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Water Resources
Burdette Barker
USU Extension, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Irrigation, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Agricultural Irrigation Systems, Crop Water Use Measurement & Modeling
Jeff Horsburgh
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydroinformatics, Hydrology, Surface Water Quality
Areas of Focus: Water Data & Hydroinformatics, Watershed Hydrology, Human Dimensions of Water Use
Belize Lane
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydrology, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Rivers, Watersheds & Water Flow, Effects of Wildfires on Water
Bethany Neilson
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydrology, Water Resources, Surface Water Quality
Areas of Focus: Water Supply, Mountain Hydrology, Surface Water Quality, Water Science & Policy
Colin Phillips
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydrology, Water Resources, Water Quality
Areas of Focus: Sediment Transport, Rivers, Flooding, Physical Water Quality
David Rosenberg
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Colorado River, Great Salt Lake, Lake Powell & Lake Mead, Water Conservation, Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Pin Shuai
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Groundwater Hydrology
Areas of Focus: Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions, Nutrient & Contaminant Transport, Hydrologic Modeling, & Ecohydrology
David Tarboton
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydrology
Areas of Focus: Hydrologic Modeling, Terrain Analysis, Hydrologic Information Systems, Snow
Alfonso Torres-Rua
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Irrigation, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Irrigation Engineering, Drones, Satellite Technologies
Sierra Young
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Remote Sensing, Field Robotics, Environmental and Agricultural Sensing Systems, Image Analysis
Hydraulics
Steven Barfuss
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydraulics, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Hydraulic Structures, Physical Modeling, Aging Infrastructure
Brian Crookston
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydraulics, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Water Infrastructure Modeling & Design, Flooding & Spillways, Public Safety & Hazard Assessments
Michael Johnson
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydraulics, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Dams, Hydroelectric Power, Pipes, Valves, Spillways, Flow Metering
Zac Sharp
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydraulics, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Scale Models, Pipe & Valve Testing
Blake Tullis
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydraulics, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Hydraulic Structures, Fluid Mechanics
Environmental
Ryan Dupont
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Environmental Engineering
Areas of Focus: Bioremediation, Wastewater, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Contaminants of Emerging Concern, PFAS, Water Reuse, Biosolids, Composting
Joanna Hou
Biological Engineering
Field: Environmental Engineering
Areas of Focus: Contaminants, Microbiology, Wastewater, Biodegradation, Resource Recovery
Randy Martin
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Environmental Engineering, Air Quality
Areas of Focus: Air Quality, Air Pollution
Joan McLean
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Environmental Engineering
Areas of Focus: Environmental Quality Analysis, Chemistry of Inorganics
Kyle Moor
Biological Engineering
Field: Environmental Engineering, Engineering Chemistry
Areas of Focus: Photodegradation, Organic Pollutants, Plastic Fate, Wildfire Impacts on Surface Waters
Yiming Su
Biological Engineering
Field: Environmental Engineering, Nanomaterial Engineering, Sustainable Agriculture
Areas of Focus: Critical Mineral Recovery, PFAS and Microplastic Quantification and Removal, Drinking Water Engineering, Nanomaterial Design for Agriculture and the Environment