Faculty

Faculty Member Tzahi Cath
Membrane processes for seawater and brackish water desalination and for wastewater reclamation and reuse zero liquid discharge processes for enhancement of water recovery optimization and energy recovery in water and wastewater treatment processes.

Faculty Member Ronald Cohen
Limnology wetlands treatment of mine wastes mining and land use treatment systems for produced waters from petroleum operations environmental site characterization and risk assessment.

Faculty Member Jörg Drewes
Water and wastewater treatment engineering; potable and non-potable water reuse; state-of-the-art characterization of natural and effluent organic matter; contaminant transfer among environmental media; fate of endocrine disrupting compounds and pharmaceuticals in natural and engineered systems.

Faculty Member Linda Figueroa
Microbially mediated radionuclide and metals removal, biotransformation of nitrogen, application of molecular tools, water and waste treatment.

Faculty Member Bruce Honeyman
Surface chemistry environmental radiochemistry metal-organic interactions the physical/chemical processes controlling the fate of chemical species in natural and engineered systems.

Faculty Member Tissa Illangasekare
Water flow and fate and transport of chemicals in porous and fractured media; groundwater hydrology; numerical modeling; hazardous waste and groundwater remediation; multiphase flow; operations research; conjunctive management of surface and groundwater; flow in snow; fracture flow and dam safety; intermediate scale testing of chemical transport in subsurface.

Faculty Member John McCray
Contaminant hydrology, subsurface remediation, vadose-zone hydrology, subsurface vapor-transport, watershed hydrology, mathematical modeling, soil-based wastewater treatment.

Faculty Member Junko Munakata Marr
Biological degradation of organic compounds microbial communities in groundwater and water treatment systems application of molecular biology techniques to environmental systems.

Faculty Member Robert Siegrist
Environmental characterization and risk assessment In situ remediation of contaminated land; Onsite wastewater reclamation and water reuse.

Faculty Member John Spear
Molecular microbial ecology; environmental microbiology in diverse environments; applied environmental microbiology (e.g., microbial biomass as a source of protein; biofuels); heavy metal and radionuclide bioremediation; application of advanced robotics for sample acquisition; environmental reclamation; environmental policy (land and water); and environmental impact analysis.