Environmental and Water Resrouces Engineering Faculty

Faculty Member Technical Interests
Armstrong, Neal
  • Water quality management
Barrett, Michael
  • Quality, impacts, and mitigation of urban, agricultural, and construction site stormwater runoff
Burgin, John
  • Water resources planning and management
  • Network optimization
  • Expert geographic information systems
  • Modeling
Charbeneau, Randall
  • Groundwater hydrology
  • Subsurface fate and transport of chemicals
  • Radiological assessment
  • Modeling
Corsi, Richard
  • Indoor air quality
  • Sources, fate, and control of indoor air pollution
  • Homogeneous and heterogeneous indoor environmental chemistry
  • Human exposure to toxins in indoor environments
Ford, Davis
  • Water and wastewater systems design
Hodges, Ben
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Transport and water quality issues in lakes, rivers and estuaries
Katz, Lynn
  • Contaminant fate and transport
  • Combined abiotic/biotic treatment systems for in-situ remediation
  • Environmental surface chemistry
Kinnas, Spyros
  • Ocean engineering
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Cavitation
  • Wave mechanics
  • Computational fluid mechanics
  • Design of ocean vehicle control and propulsion systems
Kinney, Kerry
  • Beneficial application of microorganisms to the treatment of pollutants in the environment
  • Algae-to-biofuel production processes
  • Potentially detrimental microbial communities that develop in indoor environments
Kirisits, Mary Jo
  • Biological water treatment processes
  • Application of molecular biology to biological water treatment processes
  • Biofilms
  • Quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms
Lawler, Desmond
  • Particles in water and wastewater treatment processes
  • Mathematical modeling of treatment processes
  • Physical-chemical treatment
  • Drinking and industrial process water treatment
Liljestrand, Howard
  • Aquatic chemistry
  • Contaminant transport
  • Pollutant containment and remediation acid deposition
  • Air pollution modeling
Maidment, David
  • Geographic information systems(GIS)
  • Expert systems and statistical techniques in hydrology and water resources planning
  • Water use forecasting
Malina, Joseph
  • Biological treatment of municipal and industrial wastewaters
  • Handling, treatment, and disposal of municipal sludges
  • Industrial residuals and hazardous wastes
  • Solid waste engineering
  • Computer-aided-engineering of waste treatment systems
  • Environmental impact of highway construction and highway runoff
McDonald-Buller, Elena
  • Air quality modeling
  • Emissions trading
  • Atmospheric chemistry
  • Impacts of development and land use/and cover characterization on urban and regional air quality
  • Applications of satellite remote sensing data for air quality analyses
McKinney, Daene
  • Water resource systems analysis
  • Groundwater hydrology
  • Numerical modeling and economic analysis of groundwater systems
  • Multi-phase flow in porous media
  • Expert geographic information systems (GIS)
Passalacqua, Paola
  • Multi-scale analysis of hydrological processes
  • Dynamics of environmental transport on river networks and deltaic systems
  • Quantitative analysis and modeling of landscape forming processes, geomorphic transport laws and subgrid-scale parameterization
Reible, Danny
  • Contaminant processes in the environment
  • Fate and transport modeling
  • Assessment and remediation of contaminated sediments
Speitel, Gerald E.
  • Treatment processes for hazardous organic chemicals, including biodegradation and adsorption
  • Drinking water treatment
  • Computer models of treatment processes
   
Emeritus Faculty Technical Interests
Gloyna, Earnest F.
  • Wastewater treatment and water resources management
Holley, Edward
  • Hydraulic engineering
  • Environmental fluid mechanics for rivers, estuaries, and lakes
  • Pollutant transport problems
  • Sediment transport
  • Hydraulic models
Koschmieder, Lothar
  • Convection; hydrodynamic instability
  • Turbulence
Loehr, Raymond C.
  • Hazardous waste management
  • Bioremediation
  • Technology development
  • Land application of municipal
  • Industrial and hazardous wastes
  • Industrial waste management
Sorber, Charles A.
  • Public health aspects of land application of wastewater and sludges
  • Wastewater reuse
  • Disinfection and disinfection by-products
Wagner, Norman K.
  • Wind structure near the surface of the earth

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