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Tissot

Philippe Tissot, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Physics

Office: NRC 3400
Phone: (361) 825-3776
Fax: (361) 825-2742
E-Mail: philippe.tissot@tamucc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station
  • Diploma in Physics Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne

Research Interests

My main research interest is the application and development of machine learning based techniques and in particular Artificial Neural Networks to the modeling of environmental systems.  Present projects include the forecasting of water levels, storm surges and water temperatures along the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico, the forecasting of bacteria indicator in recreational waters and the forecasting of groundwater levels and spring flows in the Edwards Aquifer.  I also work on studying the impact and transport of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM).  Recent projects have included the study of NORM surface transport from the former South Texas Uranium mines, the study of Radon exhalation from the South Texas Uranium mines and the study of Radon concentrations in South Texas Ground water reservoirs.

Publications

Journal Publications and Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings:

  • D. Prouty, P.E. Tissot, A. Anwar, “Development of Artificial Neural Networks for Storm Surge Prediction in the North Sea”, submitted for publication to the Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, March 2006.
  • Z. Bowles, P.E. Tissot, P. Michaud, and A. Sadovski, “Artificial Neural Network Predictions of Water Levels in a Gulf of Mexico Shallow Embayment”, Revista de Matematica: Teoria y Aplicaciones, Volume 12, No 1 & 2, pp 139-150, 2005.
  • A. Mostella, A. Sadovski, S.Duff, P. Michaud, P.E. Tissot, and C. Steidley, “Comparison of Gap Interpolation Methodologies for Water Level Time Series Using PERL/PDL”, Revista de Matematica: Teoria y Aplicaciones, Volume 12, No 1 & 2, pp 157-164, 2005.
  • Steidley, Carl, Alex Sadovski, Phillipe Tissot, Ray Bachnak, Zack Bowles, "Using Artificial Neural Networks to Improve Predictions of Water Levels Where Tide Charts Fail," Lecture Notes in Artificial Intellegence 3533, pp. 599-608, Springer, June 2005, Bari, Italy.
  • J. Brandenberger, P. Louchouarn, B. Herbert, P. Tissot, “Geochemical and hydrodynamic controls on arsenic and trace metal cycling in a seasonally stratified US sub-tropical reservoir”, Applied Geochemistry, Volume 19, pp 1601-1623, 2004.
  • P.E. Tissot, D.T. Cox, A. Sadovski, P. Michaud and S. Duff, “Performance and Comparison of Water Level Forecasting Models for the Texas Ports and Waterways” proceedings of the PORTS 2004 Conference, Houston, TX, May 23-26, 2004.
  • A.L. Sadovski, C.W. Steidley, A Mostella and P.E. Tissot, "Integration of Regression and Harmonic Analysis to Predict Water Levels in Estuaries and Shallow Water of the Gulf of Mexico", WSEAS Transactions on Systems, No. 3, Vol. 8, pp. 2686-2694, ISSN 1109-2777, October 2004.
  • A.L. Sadovski, C.W. Steidley, P.R. Michaud and P.E. Tissot, "Developing a Goodness Criteria for Tide Predictions Based on Fuzzy Preference Ranking", Developments in Applied Artificial Intelligence, 16th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2003, Loughborough, UK, pp. 391-401, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2718, Springer, June 2003.
  • A.L. Sadovski, P.E. Tissot, C.W. Steidley, G. Jeffress, "Neural Network and Statistics-Based Systems for Predictions in Coastal Studies", Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, Volume 13, pp 689-694, ASME Press, New York, 2003.
  • D.T. Cox, G. Guannel, P.E. Tissot, and Y.J. Nam, “Statistical Hindcasts and the Relative Importance of Local and Remote Forcing on Subtidal Variability in Galveston Bay, Texas”, submitted to the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR-Oceans), 2002.
  • D.T. Cox, P.E. Tissot, and P. Michaud, “Water Level Observations and Short-Term Predictions Including Meteorological Events for Entrance of Galveston Bay, Texas”, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 128-1 (2002) 21-29.
  • Tissot, P.E., Perez, J., Kelly, F.J., Bonner, J.S. and Michaud, P., “Dynamic neural network modeling of HF radar current maps for forecasting oil spill trajectories”, Proceedings of the twenty-fourth Arctic and Marine Oil spill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, No. 24 (2001) 519-529.
  • P.E. Tissot, C.B. Fuller, P. Louchouarn, J.S. Bonner, S. Dellamea and D. Bujnoch, “Quantitative Method for Surface Oil Measurement and Recovery Based on a New Type of Low Impact Skimmer”, Proceedings of the twenty-third Arctic and Marine Oil spill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, No. 23a (2000) 353-366.
  • Louchouarn, P., Bonner, J.S., Tissot, P.E., McDonald, T.J., Fuller, C.B., and Page, C.A., “Quantitative Determination of Oil Films/Slicks from Water Surfaces Using a Modified Solid-phase Extraction (SPE) Sampling Method”, Proceedings of the Twenty-third Arctic and Marine Oil spill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, No. 23a (2000) 59-68.
  • Page, C.A., Fuller, C.B., Autenrieth, R.L, Bonner, J.S, Louchouarn, P., Tissot, P., and McDonald, T.J., "Materials Balance on an Oil Washed from a Sandy Substrate Using Shoreline Cleaners", Proceedings of the Twenty-third Arctic and Marine Oils pill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, No. 23b (2000) 697-708.
  • Fuller, C., Bonner, J., Dellamea, S., Ussery, S., Tissot, P., Louchouarn, P., Page, C., and McDonald, T., “Ecological Evaluation of Shoreline Cleaners Used on Oiled Mesocosm Sandy Beaches” Proceedings of the Twenty-third Arctic and Marine Oil spill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, No. 23b (2000) 795-804.
  • P.E. Tissot, L. Crowe, J. Colvin, T.L. Mann, and A. Guerra, “Design and Testing of a Pulsed Tube Based Cooling System for High Purity Germanium Detectors”, Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, Vol. 43 (1998) 2069-2076.
  • P.E. Tissot, J.C. McCoy & R.R. Hart, “Medium Energy implantation of germanium into heated <100> Silicon”, Applied Physics Letters 66-8 (1995) 979-981.
  • P.E. Tissot & R.R Hart, "Ion Beam Heating of Thin Silicon Membranes," Nuclear Instruments and Methods B79 (1993) 796-799.

Conference Proceedings, Trade Journals, Abstracts, and Presentations:

  • Philippe Tissot, Beate Zimmer, ”ANN Predictive Water Temperature Modeling of Cold Water Events in a Shallow Lagoon”, Accepted for presentation at the 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, AMS 87th Annual Meeting, 14-18 January 2007 in San Antonio, TX
  • Waylon Collins, Philippe Tissot, ”Use of an Artificial Neural Network to Improve the Forecasting of Thunderstorm Location”, Accepted for presentation at the 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, AMS 87th Annual Meeting, 14-18 January 2007 in San Antonio, TX.
  • Sadovski, Zimmer, Steidley, Sterba-Boatwright, Tissot, "Coastal and Estuarine Water Levels as a Random Signal", in Programa y Resumenes de XV Simposio Internacional de Metodes Matematicos Aplicados a las Ciencias, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2006.
  • Zimmer, G. Beate, Phillipe E. Tissot, Jeremy Flores, Zack Bowles, Alexey L. Sadovski, Carl Steidley, "Water Level Forecasting Along the Texas Coast:  Interdisciplinary Research With Undergraduates," Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, CD-ROM Session 1165, Portland, Oregon, June, 2005. 
  • Steidley, Carl, Rush, Richard, Thomas, David, Tissot, Philippe, Sadovski, Alex, Bachnak, Ray, "Signal Post-Processing as Applied to Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network (TCOON) Data," Proceedings of the Seventh Controls and Applications Conference of The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Cancun, Mexico, May 2005.
  • Alexey Sadovski, Carl Steidley, Aimee Mostella, Philippe Tissot, and Beate Zimmer “Real Time Web Availibility of Statistical Models for Water Levels Along the Texas Coastline”, submitted to the 2nd International conference on informatics in control, automation and robotics, Spain, 2005.
  • Alexey Sadovski, Carl Steidley, Garry Jeffress and Philippe Tissot, “Multi Objective Decisions for Artificial Intelligence Systems Based on Ratings”, accepted for presentation at 17th IMACS World Congress Scientific Computation, Applied Mathematics and Simulation, Paris, France    July 11 - 15, 2005.
  • P.E. Tissot, S. Duff, P. Michaud, J. Rizzo and G. Jeffress, “DNR-TCOON: An Integrated Observation and Operational Forecasts System for the Gulf of Mexico”, Proceedings of the Symposium on Living in the Coastal Zone, San Diego, California, January 9-13, 2005.
    P.E. Tissot, S. Duff, A. Mostella and K. Duraisamy, “Performance and Comparison of Water Level Forecasting Models for the Texas Gulf Coast” invited presentation at the Corpus Christi Weather Forecasting 2004 Coastal Flood workshop, Corpus Christi, Texas, November 17th, 2004.
  • A.L. Sadovski, C. Steidley, G. Jeffress, P.E. Tissot, P. Michaud, and J. Champane, “Modeling and Computational Simulation of Water Levels in the Corpus Christi Bay Based on Real-Time Data”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer, Communication, and Control Technologies, CCCT 03.
  • P. Tissot, N. Reynolds, L. Seiger, V. Dulip and G. Stuart, “Impact of Preliminary Team Building Activities on Student Attitudes and Overall Class Performance in Middle and High School Science Classrooms”, presentation at the Fourth Annual Chancellor’s Invitational Conference, Houston, Texas, June 13, 2003.
  • P.E. Tissot, “Neural Network Modeling and the Texas Coastal ocean Observation Network”, presentation at the Fourth Seminar on Selected Topics of Applied Mathematics on Ocean Engineering, Mexico City, Mexico, May 28, 2003.
  • A.L. Sadovski, P. Michaud, C. Steidley, J. Tishmack, K. Torres, A. Mostella, "Integration of Statistics and Harmonic Analysis to Predict Water Level in Estuaries and Shallow Waters of the Gulf of Mexico", presentation at the MATA International Conference (Cancun, Mexico), April 2003.
  • P.E. Tissot. N. Reynolds, L.Seiger and V. Dulip, “Impact of Preliminary Team Building Activities on Student Attitudes and Overall Class Performance For Inquiry Based High School Science Curricula”, presentation at the 2003 CEDER Symposium, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, March 1st, 2003.
  • P.E. Tissot, D.T. Cox, and P.R. Michaud, “Optimization and Performance of a Neural Network Model Forecasting Water Levels for the Corpus Christi, Texas, Estuary”, Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on the Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Environmental Science, Long Beach, California, February 2003.
  • P.E. Tissot, P. Michaud, D. Cox, Z. Bowles, J. Stearns, A. Drikitis, “Neural Network Forecasting of Water Levels along the Texas Gulf Coast” invited presentation at the National Weather Service 2003 Coastal Flood workshop, Corpus Christi, Texas, January 30, 2003.
  • P. E. Tissot, “Origin, Measurement, and Environmental Applications of Radioactivity in South Texas", Invited talk to the Texas A&M University-Kingsville Public Lecture Series, Kingsville, Texas, March 21, 2002.
  • P.E. Tissot, D.T. Cox, P. Michaud, “Neural Network Forecasting of Storm Surges along the Gulf of Mexico”, Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Ocean Wave Measurement and Analysis(Waves `01), ASCE, 1535-1544, 2002.
  • Y.J. Nam, D.T. Cox, P.E. Tissot, and P. Michaud, “Observations and predictions of tides and storm surges along the Gulf of Mexico,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Ocean Wave Measurement and Analysis(Waves `01), ASCE, 1625-1633, 2002.
  • W.D. James, P.E. Tissot, A. Ghatak-Roy, T. Hossain, B.J. MacDonald, J. Bernard, and C. Wang, “Evaluation of Copper Migration in Silicon Oxide Layers by Neutron Activation Analysis”, invited talk to the 2002 American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, Washington, DC.
  • A.L. Sadovski, P.E. Tissot, P.R. Michaud, and C. Steidley, “Statistical and Neural Network Modeling and Predictions of Tides in the Shallow Waters of the Gulf of Mexico”, Proceedings of the 2002 WSEAS International Conferences on System Science, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Power Engineering Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 21-24, 2002, pp 2131-2136.
  • A.R. Patrick, W.G. Colllins, P.E. Tissot, A. Drikitis, J. Stearns, P. Michaud, D. Cox, “Use of the NCEP MesoEta Data in a Water Level Predicting Neural Network” Proceedings of the 19th AMS Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/15th AMS Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, 12-16 August 2002, San Antonio, Texas, pp. 369-372, 2002.
  • P.E. Tissot, J. Perez, F. J.  Kelly, J. Bonner, P. Michaud “Forecasting HF Radar Current Maps using Dynamic Neural Network Modeling”, presentation at the 2001 HF Radar Workshop, Miami, Florida on April 4-5, 2001.
  • P. E. Tissot, “Neural Network Forecasting of Water Levels”, presentation at the 2001 Southern Region Marine Forecaster Workshop, Corpus Christi, Texas, March 2001.
  • P.E. Tissot, D.T. Cox, P. Michaud, “Water Level Changes on the Texas Coast”, invited presentation to the quarterly meeting of the Intra Coastal Waterway (ICW) users meeting, Corpus Christi, Texas, January 2001.
  • P. E. Tissot, P. Michaud, D. Cox, “A New Real Time Model for the Forecasting of Water Level Changes”, invited presentation at the Texas Gulf Coast Emergency Manager Association conference, Corpus Christi, Texas, October 2000.
  • P.E. Tissot, T. Hossain, A. Ghatak-Roy, and R.R Hart, "Silicide Characterization by RBS/TOF" poster presentation at the 14th international conference on the applications of accelerators in research and industry, Denton, Texas, November 4-7, 1998.
  • J. Colvin, T. Mann, S. Peck, P. Tissot, and J. Zeigler, “Second Generation of Micro Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (MicroSMES) Sub-Systems”, Superconductor Industry, winter 1997 (1998) 12-17.
  • Invited speaker at the 1997 Cryogenic Society of America (CSA) short course: “Application of Pulse Tube Cryocoolers for Gamma Ray Spectroscopy”, July 1997.
  • Invited talk at Sam Houston University, “Overview of Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis (PGNAA)”, May 1997.
  • J. McCoy, P.E. Tissot & R.R Hart, "High Fluence Implantation of Ge into Heated <111> Silicon," poster presentation at the 12th international conference on the applications of accelerators in research and industry, Denton, Texas, 1994.
  • P.E. Tissot, J.C. McCoy & R.R Hart, "Germanium Silicon Layers Produced by Implantation of Silicon <100> Substrates," oral presentation at the fall 1993 meeting of the APS/AAPT (Texas section) in College Station, Texas (This presentation received an award for outstanding research paper from the APS industrial section sponsorship fund).
  • J.C. McCoy, P.E. Tissot & R.R Hart, "Medium Energy Ion Implantation of Germanium into Heated <111> Silicon," oral presentation at the fall 1993 meeting of the APS/AAPT (Texas section) in College Station, Texas.
  • B. Stewart, P.E.Tissot & R.R. Hart, “Measurement of Thin Carbon Surface Layers by Rutherford Backscattering,” oral presentation at the fall 1993 meeting of the APS/AAPT (Texas section) in College Station, Texas.
  • P.E. Tissot & R.R Hart, "Ion Beam Heating of Thin Silicon Membranes," poster presentation at the 11th international conference on the applications of accelerators in research and industry, Denton, Texas, 1992.

Student Conference Proceedings, Abstracts, and Presentations:

  • Robyn Ball, Philippe Tissot, Beate Zimmer, Blair Sterba Boatwright ”ANN Predictive Water Temperature Modeling of Cold Water Events in a Shallow Lagoon”, Accepted for presentation at the 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, AMS 87th Annual Meeting, 14-18 January 2007 in San Antonio, TX.
  • Robyn Ball, “Understanding Conditions that Precede a Fish Kill in the Laguna Madre”, presentation at the 14th Annual South Texas, Mathematics Consortium, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, February 25th, 2006, Corpus Christi, Texas.
  • Dawn Lalmansingh, P.E. Tissot and Richard Hayes, “Neural Network Modeling of Spring Levels Linked to a Karst Aquifer: Case Study of the Comal Springs“, presented at the National Groundwater Association 2005 Ground Water Summit, San Antonio, Texas, April 17-20.
  • K. Tai, P. E. Tissot, R. Hay and B. Sterba-Boatwright, “Study of Spatial and Temporal Correlations Between Spring Flows and Precipitations for a Central Texas Aquifer”, presented at the National Groundwater Association 2005 Ground Water Summit, San Antonio, Texas, April 17-20.
  • D. Prouty and P.E. Tissot, “Using Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting Storm Surge Propagation in the North Sea and the Thames Estuary” presented  the 4th conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Environmental Science, San Diego, California, January 9-13, 2005.
  • K. Tai, P. E. Tissot, R. Hay and B. Sterba-Boatwright, “Study of Spatial and Temporal Correlations between Spring Flows and Precipitations for a Central Texas Aquifer”, presented at the 2004 National Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, Montreal, Canada, November 12-13, 2004. Awarded a gold ribbon for excellent poster presentation*.
  • N. Cook, P.E. Tissot and J. Mott, ”ANN Forecasting of Indicator Bacteria Counts in Corpus Christi Bay”, presented at the 2004 National Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, Montreal, Canada, November 12-13, 2004. Awarded a gold ribbon for excellent poster presentation*.
  • K. Duraisamy and P.E. Tissot, “Cross Station Now-casting Using Artificial Neural Networks in a Shallow Embayment”, poster presentation at the 2nd Annual TAMUS Pathways Research Symposium, Corpus Christi, Texas October 16, 2004.
  • K. Tai, P. E. Tissot, R. Hay and B. Sterba-Boatwright, “Study of Spatial and Temporal Correlations between Spring Flows and Precipitations for a Central Texas Aquifer”, poster presentation at the 2nd Annual TAMUS Pathways Research Symposium, Corpus Christi, Texas October 16, 2004.
  • K. Tai, P. E. Tissot, R. Hay and B. Sterba-Boatwright, “Study of Spatial and Temporal Correlations between Spring Flows and Precipitations for a Central Texas Aquifer”, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Fourth Undergraduate Research Seminar, Corpus Christi, Texas, October 9, 2004. (This presentation won third place in the oral presentation competition).
  • I. Arreola, P. E. Tissot, and J. Adams, “Historical Assessment of NORM in Brine Water Discharge through Sediment Core Analysis”, poster presentation at the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Fourth Undergraduate Research Seminar, Corpus Christi, Texas, October 9, 2004 and the 2nd Annual TAMUS Pathways Research Symposium, Corpus Christi, Texas October 16, 2004.
  • M. Beaman and P.E. Tissot, “Radon in Groundwater of the South Texas Uranium District”, accepted for presentation at the 2004 ESRI Education User Conference, San Diego, California, August 9–13, 2004.
  • Dawn Lalmansingh, P.E. Tissot and Richard Hayes, “Neural Network Modeling of Spring Levels Linked to a Karst Aquifer: Case Study of the Comal Springs“, 2004 Meeting of the Texas Section of the Mathematical Association of America, Corpus Christi, Texas, April 1-3, 2004.
  • A. Mostella, A.L. Sadovski, S. Duff, P. Michaud, P. Tissot, C. Steidley, "Comparison of Gap Interpolation Methodologies for Water Level Time Series using Perl/PDL", presentation at the XIV International Symposium on Mathematical Methods Applied to the Sciences, San Pedro, Costa Rica, February 18, 2004.
  • Z. Bowles, P.E. Tissot, P. Michaud, A. Sadovski, S. Duff and C. Steidley, “Engineered Training Sets: Enhancing the Learning Power of Artificial Neural Networks for Water Level Forecasts”, XIVth International Symposium on Mathematical Methods Applied to the Sciences (XIV SIMMAC), San Jose, Costa Rica, February 17-20, 2004.
  • M.H. Willingham, C.S. Smith, B.A. Dolan, P.E. Tissot, “Evaluation of the Surface Transport of NORM from Former Uranium Mines through Sediment Core Analysis”, abstracts of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 24th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, November 9-13, p. 280, 2003.
  • B.A. Dolan, M.H. Willingham, P.E. Tissot, “Meteorological Impact on Soil Radon Exhalation in the Context of a Former South Texas Uranium Mine” abstracts of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 24th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, November 9-13, p. 218, 2003.
  • B.A. Dolan, M.H. Willingham, J. Brandt and P.E. Tissot, “Impact of meteorological conditions on soil radon exhalation within the context of a former south Texas uranium mine”, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, 2003 Undergraduate Research Symposium, Corpus Christi, Texas, November 8, 2003.
  • M.H. Willingham, C. Smith, B. A. Dolan and P.E. Tissot, “Evaluation of the Surface Transport of NORM from Former Uranium Mines Through Sediment Core Analysis”, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, 2003 Undergraduate Research Seminar, Corpus Christi, Texas, November 8, 2003. (This presentation won second place in the oral presentation competition).
  • J. Telleria, M.H. Willingham, B. Newgard, P. E. Tissot, “Contamination of Mexican Hollow? Assessment of Radionuclide Transport from Open-Pit Uranium Mines through Creek Bed Sediment Analysis”, presentation at the 2003 National Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, Los Angeles, California, November 16, 2003.
  • B. Newgard, J. Telleria, M. Willingham, P. Tissot, “Assessment of Radionuclide Concentration and Radiochronological Dating of Sediments in Oso Bay, Texas”, presentation at the 2003 Summer Undergraduate Research Focus Symposium, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Texas, August 8, 2003.
  • J. Telleria, M. Willingham, P. Tissot, B. Newgard, C. Smith, “The Question of Mexican Hollow Assessment of Radionuclide Transport from Open-Pit Uranium Mines”, presentation at the 2003 Summer Undergraduate Research Focus Symposium, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Texas, August 8, 2003.
  • B.A. Dolan, M.H. Willingham, P.E. Tissot, “Impact of Meteorological Conditions on Soil Radon Exhalation within the Context of a Former Uranium Mine”, NOAA Expanding Opportunities Conference, Tallahassee, Florida, March 2003.  This presentation won first place in the Undergraduate competition. (80 posters, 6 awards, top prize for $ 500, http://www.weather.gov/com/nwsfocus/fs040703.htm)
  • Z. Bowles, P.E. Tissot, P. Michaud and A. Sadovski “Artificial Neural Network Predictions of Water Levels in a Gulf of Mexico Shallow Embayment”,  Third International Conference on Multivariate Approximation Theory and Applications, Cancun, Mexico, April 24-29 2003.
  • C. Smith, P. E. Tissot, P. Louchouarn, M. Beaman, R.L. Parker, M. Williams, J. Brandenberger, B. Herbert, and P. Michaud, “Have Radionuclides Released from the South Texas Uranium Mines Affected Lake Corpus Christi?” invited presentation to the 2002 National Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, Galveston, Texas, November 16, 2002, p. 31.  This presentation was selected for an award (3rd place, ecology).
  • C. M. Smith, P.E. Tissot, M. Beaman, R.L. Parker, J.M. Brandenberger, M. Williams, P. Louchouarn, B. Herbert, and P.R. Michaud, “Historical Environmental Impact of Uranium Mining Through the Gamma Ray Analysis of Livestock Pond Sediments”, 2002 Annual Geological Society of America Meeting, October 27-30, 2002, Denver, CO, p.416.
  • M. Beaman, P.E. Tissot, J. Brandt, “Kopplin Gamma Radiation Survey”, 2002 ESRI User Conference, Redlands, CA.
  • J. Stearns, P.E. Tissot, P. Michaud, W.G. Colllins, and A.R. Patrick, “Comparison of MesoEta Wind Forecasts with TCOON Measurements along the Coast of Texas” Proceedings of the 19th AMS Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/15th AMS Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, 12-16 August 2002, San Antonio, Texas, pp. J141-J144, 2002.
  • Robert Rivera and P.E. Tissot, “Radon Exhalation From Soils of South Texas Uranium Mines” presentation at the 2002 Summer Undergraduate Research Focus Symposium, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Texas, August 2002.
  • M. Williams & P. Tissot, “Development of a method to create homogeneous sediment standards for use in calibration of gamma ray spectroscopy and application to estuarine sediment cores“, presented at the 16th Biennial Estuarine Research Federation Conference (ERF 2001) in St. Petersburg Florida, November 4-8, 2001.  This poster presentation was selected as one of the four outstanding undergraduate posters of the conference (runner up).
  • M. Beaman, P. Tissot, and J. Brandt “Kopplin Gamma Radiation Survey” presented at the 2001 South Texas Environmental Conference, Corpus Christi, Texas, October 2001.
  • G. Guannel, P.E. Tissot, D.T. Cox, P. Michaud, "Local and Remote Forcing of Subtidal Water Level and Current Fluctuations in Coastal and Estuarine Environments", in Coastal Dynamics ’01, Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Coastal Dynamics, H. Hansen, and M. Larson, eds., American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001, pp. 443-452.
  • M. Beaman, P. Tissot, and J. Brandt “Kopplin Gamma Radiation Survey”, CBI Technical Report # 01-001, Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Sciences, Corpus Christi, Texas, May 2001.
  • J. Brandenberger, P. Louchouarn, J. Bonner, B. Herbert, P. Tissot, P. Michaud, and M. Beaman, “Trace Metal Concentrations in Sediments of Nueces Bay System”, presentation to the 8th Annual South Texas Environmental Conference, Corpus Christi, Texas, October 2000.
  • R.L Parker, B.E. Herbert, P.E. Tissot, and G. Ussery, “Gamma Spectroscopy of Livestock Pond Sediments from the Falls City, Texas, UMTRA Site: Scrutiny of DOE Contamination Classification”, presentation at the 1999 Annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado, October 25-28, 1999.
  • *Sigma Xi 2004 Rewards: "Good, Excellent, and Superior poster presentations were recognized with White, Gold and Blue ribbons respectively. Blue ribbon recipients were also given a cash award"

Course Books:

  • Participation (principal investigator) to the design, research, and text development of the course “Silicon Manufacturing Overview” addressed to industry professionals with associate degrees or non engineering Bachelor degrees, published by the Texas Engineering Extension Service, Electronics Training Division, 1997, Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX 77843-8000 (taught the class for different units of Texas Instruments and MEMC Electronics and certified instructors for the class).
  • Participation (principal investigator during the first part of the development) to the design, research, and text development of the four volume course “Silicon Materials Fabrication” addressed to industry professionals with Bachelor, Masters or Ph.D. degree, published by the Texas Engineering Extension Service, Electronics Training Division, 1996, Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX 77843.   (taught the class for different units of Texas Instruments and MEMC Electronics and certified instructors for the class).

Patents

John Colvin, Charles Vignal, Philippe Edouard Tissot, and Larry Raymond Crowe “Resin-Impregnated Substrate, Method of Manufacture and System Therefor”, US Patent US 6,620,459 B2, Sept. 16, 2003.  A product based on this patent, HARCwood, won first place in the Innovative Technology category for New Products recognizing environmental innovation at the 2003 Association of Woodworking & Furnishings Suppliers Fair.  The Association of Woodworking & Furnishing Suppliers Fair was the largest woodworking and furniture supply event in 2003. Over 30,000 industry professionals attended with over 800 exhibiting companies displaying the latest technologies with over 400,000 square feet of exhibitors.
John Colvin, Charles Vignal, Philippe Edouard Tissot, and Larry Raymond Crowe “Resin Impregnated Substrate Materials”, patent applied, December 2003.

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