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Robin Autenrieth
Professor, Civil Engineering
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Research Interests: Physical and chemical parameters of microbial water contamination; risk assessment framework for human health risks.

 

 

Sherry Bame
Associate Professor, Landscape Planning and Architecture
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Research Interests: Water quality affects public health.

 

 

Bill Batchelor
Professor, Civil Engineering
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Research Interests: Treatment systems for water, wastewater, hazardous wastes and contaminated soils and sludges; technologies for improving desalination and industrial cooling water systems; water and energy systems.

 

Sam Brody
Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning
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Research Interests: Adaptive floodplain management; wetlands banking and mitigation; urban watershed management and planning.

 

 

Kelly Brumbelow
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
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Research Interests: Water resources planning and management; agricultural water resources systems; decision support systems; climate variability and climate change effects; assessment of water resources policy.

 

Tony Cahill
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
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Research Interests: Soil moisture and watershed hydrology; stochastic hydrology; numerical modeling; low slope hydrology.

 

 

Anne Chin
Associate Professor, Geography
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Research Interests: Fluvial geomorphology; urban stream restoration.

 

 

Stephen Davis
Assistant Professor, Wildlife and Fisheries
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Research Interests: Ecology of aquatic ecosystems; wetland biogeochemistry and hydrology; wetland ecosystem drivers; functional assessment of created and restored wetland ecosystems

 

 

Sam Feagley
Professor & State Soil Environmental Specialist, Soil and Crop Sciences
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Research Interests: Soil nutrient management and its impact on surface and ground water quality.

 

Delbert Gatlin III
Professor & Associate Department Head, Wildlife and Fisheries
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Research Interests: Aquatic biology; aquaculture.

 

 

John (Rick) Giardino
Professor, Geography, Geology and Geophysics; Dean of Graduate Studies
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Research Interests: Fluvial geomorphology; watershed restoration; water quality; mass wasting mechanics; Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing of hydrologic systems.

 

James Gilley
Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering
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Research Interests: Agricultural irrigation systems; irrigation water management; irrigation conservation.

 

 

Ronald Griffin
Professor, Agricultural Economics
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Research Interests: Water resource economics; water pricing; determinants of water demand.

 

 

B.L. Harris
Assistant Director, Texas Water Resources Institute
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Research Interests: Urban and agricultural water conservation.

 

 

Bruce Herbert
Professor, Geology and Geophysics
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Research Interests: Biogeochemistry 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
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Research Interests: Watershed Management, Stormwater Management and Wetland Science/Management.

 

 

Ronald Kaiser
Professor, Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences
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Research Interests: Water law; groundwater management; water marketing; urban water conservation; recreational access to water; analysis of water policy.

 

 

Karthi Karthikeyan
Assistant Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering
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Research Interests: Biochemical engineering; applied and environmental microbiology; environmental transport processes.

 

Ann Kenimer
Assistant Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering
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Research Interests: Constructed wetlands and wastewater treatment.

 

 

Bjorn Kjerfve
Professor and Dean, Geosciences
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Research Interests: Sediment processes and ecology of bays and estuaries; application of numerical simulation models to coastal flows and transports; hydrology of tropical river systems; application of satellite remote sensing and GIS in coastal research and data management.

 

Robert Knight
Professor and Dean, Geosciences
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Research Interests: Wetland plant ecology; wetland delineation.

 

 

Ronald Lacewell
Professor, Agricultural Economics
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Research Interests: Irrigation economics; dairy waste management and water quality; water quality and new crops.

 

 

Bruce Lesikar
Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Research Interests: Rainwater harvesting; decentralized water treatment systems; agricultural irrigation; groundwater management.

 

 

Ming Han Li
Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
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Research Interests: Urban stormwater management; erosion control structures; stream bank stabilization.

 

 

Mike Lindell
Director, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
Professor, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
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Research Interests: Natural hazards mitigation; flood and hurricane mitigation management plans

 

Hongxing Liu
Associate Professor, Geography
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Research Interests: Remote sensing applications in hydrological modeling and analysis.

 

Chris Mathewson
Professor, Geology and Geophysics
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Research Interests: Fluvial processes; hydrogeology.

 

 

Bruce McCarl
Professor, Agricultural Economics
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Research Interests: Climate change; climate change mitigation; water economics.

 

 

James McCloy
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor, Geography, Marine Sciences
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Research Interests: Risk management and visitor safety on lakes and streams.

 

Jennifer McGuire
Assistant Professor, Geology and Geophysics
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Research Interests: Biogeochemical cycles in aquatic environments; chemical fate and transport in groundwater.

 

 

Kevin McInnes
Professor, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences

Research Interests: Environmental and aquifer physics

 

 

James Mjelde
Professor, Agricultural Economics
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Research Interests: Economics of information as it pertains to water use, climate variability.

 

 

Binayak Mohanty
Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering
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Research Interests: Vadose zone hydrology; chemical transport in porous media; detection of soil moisture through remote sensing.

 

 

Georgianne Moore
Assistant Professor, Rangeland Ecology and Management
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Research Interests: Plant transpiration losses and ecohydrology; invasive species and water management; land management impacting river hydrology and groundwater recharge.

 

Cristine Morgan
Assistant Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences
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Research Interests: Soil heterogeneity affecting water surface and groundwater quality and quantity; soil properties affecting water movement and nutrient transport.

 

Clyde Munster
Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering
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Research Interests: Agricultural BMPs; hydrologic modeling of agricultural chemical transport; groundwater flow in karst systems.

 

 

William Neill
Professor, Wildlife and Fisheries
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Research Interests: Fish ecology and aquaculture; modeling aquatic ecosystems.

 

 

Gerald North
Distinguished Professor and Holder of the Harold J. Haynes Endowed Chair in Geosciences
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Research Interests: Climate analysis; climate and hydrological modeling; satellite remote sensing.

 

 

Francisco Olivera
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
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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
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Research Interests: Community and gender influence in domestic water use and decision-making.

 

 

Jacqueline Ann Aitkenhead-Peterson
Assistant Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences
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Research Interests: Mechanisms that influence carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous cycling and loss to surface water under different land uses within watersheds.

 

 

Suresh Pillai
Professor, Poultry Science
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Research Interests: Occurrence, fate, detection, transport and activity of microbial pathogens in ground, surface, and wastewater.

 

 

 

Guan Qin
Institute for Scientific Computation
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Research Interests: Mathematical modeling of groundwater quality and quantity.

 

Steven Quiring
Associate Professor, Geography
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Research Interests: Drought modeling; climate change; precipitation patterns; arctic climate and hydrology.

 

 

Daniel Roelke
Associate Professor, Wildlife and Fisheries
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Research Interests: Food-web ecology and ecosystem sciences in aquatic environments; plankton ecology; community succession.

 

 

Douglas Shaw
Professor, Agricultural Economics
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Research Interests: Non-market valuation of water resources; water resource economics; water quality risk assessment.

 

 

Douglas Sherman
Professor and Department Head, Geography
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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
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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
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Research Interests: Water infomatics, water modeling; application of GIS to hydrology.

 

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

Research Interests: Hydrogeology.

 

 

Bradford Wilcox
Professor, Rangeland Ecology and Management
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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
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Research Interests: Water economics, water quality trading markets; economics of fisheries management.

 

 

Ralph Wurbs
Professor, Civil Engineering
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Research Interests: Water resources planning and management; hydraulic engineering; reservoir management; hydrology.