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Frances O'Donnell

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor (Water Resources)
209 Harbert Center
334.844.7168
fco0002@auburn.edu
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Education

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
B.A. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Research Interests

Relationships between vegetation and the water cycle
Soil moisture and evapotranspiration
Ecosystem Restoration
Green Infrastructure for Stormwater

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Civil and environmental engineering research team honored with FHWA award

A team of researchers in Auburn's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering were honored with an Environmental Excellence Award from the Federal Highway Administration.

NOAA awards Auburn team $1.5M to research resilient transportation infrastructure

As part of its highly competitive Effects of Sea Level Rise (ESLR) program, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected an interdisciplinary team of Auburn University researchers to lead a $1.539M project to address increasingly critical needs necessary for resilient infrastructure.

Civil and Environmental professor talks water worries on #GINNing Podcast

Frances O'Donnell, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, discusses the wet and wild world of ecohydrology on the latest episode of #GINNing.