HWR Directory: Faculty

 

Core Faculty  

V.R. Baker
Regents' Professor

Ph.D., The University of Colorado, 1971. Paleohydrology, Geomorphology, paleoflood hydrology, history and philosophy of the Earth and environmental sciences.

M.D. Bradley
Associate Professor
Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1971. Water policy, resource management, water rights and law.
P.D. Brooks
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1995. Watershed-scale elemental cycling, terrestrial-aquatic interactions, carbon and nutrient biogeochemistry, ecosystem response to disturbance, biogeochemistry of snow-covered systems.
D.R. Davis
Professor
Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 1971. Decision-making under hydrologic and other uncertainties, Bayesian decision theory, stochastic hydrology.
P.A. "Ty" Ferré
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Waterloo, 1997. Vadose zone hydrology, groundwater-surface water interaction, field and laboratory monitoring of infiltration and recharge, solute transport through variably saturated media, application of geophysics to subsurface hydrology, spatial mapping of soil water content.
Hoshin Gupta
Professor
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1984. Surface hydrology, rainfall-runoff models; research for National Weather Service.
T. Maddock, III
Professor and
Head of Department
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1973. Evapotranspiration and groundwater/surface water interactions, shallow aquifer theory, integrating economic and hydrologic models, regional planning of groundwater/surface water development.
Jennifer McIntosh
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2004. Hydrogeochemistry of surface waters/groundwaters/saline fluids, isotope hydrology, fluid and solute transport in basinal-scale aquifers, paleohydrology, microbial degradation of organic matter and generation of natural gas, geochemical and hydrologic modeling.

Thomas Meixner
Associate Professor of Hydrochemistry
Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 1999. Watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry, hydrologic controls on water quality, GIS, remote sensing, hydrochemical modeling, atmospheric chemistry, water quality modelling, sensitivity analysis, automatic parameter estimation, and multi-criteria analysis.
S.P. Neuman
Regents' Professor
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1968. Subsurface hydrology, transport phenomena of heat and contaminants, numerical modeling.
W.J. Shuttleworth
Professor
Ph.D., Manchester University, United Kingdom, 1971. Hydrometeorology, hydroclimatology, surface-atmosphere interaction.
Peter A. Troch
Professor

Ph.D, Ghent University, 1993. Hillslope and catchment hydrology, remote sensing and data assimilation, hydrological predictions in ungauged basins.

T.-C. "Jim" Yeh
Professor
Ph.D., New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 1983. Numerical and stochastic analysis of flow and solute transport phenomena in saturated and unsaturated heterogeneous porous media.
M. Zreda
Associate Professor
Ph.D., New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 1994. Isotope hydrology, hydrogeology, global change, soil erosion and solute transport.

 

Joint Faculty

 
M. Brusseau
Professor
Ph.D., The University of Florida, 1989. Environmental chemistry/subsurface hydrology; emphasis on fate and transport of chemicals in subsurface.

Jon Chorover
Professor of Environmental Chemistry

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993. Biogeochemistry of soils and sediments with an emphasis on sorption-desorption, redox and dissolution-precipitation reactions.  Laboratory and field experiments pertain to microbe-organic-mineral interactions in near-surface environments.

B. Colby
Professor
Ph.D.; University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983. Natural resource economics, water reallocation and water values, valuation of environmental assets and water rights, economic analysis of water quality issues, drought management.
B.D. Ganapol
Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1971. Radiation and particle transport theory, fast reactor safety, applied mathematics, satellite remote sensing.
R.H. "Pete" Hawkins
Professor 
Ph.D., Colorado State University, 1968. Surface hydrology, land use change, watershed management.
K. Hirschboeck
Associate Professor
Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 1985. Flood hydroclimatology, climatic variability, dendroclimatology, dendrohydrology, global change.
K. Lansey
Professor
Ph.D., The University of Texas-Austin, 1987. Surface hydrology, water resource administration, water resources systems.
S. Mullen
Professor and
Head of Department (ATMO)
Ph.D., The University of Washington, Seattle, 1985. Weather analysis and forecasting Dr. Mullen is in charge of the computerized weather laboratory.
B. Nijssen
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2000. Macroscale hydrology, hydrometeorology, regional hydrological effects of global change, development and application of hydrological models (joint appointment with Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics).
F. Szidarovszky
Professor
Ph.D., Numerical Methods, Eotvos University, 1970 Budapest, Ph.D., Economics, Economics University, Budapest, 1977. Multicriteria decision making, conflict resolution, game theory with applications to water resources management; dynamic systems, stability and bifurcation.
 
J.B. Valdes
Professor and
Head of Department
(CEEM)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976. Stochastic/deterministic hydrology; flood forecasting; analysis, synthesis/sampling of hydrologic processes; mathematical models of natural resources systems; modeling of space-time precipitation; environmental risk assessment; stochastic modeling of environmental processes.
A.W. Warrick
Professor 
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1967. Movement and interaction of water and soil, as well as describing how materials move in soils; modeling trickle irrigation; application of geostatistics in the management of soil and water; movement of potential pollutants in the vadose zone.
M. Waterstone
Professor 
Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1983. Water resources research, water resources issues, water policy, environment, groundwater management and risk analysis.
P.J. Wierenga
Professor
Ph.D., The University of California, Davis, 1968. Soil physics, soil-water relations, vadose zone hydrology, field studies and monitoring.

 

Emeritus Faculty

 
N. Buras
Professor
Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, 1962. Water resources systems, design and operation; application of systems analysis and mathematical programming.
S. Davis
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Yale University, 1955. Hydrogeology, land subsidence, chemical characteristics of groundwater, isotope hydrology.
L. Duckstein
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Colorado State University, 1962. Multi-criterion decision-making, fuzzy and stochastic modeling of water resources systems.
M.M. Fogel
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D.
Renewable Natural Resources.
S. Ince
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D.,The University of Iowa, 1953. Surface hydrology, flood hydrology.
A. Long
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 1966. Geochronology, chemical equilibria and groundwater systems, research in radiocarbon dating.
W.B. Lord
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1964. Environmental and natural resource economics, institutional economics, and public policy analysis.
D.E. Myers
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., The University of Illinois, 1960. Geostatistics applied to groundwater flow and contamination.
E. Smerdon
Dean Emeritus,
College of Engineering
and Mines
Ph.D., The University of Missouri, 1959. Surface hydrology, water use in irrigation, water policy.
L.G. "Gray" Wilson
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of California-Davis, 1962. Artificial groundwater recharge, vadose-zone and ground-water monitoring at waste disposal sites.


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