2022

“Fruit two ways: Integrating green chemical systems into the undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory” Morra, B.; Dicks, A.; Nigam, M., 26th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, Reston, VA, June 6-8, 2022 (abstract accepted for presentation).

“Proline Catalyzed Solventless Green Aldol Reaction: An Undergraduate Organic Laboratory Experiment”, Nigam, M.; Tracey M.P. Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, July 31- August 4, 2022 (abstract accepted for presentation).

Miu, E. V.; McKone, J. R.; Mpourmpakis, G. The Sensitivity of Metal Oxide Electrocatalysis to Bulk Hydrogen Intercalation: Hydrogen Evolution on Tungsten Oxide. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144 (14), 6420–6433. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c00825.

Keith, J. A.; McKone, J. R.; Snyder, J. D.; Tang, M. H. Deeper Learning in Electrocatalysis: Realizing Opportunities and Addressing Challenges. Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering 2022, 36, 100824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coche.2022.100824.

T. Yang, T.; B. Patil, R.; R. McKone, J.; A. Saidi, W. Revisiting Trends in the Exchange Current for Hydrogen Evolution. Catalysis Science & Technology 2021, 11 (20), 6832–6838. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CY01170G.

Fertig, A. A.; Brennessel, W. W.; McKone, J. R.; Matson, E. M. Concerted Multiproton–Multielectron Transfer for the Reduction of O2 to H2O with a Polyoxovanadate Cluster. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143 (38), 15756–15768. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c07076.

S. P. Sharma and P. W. Leu, “Solar module orientation and tracking type performance and optimization,” Journal of Photonics for Energy, vol. 11, no. 4, p. 045501, Oct. 2021, publisher: SPIE, doi: 10.1117/1.JPE.11.045501. Featured on journal cover

Z. Zhou, S. B. Walker, M. LeMieux, and P. W. Leu, “Polymer-Embedded Silver Microgrids by Particle-Free Reactive Inks for Flexible High-Performance Transparent Conducting Electrodes,” ACS Applied Electronic Materials, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 2079–2086, May 2021, publisher: American Chemical Society, doi: 10.1021/acsaelm.1c00107.

Rodriguez, J.; “Outreach Projects: Towards a Structured Curricular Activity for Chemical Engineering Students”. ASEE Annual Conference 2022, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 26-29, 2022. Proceedings to be published.

J. Dean, Y. Yang, G. Veser, and G. Mpourmpakis, “CuZrO3: If it exists, it must be a sandwich”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 23 (2021) 23748-23757. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CP02245H.

Y. Yang and G. Veser, “Exploiting the impact of pore diffusion in core@shell nanocatalysts”, Catal. Today, 371 (2021) 69-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2020.07.067

H. Mantripragada and G. Veser, “Intensifying Chemical Looping Dry Reforming: Process Modeling and Systems Analysis”, J. of CO2 Utilization 49 (2021) 101555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2021.101555

H. Mantripragada and G. Veser, “Hydrogen production via chemical looping dry reforming of methane”, AIChE J. (2022) e17612. https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.17612

S. Nguyen, E. Brock, P. Connor, E. Cook, M. Abdelhakim, R. Kerestes, “Integrating Distributed Devices onto Rural Circuits”, 2022 IEEE Rural Electric power Conference, Savannah, GA, 2022

E. Brock, L. Bruckstein, P. Connor, S. Nguyen, R. Kerestes and M. Abdelhakim, "An application of reinforcement learning to residential energy storage under real-time pricing," 2021 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISGTAsia49270.2021.9715712.

S. Nguyen, M. Abdelhakim and R. Kerestes, "Survey Paper of Digital Twins and their Integration into Electric Power Systems," 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), 2021, pp. 01-05, doi: 10.1109/PESGM46819.2021.9638011.

R. Brody et al. (including P. Ohodnicki, B. Grainger), Trade Study for Rare-Earth-Free Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine using MnBi Permanent Magnets, ECCE 2022, Accepted for Presentation and Publication. (Related to Faculty fellowship, Electric Motor modeling and course development)

D. Karki, E. Hoffman, D. Shengye, V.T. Schmotzer, B. Liu, P. Ohodnicki, Machine vision approach of process control during single crystal fiber growth via laser heated pedestal growth method, SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing, 2022. (V. T. Schmotzer was a MCSI student in 2021 when working on the paper and is a co-author)

Endangered Species Act Expenditures for Fish Taxa Managed by The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Are Predicted by Lawsuits, Captive Propagation, and Region Shirey, P.D., and S.A.R. Colvin. 2022. Fisheries early online https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10742

A Review of Recovery Plan Criteria for Threatened and Endangered Fish Taxa Managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Shirey, P.D., S.A.R. Colvin, L.H. Roulson, and T.E. Bigford. 2022. Fisheries early online https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10743

Angling for Ideas in Science Communication to Hosting a Photo-essay Workshop: Implementing the Winning Idea from Wiley's Impact-a-thon Defilippi Simpson, J., S. Glaser, K. Murchie, and P.D. Shirey. 2021 Fisheries 46(12):617-228. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10674.

Dynamics of large wood added to Midwestern, USA, streams Bosio, S.F., P.D. Shirey, S.A. Entrekin, T.J. Hoellein, A.H. Moerke, E.J. Rosi, J.L. Tank, and G.A. Lamberti. 2021. River Research and Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3798

R Forgrave, EM Elliott, DJ Bain (2022) “Event Scale Hydrograph Responses Highlight Impacts of Widespread Stream Burial and Urban Infrastructure Failures” Hydrological Processes, 10.1002/hyp.14584

DJ Bain, T Cantlay, B Garman, JF Stolz (2021) “Oil and gas wastewater as road treatment: radioactive material exposure implications at the residential lot and block scale”, Environ. Res. Commun. https://doi.org/10.1088/25157620/ac35be

Engler, I.D., Curley, A.J., Fu, F.J., Bilec, M.M. (2022). “Environmental Sustainability in Orthopaedic Surgery.” Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons: June 1, 2022 - Volume 30 - Issue 11 - p 504-511. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35412500/

Berry, B., Farber, B., Cruz Rios, F., Haedicke, M. Chakraborty, S., Lowder, S.S., Bilec, M.M., Isenhour, C. (2021). “Just by Design? Exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse.” Local Environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.1994535

Cruz Rios, F., Panic, S.+ , Grau, D., Khanna, V., Zappitelli, J., Bilec, M.M. (2022). “Exploring circular economies in the built environment from a complex systems perspective: A systematic review and conceptual model at the city scale.” Sustainable Cities and Society, 80(May 2022):103411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103411.

Zappitelli, J., Smith, E., Padgett, K., Bilec, M.M., Babbitt, C., Khanna, V. (2021). “Quantifying Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Embodied in Global Primary Plastic Trade Network.” ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 9, 44, 14927–14936. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c05236

Mohammadiziazi, R., Copeland, S.+, Bilec, M.M.* (2021). “Urban building energy model: Database development, validation, and application for commercial building stock.” Energy and Buildings, 248(1 October 2021):111175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111175

Cruz Rios, F., Grau, D., Bilec, M.M.* (2021). "Barriers and Enablers to Circular Building Design in the US: An empirical study." ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 147(10):04021117. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0002109

Clark, R., Spisso, A.+, Ketchman, K.J., Landis, A.E., Parrish, K., Mohammadiziazi, R., Bilec, M.M.* (2021). “Gamifying Sustainable Engineering Courses: student and instructor perspectives of community, engagement, learning, and retention.” ASCE Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 147(4):04021009. https: DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.2643-9115.0000047

Babbitt, C., Althaf, S., Cruz Rios, F., Bilec, M.M., Graedel, T.E. (2021). “The role of design in circular economy solutions for critical materials.” One Earth, 4(3), 353-362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.02.014