Hydrology Faculty and Participating Departments
The Hydrologic Science and Engineering (HSE) Program at the Colorado School of Mines is an interdisciplinary graduate program designed to provide students with a solid background in quantitative environmental (physical and chemical) hydrology and allow them to explore specialties within related fields, particularly with emphasis on areas of expertise of the participating faculty. Links to faculty web pages and email addresses are provided below.
Feel free to contact us about the HSE program and our research programs!
Participating Departments/Divisions:
- Chemistry & Geochemistry (CHGN)
- Engineering (EGN)
- Environmental Science & Engineering (ESE)
- Geology & Geological Engineering (GGE)
- Geophysics (GPGN)
- Liberal Arts & International Studies (LAIS)
- Mining Engineering (ME)
- Petroleum Engineering (PE)
On-Campus Research Centers:
- Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes
- International Ground Water Modeling Center
- Searching for Water on Mars Project
FACULTY
| John
McCray HSE Director ESE |
Contaminant hydrology, subsurface remediation, vadose-zone hydrology, subsurface vapor-transport, watershed hydrology, mathematical modeling, soil-based wastewater treatment | jmccray@mines.edu |
| Hussein Amery LAIS |
Water management and politics in the Middle East; conflict resolution of transboundary water issues; water ethics | hamery@mines.edu |
| David Benson GGE |
Subsurface contaminant transport and fate, numerical modeling | dbenson@mines.edu |
| Tzahi Cath ESE |
Brackish water and seawater desalination; water and wastewater treatment engineering; potable water reuse; energy recovery in water treatment | tcath@mines.edu |
| Ron
Cohen ESE |
Limnology; wetlands treatment of mine wastes; treatment systems for produced waters from petroleum operations; environmental site characterization and risk assessment | rcohen@mines.edu |
| Jörg E. Drewes ESE |
Water and wastewater treatment engineering; potable and non-potable water reuse; characterization of natural and effluent organic matter; contaminant transfer among environmental media; fate of compounds and pharmaceuticals in natural and engineered systems | jdrewes@mines.edu |
| Marte Gutierrez GPGN |
Geomechanics; Coupled multiphase fluid flow, thermal and geomechanical processes in porous and fractured media; Experimental studies and computational modeling. |
mgutierr@mines.edu |
| Dave
Hale GPGN |
Seismology, computer graphics, image processing, subsurface modeling and fluid flow | dhale@mines.edu |
| Bruce
Honeyman ESE |
Surface chemistry; environmental radiochemistry; metal-organic interactions; the physical/chemical processes controlling the fate of chemical species in natural and engineered systems | bhoneyma@mines.edu |
| John
Humphrey GGE |
Carbonate sedimentology, diagenesis and geochemistry; stable isotope geochemistry; reservoir characterization, paleoclimatology | jhumphre@mines.edu |
| Tissa
Illangasekare ESE |
Subsurface flow, transport and fate of chemicals in porous media, groundwater hydrology, numerical modeling, fracture flow, flow in snow, NAPLs | tissa@mines.edu |
| Yaoguo Li GPGN |
Geophysical inverse theory; gravity, magnetic, and electrical methods in resource exploration | ygli@mines.edu |
| Ning Lu ENG |
Groundwater hydrology, unsaturated soil mechanics, expansive soils, environmental geotechnics | ninglu@mines.edu |
| Don
Macalady CHGN |
Chemistry of natural organic matter; abiotic oxidation/reduction reactions; hydrolysis reaction rates and mechanisms; environmental partitioning from aqueous to soil/sediment and other systems; particle effects in aqueous chemistry; geochemical processes in systems contaminated with acid mine drainage; chemistry in wetlands | dmacalad@mines.edu |
| Junko
Munakata Marr ESE |
Biological degradation of organic compounds; microbial communities in groundwater and water treatment systems; application of molecular biology techniques to environmental systems | jmmarr@mines.edu |
| Reed Maxwell GGE |
watershed hydrology, groundwater-surface-water-land surface interactions, land-atmosphere interactions, microbial subsurface contaminant transport, spectral scaling in watersheds, integrated watershed response to climate change, environmental risk assessment, development of numerical models, Lagrangian methods and high-performance computing | rmaxwell@mines.edu |
| Gary
Olhoeft GPGN |
Petrophysics; ground penetrating radar; nonlinear complex resistivity | golhoeft@mines.edu |
| Eileen
Poeter GGE |
Ground water flow and transport modeling, inverse modeling, characterization of subsurface heterogeneity, uncertainty evaluation, data fusion, geostatistical simulation | epoeter@mines.edu |
| Jim
Ranville CHGN |
Geochemical influences on metal transport and bioavailability; environmental colloids and suspended particles; natural organic matter; field-flow fractionation methods; ICP-AES/MS methods; chemistry of acid-mine drainage | jranvill@mines.edu |
| Andre Revil GPGN |
Hydrogeophysics, redox potential, diffusion of ions in clay barriers, electroosmosis, poroelastic deformation, multiphase flow, electrical double layer, coupled processes, inverse modeling | arevil@mines.edu |
| Josh Sharp ESE |
Environmental microbiology and biogeochemistry, Biotechnological applications towards groundwater remediation and water reuse, Bacterial cytochrome-mediated degradation of emerging organic contaminants with a focus on micropollutants such as nitrosamines, Bioattenuation of metals and radionuclides | jsharp@mines.edu |
| G. W.
"Jerry" Sherk LAIS |
water policy, water law | gsherk@mines.edu |
| Robert
Siegrist ESE |
Environmental characterization and risk assessment; subsurface treatment of contaminated land, water, and waste water treatment, and reuse in natural and alternative systems | rsiegris@mines.edu |
| John
Spear ESE |
Environmental microbiology; metal bioremediation; environmental policy and impact analysis | jspear@mines.edu |
| Geoff
Thyne GGE |
Water-rock interactions, aqueous geochemistry, solute transport, evolution of groundwater chemistry, landfill geochemistry and impact on water quality, petroleum geology and geochemistry of tight gas sands, spatial-statistical analysis of hydrochemical data | gthyne@mines.edu |
| Tina
Voelker CHGN |
Fate and effects of toxic metals and organic contaminants in aquatic environments, oxidation of organic contaminants in natural and engineered systems, photochemistry of natural organic matter, reactions of oxygen species in aquatic environments, interactions between metals and natural organic matter | voelker@mines.edu |
| Yu-Shu Wu PE |
Reservoir engineering and groundwater hydrogeology in general , Quantitative analysis and mathematical modeling approaches to flow and transport processes in porous and fractured reservoirs, Phenomena and coupled processes of multi-phase fluids, multi-component chemicals, and heat in variably saturated subsurface systems, Transient pressure and tracer tests in characterizing aquifers and oil/gas reservoirs | YWu@mines.edu |
| Wendy Zhou GE |
Hydrologic applications of GIS, Energy-water nexus | wzhou@mines.edu |