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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.

 

 

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 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.

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

Bruce Lesikar
Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering

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

 

 

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

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.