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CHRISTOPHER C. OBROPTA, Ph.D., P.E.

 

Education: 

  • 1988 – B.S., Civil Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ (magna cum laude)

  • 1989 ­­– M.S., Civil Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

  • 2002 – Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
     

Positions Held:

  • 2002-present – Water Resources Extension Specialist, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

  • 2000-2002 – Senior Associate, Omni Environmental Corporation

  • 1995-2000 – Associate, Omni Environmental Corporation

  • 1993-1995 – Associate Project Manager, Omni Environmental Corporation

  • 1991-1993 – Senior Project Engineer, Omni Environmental Corporation

  • 1989-1991 – Project Engineer, Omni Environmental Corporation

  • 1988-1989 – Junior Engineer, Johnson Engineering, Inc.
     

Awards:

  • Professional Engineering License, New Jersey & Pennsylvania
     

Selected Presentations and Publications:

  • Kallin, P.L., C.C. Obropta and J.D. Bergstrom. 2001. “The Biofilter Wetland: Design and Construction of an Urban BMP to Treat Stormwater.” In: Proceedings of the 2001 Pennsylvania Stormwater Management Symposium Held at Villanova University, October 17-18, 2001, R. Traver (editor).

  • Cosgrove, Jr., J.F. and C.C. Obropta, “Modeling the Impact of Macrophytes on Instream Dissolved Oxygen Dynamics in the Pennsauken Watershed,” ASCE 1995 National Conference on Water Resources Planning and Management, May 1995.

  • Obropta, C.C. and S.T. Taylor, “Modeling Initial Mixing of Ocean Wastewater Discharges to Develop Toxic Effluent Limitations,” ASCE First Annual Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, June 1994.
     

Contact:
 

Christopher C. Obropta, Ph.D., P.E.

Department of Extension Specialists/ Department of Environmental Sciences
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences Building, 14 College Farm Road

New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551
732-932-4917 (T)
732-932-8644 (F)
obropta@njaes.rutgers.edu

 

 

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