Education

Ph.D. – 1994 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,  Civil Engineering
Diplom – 1991 University of Hannover, Germany, Civil Engineering

Appointments

2011 – present, Assoc. Prof., City College New York, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

2004 – 2010, Assoc. Prof. Drexel University Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering

1998 – 2004, Assist. Prof. Drexel University Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering

1996 – 1998, Assist. Prof. American University of Beirut, Department of Civil Engineering, Beirut, Lebanon

1994 – 1996, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

1991 – 1994, Graduate Assistant, University of Michigan Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Research Interests

HydroInformatics: data management and semantic representation of hydrologic knowledge
HydroInformatics: deployment of sensor networks and data streaming from sensor to storage
HydroInformatics: using workflow engines for modeling of hydrologic processes and data curation

Professional Activities and Affiliations
Activities

2009 – present Associate Editor for Journal of HydroInformatics
2007 – present Associate Editor for Earth Science Informatics
2005 – present Associate Editor for Computers & GeoSciences
2010 – present Vice Chairman for AGU Focus Group on Earth Space Science Informatics, ESSI
2003 – present Member of Organizing Committee for Estuarine & Coastal Modeling Conf, ECM
2006 – Chairperson 7th Int’l Conference on HydroScience and Engineering, Philadelphia

Affiliations

2004 – present Member of American Geophysical Union, AGU
2001 – present Member of International Association for Hydraulic Research, IAHR
Selected Publications
Aguayo M., Piasecki M. (2011), “Design of an Online Low Impact Development Assessment tool: the technical underpinnings of LIDRA 2.0”, submitted to IAHR Journal of HydroInformatics, IAHR, IWA Publishing. 
Lu B., Piasecki M. (2010), “A Review of Current Efforts and Initiatives to establish a Community Modeling System for Hydrologic Sciences”, submitted to IAHR Journal of HydroInformatics, IWA Publishing.
Stammermann R., Piasecki M. (2010), “Hydrological and Sedimentological Processes in estuarine and coastal fresh- and saltwater Marshes; A Review”, submitted to Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.
Reed P., Bills B., Anderson M., Ketchum B., Piasecki M. (2010), “The Mid-Atlantic Atlas (MAWA): Open Access Data Search & Watershed-based Community Building”, Environmental Modeling & Software. Vol. 25, Issue 6, pp. 808-812, June 2010. 
Tarboton D., Horsburgh J., Maidment D., Whitaker T., Zaslavsky I., Piasecki M., Goodall J., Valentine D., Whitenack T. (2009), “Development of a Community Hydrologic Information System”, proceedings MODSIM 09, July 13-17, 2009, Cairns, Australia. 
Horsburgh J., Tarboton D., Piasecki M., Maidment D, Zaslavsky I., Valentine D., Whitenack T. (2009), “Overcoming Semantic Heterogeneity in Publishing Environmental and Water Resources Data”, Environmental Modeling and Software. Volume 24, Issue 8, August 2009, pp. 879-888.
Piasecki, M., Beran, B. (2009), “A Semantic Annotation Tool for the Hydrologic Sciences”, Earth Science Informatics, Springer, Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 157, August 2009.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12145-009-0031-x.
Beran B., Piasecki M. (2009), “Engineering New Paths to Hydrologic Data”, Computers and GeoSciences, Elsevier, Special Issue, Vol. 35, Issue 4, pp. 753 – 760, April 2009. 
Islam S., Piasecki M. (2008), "A Web-Based Simulation System for Hydrodynamic Processes", Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, Elsevier, Vol. 16, Issue 7, pp. 754 – 767, August 2008.
Beran B., Piasecki M. (2008), “Availability and Coverage of Hydrologic Data in the US Geological Survey National Water Information System (NWIS) and US Environmental Protection Agency Storage and Retrieval System (STORET)”, Earth Science Informatics, Springer, Vol.1, No.3, November 2008, pp. 119 – 129.  
Piasecki M. (2008), “HydroTagger: A Tool for Semantic Mapping of Hydrologic Terms”, Proceedings AAAI Spring Meeting, SSKI, March 25 - 28, 2008, Stanford University, CA. 
Ball B., Burns R., Cuker B., DiToro D., Gross T., Kemp M., Murray, L., Piasecki, M., Zaslavsky I. (2008), “A Prototype System for Multi-Disciplinary Shared CyberInfrastructure – Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory (CBEO)”, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 13, Issue 10, pp. 960-970, October 2008.