ENVIRONMENTAL HYDROLOGY AND HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING FACULTY AND THEIR AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST

Ximing Cai, Ph.D. (Texas) Assistant Professor

Research Interests: River basin planning and management, drought management, international water resources development, integrated water resources – economic modeling, geographic information system and spatial statistics, large-scale system optimization.

Marcelo H. Garcia, Ph.D. (Minnesota), Chester and Helen Siess Professor
Research Interests: Environmental hydraulics; sediment transport; river mechanics, density currents, turbulent boundary-layer flows, moveable-bed modeling.

Praveen Kumar, Ph.D. (Minnesota), Associate Professor
Research Interests: Large scale hydrologic processes, hydrometeorology and hydroclimatology, multiscale variability of surface hydrologic processes, wavelet transform applications for multiscale studies, subgrid scale parameterization of rainfall.

Gary Parker, Ph.D. (Minnesota) Professor (Arriving August, 2005)
Research Interests: River mechanics and morphology; river engineering; mechanics of two phase solid fluid flow; turbidity currents; oceanic sedimentation; submarine debris flows.

Barbara S. Minsker, Ph.D. (Cornell), Associate Professor
Research Interests: Environmental systems analysis, risk and uncertainty in decision making, optimization, machine learning, ground water monitoring and remediation design.

Arthur R. Schmidt, Ph.D. (Illinois), Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Hydrometry; open channel hydraulics; urban hydrology; risk and reliability analysis for water-resources and environmental engineering.

Murugesu Sivapalan, Ph.D. (Princeton), Professor (Arriving summer, 2005)
Research Interests: Predictions in ungauged catchments; understanding and interpreting variabilities of runoff processes and underlying climate-soil-vegetation-topography controls; investigating interactions between runoff processes, and chemical and biological processes.

Albert J. Valocchi, Ph.D. (Stanford), Professor
Research Interests: Groundwater hydrology; groundwater contamination; mathematical modeling.

AFFILIATED FACULTY

M.M. Clark, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), Professor
Research Interests: Structure of suspended sediments and floc; wave-current interactions in boundary layers; fast reactions in turbulent flows.

J.W. Eheart, Ph.D. (Wisconsin), Professor
Research Interests: Environmental systems analysis; environmental management and planning; water quality modeling.

EMERITUS FACULTY

H.G. Wenzel, Jr., Ph.D. (Carnegie-Mellon), Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Urban hydrology; open channel hydraulics; hydraulic and hydrologic simulation.

W.H.C. Maxwell, Ph.D. (Minnesota), Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Diffusion of momentum, heat, and mass; two phase flows, secondary currents in rivers; shallow flows in rivers; interactions with moveable beds.

J.P. Murtha, Ph.D. (Illinois), Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Dynamics of ocean and hydraulic structures; water wave mechanics; earthquake engineering aspects of hydraulic and ocean structures.