Faculty
 


MARC A. ANDERSON, Professor
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Science and Water Chemistry, Environmental Engineering 
Research Interests - Ceramic membranes, microporous ceramic materials, colloidal thin-film ceramics, colloid chemistry, catalysis, gas and liquid ceramic membrane separation processes, adsorption in aqueous systems, photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, batteries, ultra-capacitors, fuel cells. 
 
DAVID L. ALUMBAUGH, Assistant Professor
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Geotechnics 
Research Interests - near-surface and borehole geophysics, geophysical characterization and evaluation of groundwater, mineral and petroleum resources, geophysical evaluation of hazardous waste sites, geophysical monitoring of subsurface flow processes, geophysical imaging, inversion and optimization, numerical modeling, characterization of error and uncertainty in geophysical measurements. 
 
ANDERS W. ANDREN, Professor; Director UW Sea Grant Institute 
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Science and Water Chemistry 
Research Interests - Fresh and marine water chemistry, behavior and fate of chemicals in the environment, air-water transfer of chemicals, structure-activity relationships, sediment remediation technology, environmental fate, industrial waste treatment technology. 
 
DAVID E. ARMSTRONG, Professor 
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Science and Water Chemistry 
Research Interests - Aquatic chemistry, chemical limnology, cycling of nutrients and trace elements, sediment-water interactions, behavior and fate of organic chemical in lakes. 
 
CRAIG H. BENSON, Professor 
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Geotechnics 
Research Interests - Environmental geotechnics, disposal of municipal and hazardous wastes, landfill design, landfill liners and covers, beneficial re-use of industrial products, hydraulic conductivity, stochastic transport of contaminants, groundwater flow and clean-up, remediation. 
 
TUNCER B. EDIL, Professor 
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Geotechnics 
Research Interests - Environmental geotechnics, groundwater, beneficial reuse of industrial byproducts, transport of organic chemicals in soil and groundwater, physico-chemical soil behavior.
 
GREGORY W. HARRINGTON, Assistant Professor 
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Engineering 
Research Interests - Environmental Engineering, aquatic chemistry in treatment and distribution of drinking water, removal and disinfection of waterborne pathogens, disinfection byproducts, mathematical modeling. 
 
JOHN A. HOOPES, Professor 
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources Engineering 
Research Interests - Modeling, measurement and design of fluid flows, transport and mixing, processes, river and lake motions, sediment processes and engineering, groundwater, turbulence. 
 
ERHARD F. JOERES, Professor, Department Chair
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Systems and Water Resources 
Research Interests - Environmental systems modeling, water resources management, urban hydrology, air quality management, markets in pollution control, pollution prevention, environmental policy, industrial ecology. 
 
TRINA McMAHON, Assistant Professor 
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Engineering 
Research Interests - Microbial ecology, environmental biotechnology, biochemical engineering, environmental engineering, water quality.
 
DANIEL R. NOGUERA, Associate Professor 
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Engineering 
Research Interests - Environmental biotechnology, biofilms, microbial ecology, mathematical modeling, microbiology of drinking water, biodegradation pathways, wastewater treatment.
 
JAE K. PARK, Professor 
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Engineering 
Research Interests - Pollutant transport modeling, mass transport of organic chemicals in treatment processes, bioremediation of hazardous waste sites, nutrient removal, reuse and recycling. 
 
KENNETH W. POTTER, Professor 
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Systems and Water Resources 
Research Interests - Hydrology, hydrological modeling and design, stromwater modeling, management and design, estimation of hydrologic risk, estimtion of hydrological budgets, watershed monitoring and assessment, hydrologic restoration. 
 
JAMES J. SCHAUER, Assistant Professor
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Engineering and Water Chemistry 
Research Interests - Regional and indoor air pollution abatement, measurement of air pollutant source emissions, air quality modeling, industrial air pollution control. 
 
WILLIAM C. SONZOGNI, Professor; Chief of Environmental Sciences at Wisconsin Laboratory of Hygiene 
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Science and Water Chemistry 
Research Interests - Water chemistry, environmental analysis, toxic substances, limnology, pollution.
 
CHIN-HSIEU WU, Assistant Professor
Teaching Areas -  Environmental Systems and Water Resources 
Research Interests - Water waves, turbulence, transport and mixing processes, hydraulics, hydrology, geographic information systems. 
 

Emeritus

P. MAC BERTHOUEX - Environmental Engineering, water supply, wastewater treatment, industrial waste treatment, environmental statistics and modeling. 
 

WILLIAM C. BOYLE, Environmental Engineering, biological waste treatment, industrial wastes, waste disposal and treatment. 
 

ROBERT K. HAM, Environmental Engineering, solid waste, hazardous waste, waste decomposition, recycling. 
 

PETER L. MONKMEYER, Environmental Systems and Water Resources, fluid mechanics, water waves, coastal engineering, flood routing, groundwater/seepage..