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Faculty Directory A-J

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Robin Autenrieth
Professor, Civil Engineering

Research Interests: Physical and chemical parameters of microbial water contamination; risk assessment framework for human health risks

Sherry Bame
Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Research Interests: The effects of water quality on public health

Bill Batchelor
Professor, Civil Engineering

Research Interests: Treatment systems for water, wastewater, hazardours wastes and contaminated soils and sludges; technologies for improving desaliniation and industrial cooling water systems; water and energy systems.

Bryan Boulanger
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering

Research Interests: Water quality and risk assessment risk assessment of pharmaceuticals in water.

Sam Brody
Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Research Interests: Adaptive floodplain management; wetalnds banking and mitigation; urban watershed management and planning.


Kelly Brumbelow
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering

Research Interests: Water resources planning and management; agricultural water resources systems; decision support systems; climate variabilityand climate change effects; assessment of water resources policy.

Tony Cahill
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering

Research Interests: Soil moisture and watershed hydrology; stochastic hydrology; numerical modeling; low slope hydrology.

Kung-Hui (Bella) Chu
Professor, Civil Engineering

Research Interests: Biodegradation and biotransformation of contaminants in groundwater, soils, and wastewater

Stephen Davis
Associate Professor, Wildlife and Fisheries

Research Interests: Ecology of aquatic ecosystems; wetalnd biogeochemistry and hydrology; wetland ecosystem drivers; functional assessment of created and restored wetalnd ecosystems.

Timothy Dellapenna
Assistant Professor, Marine Sciences and Oceanography at Galveston

Research Interests: Sediment transport to estuaries; surface/groundwater interaction in mixing zones.

 
Sam Feagley
Professor and State Soil Environmental Specialist, Soil and Crop Sciences

Research Interests: Soil nutrient management and its impact on surface and groundwater quality.

Delbert Gatlin III
Professor & Associate Department Head, Wildlife and Fisheries

Research Interests: Aquatic Biology, aquaculture.

John (Rick) Giardino
Professor, Geology & Geophysics, Geography

Research Interests: Fluvial geomorphology; watershed restoration; water quality; mass wasting mechanics; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); remote sensing of hydrologic systems.

James Gilley
Professor; Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Research Interests: Agricultural irrigation systems; irrigation water management; irrigation conservation.

Ronald Griffin
Professor, Agricultural Economics

Research Interests: Water resources economics; water pricing; determinants of water demand.

B.L. Harris
Assistant Director, Texas Water Resources Institute

Research Interests: Urban and agricultral water conservation.

James Heilman
Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences

Research Interests: Water movement in ecosystems.

Yong Huang
Assistant Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Research Interests: Membrane technology for water treatment; environmental remediation technology; the movement of waterbourne contaminants in surface and subsurface environments.

Bruce Herbert
Professor, Geology and Geophysics

Research Interests: Bigeochemistry of wetlands, aquatic sediments, aquifers, and the coastal margin; contaminant transport in aquifers.

John Jacob
Director, Texas Coastal Watershed Program; Associate Professor, Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences

Research Interests: Watershed management, stormwater management, and wetland science/management.