DWRC-affiliated faculty and staff advise research students from the University of Delaware College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR), Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE), and Engineering (COE), and Delaware State University, College of Agriculture (COA).
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Name |
Research Interests |
| Delaware Geological Survey (CEOE) | Andres, A. Scott | Hydrogeology |
| Plant and Soil Sciences (CANR) | Balascio, Carmine C., P.E. | Stormwater management and surface water hydrology |
| Institute for Public Administration (CAS) | Barnes,Philip | Coastal Resilience |
| Delaware Geological Survey (CEOE) | Baxter, Stefanie | Hydrogeology |
| Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CAS) | Byrne, John | Political economy; sustainable development; environmental justice; technology, environment and society. |
| Entomology and Wildlife Ecology (CANR) | Chirnside, Anastasia E.M. | Agricultural practices/waste management, reconstructed wetlands, water quality, fate of pollutants, bioremediation |
| Geological Sciences (CEOE) | Chan, Clara | geomicrobiology, biomineralization, biofilms, biosignatures, nano-and environmental mineralogy, environmental geochemistry |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering (COE) | Chiu, Pei | Fate of organic pollutants in aquatic and subsurface environments; Accelerated bioremediation of contaminated groundwater; Development of new technology for treatment of groundwater and industrial wastewater |
| Geography (CEOE) | DeLiberty, Tracey | Climatology, GIS, remote sensing |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering (COE) | Di Toro, Dominic M. |
Water quality modeling, water quality criteria and standards, sediment quality criteria (metals, pesticides, PAHs, mixtures), modeling stormwater impacts in surface water, modeling control systems (stormwater retention, treatment devices) |
| Applied Economics and Statistics (CANR) | Duke, Joshua M | Demand-side management, law with respect to wetlands, and land use |
| Aquaculture (DSU-CANR) | Fox, Dewayne | Habitat selection and delineation in aquatic systems |
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Applied Economics and Statistics (CANR) |
Hastings, Steven |
Economic development |
| Delaware Geological Survey (CEOE) | He, Changming | Numerical modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport; Aquifer characterization; Stochastic hydrogeology |
| Water Resources Center (CAS) | Homsey, Andrew | Computer-based geospatial techniques, remote sensing of the environment, computer applications in planning and water resources, database administration, web development, urban regional planning, historic preservation, smart growth |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering (COE) | Huang, Chin Pao | Environmental physical-chemical processes including the chemistry of heavy metal and its control, industrial and hazardous waste management, soil and groundwater remediation, environmental sonochemistry, implications and applications of nanotechnology, sustainable technology, impacts of climate change to the water environment. |
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Applied Economics and Statistics (CANR) |
Ilvento, Thomas |
Economic development |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering (COE) | Imhoff, Paul T. | Transport of fluids and contaminants in multiphase systems, including groundwater transport, stormwater infiltration, and movement of leachate through landfills; mass transfer processes in subsurface environments; mathematical modeling |
| Plant and Soil Sciences (CANR) | Inamdar, Shreeram | Identifying watershed hydrologic flow paths Impact of riparian and wetland ecosystems Contaminant transport and fate Modeling hydrologic and water quality processes |
| English (CAS) | Jenkins, McKay | Relationship between humans and water through literature |
| Plant and Soil Sciences (CANR) | Jin, Yan | Measurement and modeling of contaminant fate and transport in soil and groundwater. Recent projects include: 1) fate and transport of viruses in porous media, 2) fate and transport of volatile organic compounds and non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) in unsaturated porous media, and 3) colloid-facilitated transport of radionuclides in the vadose zone. |
| Political Science and International Relations (CAS) | Johnson, Janet B. | Riparian buffers and landowner attitudes; Watershed protection policy |
| Water Resources Center (CAS) | Kauffman, Gerald J. | Regional watershed management, water supply planning and management, intergovernmental water policy relationships |
| Marine Policy (CEOE) | Kempton, Willett | Marine policy; Environmental values; Energy policy; Citizen’s environmental values and actions |
| Marine Biology / Biochemistry (CEOE) | Kirchman, David | Microbial ecology of heterotrophic bacteria in aquatic environments (mainly estuaries and oceans); bacterial and degradation of macromolecules and other organic compounds; inorganic nutrient cycling of heterotrophic bacteria; phylogenetic structure of bacterial assemblages as revealed by molecular techniques. |
| Geography (CEOE) | Leathers, Dan | Snow hydrology, Delaware water resources |
| Geography (CEOE) | Legates, David R. | Hydroclimatology, precipitation and climate change, computational methods. |
| Geography (CEOE) | Levia, Delphis F. | Forest hydrology, biometeorology, biogeochemistry, field methods and instrumentation. |
| Oceanography (CEOE) | Luther, George W. | Editor-in-chief of Aquatic Geochemistry. Redox reactions in the environment, trace element speciation in freshwater and marine waters and sediments including metal-ligand complexes, biogeochemical processes in freshwater and marine environments, application of molecular orbital theory to geochemical processes, in situ electrochemistry and microelectrode technology. |
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Applied Economics and Statistics (CANR) |
Mackenzie, John |
GIS; Land use |
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Aquaculture (DSU-CANR) |
McIntosh, Dennis (pdf) |
Aquaculture water quality, effluent reduction/reuse |
| Delaware Geological Survey (CEOE) | McKenna, Thomas (Tom) | Regional hydrogeology (field studies and ground-water modeling); Geographic information systems for spatial analysis; Surface and borehole geophysics (focus on shallow-depth geology and hydrogeology); Sedimentary-basin modeling (burial history, multiphase-fluid and heat flow);Water resources. |
| Delaware Geological Survey (CEOE) | McLaughlin, Jr., Peter P. | Stratigraphy; Micropaleontology; Sedimentology; Aquifer geology/hydrogeology; Water resources. |
| Geological Sciences (CEOE) | Michael, Holly | Hydrogeology, water supply sustainability, geostatistical modeling |
| Water Resources Center (CAS) | Minni, Nicole | Watersheds, water resources, geographic information systems, GIS use within the K-12 curriculum, planning, web development |
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Consumer Studies (CAS) |
Morrison, James L. |
Consumer and the environment Global trends in business bottled water consumption strategies |
| Physical Ocean Science and Engineering (CEOE) | Muenchow, Andreas | Inner shelf dynamics DE/NJ/MD; South American shelves; Arctic shelves, slopes, and canyons; Baffin Bay |
| Water Resources Center (CAS) | Narvaez, Martha | Regional watershed technical and policy support; water resources research, education, and outreach |
| Water Resources Center (CANR) | Pautler, Maria | Research Associate III |
| Geological Sciences (CEOE) | Pizzuto, James E. | Fluvial geomorphology, sediment transport |
| Mechanical Engineering (COE) | Prasad, Ajay | Environmental fluid dynamics, experimental methods for fluid mechanics, bio-fluid mechanics, heat transfer in the environment, advanced measurement techniques for temperature and velocity. |
| Mechanical Engineering (COE) | Roberts, Dustyn | Urban stormwater management |
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Geography (CEOE) |
Clark-Sather, Afton |
Irrigation in the Delmarva Peninsula |
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Geography (CEOE) |
Schreuder, Yda |
Global conservation, economic geography |
| Oceanography (CEOE) | Scudlark, J.R. | Environmental chemistry; biogeochemical cycles of trace elements in coastal ecosystems; atmospheric sources, transport and deposition of nutrients and trace element. |
| Plant and Soil Sciences (CANR) | Seyfferth, Angelina | Water Chemistry |
| Oceanography (CEOE) | Sharp, Jonathan | Estuarine, coastal, and oceanic microbial biogeochemistry |
| Plant and Soil Sciences (CANR) & Cooperative Extension | Shober, Amy | Nutrient cycling, fate, and transport in soils. Development of agricultural management practices for water quality protection. |
| Plant and Soil Sciences (CANR) | Sparks, Donald L. | Kinetics and mechanisms of soil chemical reactions |
| Geological Sciences (CEOE) | Measuring and modeling hydrodynamics; Near bed turbulence; Boundary layer processes; Scour evolution; Scour forecasting; Water quality monitoring; Marine robotics; Seafloor morphology; Bedform dynamics | |
| Oceanography (CEOE) | Ullman, William J | Geochemical Cycles; Coastal, Estuarine and Near Shore Processes; Early Diagenesis of Sediments; Rock/Water Interactions; Role of Bacteria and Metabolic Products on Rock/Water Interactions; Groundwater Chemistry; Geochemistry of Halogens; Non-Marine Evaporite Deposits; Fate of Aquatic and Marine Pollutants. |
| Plant and Soil Sciences (CANR) | Vargas, Rodrigo | Water Chemistry |
| Plant and Soil Sciences (CANR) | Vasilas, Bruce | Intern field oriented projects dealing with freshwater wetlands addressing: * Improvement of accuracy in identifying and delineating wetlands. * Functional assessment of wetlands for mitigation purposes. * Functional assessment of wetlands for water quality purposes. * Plant and wildlife ecology of wetlands. * Hydrology of wetlands. Interns will be trained in plant identification, plant ecology, soil science, and hydrology. |
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Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CAS) |
Wang, Young-Doo (pdf) |
Sustainable water resources management; Water demand forecasting; Least cost water supply options; Drought demand rates; Water conservation technologies; Water conservation and stream flows; Conflict resolution in watershed management. |
| Plant and Soil Sciences (CANR) | Wommack, K. Eric | Environmental virology; Marine biology and biochemistry |