Faculty & Staff

David Bagley

Professor

Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Areas of study: environmental engineering, sustainability issues related to water and waste

Jonathan Brant

Professor

Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management

Areas of study: wastewater resource recovery

Morteza Dejam

Associate Professor

Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering

Areas of study: thermodynamics of fluids in porous media

Brent Ewers

Department Head | Professor

Department of Botany

Areas of study: energy flows and mass cycles of plants

Frederico Furtado

Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Areas of study: partial differential equations

Bart Geerts

Professor

Department of Atmospheric Science

Areas of study: atmospheric processes

Victor Ginting

Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Areas of study: numerical analysis

Jeff Hamerlinck

Associate Director, School of Computing | Director, WyGISC | Senior Research Scientist

School of Computing | Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center (WyGISC)

Areas of study: geographic information science and resource managment

Kristiana Hansen

Professor

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics

Areas of study: water resource economics, resource and environmental economics

Thijs Kelleners

Professor

Department of Ecosystem Science and Management

Areas of study: soil-plant-atmosphere modeling, water and solute transport in porous media, cold region and agricultural hydrology, soil properties and moisture measurement

Scott Miller

Professor

Department of Ecosystem Science and Management

Areas of study: watershed hydrology

Thomas Minckley

Professor

Department of Geology and Geophysics

Areas of study: ecosystems and conservation issues of the North American West region

Fabian Nippgen

Associate Professor

Department of Ecosystem Science and Management

Areas of study: watershed hydrology

Noriaki Ohara

Professor

Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management

Areas of study: snow hydrology and hydrologic modeling

Ginger Paige

Professor

Department of Ecosystem Science and Management

Areas of study: watershed and rangeland hydrology, measurement and modeling hydrologic processes, watershed and landuse management decision tools, effects of fire on rangeland hydrologic and erosion processes, characterization of soil hydraulic properties, soil moisture measurement, ecological site characterization and monitoring

Andrew Parsekian

Professor

Department of Geology and Geophysics

Areas of study: crysosphere and groundwater processes, environmental geophysics, non-invasive geophysical methods, geophysical imaging techniques (e.g., GPR, seismic, ERT, NMR)

Cliff Riebe

Professor

Department of Geology and Geophysics

Areas of study: erosion and weathering processes, regolith formation and sediment transport, surface and subsurface geochemical and geophysical analysis, biogeochemical cycling and landscape evolution

J.J. Shinker

Professor

Department of Geology and Geophysics

Areas of study: synoptic and dynamic climatology, paleoclimatology, hydroclimatology, environmental change, water resources, drought and geo-visualization

Bryan Shuman

Professor

Department of Geology and Geophysics

Areas of study: tracking the availability of water, patterns and consequences of past climatic change

Kenneth Sims

Professor

Department of Geology and Geophysics

Areas of study: isotope and trace element geochemistry, planetary formation and core differentiation, mantle and crust evolution, volcanic systems and magma processes, radiometric dating techniques, geoarchaeology and isotope hydrology

Michael A. Urynowicz

Professor

Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management

Areas of study: management of environmental contaminants, water resources, energy production impacts, and waste

Ryan Webb

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management

Areas of study: snow hydrology, mountain hydrology, unsaturated flow dynamics, remote sensing of snow, impacts of wildfire

Dave Williams

Professor

Department of Botany

Areas of study: changes in climate of water-limited ecosystems, atmospheric chemistry and vegetation composition

Ye Zhang

Professor

Department of Geology and Geophysics

Areas of study: subsurface hydrology and solute transport, modeling and data analysis methods (including AI,) groundwater-surface water interactions, energy storage and geochemical processes, ecohydrology and mountain recharge studies

Jianting Zhu

Professor

Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management

Areas of study: vadose zone hydrology, groundwater hydrology, hydrological modeling, stochastic hydrology, contaminant transport, uncertainty and climate change, ecohydrology, soil physics