Climate Change -- Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Watershed Hydrology,Somsubhra Chattopadhyay and Manoj K. Jha -- Trend of Climate Variability in North Carolina during the Past Decades, Mohammad Sayemuzzaman and Manoj K. Jha -- Arctic Storm and Its Impact on the Surface Winds over the Chukchi-Beaufort Seas, Wei Tao, Jing Zhang, Xiangdong Zhang, and Junming Chen -- Designing a Remote In-Situ Soil Moisture Sensor Network for Small Satellite Data Retrieval, Rawfin Zaman, William E Edmonson, and Manoj K. Jha -- Alaskan Regional Climate Changes in Dynamically Downscaled CMIP5 Simulations, Jing Zhang, Regine Hock, Jeremy Krieger, Uma Bhatt, Chuhan Lu,  and Xiangdong Zhang -- Fate and Transport of Contaminants -- Application of Kalman Filter Embedded with Neural Network in 3-Dimensional Subsurface Contaminant Transport Modeling, Godwin Appiah Assumaning and Shoou-Yuh Chang -- Application of Adaptive Extended Kalman Filtering Scheme to Improve the Efficiency of a Groundwater Contaminant Transport Model, Shoou-Yuh Chang and Elvis B. Addai -- Application of Ensemble Square Root Kalman Filter in a Three Dimensional Subsurface Contaminant Transport Model, Shoou-Yuh Chang and Torupallab Ghoshal -- Application of 3D VAR  Kalman Filter in a three dimensional subsurface contaminant transport model for a continuous pollutant source, Shoou-Yuh Chang and Anup Saha -- Groundwater flow modeling in the shallow aquifer of Buffalo Creek, Greensbor,Jenberu Feyyisa, Manoj K. Jha, and Shoou-Yuh Chang -- Food Bioprocessing -- Inactivation of E. coli O157:H7 on Rocket Leaves by Eucalyptus and Wild-Thyme Essential Oils, Saddam S. Awaisheh -- Decontamination of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from Leafy Green Vegetables Using Ascorbic Acid and Copper Alone or in Combination with Organic Acids, Rabin Gyawali and Salam A. Ibrahim -- Enzymatic Activity of Lactobacillus Grown in a Sweet Potato Base Medium, Saeed A. Hayek and Salam A. Ibrahim -- Effect of Metal Ions on the Enzymatic Activity of Lactobacillus Reuteri Growing in a Sweet Potato Medium, Saeed A. Hayek and Salam A. Ibrahim -- Using Sweet Potatoes as a Basic Component to Develop a Medium for the Cultivation of Lactobacilli, Saeed A. Hayek, Abolghasem Shahbazi, Salam A. Ibrahim -- Impact of gums on the growth of probiotic microorganisms, Bernice. D. Karlton-Senaye and Salam. A. Ibrahim -- Interaction between Bifidobacterium and Medical Drugs, Temitayo O. Obanla, Saeed A. Hayek, Rabin Gyawali, and Salam A. Ibrahim -- Functional food product development from fish processing by-products using isoelectric solubilization/precipitation, Reza Tahergorabi and Salam Ibrahim -- Sustainable Energy -- Optimizing the Design of Chilled Water Plants in Large Commercial Buildings, Dante' Freeland, Christopher Hall, and Nabil Nassif -- Optimizing Ice Thermal Storage to Reduce Energy Cost, Christopher L. Hall, Dante' Freeland, and Nabil Nassif -- Optimization of HVAC Systems Using Genetic Algorithm, Tony Nguyen and Nabil Nassif -- Artificial Intelligent Approaches for Modeling and Optimizing HVAC Systems, Raymond Tesiero, Nabil Nassif, and Harmohindar Singh -- Waste Management and Environmental Justice -- Experimental Study of MSW Pyrolysis in Fixed Bed Reactor, Emmanuel Ansah, John Eshun, Lijun Wang, Abolghasem Shahbazi, and Guidgopuram B. Reddy -- Separate Hydrolysis and Fermentation of Untreated and Pretreated Alfalfa Cake to Produce Ethanol, Shuangning Xiu, Nana Abayie Boakye-Boaten, and Abolghasem Shahbazi -- Scrap Tires Air Emissions in North Carolina, Vereda Johnson Williams -- Tax Policy's Role in Promoting Sustainability, Gwendolyn McFadden, and Jean Wells.