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)
- Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE)
- 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
| Hussein Amery LAIS |
Water management and politics in the Middle East; conflict resolution of transboundary water issues; water ethics | hamery@mines.edu |
| Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna GPGN |
Planetary hydrology; early hydrology and climate evolution of Mars; methane hydrology of Titan; numerical modeling and remote sensing |
jcahanna@gmail.com |
| David Benson HSE Director GGE |
Subsurface contaminant transport and fate, numerical modeling | dbenson@mines.edu |
| Tzahi Cath CEE |
Brackish water and seawater desalination; water and wastewater treatment engineering; potable water reuse; energy recovery in water treatment | tcath@mines.edu |
| Ron
Cohen CEE |
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 CEE |
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 |
| Terri Hogue CEE |
Surface hydrology, catchment response to wildfire, urbanization, climate variability, land-atmosphere interactions, watershed modeling, parameter estimation, remote sensing, field studies. | thogue@mines.edu |
| John
Humphrey GGE |
Carbonate sedimentology, diagenesis and geochemistry; stable isotope geochemistry; reservoir characterization, paleoclimatology | jhumphre@mines.edu |
| Tissa
Illangasekare CEE |
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 |
| John
McCray CEE |
Contaminant hydrology, subsurface remediation, vadose-zone hydrology, subsurface vapor-transport, watershed hydrology, mathematical modeling, soil-based wastewater treatment | jmccray@mines.edu |
| Junko
Munakata Marr CEE |
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 |
| 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 |
| Paul Santi GGE |
Landslide drainage, groundwater issues in construction, hydrology and mass movement hazards, cross-contamination of aquifers, subsurface site investigation | psanti@mines.edu |
| Josh Sharp CEE |
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 |
| Robert
Siegrist CEE |
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 |
| Alexis Navarre-Sitchler GGE |
Water-rock interactions, geochemical kinetics, hydrogeochemistry, integration of field and experimental data into reactive-transport numerical simulation. | asitchle@mines.edu |
| Kamini Singha GGE/CEE |
Coupled field work and modeling studies of groundwater flow, solute transport, and groundwater-surface water interaction; environmental geophysics, geostatistics | ksingha@mines.edu |
| John
Spear CEE |
Environmental microbiology; metal bioremediation; environmental policy and impact analysis | jspear@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 |
Emeritus FACULTY
| Bruce
Honeyman CEE |
Surface chemistry; environmental radiochemistry; metal-organic interactions; the physical/chemical processes controlling the fate of chemical species in natural and engineered systems | |
| 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 |
| Eileen
Poeter GGE |
Ground water flow and transport modeling, inverse modeling, characterization of subsurface heterogeneity, uncertainty evaluation, data fusion, geostatistical simulation | epoeter@mines.edu |