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.
![David Arctur](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/david_arctur_21_thumb.jpg)
Michael Barrett
Research Professor
mbarrett@mail.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Quality, impacts, and mitigation of urban, agricultural, and construction site stormwater runoff.
![Michael Barrett](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/M-Barrett.jpg)
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.
![Matthew Bartos](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/bartos_matt.jpg)
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.
![](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jbuttles.png)
Randall J. Charbeneau
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research with The UT System & Professor Emeritus
charbeneau@mail.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Groundwater hydrology; subsurface fate and transport of chemicals; radiological assessment; modeling.
![Randall J. Charbeneau](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/randall_charbeneau.png)
Kasey Faust
Associate 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.
![](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/kaseyfaust.png)
Xavi Fonoll-Almansa
Assistant Professor
xavier.fonoll@utexas.edu
Technical interests: Resource recovery from wastes, Microbial community Engineering, decentralized sanitation.
![](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Xavier-Fonoll-Almansa.jpeg)
Courtney Gardner
Assistant Professor
courtney.gardner@austin.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Environmental microbiomes, antibiotic resistance, environmental fate of chemical and biological contaminants, genetic biotechnology, stormwater quality.
![](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Courtney-Gardner-scaled-e1705001950722-258x300.jpg)
Ben Hodges
Professor
hodges@mail.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Hydrodynamics, transport and water quality issues in lakes, rivers and estuaries.
![Ben Hodges](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ben_hodges.png)
Blair Johnson
Assistant Professor
blairjohnson@utexas.edu
Technical interests: Environmental fluid mechanics, turbulence, sediment transport and mixing processes, experimental methods.
![Blair Johnson](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Johnson-8-1-scaled.jpg)
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.
![Lynn E. Katz](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/lynn_katz.png)
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.
![Kerry A. Kinney](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/kerry_kinney.png)
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.
![Mary Jo Kirisits](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/mary_jo_kirisits.png)
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.
![Manish Kumar](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/photograph-Kumar-Manish-scaled.jpg)
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.
![Desmond F. Lawler](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/desmond_lawler.png)
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.
![](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/howard_liljestrand.png)
David Maidment
Professor Emeritus
maidment@utexas.edu
Technical interests: Geographic information systems (GIS); expert systems and statistical techniques in hydrology and water resources planning; water use forecasting.
![David Maidment](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/david_maidment.png)
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.
![Daene McKinney](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/daene_mckinney.png)
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.
![David Mohrig](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/david_mohrig_104_thumb.jpg)
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.
![Paola Passalacqua](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Passalacqua-Portrait-Crop-2-2017-scaled.jpg)
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.
![Navid Saleh](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/navid_saleh.png)
Polina Sela
Associate 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.
![](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Polina-Sela.png)
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.
![Gerald Speitel](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/gerald_speitel.png)
George H. Ward
Research Scientist
gward@utexas.edu
Technical interests: Circulation and transport in costal systems, hydrometeorology, physical oceanography, climatology, meteorology, fisheries, aquaculture, limnology.
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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.
![Charlie Werth](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/charles_werth.png)
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.
![Tim Whiteaker Photo](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/whiteaker-100x125-100x125-1.jpg)
Juan Pedro Maestre
Research Scientist
juanpedro.maestre@utexas.edu
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.
![Juan Maestre Photo](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/jaunmaestre-e1705628838953.png)
Harekrushna Behera
Research Associate
harekrushna.behera@austin.utexas.edu
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.
![](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/harekrushna-e1705629641467.jpg)
Andy Carter
Senior Engineering Scientist
andy.carter@austin.utexas.edu
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.
![](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/and-carter.jpg)
Christine Thies
Engineering Scientist
christine.thies@austin.utexas.edu
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.
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Harry Evans
Senior Research Scientist
harryevans@utexas.edu
Technical interests: Disaster response, flood mapping, search and rescue operations. Over 30 years of experience in the Austin Fire Department.
![](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Harry-Evans.jpg)
Trang Le
Managing Director for SETx-UIFL
trang.le@austin.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Intersection of sustainable development, community resilience, and flood risk management. In particular, exploring the possibility of nature-based solutions in building urban resilience.
![](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Trang-Le-e1706247972103.jpg)
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.
![](https://live-center-for-water-and-the-environment.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/JBanner.png)
Postdoctoral Scholars
Kate Dowdell
Postdoctoral Research Affiliate
dowdell@utexas.edu
Technical interests: Researching drinking water microorganisms in water disinfection systems. the intersection of infrastructure and microbiology.
![](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Kate-Dowdell-300x300.jpg)
Girish Kumar
Postdoctoral Fellow
girish.kumar@austin.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. Environmental site assessment and remediation, regulatory compliance, ISO-compliant life cycle assessment (LCA), solid waste landfill design/permitting, and green and sustainable remediation.
![](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/girish-kumar-300x300.jpg)
Arunraj B.
Postdoctoral Fellow
arunraj@utexas.edu
Technical interests: Synthesis and characterization of inorganic, polymer, and layered materials. Expert in rare earth separation, environmental chemistry, and contaminant removal.
![](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/arunraj-300x300.jpg)
Meng Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow
meng.wang@austin.utexas.edu
Technical interests: Engineering with a focus on data modeling, programming, and analysis. Expert in polymer characterization, fluid dynamics, and CO2 transport
![](https://cwe.engr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/meng-wang-300x300.jpg)
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