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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


Faculty & Staff

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.

David Bagley

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

Jonathan A. Brant

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

Sarah Collins

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

Morteza Dejam

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

Ken Dueker

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)

Brent Ewers

Professor

Department of Botany

Aven Nelson Building 208

(307) 766-6745 | beewers@uwyo.edu

Areas of study: energy flows and mass cycles of plants

Frederico Furtado

Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Ross Hall 319

(307) 766-4221 | furtado@uwyo.edu

Areas of study: partial differential equations

Bart Geerts

Professor

Department of Atmospheric Science

Engineering Building 6062

(307) 766-2261 | geerts@uwyo.edu

Areas of study: atmospheric processes

Victor Ginting

Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Ross Hall 310

(307) 766-4018 | vginting@uwyo.edu

Areas of study: numerical analysis

Jeff Hamerlinck

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

Kristiana Hansen

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

Thijs Kelleners

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

Austin Madson

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

Scott Miller

Professor

Department of Ecosystem Science and Management

Agriculture Building 2014

(307) 766-4274 | snmiller@uwyo.edu

Areas of study: watershed hydrology

Thomas Minckley

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

Fabian Nippgen

Associate Professor

Department of Ecosystem Science and Management

Agriculture Building 2009

(307) 766-5012 | fnippgen@uwyo.edu

Areas of study: watershed hydrology

Noriaki Ohara

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

Ginger Paige

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

Andrew Parsekian

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)

Clifford S. Riebe

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

JJ Shinker

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

Bryan N. Shuman

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

Kenneth Sims

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

Mike A. Urynowicz

Professor

Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management

Engineering Building 3087

murynowi@uwyo.edu

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

Ryan Webb

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

Dave Williams

Professor

Department of Botany

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

Ye Zhang

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

Jianting Zhu

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

Contact Us

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