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Envirotoxicology
Air Quality / Combustion
Urban Systems
Post-Mining Legacies
Water Treatment &
Recycling
Groundwater Remediation
Geoenvironmental/Natural Hazards |
Air Pollution/Combustion/Waste Incineration |
Hydrology/Remediation/Restoration |
Waste Management/Minimization/Recycling |
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| Bruhn, Ron | Professor | GG |
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geological engineering; natural hazards | |||
| Burian, Steve | Assist. Professor | CVEEN |
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Urban hydrology, hydraulics, climate, and data informatics | |||
| Calizaya Felipe | Assoc. Professor | MgE | Air flow through porous medium using lab and CFD model | ||||
| Cerling, Thure | Professor | GG |
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isotope geochemistry; geochemistry of soils, waters, and the atmosphere; contaminant transport/partitioning | ||
| Chan, Margorie | Professor | GG |
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characterizing facies architecture and lithology to evaluate subsurface fluid flow paths | |||
| Chen, Kuan | Assoc. Professor | Mech E | Thermodynamics, heat transfer, solar energy, Meso-and Micro- scale thermal systems; Mirco-scale engineering | ||||
| Deo, Milind | Professor | ChFE |
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simulating subsurface remediation processes; characterizing complex hydrocarbon mixtures | |||
| Dudley-Murphy, Elizabeth | Scientist I | EGI/CVEEN |
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GIS and satellite imagery for urban environmental analysis and natural resource management | |||
| Eddings, Eric | Assoc. Professor | ChFE |
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environmental aspects of combustion and other high temperature reacting systems (e.g., fossil fuels and wastes and metallurgical processes) | ||
| Free, Michael | Assist. Professor | MetE |
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Metal removal from aqueous media | ||
| Hayes, Donald | Assoc. Professor | CVEEN |
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surface water quality modeling; wetlands/river restoration; contaminant transport/partitioning | |||
| Hong, P.K. Andy | Assoc. Professor | CVEEN |
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remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater; kinetics and pathways of hazardous contaminants; point-of-use controls | |||
| Johnson, William | Assoc. Professor | GG |
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Pore to field scale processes governing the transport of contaminants, colloids, and microbes in the subsurface | ||
| Lighty, JoAnn Llama | Professor | CHFEN |
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Formation of fine particle and their health effects; ambient air quality; soot formation and oxidation; mercury from coal fired combustion system. | |||
| Magda, Jules | Assoc. Professor | CHFEN |
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interfacial tension measurements | ||
| McCarter, Michael K. | Professor | MgEn |
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mine related issues involving reclamation and environmental effects of mining activities | |||
| Miller, Jan | Professor | MetE |
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cleaning of waste coal fuels, air stripping to remove volatile organics from drinking and process water, water disinfection by ozone or chlorine sparging, dispersed oil removal from water, and contaminated soil remediation. Air-sparged hydrocyclone technology has been developed for de-inking flotation in the waste paper recycling industry and for the treatment of contaminated water. | |
| Nash, Gregory | Resrch. Assist. Professor | EGI/CVEEN |
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remote sensing and GIS applications for geosciences and environmental research | ||
| Nelson, Michael G. | Assoc. Professor | MgE | Underground mine operations: mine equipment design and automation; process simulation, control, and optimization; mine health, safety, and industrial hygiene; mine-mill integration | ||||
| Pardyjak, Eric R. | Assist. Professor | Mech E |
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Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Fugitive Dust Transport, Urban Fluid Mechanics Measurement and Modeling, Stably Stratified Turbulent Flow | ||
| Peterson, Richard | Assoc. Professor | ChemE |
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atmospheric aerosol structure and chemistry and precipitation chemistry | |||
| Rajamani, Raj | Professor | MetE |
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Eddy current separation of metallic granules in waste streams, minerals processing | ||
| Ring, Terry A. | Professor | ChemE |
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water chemistry and precipitation processes for waste water clean up |
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| Sandquist, Gary | Professor | Mech E |
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nuclear science and engineering; radioactive waste management; heatlh physics | ||
| Silcox, Geoffrey | Assoc. Professor (Lecturing) | ChemE |
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combustion modeling of low quality fuels, process modeling | |
| Skliar, Mikhail | Assist. Professor | CheFE |
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process analysis, optimization and control; control of nonlinear processes | |
| Smith, Robert | Professor | GG |
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natural hazards and engineering problems related to earthquakes |
| Sohn, H.Y. | Professor | MetE |
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Metallurgical and material process engineering | ||
| Solomon, D. Kip | Assoc. Professor | GG |
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water and solute fluxes in the vadose zone natural and anthropogenic tracers | ||
| Tyler, J.Bonnie | Assoc. Professor | CHFEN | Surface Chemistry of Atmospheric Aerosol | ||||
| Trujillo, Edward | Assoc. Professor | CheFE |
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Biochemical Engineering Biosorption
of Heavy Metals, Acid Mine Drainage, Selenium removal |
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| W.W.Zmierczak | Rsrch. Assoc. Professor | CheFE |
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catalysis, biofuels, fuel processing | |||
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