Researchers

Technical interests: Advancement of international water resources data exchange and cross-domain interoperability and digital preservation of physical geoscience samples.

Technical interests: Earth surface processes with the goal of understanding the interactions that occur between the atmosphere-land-ocean systems, and how these interactions are preserved in the geologic record.

Technical interests: Quality, impacts, and mitigation of urban, agricultural, and construction site stormwater runoff.

Technical interests: Real-time sensing and control of civil infrastructure; smart water systems; wireless sensor networks; urban flood mitigation; in-situ water quality monitoring; digital twin models for water infrastructure; coupled infrastructure systems modeling. 

CAEE Profile

Technical interests: Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry. Specialized in short peptide molecules and macrocycle-based ion transporters to develop a sustainable and environmentally friendly ion channel for separating critical elements and minerals.

Technical interests: Sediment transport processes and deposition to understand the evolution of both terrestrial and submarine landscapes.

Technical interests: Hydrologic and hydraulic design. Developed software and techniques for the reclamation of land encumbered by floodplains, and one of the top Civil CAD designers in both Austin and the U.S.

Technical interests: Groundwater hydrology; subsurface fate and transport of chemicals; radiological assessment; modeling.

Technical interests: Disaster response, flood mapping, search and rescue operations. Over 30 years of experience in the Austin Fire Department.

Technical interests: Management of critical, civil infrastructure systems, interdependencies, and vulnerabilities in various categories of cities at the interface of engineering and policy.

Technical interests: Resource recovery from wastes, Microbial community Engineering, decentralized sanitation.

Technical interests: Environmental microbiomes, antibiotic resistance, environmental fate of chemical and biological contaminants, genetic biotechnology, stormwater quality.

Technical interests: Hydrodynamics, transport and water quality issues in lakes, rivers and estuaries.

Technical interests: Environmental fluid mechanics, turbulence, sediment transport and mixing processes, experimental methods.

Technical interests: Contaminant fate and transport, combined abiotic/biotic treatment systems for in-situ remediation, environmental surface chemistry.

Technical interests: The investigation of microorganisms in buildings as well as the development of treatment technologies for environmental contaminants.

Technical interests: Biological water treatment processes; application of molecular biology to biological water treatment processes; biofilms; quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.

Technical interests: Membranes, desalination, water treatment, wastewater recycling, reverse osmosis, biomimetic membranes, membrane proteins, electron microscopy, structural biology, biophysics, bioprocessing, artifical water channels, block copolymers.

Technical interests: Particles in water and wastewater treatment processes; mathematical modeling of treatment processes; physical-chemical treatment; drinking and industrial process water treatment.

Technical interests: Compound flooding; hurricane and storm surge modeling; coastal hydrodynamics; wave–debris–structure interaction; flood resilience of infrastructure and communities; computational fluid dynamics; data-driven disaster resilience.

Technical interests: Aquatic chemistry; contaminant transport; pollutant containment and remediation acid deposition; air pollution modeling.

Technical interests: Environmental Engineering and Microbiology. Specialised in microbiology of the Built Environment, COVID19, and Indoor Air Quality- using molecular biology tools and low-cost sensors for solving problems in natural and human-made systems.

Technical interests: Geographic information systems (GIS); expert systems and statistical techniques in hydrology and water resources planning; water use forecasting.

Technical interests: Sustainable management of water resources, transboundary river basins, optimization, uncertainty analysis, climate change adaptation, glacier-dominated river basins, cooperative game theory in water.

Technical interests: The application of sedimentary deposits and transport processes to unraveling the evolutions of terrestrial and submarine landscapes.

Technical interests: Multi-scale analysis of hydrological processes; dynamics of environmental transport on river networks and deltaic systems; quantitative analysis and modeling of landscape forming processes, geomorphic transport laws and subgrid-scale parameterization.

Technical interests: Nano-enabled water treatment technologies for developing and technologically advanced communities, safer by design of nanomaterials: environmental health and safety, and nanomaterial-reinforced sustainable infrastructure materials.

Technical interests: Resilient urban infrastructure, modeling and control of water networks, demand management, water resources systems management, cyber-physical urban systems, and fault diagnosis.

Technical interests: Treatment processes for hazardous organic chemicals including biodegradation and adsorption; drinking water treatment; computer models of treatment processes.

Technical interests: ESRI (GIS) Products, data analytics, GIS emergency management, and Regional Planning. Experience with various spatial & analytical projects, employee development, and department strategic planning with respect to fire and flooding.

Technical interests: Circulation and transport in costal systems, hydrometeorology, physical oceanography, climatology, meteorology, fisheries, aquaculture, limnology.

Technical interests: Reactive transport and fate of pollutants in water resources, including groundwater and urban lakes, and the development of sustainable technologies for pollution removal from impacted waters.

Technical interests: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in water resources engineering; hydrologic, hydraulic, and water quality modeling; scientific information management; bringing water resources engineering solutions to end users by developing Web and desktop applications.