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Faculty K-M

William Neill
Professor, Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

Research Interests: Fish ecology and aquaculture; modeling aquatic ecosystems.

Gerald North
Distinguished Professor and Holder of the Harold J. Haynes Endowed Chair in Geosciences

Research Interests: Climate analysis; climate and hydrological modeling; satillite remote sensing.

Francisco Olivera
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering

Research Interests: Application of GIS to hydrologic modeling; modeling of non-point source pollution; modeling of water transport processes.

Kathleen O'Reilly
Assistant Professor, Geography

Research Interests: Community and gender influence in domeestic water use and decision-making.

Jacqueline Ann Aitkenhead-Peterson
Associate Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences

Research Interests: Mechanisms that influence carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous cycling and loss to surface water under different land uses within watersheds.

Suresh Pillai
Professor and Texas AgriLife Faculty Fellow
Environmental Microbiology & Food Safety
Director, National Center for Electron Beam Research

Research Interests: Occurrence, fate, detection, transport, and activity of microbial pathogens in ground, surface, and wastewater.

Steven Quiring
Assistant Professor, Geography

Research Interests: Drought modeling; climate change; precipitation patterns; arctic climate and hydrology.


Daniel Roelke
Associate Professor, Wildlife and Fisheries

Research Interests: Food-web ecology and ecosystem sciences in aquatic environments; plankton ecology; community succession.

Douglas Shaw
Professor,Agricultural Economics

Research Interests: Non-market valuation of water resources; water resource economics; water quality risk assessment.

Douglas Sherman
Professor and Deparment Head, Geography

Research Interests: Shoreline change; dam sedimentation; wave action processes.

Vijay Singh
Professor, Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water, Biological, and Agricultural Engineering

Research Interests: Surface and groundwater hydrology; water quality modeling; stochastic hydrology; irrigation hydraulics; entropy theory; and dam breach modeling.

Patricia Smith
Associate Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Research Interests: Modeling land-use effects on hydrologic processes at different temporal and spatial scales; bacterial source tracking.

Raghavan (Srini) Srinivasan
Director of the Spatial Sciences Laboratory; Professor, Forest Science, Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Research Interests: Water infomatics; water modeling; application of GIS to hydrology.

John (Jack) Vitek
Associate Dean, Office of Graduate Studies

Research Interests: Hydrogeology.

Bradford Wilcox
Professor, Rangeland Ecology and Management

Research Interests: Ecohydrology and watershed management; rangeland hydrology with a focus on understanding the interactions of vegetation and the water cycle.

Richard Woodward
Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics

Research Interests: Water economics; water quality trading markets; economy of fisheries management.

Ralph Wurbs
Professor, Civil Engineering

Research Interests: Water resources planning and management; hydraulic engineering; reservoir managemen; hydrology.

Emily Zechman
Professor, Civil Engineering

Research Interests: Agricultural water management and water quality protection.

Hongbin Zhan
Professor, Geology and Geophysics

Research Interests: Groundwater hydrology and contaminant transport.