Celso Castro Bolinaga

Asst Professor

  • Phone: 919-515-6712
  • Office: Weaver Administration Bldg 100

Dr. Castro-Bolinaga received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, where he was part of the Baker Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory. He completed his undergraduate studies in Civil Engineering at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) in Caracas, Venezuela. Before coming to the United States, Dr. Castro-Bolinaga worked for nearly two years as a hydraulic project engineer in a private consulting firm. During this period, he was involved in a variety of projects, such as evaluating the hydraulic capacity and operation of agricultural irrigation canals and developing flood inundations maps. Dr. Castro-Bolinaga joined the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering in November of 2016 as an assistant professor.

Grants

  • FARM BILL: NRI: INT: Towards the Development of a Customizable Fleet of Autonomous Co-Robots for Advancing Aquaculture Production
  • Linking Scour Evaluation and Data from Geotechnical, Erodibility, and Hydraulic Investigation-An Integrative Approach
  • NERRS Science Collaborative: A comprehensive national program for end user informed estuarine research
  • Bank Erosion and Sediment Transport in Stream Restoration: A Process-Based Framework for the North Carolina Piedmont Region
  • Evaluation of 2D Hydraulics Models to Improve Scour Predictions and Countermeasures
  • Collaborative Research: Geotechnical Investigation of Bivalve-Sediment Interaction with regard to Bivalve Farms as a Self-sustained Scour Mitigation Method
  • Unraveling the Effects of Grain Size and Moisture Content on the Linearity of Cohesive Soil Erosion: Implications for Predicting Streambank Retreat, SWC Core project (student award for Alexis Swanson)
  • Bank Erosion and Sediment Transport in Stream Restoration: A Process-Based Framework for the North Carolina Piedmont Region
Celso Castro-Bolinaga