Hydrologic Science Program | Interdisciplinary Program
Dr. Andrew Parsekian
Director, Hydrologic Science Program
Debbie Swierczek
Program Coordinator
School of Graduate Education
Knight Hall 247
Phone: (307) 766-4128
Email: wrese@uwyo.edu
The Hydrologic Science graduate programs are supported by a diverse faculty from departments
across campus, each contributing specialized expertise to create an interdisciplinary
learning environment. In addition to their departmental roles, faculty lead and collaborate
in major research initiatives and facilities, advancing cutting-edge, water-related
research and education.
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Engineering 3028
(307) 766-3186 | bagley@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: environmental engineering, sustainability issues related to water and waste
Professor
Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering and Construction Management
Engineering Education & Research Building 322A
(307) 766-5446 | jbrant1@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: wastewater resource recovery
Associate Professor
Department of Zoology & Physiology
Science Initiative Building 4210
(360) 319-6680 | Sarah.Collins@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: aquatic ecosystem ecology and food web dynamics
Associate Professor
Department of Energy & Petroleum Engineering
Engineering Building 4025
(307) 766-4395 | mdejam@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: thermodynamics of fluids in porous media
Emeritus Professor
Department of Geology & Geophysics
Earth Science Building 2034
(307) 742-1765 | dueker@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: continental mantle structure and variability, post-orogenic uplift and surface dynamics, mountain building and continental evolution, geodynamic processes (e.g., delamination, diapirism, metamorphism)
Professor
Aven Nelson Building 208
(307) 766-6745 | beewers@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: energy flows and mass cycles of plants
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Ross Hall 319
(307) 766-4221 | furtado@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: partial differential equations
Professor
Department of Atmospheric Science
Engineering Building 6062
(307) 766-2261 | geerts@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: atmospheric processes
Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Ross Hall 310
(307) 766-4018 | vginting@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: numerical analysis
Senior Research Scientist
Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center (WyGISC)
Agriculture Building 335
(307) 766-2736 | jeff.hamerlinck@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: geographic information science and resource managment
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics
Agriculture Building 210
(307) 766-3598 | kristi.hansen@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: water resource economics, resource and environmental economics
Professor
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management
Agriculture Building 1015
(307) 766-4279 | tkellene@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: soil-plant-atmosphere modeling, water and solute transport in porous media, cold region and agricultural hydrology, soil properties and moisture measurement
Assistant Professor
Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center (WyGISC)
Agriculture Building 329
(307) 766-2749 | amadson@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: hydrologic and geomorphologic remote sensing applications
Professor
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management
Agriculture Building 2014
(307) 766-4274 | snmiller@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: watershed hydrology
Professor
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Earth Sciences Building 2038
(307) 766-2925 | minckley@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: ecosystems and conservation issues of the North American West region
Associate Professor
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management
Agriculture Building 2009
(307) 766-5012 | fnippgen@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: watershed hydrology
Associate Professor
Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management
Engineering Building 3049
(307) 434-2670 | nohara1@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: snow hydrology and hydrologic modeling
Professor
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management
Agriculture Building 2019
(307) 766-2200 | gpaige@uwyo.edu
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
Associate Professor
Department of Geology and Geophysics
S H Knight Building
(307) 223-1197 | aparseki@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: crysosphere and groundwater processes, environmental geophysics, non-invasive geophysical methods, geophysical imaging techniques (e.g., GPR, seismic, ERT, NMR)
Professor
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Earth Sciences Building 2008
(307) 766-3386 | criebe@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: erosion and weathering processes, regolith formation and sediment transport, surface and subsurface geochemical and geophysical analysis, biogeochemical cycling and landscape evolution
Professor
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Earth Sciences Building 1012
(307) 766-7908 | jshinker@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: synoptic and dynamic climatology, paleoclimatology, hydroclimatology, environmental change, water resources, drought and geo-visualization
Professor
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Earth Sciences Building 1014
(307) 766-6442 | bshuman@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: tracking the availability of water, patterns and consequences of past climatic change
Professor
Department of Geology and Geophysics
S H Knight Building 314
(307) 766-3386 | ksims7@uwyo.edu
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
Professor
Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management
Engineering Building 3087
Areas of study: management of environmental contaminants, water resources, energy production impacts, and waste
Assistant Professor
Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management
Engineering Building
(307) 766-2390 | ryan.webb@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: snow hydrology, mountain hydrology, unsaturated flow dynamics, remote sensing of snow, impacts of wildfire
Professor
Aven Nelson Building 114
(307) 766-2494 | dgw@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: changes in climate of water-limited ecosystems, atmospheric chemistry and vegetation composition
Professor
Department of Geology and Geophysics
S H Knight Building 220
(307) 223-2292 | yzhang9@uwyo.edu
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
Professor
Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management
Engineering Building 3081
(307) 766-4375 | jzhu5@uwyo.edu
Areas of study: vadose zone hydrology, groundwater hydrology, hydrological modeling, stochastic hydrology, contaminant transport, uncertainty and climate change, ecohydrology, soil physics
Hydrologic Science Program | Interdisciplinary Program
Dr. Andrew Parsekian
Director, Hydrologic Science Program
Debbie Swierczek
Program Coordinator
School of Graduate Education
Knight Hall 247
Phone: (307) 766-4128
Email: wrese@uwyo.edu