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We strive to treat, manage, and maintain the quality of all water.

Water Researchers

Brian Haggard

Brian Haggard

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

  • Database Analysis
  • Water Quality Monitoring
  • Constituent Load Estimation
  • Water Quality Trends
  • Constituent Transport and Dynamics in Stormwater & Aquatic Systems
  • Phosphorus Chemistry in Residuals, Fertilizers, Sediments and Soils

Chris Henry

Chris Henry

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

  • Irrigation scheduling
  • Water resource development
  • Irrigation system technology development and alternative irrigation systems
  • Crop water use
  • Chemigation Irrigation scheduling
  • Pumping plant performance
  • Irrigation energy use
  • Overall irrigation efficiency

Jamie A. Hestekin

Jamie A. Hestekin

Chemical Engineering

  • charged separations
  • extraction of oils and carbohydrates from algae

Marty Matlock

>Marty Matlock

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

  • Life Cycle Assessment of agricultural, urban, and supply chain systems
  • Ecological services design and restoration
  • Watershed restoration and management
  • Ecological risk assessment Complex Systems Theory

Karthik Nayani

Karthik Nayani

Chemical Engineering

  • Soft Materials
  • Biomaterials
  • Self Assembly

Scott Osborn

Scott Osborn

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

  • Nutrient Removal from Waterbodies
  • Watershed Improvement
  • Repairing Eutrophic Reservoirs
  • Sediment Oxygen Demand Spreadsheet Model - Steady State - Transient - Instructions
  • Biological Engineering Applied to Human Health Energy and mass transfer
  • Biochemical kinetics and engineering design in biological systems related to human health including applications in medical, ecological, and pharamceutical/nutritional systems

Ben Runkle

Ben Runkle

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

  • Micrometeorological fluxes
  • Carbon and water cycle interactions
  • Dissolved organic matter in wetlands
  • Sustainability & resilience - agro-ecosystems, green stormwater runoff strategies
  • Rice irrigation strategies
  • Carbon accounting
  • Evapotranspiration management
  • Global climate models

Keisha Bishop Walters

Keisha Walters

Chemical Engineering

  • Stimuli Responsive Polymers
  • Advanced Separations
  • Nanomaterials
  • Surface and Interfacial Engineering
  • Functional (Bio)polymers
  • Sustainable Polymers

Ranil Wickramasinghe

Ranil Wickramasinghe

Chemical Engineering

  • membrane science
  • membrane technology

Jun Zhu

Jun Zhu

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

  • Waste treatment technologies for protecting air and water quality related to animal production
  • Renewable energy production technologies
  • Bioconversion of wastes into value-added products

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