Click on names in this list to see individual pages with more information. Click here for listing of Emeritus Faculty at bottom of this page.

Active Faculty and Staff:

• Tami Bond, Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering. Interdisciplinary Ph.D. (Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Atmospheric Science), University of Washington, 2000. Aerosol chemistry, physics, and optics, aerosol sampling, interactions between regional and global-scale air pollution. Courses: CEE545.
  
  
• Mark M. Clark, Professor of Environmental Engineering.  Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 1985. Water quality processes and mass transfer engineering, mixing, precipitation kinetics, flocculation and floc structure, membrane separation processes, turbulence, computational fluid dynamics. Courses: CEE442
  
  
• J. Wayland Eheart, Professor of Environmental Systems.  Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1975.  Environmental decision-making, environmental management and policy analysis, water quality modeling, water and wastewater control regulations, groundwater quality assurance. Courses: CEE434, CEE535, CEE534.
  
• Kevin T. Finneran, Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering. Ph.D. in Microbiology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2001. Biodegradation and bioremediation of metal and organic contaminants, anaerobic microbial ecology and physiology, Fe(III)- and humics-reducing microorganisms, fate and transport of contaminants in subsurface environments. Courses: CEE330, CEE595AG.
  
  
• Edwin E. Herricks, Professor of Environmental Biology. Ph.D. in Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1974. Aquatic ecology, aquatic ecosystem management, biomonitoring. Courses: CEE430, CEE431, CEE432, CEE598SE.

Byung J. Kim, Senior Environmental Engineer, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center-Construction Engineering Research Laboratory; Adjunct Professor of Environmental Engineering. Ph.D. in Water Quality with a Minor in Air Resources, Polytechnic University of New York, 1982. Innovative biofilter systems, air emissions, industrial wastewater treatment processes.

Sotiria Koloutsou-Vakakis, Research Scientist and Lecturer

• Susan M. Larson, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering. Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1988.  Aerosol physics and optics, air quality modeling, air sampling. Courses: CEE445, CEE545.
  
  Wen-Tso Liu, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering. Ph.D. in Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1995. Environmental microbiology, water and wastewater microbiology, microbial ecology, environmental biotechnology and nanotechnology, and microbial genomics.
  
  
• Benito J. Mariñas, Professor of Environmental Engineering. Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1988. Disinfection, photocatalysis, reverse osmosis, corrosion. Courses: CEE437, CEE 449, CEE537.
  
  
• Barbara S. Minsker, Associate Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering. Ph.D. in Environmental Systems Engineering, Cornell University, 1995.  Environmental systems analysis, risk and uncertainty in decision making, optimization, machine learning, ground water monitoring and remediation design. Courses: CEE201, CEE434, CEE498BSM, CEE535 , CEE598OS.
  


• Thanh H. (Helen) Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2005. Environmental biointerface, pathogen removal for water treatment, fate and transport of antibiotic resistance gene in soil environments. Courses:
  
• Shaoying Shawn Qi, Laboratory Manager. Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992. Water quality control: adsorption theories and applications, chemical and biological reactions, particle transport and separations.
  
  
• Mark J. Rood, Ivan Racheff Professor of Environmental Engineering.  Ph.D. in Air Quality Engineering, University of Washington, 1985.  Ambient air quality, air quality control technology, aerosol chemistry, and aerosol sampling techniques. Courses: CEE446, CEE546.
  
  
• Massoud Rostam-Abadi, Senior Chemical Engineer, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability; Adjunct Professor of Environmental Engineering (Environmental Engineering Affiliate).  Development and application of carbon- and calcium-based sorbents for pollution control, combustion generated air pollution, adsorption, and gas-solid reactions.
  


• Timothy Strathmann, Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering. Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2001. Environmental chemistry, catalysis of contaminant degradation, sorption and speciation at mineral-water interfaces, metal-microbe interactions, photocatalyzed degradation of micropollutants. Current Courses: CEE443 CEE598EC, CEE437.



• Deborah L. Thurston, Professor of General Engineering, of Civil Engineering, and of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.  Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987.  Pollution prevention, environmentally conscious design and manufacturing, normative decision making, multiattribute utility analysis, multiobjective optimization, tradeoffs under uncertainty and risk and design theory and methodology. Courses: GE330, GE331, GE 530.
  
  
• Albert J. Valocchi, Professor of Civil Engineering.  Groundwater hydrology, groundwater contamination, mathematical modeling of reactive pollutant transport in porous media. Courses: CEE457, CEE557.
  
  
• Charles Werth, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering.  Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 1996.  Adsorption of organic compounds, mass transfer of organic chemicals in porous media, nonaqueous phase liquid entrapment and dissolution, hazardous waste remediation, soil and sediment characterization. Courses: CEE440, CEE540.
  
  
• Julie L. Zilles, Research Scientist/Lecturer. Ph.D. in Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1999. Biological wastewater treatment, environmental microbiology, antibiotic resistance, microbial physiology. CEE 444

Emeritus Faculty:

• Ben B. Ewing, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Engineering. Ph.D. in Sanitary Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1959, water quality engineering, water quality management. E-mail Ben_B_Ewing@msn.com

• Richard A. Larson, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Chemistry, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (Affiliate in Environmental Engineering). Environmental organic chemistry of water and wastewater treatment, photochemistry and phototoxicity.
  
  
• Jon C. Liebman, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Engineering.  Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 1965. Environmental systems analysis, civil engineering systems.
  
  
• Roger A. Minear, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Chemistry. Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1971. Environmental analytical chemistry, water and wastewater treatment process chemistry, chemical limnology.
  
  
• John T. Pfeffer, Professor Emeritus of Sanitary Engineering. Ph.D., University of Florida, 1962. Biological wastewater treatment processes, processing and disposal of solid wastes.

• Vernon L. Snoeyink, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Engineering.  Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering, University of Michigan, 1968.  Physicochemical processes, drinking water and wastewater treatment, adsorption of organic compounds and metal ions, activated carbon regeneration, corrosion control.