Faculty
The Hydrologic Science and Engineering (HSE) Program at 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.
Leadership
David Benson
Director, Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering
Subsurface contaminant transport and fate, numerical modeling
dbenson@mines.edu
Eric Anderson
Associate Director, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Hydrodynamic Modeling; Coastal Processes; Limnology; Physical Oceanography; Ice Dynamics; Atmosphere-Surface Water Interaction.
ejanderson@mines.edu
Faculty
Hussein A. Amery
Division Director and Associate Professor, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Water management and politics in the Middle East; conflict resolution of transboundary water issues; water ethics
hamery@mines.edu
Eric Anderson
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Hydrodynamic Modeling; Coastal Processes; Limnology; Physical Oceanography; Ice Dynamics; Atmosphere-Surface Water Interaction.
ejanderson@mines.edu
Bia Villas Bôas
Assistant Professor, Geophysics
Physical oceanography, remote sensing, air-sea interactions, ocean surface waves, coupled modeling of winds, currents, and waves, scientific computing education.
villasboas@mines.edu
David Benson
Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering
Subsurface contaminant transport and fate, numerical modeling
dbenson@mines.edu
John Bradford
Professor and Department Head, Geophysics
Ground-penetrating radar, reflection seismology, wavefield modeling, reflection imaging, waveform attribute analysis, material property estimation.
jbradford@mines.edu
Tzahi Cath
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Brackish water and seawater desalination; water and wastewater treatment engineering; potable water reuse; energy recovery in water treatment
tcath@mines.edu
Brandon Dugan
Associate Professor
Baker Hughes Chair in Petrophysics and Borehole Geophysics
Hydrogeology; marine hydrogeology; geomechanics; groundwater resources; basin-scale fluid flow; numerical modeling
dugan@mines.edu
Marte Gutierrez
James R. Paden Chair and Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Geomechanics; coupled multiphase fluid flow, thermal and geomechanical processes in porous and fractured media; experimental studies and computational modeling
mgutierr@mines.edu
Christopher Higgins
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fate, transport, and bioaccumulation of emerging contaminants in aquatic and terrestrial systems
chiggins@mines.edu
Terri Hogue
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Surface hydrology, catchment response to wildfire, urbanization, climate variability, land-atmosphere interactions, watershed modeling, parameter estimation, remote sensing, field studies
thogue@mines.edu
Tissa Illangasekare
AMX Distinguished Chair and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Subsurface flow, transport and fate of chemicals in porous media, groundwater hydrology, numerical modeling, fracture flow, flow in snow, NAPLs
tillanga@mines.edu
Serveh Kamrava
Assistant Professor, Petroleum Engineering
Machine learning, fluid dynamics, chemical discovery, energy storage systems, complex materials, soft matter
kamrava@mines.edu
Rennie Kaunda
Assistant Professor, Mining Engineering
Mine water hydrology, groundwater hydrogeology, characterization of contaminant transport and fate, water in geotechnical and geomechanical engineering
rkaunda@mines.edu
Kristoph Kinzli
Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
River mechanics; stream rehabilitation; water resources; agricultural water use; fisheries biology; engineering teaching pedagogy; and active learning.
kkinzli@mines.edu
Adrianne C. Kroepsch
Assistant Professor, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Water policy and politics in the American West, groundwater management, energy-water nexus, collaborative governance processes, interdisciplinary approaches to water research (e.g., socio-hydrology)
akroepsch@mines.edu
Amy Landis
Professor, Mines Presidential Fellow for Diversity, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Quantitative sustainability of renewable fuels; biobased products and plastics and healthcare. Developing new sustainability tools in Life Cycle Assessment, industrial ecology, & systems analysis.
amylandis@mines.edu
Nathan Lenssen
Teaching Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Climate Variability and Change, Climate Predictability, Climate Observational Products, Climate Impacts on Human Systems
lenssen@mines.edu
Ning Lu
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Groundwater hydrology, unsaturated soil mechanics, expansive soils, environmental geotechnics
ninglu@mines.edu
Adrienne Marshall
Assistant Professor, Geological Engineering
Snow Hydrology; Ecohydrology in discontinuous permafrost regions; Hydropower in the energy system; Climate change; Computational approaches including: spatial data, data science, physically-based hydrologic models, statistical models, high performance computing.
adriennemarshall@mines.edu
John McCray
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contaminant hydrology, subsurface remediation, vadose-zone hydrology, subsurface vapor-transport, watershed hydrology, mathematical modeling, soil-based wastewater treatment
jmccray@mines.edu
Junko Munakata Marr
Professor and Department Head, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biological degradation of organic compounds; microbial communities in groundwater and water treatment systems; application of molecular biology techniques to environmental systems
junko@mines.edu
Eileen Martin
Assistant Professor Jointly Appointed: Geophysics and Applied Math & Statistics
Near-surface, engineering, environmental and urban geophysics; analysis of large sensor networks; fiber-optic sensing, including distributed acoustic sensing; signal processing, imaging, and inverse problems; data-intensive high performance computing; passive seismic methods
eileenrmartin@mines.edu
Alexis Navarre-Sitchler
Assistant Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering
Water-rock interactions, geochemical kinetics, hydrogeochemistry, integration of field and experimental data into reactive-transport numerical simulation
asitchle@mines.edu
Chelsea L. Panos
Teaching Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching interests are Urban hydrology; stormwater modeling; urbanization; stormwater management; engineering learning; effective teaching practices.
cpanos@mines.edu
James Ranville
Professor, Chemistry
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
Danica Roth
Assistant Professor, Geomorphology and Environmental Seismology
droth@mines.edu
Paul Santi
Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering
Landslide drainage, groundwater issues in construction, hydrology and mass movement hazards, cross-contamination of aquifers, subsurface site investigation
psanti@mines.edu
Jonathan (Josh) Sharp
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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
Matthew Siegfried
Assistant Professor, Geophysics
Subglacial hydrology, Ice-ocean interaction, Grounding zone dynamics, Geophysical surveying of ice streams, Air- and space-borne laser altimetry
siegfried@mines.edu
Kamini Singha
Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering
Groundwater flow and solute transport in porous media and fractured rock, groundwater-surface water interaction, environmental geophysics, geostatistics
ksingha@mines.edu
Steven M. Smith
Assistant Professor, Division of Economics and Business
Property rights and natural resources, water law and economics, irrigation development and management.
ssmith1@mines.edu
John Spear
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental microbiology; metal bioremediation; environmental policy and impact analysis
jspear@mines.edu
Pejman Tahmasebi
Associate Professor, Petroleum Engineering
Geomechanics, subsurface systems (energy, water, storage), computational modeling and multiple point statistics, machine learnings, fluid flow in porous media.
tahmasebi@mines.edu
Nils Tilton
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Theoretical and computational fluid mechanics, flow through porous media, and membrane filtration
ntilton@mines.edu
Bettina Voelker
Professor, Chemistry
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
Ryan Venturelli
Assistant Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering
Subglacial hydrology, paleoglaciology, ice-ocean interaction, isotope geochemistry.
venturelli@mines.edu
Yu-Shu Wu
Professor, Petroleum Engineering
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
Associate Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering
Hydrologic applications of GIS, energy-water nexus
wzhou@mines.edu
Affiliate Faculty
Brian Ebel
Disturbance hydrology; hydrogeomorphology; unsaturated zone hydrology; post-wildfire hydrology; hillslope hydrology
bebel@usgs.gov
Don Rosenberry
Hydrology and hydrogeology of lakes, wetlands, and streams, groundwater-surface water exchange
rosenberry@mines.edu
Michelle Ann Walvoord
Permafrost hydrology, multiphase flow and transport, arid regions hydrology
walvoord@usgs.gov
Rich Wanty
Environmental geochemistry, and coupling of geologic, hydrologic, and geochemical processes
rwanty@mines.edu
Research Faculty
Andy Wood
Streamflow forecasting, hydrologic modeling and applications, land monitoring and prediction (e.g., for flooding and droughts), climate change downscaling and impact assessment, water resources management and planning, and seasonal climate and hydrologic forecasting.
awwood@mines.edu
Emeritus Faculty
- Ronald Cohen: Limnology; wetlands treatment of mine wastes; treatment systems for produced waters from petroleum operations; environmental site characterization and risk assessment
rcohen@mines.edu - Dave Hale: Seismology, computer graphics, image processing, subsurface modeling and fluid flow
dhale@mines.edu - Bruce Honeyman: 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 - Donald Macalady: 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 - Gary Olhoeft: Petrophysics; ground-penetrating radar; nonlinear complex resistivity
golhoeft@mines.edu - Eileen Poeter: Groundwater flow and transport modeling, inverse modeling, characterization of subsurface heterogeneity, uncertainty evaluation, data fusion, geostatistical simulation
epoeter@mines.edu - Robert Siegrist: Environmental characterization and risk assessment; subsurface treatment of contaminated land, water, and wastewater treatment, and reuse in natural and alternative systems
rsiegris@mines.edu