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Alan Rabideau

Professor and Chair of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Pollution, groundwater contamination, radioactive and hazardous waste management, mathematical modeling

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Alan Rabideau’s research examines groundwater contamination and remediation in a variety of settings. His work included the West Valley Demonstration Project, an inactive nuclear fuel processing facility 30 miles south of Buffalo.

Rabideau, PhD, PE, also leads UB's Ecosystem Restoration through Interdisciplinary Exchange (ERIE), a collection of academic programs and research projects that advance the science and policy of ecosystem restoration, with an emphasis on the Great Lakes and Western New York.

He was a member of a National Academy of Science panel that explores ways to improve hazardous waste management at thousands of sites where subsurface contaminants pose risks to drinking water.

CONTACT:

Alan J. Rabideau, PhD
Professor and Chair of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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