SETx-UIFL publications

Last Updated: November 21, 2025

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Published Journal Articles

Cities are concentrators of complex, multisectoral interactions within the human-earth system.

Brelsford, C., Jones, A., Pandey, B., Vahmani, P., Allen-Dumas, M., Rastogi, D., Sparks, K., Bukovsky, M., Dronova, I., Hong, T., Iwaniec, D.M., Newcomer, M.E., Reid, S.C., and Zheng, Z.
Journal: Earths Future
Year: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2024ef004481
Published DOE: Yes Read full text

Development of the contamination distribution centered toxics mobility vulnerability index in the Beaumont-Port Arthur region of Texas.

Cai, Z., Newman, G., McNair, M., Zheng, J., Shin, J., Malecha, M., Yu, S., and Meyer, M.A.
Journal: Sustainability and Climate Change
Year: 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/26922932251369511
Published DOE: Yes

Building hypotheses to understand the synergistic effects of heat and pollution exposure in a changing climate.

Chambliss, S., Nduka, I., and Persad, G.G.
Journal: Thorax
Year: 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax-2025-223233
Published DOE: Yes

Efficacy of underground aggregate infiltration beds under a permeable pavement system.

Haselbach, L., Fountain, M., Toosi, G., and Asli, H.H.
Journal: Discover Water
Year: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43832-024-00175-w
Published DOE: No

Green buffers near industrial plants examples in Jefferson County, T.

Haselbach, L., Niroula, R., and Feizbahr, M.
Journal: Spatial Information Research
Year: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41324-024-00580-2
Published DOE: Yes

River dissolved oxygen prediction using machine learning models and wireless sensor measurements.

He, M., Qian, Q., Liu, X., and Zhang, J.
Journal: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Year: 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1061/jhyeff.heeng-6522
Published DOE: No

Recent progress on surface water quality models utilizing machine learning techniques.

He, M., Qian, Q., Liu, X., Zhang, J., and Curry, J.
Journal: Water
Year: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/w16243616
Published DOE: Yes

pyTCR: A tropical cyclone rainfall model for Python.

Le, P.V.V., Persad, G., Perez, G., Nduka, I., Mobley, W., and Coon, E.T.
Journal: Journal of Open Source Software
Year: 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08074
Published DOE: Yes

Scenario generation for built environment decision support under uncertainty case studies of airflow modeling and climate-resilient infrastructure system design.

Luo, L., Cheng, C.S., and Leite, F.
Journal: Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
Year: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1061/jccee5.cpeng-6253
Published DOE: Yes

Research to confront climate change complexity intersectionality, integration, and innovative governance.

Mach, K.J., Jagannathan, K., Shi, L., Turek-Hankins, L.L., Arnold, J.R., Brelsford, C., Flores, A.N., Gao, J., Martin, C.E., McCollum, D.L., Moss, R., Niemann, J., Rashleigh, B., and Reed, P.M.
Journal: Earths Future
Year: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023ef004392
Published DOE: Yes

Implementing reproducible cookbook environments for advanced analyses on science gateways.

Mobley, W., Pierce, S.A., and Faust, K.
Journal: Science Gateways
Year: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13869305
Published DOE: Yes

Land-use analysis using infrastructure representations and high-resolution flood inundation mapping techniques.

Murphy, S., Wang, M., Cheng, C.S., Passalacqua, P., and Leite, F.
Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Year: 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105518
Published DOE: Yes

Advancing process-based flood frequency analysis for assessing flood hazard and population flood exposure.

Perez, G., Coon, E., Le, P., Wright, D., Persad, G., and Nduka, I.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology
Year: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131620
Published DOE: Yes

Remote sensing improves multi-hazard flooding and extreme heat detection by fivefold over current estimates.

Preisser, M., and Passalacqua, P.
Journal: AGU Advances
Year: 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2025av001667
Published DOE: Yes

C-HAND: Near real-time coastal flood mapping.

Wang, M., Passalacqua, P., Cai, S., and Dawson, C.
Journal: Frontiers in Water
Year: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1329109
Published DOE: Yes

Under Review Journal Articles

Integrating perspectives multi-sectoral insights into Gulf Coast flood governance.

Azizi, K., Wang, Y., Enriquez, O., Passalacqua, P., Niyogi, D., and Bixler, R.P.
Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Status: Submitted
Under Review DOE: Yes

A survey of flood warning sensor network operational and maintenance practices across the United States.

Brake, N., Adesina, M., and Hariri Asli, H.
Journal: Developments in the Built Environment
Status: Under Review
Under Review DOE: Yes

Pavement condition and climatic data in Southeast Texas a dataset for evaluating flood impacts on pavement performance.

Brake, N., Hariri Asli, H., Feizbahr, M., and Jahangir, M.S.
Journal: Data in Brief
Status: Submitted
Under Review DOE: Yes

Application of artificial intelligence methods in the international roughness index prediction of rigid and composite pavements a systematic review.

Brake, N., Hariri Asli, H., Feizbahr, M., Bakhrel, U., Arbabkhah, H., and Jahangir, M.S.
Journal: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Status: Submitted
Under Review DOE: Yes

Key moments in coupled human-natural systems.

Brelsford, C., Amaya, M., Basheer, M., and others.
Journal: Earths Future
Status: Under Review
Under Review DOE: Yes

Multi-objective urban observational strategies a risk-based framework for expanding flood sensor networks.

Brelsford, C., Coon, E., Wang, M., Rosenheim, N., Brake, N., Haselbach, L., and Passalacqua, P.
Journal: Water Resources Research
Status: Submitted
Under Review DOE: Yes

Interactions are cities’ most fundamental characteristic.

Brelsford, C., Sulis, P., Sparks, K., and Palumbo, R.
Journal: Nature Cities
Status: Under Review
Under Review DOE: Yes

Impact of inland boundary conditions on seawater intrusion modeling in stratified coastal aquifers under sea-level rise.

Liu, Y., and Rathore, S.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology
Status: Under Review
Under Review DOE: Yes

Exploring community resilience postures: differing challenges and solutions based on maturity levels.

Murphy, S., Cheng, C.S., Kim, J., Faust, K., and Leite, F.
Journal Cleaner Production Letters
Status Under Review
Under Review DOE Yes

Development of the environmental justice-toxics mobility vulnerability index EJ-TMVI in the Beaumont-Port Arthur region of Texas.

Newman, G., Cai, Z., McNair, M., and others.
Journal: Sustainability: The Journal of Record
Status: Under Review
Under Review DOE: Yes

Socio-hydrology modeling captures how inequalities impact community flood resilience.

Preisser, M. and Passalacqua, P.
Journal Water Resources Research
Status Under Review
Under Review DOE Yes

Where social vulnerability indices fail navigating the decision cascade.

Rosenheim, N., Mezei, L., Preisser, M., and others.
Journal: Natural Hazards
Status: Submitted
Under Review DOE: Yes

Association of historical redlining and social vulnerability with cancer hospital utilization the case of Texas.

Yoon, H., Li, D., Rosenheim, N., and others.
Journal: Journal of Urban Health
Status: Submitted
Under Review DOE: Yes

Oral Presentations

Flood sensor networks.

Brake, N., and Haselbach, L.
Venue Flood Sensor Network Series, B., TX, USA
Date February 11, 2025
Oral Presentation

Cities, Climate Change, and Urban Flood Risk: What Good Is Science for Solving Peoples’ Problems?

Brelsford, C.
Venue University of California Riverside Environmental Sciences Departmental Seminar, R., CA, USA
Date February 5, 2025
Oral Presentation

Generative AI models for LULC forecasting.

Dias, P., Pandey, B., Varshney, D., and Brelsford, C.
Venue FAMU visit to ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Date February 19, 2025
Oral Presentation

Contemplating Generative AI for Land Use and Land Cover Forecasting.

Dias, P., Pandey, B., Varshney, D., and Coon, E.
Venue AGU Fall Meeting, W., DC
Date November 12, 2024
Oral Presentation

Culturally responsive disaster management for limited resource producers.

Estwick, N.
Venue SETx Spring Seminar Series, V.
Date February 7, 2025
Oral Presentation

Permeable pavements.

Haselbach, L.
Venue SETx Spring Seminar Series, VIRTUAL.
Date April 11, 2025
Oral Presentation

Assessing Bacteria Levels with Machine Learning (ML) Models in Neches River, T.

He, M., Qin Q., X.L., and Jin Zhang.
Venue ASCE EWRI 2025 Conference, A., AK, 2025
Date May 20, 2025
Oral Presentation

Analysis of machine learning applications and challenges for surface water quality predictions.

He, M., Qian, Q., Liu, X., and Zhang, J.
Venue ASCE EWRI 2025 Conference, A., AK.
Date May 20, 2025
Oral Presentation

Marshes.

Hoch, M. and Sulman, B.
Venue SETx Spring Seminar Series, VIRTUAL.
Date March 28, 2025
Oral Presentation

SVOC quantification in indoor dust from homes in Beaumont and Port Arthur, T., using thermal desorption Vocus-PTR-TOF-MS.

Jarma, D., Lin, S., Deveraux, E., Neville, A., Misztal, P., and Kinney, K.
Venue Indoor Air 2024 Conference, H., HI.
Date July 8, 2024
Oral Presentation and Conference Proceedings Paper

Indoor air quality.

Kinney, K.
Venue SETx Spring Seminar Series, Virtual.
Date March 7, 2025
Oral Presentation

Automating Scenario Generation for Infrastructure Resilience in the Built Environment.

Leite, F., Cheng, C.S., and Luo, L.
Venue ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, P., PA, 2024.
Date July 30, 2024
Oral Presentation

Community engaged research: Stories from the field.

Lieberknecht, K.
Venue Southeast Texas Urban Integrated Field Laboratory Spring Seminar Series, L.U., Beaumont, T., Virtual.
Date February 21, 2025
Oral Presentation

Just and resilient landscapes, green infrastructure, community, and climate.

Lieberknecht, K.
Venue ACES Conference, Austin, TX.
Date December 11, 2024
Oral Presentation

Reconciling perceptions of risk: gaps between resident and researcher views of harm and justice in the Texas Gulf Coast.

Lieberknecht, K.
Venue Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Seattle, WA.
Date November 7, 2024
Oral Presentation

Impact of acute outdoor emission events on indoor air pollutant enhancement and source apportionment in Southeast Texas.

Lin, C.H., Deveraux, E., Blomdahl, D., Sung, D., Jarma, D., Haselbach, L., McDonald-Buller, E., Kimura, Y., Jeffryes, C., Lin, S., Kinney, K., Passalacqua, P., and Misztal, P.
Venue AGU Fall Meeting, W., DC, USA.
Date December 12, 2024
Oral Presentation

Air pollutant enhancements in indoor environment by acute outdoor emission events.

Lin, C.H., Deveraux, E., Blomdahl, D., Sung, D., Jarma, D., Haselbach, L.M., Lin, S., McDonald-Buller, E., Yosuke, K., Kerry, K., and Pawel, M.
Venue Indoor Air 2024 Conference, H., HI.
Date July 8, 2024
Oral Presentation and Conference Proceedings Paper

Automating Scenario Generation for Infrastructure Resilience in the Built Environment.

Luo, L., Cheng, C.S., and Leite, F.
Venue International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE 2024), Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Date July 29, 2024
Oral Presentation

Narrative analysis of indoor air quality concerns and psychological dimensions in a fence-line community.

Maestre, J.P., Lacau, A., Huglo, E., Jarma, D., Fulton, E., Kinney, K., and Faust, K.M.
Venue Indoor Air 2026, Singapore
Date 14-18 June, 2026
Oral Presentation

Assessing Emission Source Contributions and Simulated Spatiotemporal Patterns of Air Toxics to Support Collaborative Community Decision Processes in Southeast Texas (Invited).

McDonald-Buller, E., Kimura, Y., Emery, C., Yarwood, G., Misztal, P., Kinney, K., Lin, C.H., Deveraux, E., Sung, D., Blomdahl, D., and Jarma, D.
Venue AGU Fall Meeting, W., D.C., USA.
Date December 11, 2024
Oral Presentation

Assessing Emission Source Contributions and Simulated Spatiotemporal Patterns to Support Collaborative Community Decision Processes in Southeast Texas.

McDonald-Buller, E., Kimura, Y., Emery, C., Yarwood, G., Misztal, P., Kinney, K., Lin, C.H., Deveraux, E., Sung, D., Blomdahl, D., and Jarma, D.
Venue AGU (Invited Talk), Washington, D.C., 2024.
Date December 12, 2024
Oral Presentation

Chemistry of indoor environments shapes human exposure to air pollution.

Misztal, P.
Venue IGAC, K.L., Malaysia.
Date September 9, 2024
Oral Presentation

Enhancing resilience to coastal hazards: an analysis of resources, tools, and processes to improve land use decision-making in the United States.

Murphy, S., Cheng, C.S., Kim, J., and Leite, F.
Venue 2025 ASCE Construction Research Congress (CRC), Montreal, Canada.
Date July, 2025
Oral Presentation

Leveraging emerging flood modeling methods and infrastructure designs for land-use analysis: Case study in Southeast Texas.

Murphy, S., Lin, C.H., Passalacqua, P., and Leite, F.
Venue International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering i3CE 2024, Pittsburgh, P., USA.
Date July 29, 2024
Oral Presentation

A Targeted, E.I.A. to Ultra-High Statistical Downscaling of Climate Projections for the Southeast Texas Urban Integrated Field Laboratory (SETx-UIFL).

Nduka, I.
Venue Early Career Urban Integrated Field Laboratory Panel Discussions, A., Texas, U. (Virtual).
Date January 31, 2024
Oral Presentation

Leveraging High-Resolution Climate Datasets for Health Analysis: Capabilities, C., and Applications.

Nduka, I.
Venue CHEER Research Retreat, A., Texas, USA.
Date April 15, 2024
Oral Presentation

Assessing heat exposure metrics for health outcomes: historical and future projections for southeast Texas using a newly-developed 1-km climate dataset.

Nduka, I.C., Chambliss, S., Cummins, C., Le, P.V.V., Passalacqua, P., and Persad, G.
Venue American Geographical Union Conference 25, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Date December 15-19, 2025
Oral Presentation

Association between chronic health conditions and land use in TX.

Newman, G.
Venue Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture CELA Annual Conference, P., OR, USA.
Date March 1, 2025
Oral Presentation

Community-driven nature-based solutions.

Newman, G.
Venue SETx Spring Seminar Series, VIRTUAL.
Date January 24, 2025
Oral Presentation

Informing Coastal Climate Impact Mitigation.

Perez, G., P.L., Wang, M., S.R., Nduka, I., Persad., Lieberknecht, K., Passalacqua, P.
Venue CMWR Conference 2024, Tucson, A.
Date October 30, 2024
Oral Presentation

From Headwaters to Outlet: Capturing Stream-Network Dynamics in Large-Scale Watershed Models.

Rathore, S. and Coon, E.
Venue AWI-WaterWorks Seminar Series (Invited Seminar), University of Alabama, T., AL, 2025.
Date February 28, 2025
Oral Presentation

Efficient hydrologic modeling with stream-aligned mixed-polyhedral meshing.

Rathore, S., and Coon, E.
Venue CMWR Conference, T., AZ.
Date October 30, 2024
Oral Presentation

Incorporating Engineered Water Flows in High-Fidelity Integrated Hydrologic Models.

Rathore, S., Ethan Coon, Le, P.V.V.
Venue AGU (Invited Talk), Washington, D.C., 2024.
Date December 12, 2024
Oral Presentation

Geospatial diffusion for land cover imperviousness change forecasting.

Varshney, D., Vats, V., Pandey, B., Brelsford, C., and Dias, P.
Venue University of North Texas Data Science Talk Series, Denton, TX, USA.
Date October 15, 2025
Oral Presentation

Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™.

Yu, S.
Venue SETx-UIFL Spring Seminar Series, L.U., Beaumont, T., 2024.
Date April 25, 2024
Oral Presentation

Poster Presentations

Participatory geographic information system: A tool for community-led hazard mapping.

Ahmed, F., Meyer, M., and Rosenheim, N.
Venue: Natural Hazards Workshop
Date: July 18, 2024
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Poster Presentation

Preliminary study of temperature variations within pervious concrete-aggregate systems.

Fountain, M., and Asli, H.
Venue: O.U.R. Fall Conference
Date: November 15, 2024
Location: Beaumont, TX, USA
Poster Presentation

Dissolved oxygen prediction using long short-term memory-based deep learning models with recurrent transfer learning.

He, M., Qian, Q., Liu, X., and Zhang, J.
Venue: O.U.R. Fall Conference
Date: November 15, 2024
Location: Beaumont, TX, USA
Poster Presentation

Interviews for improving equitable hazard mitigation tools in Southeast Texas.

Mezei, L., Sorola, G., Ahmed, F., Malachi, M., Igwenagu, A., Estwick, N.M., and Meyer, M.
Venue: Natural Hazards Workshop
Date: July 24, 2025
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Poster Presentation

Downscaling mid-resolution climate datasets to ultra-high resolution for hazard and mitigation studies in the Southeast Texas region.

Nduka, I., Kalyanaraman, L., Cummins, C., Le, P.V.V., Coon, E., Perez, G., Haselbach, L., Kimura, Y., McDonald-Buller, E., Passalacqua, P., and Persad, G.
Venue: AGU Fall Meeting
Date: December 12, 2024
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Poster Presentation

Community-driven nature-based solutions utilizing urban vacant lands to enhance flood resilience in Port Arthur, TX.

Peng, J., Zhu, R., Cai, Z., Zheng, J., Wang, P., and Newman, G.
Venue: SETx-UIFL Meeting
Date: November 18, 2024
Location: Beaumont, TX, USA
Poster Presentation

Missing Hazards: Improving Detection and Delineation Methods of Multi-Hazard Events and Assessing Their Impact on Vulnerable Populations.

Preisser, M.
Venue: AGU Fall Meeting
Date: December 12, 2024
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Poster Presentation

Acute on chronic stressors in communities: When flooding is not the only issue.

Preisser, M., Wang, M., and Passalacqua, P.
Venue: AGU Fall Meeting
Date: December 12, 2024
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Poster Presentation

Social vulnerability indices (SVI): Exploring assumptions and limitations.

Rosenheim, N., Mezei, L., Preisser, M., Ahmed, F., Bixler, P., Brelsford, C., and Meyer, M.
Venue: SETx-UIFL Meeting
Date: November 18, 2024
Location: Beaumont, TX, USA
Poster Presentation

Generative AI for land imperviousness change forecasting.

Varshney, D., Vats, V., Pandey, B., Brelsford, C., and Dias, P.
Venue: ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025 Conference
Date: November 3, 2025
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Poster Presentation

Association of historical redlining and social vulnerability with cancer-related hospital utilization.

Yoon, H., Li, D., Rosenheim, N.P., Yu, S., Newman, G., and Meyer, M.A.
Venue: Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 2024
Date: November 7, 2024
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Poster Presentation

Water Quality Prediction Using Machine Learning (ML) Approaches.

He, M., Qian, Q., Liu, X., and Zhang, J.
Venue: CFR Annual Poster
Date: August 19, 2024
Location: Beaumont, TX, USA
Poster Presentation

Preliminary Study of Variations in Rainfall Distribution in Southeast Texas.

Sogbuyi, R.
Venue: O.U.R. Fall Conference
Date: November 15, 2024
Location: Beaumont, TX, USA
Poster Presentation

A Near Real-Time Compound Flood Inundation Python Package.

Wang, M., Preisser, M., and Passalacqua, P.
Venue: AGU Fall Meeting
Date: December 12, 2024
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Poster Presentation

Downscaling Modeled Fluvial and Pluvial Flood Inundation to a Lidar Grid: A New Volume Conservative Method.

Wang, M., Passalacqua, P., Coon, E., Rathore, S., and Perez G.
Venue: AGU Fall Meeting
Date: December 12, 2024
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Poster Presentation

Dissertations/Thesis

Description, prediction, and prescription of the compounding impacts of hazards on society.

Preisser, M.
Type: PhD Dissertation
Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Date: Defended March 10, 2025
Committee: Paola Passalacqua, P.B., Matt Bartos, Steve Boyles
Dissertation

Leveraging Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS) in Social Vulnerability Mapping For Equitable Hazard Management: A Case Study On Beaumont-Port Arthur, Southeast Texas.

Ahmed, F.
Type: Professional Paper for Masters of Urban Planning
Institution: Texas A&M University
Date: Spring 2024
Committee: Michelle Meyer, Nathanael Rosenheim, Garett Sansom
Thesis

Other Presentations & Lectures

Cities, climate change, and disease: How can science help humanity solve big problems?

Brelsford, C.
Venue: Urban Systems Science Joint Colloquium Series
Date: February 26, 2024
Location: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Lecture