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Dr.
Mac McKee | Expertise: Water resources engineering; flood control; water supply; irrigation and drainage; water quality management; water resources systems analysis; basin-scale planning and management; water resources development policy |
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Steven
L. Barfuss |
Expertise: Hydraulic/physical model studies, pump intake design, sewer flow measurements, storm sewer component testing, field velocity and flow measurements, pipe and fitting head loss tests, valve testing, flow meter calibration. Phone: 435-797-3214, FAX:435-797-0296 |
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Dr.
Luis A. Bastidas |
Expertise:
Hydroclimatic modeling; land surface modeling; integrated catchment
modeling; applications of remote sensing in hydrology; rainfall-runoff
modeling; flood forecasting and control; model performance evaluation;
multi-objective and global optimization; river modeling |
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Dr.
Bruce Bishop |
Expertise: Water resources planning and management; engineering economics; systems analysis models and optimization applied to water; transportation; energy; environmental planning |
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Dr.
William J. Doucette |
Expertise: Measurement and estimation of physical/chemical properties of organic chemicals for environmental fate modeling; development and use of Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSARs) in environmental fate modeling; investigating the sorption behavior of pesticides in soils; investigating the effect of cosolvents and cosolutes on the aqueous solubility of organic contaminants; analysis of organic contaminants in environmental samples; phytoremediation |
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Dr.
R. Ryan Dupont |
Expertise: Bioremediation; in-situ treatment; soil remediation; soil vacuum extraction; groundwater remediation; underground storage tank remediation; petroleum-contaminated soils and ground water; bioventing |
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Dr.
Thomas B. Hardy |
Expertise: Advancements in hydraulic and habitat simulation techniques for use in applied instream flow assessment in water resource allocation studies involving instream flow determinations for fisheries; application of multispectral remote sensing techniques for the classification and quantification of stream/riparian ecosystem elements for GIS applications; development of computer simulation models and software interfaces for use with assessment tools such as Physical Habitat Simulation System (PHABSIM), the Habitat Evaluation Procedures (HEP), and Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) models for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Dr. Robert W. Hill |
Expertise: Interested in irrigation delivery and conveyance systems operation; hydrologic, crop yield and irrigation scheduling models; and river basin and state-wide crop water requirements. He has provided nearly 30 technical assistance TDYs in 14 countries, most recently in the Dominican Republic, Egypt, and Armenia. He consults as an expert witness in Western US water rights and irrigation-related cases. |
| Dr. Jeffery S. Horsburgh |
Expertise: Watershed, water quality, and hydrologic modeling and training; environmental management and watershed decision support systems; Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) development and analysis; environmental data management and Geographic Information Systems; development of environmental and hydrologic information systems; real time data collection and dissemination |
| Dr.
Michael C. Johnson |
Expertise: Hydraulic model studies; spillway analysis and operation; energy dissipators; flow control structures; pump intakes; pump station design and operation; pipeline design; hydroelectric power plant performance evaluation; scale effects for Froude models; numerical analysis of hydraulic transients; numerical modeling; computational fluid dynamics; testing of valves, flow meters, and other hydraulic machinery; hydrologic analysis; computer modeling of systems; civil design review and analysis; brine transport; master planning; pipeline analysis |
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Dr.
Jagath J. Kaluarachchi |
Expertise: Hydrology, subsurface hydrology, hydrologic modeling, fate and transport of chemicals in ground water, risk-based decision analysis, water resources planning and management |
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Dr.
Randal S. Martin |
Expertise: Air pollution photochemistry, air quality monitoring, biogenic emissions measurement, air pollution modeling, advanced oxidation processes for gaseous pollutant control, source particulate fractionation and measurement |
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Dr.
Michael J. McFarland |
Expertise: Sludge disposal and treatment; composting of biosolids; municipal wastewater treatment; industrial pretreatment; pollution prevention |
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Ms.
Joan E. McLean |
Expertise: Fate and behavior of chemical pollutants in the soil environment, with emphasis on heavy metals, pesticides, and chlorinated solvents |
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Dr.
Laurie S. McNeill |
Expertise: Drinking water treatment; iron corrosion; arsenic removal; water plant degradation due to enhanced coagulation; occurrence and removal of hexavalent chromium in drinking water |
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Dr.
Gary P. Merkley |
Expertise: Research interests have focused on calibration of open-channel structures for flow measurement, mathematical models of open-channel hydraulics, irrigation system operation and maintenance, irrigation management transfer, and surface irrigation management. Recent projects have included: determination of surface velocity coefficients for the float method, non-hydrostatic flow conditions in Cutthroat flumes, mathematical modeling of unsteady hydraulics in branching canal systems, and management of fertilizer application through furrow irrigation |
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Dr. Christopher M.U. Neale |
Expertise: Research interests are in developing remote sensing applications in hydrology, irrigated agriculture, and for monitoring natural resources. He has developed a low-cost airborne remote sensing system that has been recently used to map spatially distributed energy balance terms and evaporates of riparian and agricultural vegetation. His recent projects include the mapping and monitoring of all irrigated agriculture in the Dominican Republic using aerial photography and remote sensing, developing a cadastre of all irrigation water users in a GIS environment. |
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Dr.
Bethany Neilson |
Expertise: Watershed, water quality, and hydrologic modeling and training; two-zone temperature/solute model development including the effects of the hyporheic and dead zones and calibration using multi-objective optimization; quantification of uncertainty in watershed management decision making using Bayesian Decision Networks; watershed decision support systems; Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) policy and analysis |
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Dr.
Richard Peralta |
Expertise:Expert at using formal mathematical optimization to solve water and environmental management problems. He has led development of deterministic and stochastic simulation / optimization (S/O) models for a wide range of physical problems. Selected optimization examples include: detailed vadose zone contaminant transport control; dynamic stream-acquifer conjunctive use; large-scale long-term sustained yield conjunctive water resources planning; and groundwater contamination remediation by pump-and-treat and enhanced bioremediation. Many of his developed optimal designs have been constructed, all operating successfully |
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Dr.
William J. Rahmeyer |
Expertise: Overbank flooding; effects of vegetation on flow resistance; fusegate control structures; hydraulic model studies; sedimentation and erosion studies; open and closed conduit flow; cavitation; transients; hydromachinery testing; control valves |
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David
Rosenberg |
Expertise: Systems analysis, optimization and simulation modeling and data management for water and resources management, infrastructure expansions, demand management, and conflict resolution at scales ranging from individual users to regional water systems. Integrate engineering, economic, environmental, uncertainty, and when necessary, social and political considerations into the planning, design, operation, and re-operation of water systems. |
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Ms.
Judith L. Sims |
Expertise: Soil-based waste treatment, including remediation of soils contaminated with hazardous wastes; site interactions affecting fate and behavior of organic chemicals in subsurface systems. On-site wastewater treatment systems (septic systems) |
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Dr.
Ronald C. Sims |
Expertise: Measurement, evaluation, and engineering of biochemical transformations of organic chemicals in soils and water systems; effects of transformation on fate and behavior of organic chemicals |
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Dr.
Darwin L. Sorensen |
Expertise: Microbiological ecology of biodegradation and bioremediation; characterization of organic contaminated water and soil environments; aquatic and terrestrial microbial assays; biodegradation of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in land-based treatment systems; reductive dehalogenation of trichloroethene in contaminated aquifers; source water protection assessments; nitrate contamination susceptibility assessments for shallow aquifers |
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Dr.
David K. Stevens |
Expertise: Biological and chemical engineering processes applied to surface and subsurface environments; modeling of vadose zone processes related to fate and transport of environmental contaminants; mass transfer processes in the subsurface; chemical processes for contaminated soil remediation; constructed wetland treatment of industrial wastewater using reeds |
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Dr.
David G. Tarboton |
Expertise: Spatially distributed hydrologic modeling; Applying digital elevation data and GIS in Hydrology; Stochastic modeling using nonparametric techniques; Snow hydrology; Geomorphology; Landform evolution and channel networks; Terrain stability mapping and stream sediment inputs |
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Dr.
Blake P. Tullis |
Expertise: Hydraulic/physical modeling; hydromachinery; valve testing; flow meter calibration; pump engineering and pump intakes; culvert design for environmentally sensitive installations, hydraulic resistance in channels/pipes with composite roughness, and erosion control |
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Dr.
Gilberto E. Urroz |
Expertise: Erosion control: performance of tests for determining how effective erosion control products are in protecting slopes against the effects of rain and in minimizing soil erosion in high-velocity channels; hydraulic structures modeling: physical and numerical modeling of flow over hydraulic structures such as spillways, weirs, culverts; groundwater modeling: numerical modeling of flow and transport in aquifers |
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Dr.
Wynn Walker |
Expertise: Specializations include the design, simulation, and evaluation of surface irrigation systems as well as introduction of computer-oriented training programs to irrigation agencies and projects in the third world. He has developed a comprehensive software package for optimizing surface irrigation management which is being produced for the National Engineering Handbook by the US Department of Agriculture. He has directed international projects in Egypt, Thailand, Morocco, Ecuador, El Salvador, India, and the Dominican Republic. |
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Dr.
Jay M. Bagley |
Expertise: Policy analysis; water law; resources planning; history; institutional relationships; water resources development |
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Dr.
David S. Bowles |
Expertise: Dam safety; dam safety risk assessment; flood hydrology; design floods for dams; hydrologic modeling; snow hydrology; water resources planning and management |
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Dr.
William J. Grenney |
Expertise: Multimedia decision-support systems for engineering application; intelligent computer-based training applications; mathematical modeling for basin-wide water resources management; mathematical modeling for environmental engineering water-quality applications; mathematical modeling for transportation application |
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Dr.
Daniel H. Hoggan |
Expertise: Basic hydrology; flood hydrology; hydrologic modeling; hydraulic modeling of river systems |
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Dr.
Trevor C. Hughes |
Expertise: Geographic Information Systems; hydropower; urban water demand; reservoir operations; water resources |
Eugene
Israelsen |
Expertise: Erosion control; irrigation management |
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Dr.
Roland W. Jeppson |
Expertise: Fluid mechanics; hydraulics; pipelines; pumps; ground water; numerical methods |
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Dr.
J. Paul Riley |
Expertise: Hydrologic models; water rights; watershed management; surface-groundwater relationships; water resources development; wastewater modeling |
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Dr.
J. Paul Tullis |
Expertise: Hydraulic model studies, design and analysis of spillways, power intakes, trash racks, energy dissipators, crest gates, high head outlet gates, tunnels, pump intakes, and valve installations; design, analysis, and testing of valves, pumps, turbines, flow meters, and pipelines; designing and testing of pumping plants and research on vortex modeling for pump intakes; basic and applied research in cavitation, transients, computer simulation of flood flow, drag reduction; design of civil works for small hydropower installations; analysis of vibrations and pressure surges in nuclear pump test loops; expert witness in cases involving pipeline design, pipeline failures, hydraulic transients, valves, cooling towers, cavitation, and patent infringement |
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