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Laura Elizabeth Dalton

Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Box 90287, Durham, NC 27708-9024
CIEMAS 2469, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Professor Dalton joined Duke University in August 2022 after obtaining her PhD from North Carolina State University, MS and BS from West Virginia University. Dr. Dalton is an experimentalist and her research interests include studying and understanding reactive, multiphase transport in porous media. She is particularly interested in understanding and manipulating chemical and physical processes that occur during reactive, multiphase transport in both engineered (cementitious) and natural (geological) porous materials. To this end, she uses quantitative imaging approaches such as X-ray computed tomography (CT), neutron tomography, and electrical imaging modalities including electrical capacitance tomography (ECT). She is interested in using hybrid and simultaneous imaging modalities because complementary and temporal information can be obtained using these approaches to better understand complex processes such as developing innovative methods to sequester CO2

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering · 2022 - Present Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

In the News


Published February 25, 2025
Three Engineering Projects to Build Greener Materials
Published October 24, 2024
Clean Technologies Exist. But They Need To Be Used To Make Change.
Published May 15, 2024
Civil Engineering Is Having a Moment

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Recent Publications


A Liposomal Carrier to Reduce Leaching of Ionic Nutrient Loads in Agricultural Soils.

Journal Article Environmental science & technology · June 2025 The use of inorganic nutrient fertilizers in crop agriculture is often inefficient due to rapid leaching of nutrients with percolating water in soil. To address this, a liposomal carrier was developed to slow transport and reduce leaching of inorganic nutr ... Full text Cite

Predicting compressive stress-strain behavior of elasto-plastic porous media via morphology-informed neural networks.

Journal Article Communications engineering · April 2025 Porous media, ranging from bones to concrete and from batteries to architected lattices, pose difficult challenges in fully harnessing for engineering applications due to their complex and variable structures. Accurate and rapid assessment of their mechani ... Full text Cite

Geo-SegNet: A contrastive learning enhanced U-net for geomaterial segmentation

Journal Article Tomography of Materials and Structures · March 2025 Full text Open Access Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


North Carolina State University · 2022 Ph.D.
West Virginia University · 2016 M.Sc.Eng.
West Virginia University · 2015 B.S.
West Virginia Wesleyan College · 2012 B.A.