David Arctur
Research Scientist
david.arctur@utexas.edu
Technical interests: Advancement of international water resources data exchange and cross-domain interoperability and digital preservation of physical geoscience samples.
Jay L. Banner
F.M. Bullard Professor and Director of the Environmental Science Institute
banner@jsg.utexas.edu
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.
Michael Barrett
Research Professor
mbarrett@mail.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Quality, impacts, and mitigation of urban, agricultural, and construction site stormwater runoff.
Matthew Bartos
Assistant Professor
mdbartos@utexas.edu
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.
James Buttles
Research Engineer Associate III
buttles@jsg.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Sediment transport processes and deposition to understand the evolution of both terrestrial and submarine landscapes.
Randall J. Charbeneau
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research with The UT System & Professor
charbeneau@mail.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Groundwater hydrology; subsurface fate and transport of chemicals; radiological assessment; modeling.
Kasey Faust
Assistant Professor
faustk@utexas.edu
Technical interests: Management of critical, civil infrastructure systems, interdependencies, and vulnerabilities in various categories of cities at the interface of engineering and policy.
Ben Hodges
Associate Professor
hodges@mail.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Hydrodynamics, transport and water quality issues in lakes, rivers and estuaries.
Blair Johnson
Assistant Professor
blairjohnson@utexas.edu
Technical interests: Environmental fluid mechanics, turbulence, sediment transport and mixing processes, experimental methods.
Lynn E. Katz
Director for Center for Water and the Environment & Professor
lynnkatz@mail.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Contaminant fate and transport, combined abiotic/biotic treatment systems for in-situ remediation, environmental surface chemistry.
Kerry A. Kinney
Professor
kakinney@mail.utexas.edu
Technical interests: The investigation of microorganisms in buildings as well as the development of treatment technologies for environmental contaminants.
Mary Jo Kirisits
Professor
kirisits@mail.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Biological water treatment processes; application of molecular biology to biological water treatment processes; biofilms; quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.
Manish Kumar
Professor
manish.kumar@utexas.edu
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.
Desmond F. Lawler
Professor
dlawler@mail.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Particles in water and wastewater treatment processes; mathematical modeling of treatment processes; physical-chemical treatment; drinking and industrial process water treatment.
Howard Liljestrand
Professor and CAEE Graduate Advisor
liljestrand@mail.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Aquatic chemistry; contaminant transport; pollutant containment and remediation acid deposition; air pollution modeling.
David Maidment
Professor
maidment@utexas.edu
Technical interests: Geographic information systems (GIS); expert systems and statistical techniques in hydrology and water resources planning; water use forecasting.
Daene C. McKinney
Professor Emeritus
daene@aol.com
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.
David Mohrig
Professor
mohrig@jsg.utexas.edu
Technical interests: The application of sedimentary deposits and transport processes to unraveling the evolutions of terrestrial and submarine landscapes.
Paola Passalacqua
Professor
paola@austin.utexas.edu
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.
Navid Saleh
Professor
navid.saleh@utexas.edu
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.
Dr. Saleh is an editor for the Journal of Hazardous Materials.
Polina Sela
Assistant Professor
Linasela@utexas.edu
Technical interests: Resilient urban infrastructure, modeling and control of water networks, demand management, water resources systems management, cyber-physical urban systems, and fault diagnosis.
Gerald E. Speitel, Jr.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
speitel@utexas.edu
Technical interests: Treatment processes for hazardous organic chemicals including biodegradation and adsorption; drinking water treatment; computer models of treatment processes.
George H. Ward
Research Scientist
gward@utexas.edu
Technical interests: Circulation and transport in costal systems, hydrometeorology, physical oceanography, climatology, meteorology, fisheries, aquaculture, limnology.
Charles J. Werth
Professor
werth@utexas.edu
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.
Timothy L. Whiteaker
Associate Director for Center for Water and the Environment & Research Scientist
whiteaker@utexas.edu
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.
