{"id":13,"date":"2017-07-07T20:21:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T20:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utsaengineer.wpengine.com\/faculty-page-example\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2023-07-18T16:04:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T21:04:21","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ceid.utsa.edu\/mgiacomoni\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ongoing Research Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Papagiannakis, A. &amp; Giacomoni, M. \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Demonstrating the Environmental Benefits of Permeable Paved Surfaces over the Edwards Aquifer<\/strong><\/span>\u201d, Sponsored by City of San Antonio, Local, $1,035,761 (September 1<sup>st<\/sup> 2019 \u2013 December 31<sup>st<\/sup> 2024).<\/li>\n<li>Johnson, D., <strong>Giacomoni, M.<\/strong>, Kappor, V., Brown, K., Han, A. &#8220;BMP Maintenance Requirements to Ensure Protection of Edwards Aquifer Water Quality\u201d, Sponsored by San Antonio River Authority, $619,656.00. (May 1, 2021 &#8211; December 31st, 2024).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Past Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Caine, I., <strong>Giacomoni, M.<\/strong>, Tunstall, T., Han, A. &#8220;Addendum to Weslaco, Texas Comprehensive Plan\u201d, Sponsored by City of Weslaco, $30,000.00. (February 1, 2021 &#8211; February 1, 2022).<\/li>\n<li>Johnson, D., <strong>Giacomoni, M.<\/strong>, &#8220;Permeable Curbs and Gutter for Storm Water Control\u201d Sponsored by Louisiana State University, $45,000.00. (August 1, 2021 &#8211; February 28, 2022).<\/li>\n<li>Kapoor, V., <strong>Giacomoni, M.<\/strong>, &#8220;North Side Independent School District COVID 19 Monitoring\u201d, Sponsored by The MITRE Corporation, $70,311.00. (February 22, 2021 &#8211; July 30, 2021).<\/li>\n<li>Giacomoni, M. &amp; Olivera, F. \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Assessing the Impacts of Super Storm Flooding in the Transportation Infrastructure \u2013 Case Study: San Antonio, TX<\/strong><\/span>\u201d, Sponsored by TranSET and City of San Antonio, Regional, $140,000 (July 1<sup>st<\/sup> 2018 \u2013 December 31<sup>st<\/sup> 2019).<\/li>\n<li>Giacomoni, M. &amp; Shipley, H., &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/saprop1edwardsprojects.org\/\"><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Implementation of a Low Impact Development Test Bed at\u00a0<\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\">The University of Texas at San Antonio Main Campus<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">&#8220;, Sponsored by City of San Antonio, $ 1,069,113 (June 1, 2017 &#8211; December 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 2022).<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Taha, A., \u00a0Gatsis, N., Giacomoni M. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1728629\"><strong>Collaborative Research:<\/strong> <strong>Selecting Sensors and Actuators for Topologically Evolving Networked Dynamical Systems: Battling Contamination in Water Networks<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;, Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Division of Civil, Mechanical &amp; Manufacturing Innovation, $299,974.00 (August 1 2017 &#8211; July 31 2020).<\/li>\n<li>Sharif, H., Weissmann, A., Giacomoni, M., Dessouky, S., Rashed-Ali, H., Kapoor, V. \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Hydrology Infrastructure Data Collection and Analysis Services<\/strong><\/span>\u201d, Sponsored by Texas General Land Office, State, $1,536,419 (June 1<sup>st<\/sup> \u2013 October 31<sup>st<\/sup> 2019).<\/li>\n<li>Giacomoni, M. &amp; Shipley, H. J., &#8220;<em><strong>Monitoring and Modeling Stormwater Quality at UTSA Main Campus<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, Sponsored by Great Edwards Aquifer Alliance\/San Antonio River Authority, State, $42,800.00 (January 1, 2016 &#8211; December 31, 2016).<\/li>\n<li>Castillo Villar, K. K. &amp; Giacomoni, M.,\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Increasing Awareness through the Development of an Web-based Educational Tool to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Coal Power Plants<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, Sponsored by Environmental Protection Agency, Federal, $15,000.00 (September 2016 &#8211; August 2017).<\/li>\n<li>Castillo Villar, K., Giacomoni, M., Shipley, H., Chen, F., &#8220;<em><strong>Opportunities for Higher Education and Research Experience in Renewable Energy and Water Quality to Enable STEM Hispanic Leaders<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, Sponsored by National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Federal, $290,000.00 (August 1, 2014 &#8211; July 31, 2016).<\/li>\n<li>Giacomoni, M., &#8220;<em><strong>Development of an Optimization Framework for Sanitary Sewer Overflow Reduction in the San Antonio Sanitary System<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, Sponsored by San Antonio Water System, Local, $187,972.00 (October 1, 2013 &#8211; September 30, 2015).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Research Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stormwater Flow and Water Quality Monitoring<\/strong>: our lab\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">currently operates several stormboxes with <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.isco.com\/products\/products3.asp?PL=2022510\">Teledyne ISCO Signature Flow Meter<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, ISCO 3700 autom<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">atic water sampler, tipping bucket TR-525USW rain gauge, and solar panels. Water samples are analyzed in the UTSA Environmental Engineering Laboratory for a range of water quality parameters, including pH, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, total suspended solids, volatile suspended solids, nitrogen, phosphorous, bacteria, and metals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Evolutionary Computation Framework<\/strong>: we use advanced simulation and optimization algorithms, for single and multi-objective problems, that include genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, method for generating alternatives, and agent-based modeling.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Other Software<\/strong>: ArcGIS, Matlab, Eclipse, R, Python, HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, SWAT, SWMM, and Anylogic.<\/li>\n<li><strong>High-Performance Computing<\/strong>: UTSA\u00a0Office of Information Technology owns a\u00a0high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utsa.edu\/techsolutions\/ResearchSupport\/hpc.html\">ARC<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ongoing Research Projects Papagiannakis, A. &amp; Giacomoni, M. \u201cDemonstrating the Environmental Benefits of Permeable Paved Surfaces over the Edwards Aquifer\u201d, Sponsored by City of San Antonio, Local, $1,035,761 (September 1st 2019 \u2013 December 31st 2024). Johnson, D., Giacomoni, M., Kappor, V., Brown, K., Han, A. &#8220;BMP Maintenance Requirements to Ensure Protection of Edwards Aquifer Water &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ceid.utsa.edu\/mgiacomoni\/research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Research - Dr. Marcio Giacomoni<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ceid.utsa.edu\/mgiacomoni\/research\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Research - Dr. Marcio Giacomoni\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ongoing Research Projects Papagiannakis, A. &amp; Giacomoni, M. \u201cDemonstrating the Environmental Benefits of Permeable Paved Surfaces over the Edwards Aquifer\u201d, Sponsored by City of San Antonio, Local, $1,035,761 (September 1st 2019 \u2013 December 31st 2024). 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