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Water Resources
Burdette Barker
435-797-3926
USU Extension, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Irrigation, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Agricultural Irrigation Systems, Crop Water Use Measurement & Modeling
Jeff Horsburgh
435-797-2946
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydroinformatics, Hydrology, Surface Water Quality
Areas of Focus: Water Data & Hydroinformatics, Watershed Hydrology, Human Dimensions of Water Use
Belize Lane
435-797-4145
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydrology, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Rivers, Watersheds & Water Flow, Effects of Wildfires on Water
Bethany Neilson
435-797-7369
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
435-797-3926
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydrology, Water Resources, Water Quality
Areas of Focus: Sediment Transport, Rivers, Flooding, Physical Water Quality
David Rosenberg
435-797-8689
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Colorado River, Great Salt Lake, Lake Powell & Lead Mead, Water Conservation, Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Pin Shuai
435-797-1531
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Groundwater Hydrology
Areas of Focus: Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions, Nutrient & Contaminant Transport, Hydrologic Modeling, & Ecohydrology
David Tarboton
435-797-3172
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydrology
Areas of Focus: Hydrologic Modeling, Terrain Analysis, Hydrologic Information Systems, Snow
Alfonso Torres-Rua
435-797-0397
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Irrigation, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Irrigation Engineering, Drones, Satellite Technologies
Sierra Young
435-797-1519
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Remote Sensing, Field Robotics, Environmental and Agricultural Sensing Systems, Image Analysis
Hydraulics
Steven Barfuss
435-797-3214
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydraulics, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Hydraulic Structures, Physical Modeling, Aging Infrastructure
Brian Crookston
435-797-0247
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydraulics, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Water Infrastructure Modeling & Design, Flooding & Spillways, Public Safety & Hazard Assessments
Michael Johnson
435-797-3176
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydraulics, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Dams, Hydroelectric Power, Pipes, Valves, Spillways, Flow Metering
Zac Sharp
435-797-3926
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydraulics, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Scale Models, Pipe & Valve Testing
Blake Tullis
435-797-3194
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Hydraulics, Water Resources
Areas of Focus: Hydraulic Structures, Fluid Mechanics
Environmental
Ryan Dupont
435-797-3227
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
435-797-1533
Biological Engineering
Field: Environmental Engineering
Areas of Focus: Contaminants, Microbiology, Wastewater, Biodegradation, Resource Recovery
Randy Martin
435-797-1585
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Environmental Engineering, Air Quality
Areas of Focus: Air Quality, Air Pollution
Joan McLean
435-797-3199
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Field: Environmental Engineering
Areas of Focus: Environmental Quality Analysis, Chemistry of Inorganics
Kyle Moore
435-797-0937
Biological Engineering
Field: Environmental Engineering, Engineering Chemistry
Areas of Focus: Photodegradation, Organic Pollutants, Plastic Fate, Wildfire Impacts on Surface Waters
Yiming Su
435-797-1534
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