John Albertson, Professor

Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Primary Research Interest: Environmental fluid mechanics, scaling in hydrology and boundary layer meteorology, use of computational fluid dynamics and field experiments to address issues of mass and energy exchange between the land and the atmosphere.

Roni Avissar, W. H. Gardner, Jr. Professor

Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Primary Research Interest: All aspects of land-atmosphere and air-sea interactions (modeling and experiments) at all scales, including atmospheric dynamics, regional and global climate changes, hydroclimatology, soil-plant-atmosphere relationships, material dispersion and diffusion, and ecosystem modeling.

Ana Barros, Professor

Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle

Primary Research Interest: Hydrology, Hydrometeorology and Environmental Physics with a focus on water-cycle processes in the coupled land-atmosphere-biosphere system particularly in regions of complex terrain, the study of multiscale interface phenomena in complex environments across the Earth Sciences, remote sensing of the environment (precipitation, clouds, soil moisture,and vegetation), climate predictability and risk assessment of natural hazards.

Fred K. Boadu, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Primary Research Interest: Engineering and environmental geophysics. Inverse theory applied to groundwater modeling and contaminant transport. Environmental mechanics. Characterization of fractured media using geophysical methods. Contamination detection and assessment using geophysical methods. Application of inverse theory and artificial neural networks to engineering and environmental problems.

Jean-Yves Bottero, Adjunct Professor

Doctorate and Doctorat d'Etat,Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine.

Primary Research Interests: Physical chemistry of organic, inorganic, and heterogeneous contaminants; physicochemical properties of surfaces; environmental nanotechnology; solid waste disposal; water and wastewater treatment.

Marc Deshusses, Professor

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich- ETHZ

Primary Reserach Interests: Processes for the bioremediation of contaminated air, water and soils; biofilms and biofiltration; gas-phase sensors based on functionalized nanomaterials.

Richard T. Di Giulio, Professor
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Primary Research Interest: Environmental toxicology, environmental health, and freshwater and estuarine pollution.

Claudia K. Gunsch, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin

Primary Research Interest: Environmental Molecular Biotechnology. Application of molecular biological methods to monitor and improve performance of microbial engineering systems; Biodegradation of organic contaminants in wastewater treatment, groundwater bioremediation and vapor-phase biofiltration; Impacts of genetically engineered microbes on the environment.

David E. Hinton, Nicholas Professor of Environmental Quality
Ph.D.,University of Mississippi
Primary Research Interest: Environmental toxicology, mechanistic and integrative understanding of the manner in which environmental contaminants exert their effects. Pathobiology and toxicopathology of persistent environmental contaminants in fishes.

Heileen Hsu-Kim, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Primary Research Interest: chemical processes that affect the fate of trace metals in the environment.

Tomasz A. Hueckel, Professor

Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences
D.Sc., University of Grenoble
Primary Research Interest: Theoretical soil and rock mechanics, theory of plasticity, environmental mechanics.

Zbigniew J. Kabala, Associate Professor

Ph.D., Princeton University

Primary Research Interest: Deterministic and stochastic modeling of water flow and contaminant transport in saturated and unsaturated heterogeneous porous media, theory of related measurements.

Prasad Kasibhatla, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Primary Research Interest: Atmospheric chemistry, regional and global modeling, atmospheric chemical data analysis.

Gabriel Katul, Professor

Ph.D. University of California at Davis

Primary Research Interest: Hydrology, micrometeorology , surface hydrology, carbon and water cycling, environmental fluid dynamics.

Andrey Khlystov, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Wageningen University

Primary Research Interest: Effect of ambient aerosol on the global climate and how aerosol hygroscopic growth affects the magnitude of climate forcing; exploring the relationship between particulate matter and adverse health effects; and development of new automatic measurement techniques to study the properties and transformations of ambient aerosol.

Karl G. Linden, Adjunct Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of California at Davis

Primary Research Interest: Applications of emerging ultraviolet technologies for disinfection of water and wastewater, control of disinfection by-products, and oxidation of organic contaminants.

Miguel A. Medina, Jr., Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

Ph.D., University of Florida

Primary Research Interest: Water resources, hydrologic and water quality mathematical modeling, integration of contaminant transport prediction models within a decision-analysis framework for risk assessment.

Joel N. Meyer, Assistant Professor

PhD, Duke University

Primary Research Interest: Environmental toxicology, environmental and genetic influences on organism health, DNA integrity, oxidative stress, and processes of adaptation to pollution.

J. Jeffrey Peirce, Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Primary Research Interest: Environmental engineering, hazardous waste engineering, physical, chemical, and biological aspects of particle-fluid interactions, models of trace gas emissions from waste- amended and chemically-applied soils.

Amilcare Porporato, Associate Professor

Ph.D. Polytechnic of Turin, Italy

Primary Research Interest: Ecohydrology and coupled dynamics of the soil-plant-atmosphere system; environmental fluid mechanics and turbulence dynamics; dynamical system approach and stochastic modeling of hydrological and biogeophysical processes; nonlinear time series analysis; flood forecasting.

Kenneth H. Reckhow, Professor

Ph.D., Harvard University
Primary Research Interest: Water quality assessment and management, water quality modeling, risk assessment, decision analysis.

Jerome Rose, Adjunct Associate Professor

Doctorate, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine

Primary Research Interests: Arsenic removal, ceramic membranes, advanced spectroscopy (EXAFS), Relation between nanostructure of materials and their reactivity and toxicity. Characterization of the structure of ultra-small (colloids and molecular clusters), and/or amorphous and highly divided materials down to the molecular scale.

David Schaad, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair

Ph.D., Duke University

Primary Teaching/Research Area: Water and wastewater treatment design, stormwater retention/detention and treatment design, hazardous waste remediation, urban hydrology, constructed wetland and stream restoration design, ecological stabilization, sustainable engineering in land development, water resources, water and wastewater treatment.

Heather Stapleton, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Maryland

Primary Research Interest: Fate and biotransformation of organic contaminants in aquatic systems, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).

Daniel Vallero, Adjunct Associate Professor

Ph.D., Duke University

Primary Teaching/Research Area: Transport and transformation of organic compounds in environmental media, especially soil and the troposphere.

Avner Vengosh, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Australian National University,
Primary Research Interest: Environmental and aqueous geochemistry, isotope hydrology, water quality, and salinization of water resources.

Mark R. Wiesner, James L. Meriam Professor

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Primary Research Interest: membrane processes, nanostructured materials, transport and fate of nanomaterials in the environment, colloidal and interfacial processes, and environmental systems analysis