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Edward A. McBean

Edward A. McBean

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
43
Citations
8096
World Ranking
6103
National Ranking
243

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
47
Citations
9105
World Ranking
5747
National Ranking
247

Research.com Recognitions

  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Edward A. McBean is affiliated with the University of Guelph in Canada and has a research focus primarily within Environmental Science. Their scholarly output includes significant contributions across several subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Infectious Diseases.

Their research topics are diverse, covering Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Climate Variability and Models, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, and Water Systems and Optimization.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Edward A. McBean include:

  • Han Chen
  • Jinhui Jeanne Huang
  • Brett Snider
  • Albert Z. Jiang
  • Han Li

Among the publication venues where Edward A. McBean has regularly contributed are:

  • Water
  • Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Preprints.org

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Edward A. McBean include:

  • Passive sampling, a practical method for wastewater-based surveillance of SARS-CoV-2, 2021, Environmental Research
  • Evaluation of alternative two-source remote sensing models in partitioning of land evapotranspiration, 2021, Journal of Hydrology
  • An enhanced shuttleworth-wallace model for simulation of evapotranspiration and its components, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Watermain breaks and data: the intricate relationship between data availability and accuracy of predictions, 2020, Urban Water Journal
  • Combining Machine Learning and Survival Statistics to Predict Remaining Service Life of Watermains, 2021, Journal of Infrastructure Systems

Edward A. McBean has also authored a book titled Groundwater Quality and Examples of Risk Interpretation Procedures, published in 2023 by The Groundwater Project eBooks.

Among professional recognitions, Edward A. McBean is associated with The Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Best Publications

  • The battle of the water sensor networks (BWSN): A design challenge for engineers and algorithms

    Avi Ostfeld;James G. Uber;Elad Salomons;Jonathan W. Berry

  • Solid Waste Landfill Engineering and Design

    Edward A. McBean

  • Appropriate technology – A comprehensive approach for water and sanitation in the developing world

    Heather M. Murphy;Edward A. McBean;Khosrow Farahbakhsh

  • Battle of the Water Calibration Networks

    Avi Ostfeld;Elad Salomons;Lindell Ormsbee;James G. Uber

  • Statistical procedures for analysis of environmental monitoring data and risk assessment

    Edward A. McBean;Frank A. Rovers

  • Optimization Modeling of Water Quality in an Uncertain Environment

    Donald H. Burn;Edward A. McBean

  • Heavy Metal Removal (Copper and Zinc) in Secondary Effluent from Wastewater Treatment Plants by Microalgae

    Alison Chan;Hamidreza Salsali;Ed McBean

  • Assessment of impact of climate change on water resources: a long term analysis of the Great Lakes of North America

    E. McBean;H. Motiee

  • highway stormwater runoff quality: development of surrogate parameter relationships

    N. R. Thomson;E. A. McBean;W. Snodgrass;I. B. Monstrenko

  • Extreme learning machine model for water network management

    Ahmed Sattar;Ömer Faruk Ertuğrul;Bahram Gharabaghi;Edward Arthur McBean

  • LANDFILL SETTLEMENT AND THE IMPACT ON SITE CAPACITY AND REFUSE HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY

    David E. Bleiker;Grahame Farquhar;Edward McBean

  • Human health risk assessment from arsenic exposures in Bangladesh

    Tijo Joseph;Brajesh Dubey;Brajesh Dubey;Edward A. McBean

  • A risk-based approach to sanitary sewer pipe asset management.

    Kelly Baah;Brajesh Dubey;Richard Harvey;Edward McBean

  • Siloxanes in biogases from landfills and wastewater digesters

    Edward A. McBeanE.A. McBean

  • Chance-constrained/stochastic linear programming model for acid rain abatement—I. Complete colinearity and noncolinearity

    J.H. Ellis;E.A. McBean;G.J. Farquhar

  • Multi-Objective Optimization for Monitoring Sensor Placement in Water Distribution Systems

    Jinhui Jeanne Huang;Edward Arthur McBean;William James

  • A methodology for solid waste characterization based on diminishing marginal returns.

    Mukesh Sharma;Edward McBean

  • Uncertainty in Suspended Sediment Transport Curves

    Edward A. McBean;Sabah Al‐Nassri

  • Constructed Wetlands for the Treatment of Landfill Leachates

    George Mulamoottil;Edward A. McBean;Frank A. Rovers

  • Multi-Soil-Layering Systems for Wastewater Treatment in Small and Remote Communities

    C. J. An;E. McBean;G. H. Huang;Y. Yao

Frequent Co-Authors

Bahram Gharabaghi
Bahram Gharabaghi University of Guelph
Keith W. Hipel
Keith W. Hipel University of Waterloo
Brajesh Dubey
Brajesh Dubey Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Richard P. Harvey
Richard P. Harvey Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Donald H. Burn
Donald H. Burn University of Waterloo
Guohe Huang
Guohe Huang University of Regina
Graeme C. Dandy
Graeme C. Dandy University of Adelaide
Vijay P. Singh
Vijay P. Singh Texas A&M University
Jiri Marsalek
Jiri Marsalek Luleå University of Technology
Hossein Bonakdari
Hossein Bonakdari University of Ottawa

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