Emily Berglund
Professor

- emzechma@ncsu.edu
- Fitts-Woolard Hall 3169
Dr. Emily Zechman Berglund* joined the North Carolina State University Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering in July 2011. She graduated with her B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of Kentucky. She is a proud graduate of North Carolina State University, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2005.
Dr. Berglund teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in water resources engineering, hydrology, and systems analysis for civil engineering. She received Best Research-Oriented Paper Awards in 2010 and 2011 for her publications in the ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.
*Formerly, Emily Michelle Zechman
Education
Civil Engineering
North Carolina State University
Civil Engineering
University of Kentucky
Civil Engineering
University of Kentucky
Research Description
Dr. Berglund's research interests are in the development of new computational methodologies to explore the influence of feedbacks among social and infrastructure systems. Her research creates new socio-technical models by integrating Complex Adaptive Systems modeling approaches with engineering models to simulate feedback mechanisms and adaptive behaviors among consumers, infrastructure, and environmental systems. New Evolutionary Algorithm-based approaches are coupled with socio-technical models to identify optimal adaptive strategies for managing sustainability, security, and resilience of complex infrastructure and water resources systems. Specifically, she is exploring the sustainability of urban water supply and protection of human health in water contamination incidents. Dr. Berglund specializes in water management; water reclamation and conservation; water security; complex adaptive systems; agent-based modeling; evolutionary computation; human behavior; and social dimensions.
Publications
- A sociotechnical framework to characterize tipping points in water supply systems
- Berglund, E. Z., Skarbek, M., & Kanta, L. (2023), SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY, 97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.104739
- Agent-based modeling to assess decentralized water systems: Micro-trading rainwater for aquifer recharge
- Bolton, E. R., & Berglund, E. Z. (2023), JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY, 618. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129151
- Customer complaint management and smart technology adoption by community water systems
- DiCarlo, M., Berglund, E. Z., Kaza, N., Grieshop, A., Shealy, L., & Behr, A. (2023), UTILITIES POLICY, 80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2022.101465
- Digital Twins for Water Distribution Systems
- Berglund, E. Z., Shafiee, M. E., Xing, L., & Wen, J. (2023), JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, 149(3). https://doi.org/10.1061/JWRMD5.WRENG-5786
- A Hybrid Data-Driven-Agent-Based Modelling Framework for Water Distribution Systems Contamination Response during COVID-19
- Kadinski, L., Salcedo, C., Boccelli, D. L., Berglund, E., & Ostfeld, A. (2022), WATER, 14(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/w14071088
- A Sequential Pressure-Based Algorithm for Data-Driven Leakage Identification and Model-Based Localization in Water Distribution Networks
- Daniel, I., Pesantez, J., Letzgus, S., Fasaee, M. A. K., Alghamdi, F., Berglund, E., … Cominola, A. (2022), JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, 148(6). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001535
- An Agent-Based Model for Contamination Response in Water Distribution Systems during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Kadinski, L., Berglund, E., & Ostfeld, A. (2022), JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, 148(8). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001576
- Can Common Pool Resource Theory Catalyze Stakeholder-Driven Solutions to the Freshwater Salinization Syndrome?
- Grant, S. B., Rippy, M. A., Birkland, T. A., Schenk, T., Rowles, K., Misra, S., … Zhong, Y. (2022, September 14), ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 9. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c01555
- Developing early warning systems to predict water lead levels in tap water for private systems
- Fasaee, M. A. K., Pesantez, J., Pieper, K. J., Ling, E., Benham, B., Edwards, M., & Berglund, E. (2022), WATER RESEARCH, 221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.118787
- Effectiveness of indicators for assessing the vulnerability of barrier island highways
- Behr, A., Berglund, E., & Sciaudone, E. (2022), TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART D-TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENT, 105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2022.103234
Grants
- Development of Dissolved Oxygen Modeling Guidance
- NC Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)(8/01/23 - 7/31/25)
- A Citizen Science Internship Program to Quantify Racial and Economic Disparities in Lead Levels in Drinking Water Across North Carolina
- NCSU Water Resources Research Institute(9/01/21 - 8/31/23)
- Water Distribution Systems Management Under COVID-X
- US-Israel Binational Science Foundation(10/01/21 - 9/30/23)
- A Citizen Science Internship Program to Quantify Racial and Economic Disparities in Lead Levels in Drinking Water Across North Carolina
- NCSU Water Resources Research Institute(9/01/21 - 8/31/23)
- National Priorities: Transdisciplinary Research into Detecting and Controlling Lead in Drinking Water
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)(4/01/18 - 3/31/23)
- Modeling Approaches for Predicting Water Lead Risks in Underserved Communities
- Spring Point Partners LLC(8/29/17 - 12/31/18)
- LAS D05 Berglund Task 5.5 Advanced Concepts
- Laboratory for Analytic Sciences(3/24/15 - 12/31/15)
- National Center of Sustainable Water Infrastructure Modeling
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)(9/01/16 - 8/31/21)
- A Research Network on Water Solutions (ReNeWS): the U.S. Southeast and Beyond
- NCSU Research and Innovation Seed Funding Program(1/01/15 - 12/31/15)
- LAS DO3 Task Order 2.8 Analytic Workflow - Berglund
- Laboratory for Analytic Sciences(5/31/14 - 5/15/15)