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James (Jim) Carr, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Chair
Contact Information
- Email: carr@unr.edu
- Websites: http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/carr/
- Phone: (775) 784-4244
- Fax: (775) 784-1833
Degrees
- Ph.D. 1983, University of Arizona; geological engineering
- M.S. 1981, University of Arizona; geological engineering
- B.S. 1979, University of Nevada, Reno (with distinction); geological engineering
Research/Outreach Areas:
Assessing the risk to the Truckee River of contamination due to an accident on rail or highway; NASA Space Grant Consortium, one of two authors of the original grant proposal that brought Space Grant to Nevada in 1991; using fractals to model the roughness of surfaces; digital image processing and the combination of geostatistical analysis with remote sensing.
Relevant Past Experience:
Inclinometer installation in West Virginia for monitoring ground subsidence due to coal longwall mining; finite element modeling for simulating the stress and strain performance of fractured media; fracture surface roughness characterization for the Army Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi; supporting role in digital image processing that resulted in the identification of dust devils in Mars Pathfinder images.
