{"id":9124,"date":"2016-08-03T09:14:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T13:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=9124"},"modified":"2016-08-03T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T13:14:58","slug":"the-evolution-of-aria-amirbahman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2016\/08\/03\/the-evolution-of-aria-amirbahman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Aria Amirbahman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The opportunity to join a Mitchell Center citizen-science research project allowed the 91¸£Àû environmental engineer to grow as a scientist and teacher<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aria Amirbahman is a professor of civil and environmental engineering with specific research interests in aquatic chemistry and contaminant transport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an engineer by training so I need a structured, systematic way to approach a problem. The way I look at things, they should fit into patterns and equations. That\u2019s my upbringing,\u201d Amirbahman says matter-of-factly.<\/p>\n<p>So, it is not surprising that when he had the opportunity to join ranks with a Mitchell Center project that blended his world of hard physical science with the \u201csofter\u201d social sciences to develop sustainability solutions, it took some time and convincing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/news\/news-2\/the-evolution-of-aria-amirbahman\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opportunity to join a Mitchell Center citizen-science research project allowed the 91¸£Àû environmental engineer to grow as a scientist and teacher Aria Amirbahman is a professor of civil and environmental engineering with specific research interests in aquatic chemistry and contaminant transport. \u201cI\u2019m an engineer by training so I need a structured, systematic way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}