Faculty
Tzahi Y. Cath, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno. Membrane processes for seawater and brackish water desalination and for wastewater reclamation and reuse; zero liquid discharge processes for enhancement of water recovery; optimization and energy recovery in water and wastewater treatment processes.
Ronald R. H. Cohen, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Virginia. Limnology; wetlands treatment of mine wastes; mining and land use; treatment systems for produced waters from petroleum operations; environmental site characterization and risk assessment.
Jörg E. Drewes, Associate Professor. Dr.-Ing., Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Water and wastewater treatment engineering; potable and non-potable water reuse; state-of-the-art characterization of natural and effluent organic matter; contaminant transfer among environmental media; fate of endocrine disrupting compounds and pharmaceuticals in natural and engineered systems.
Linda A. Figueroa, PE, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Colorado/Boulder. Microbially mediated radionuclide and metals removal, biotransformation of nitrogen, application of molecular tools, water and waste treatment.
Bruce D. Honeyman, Professor. Ph.D., Stanford University. Surface chemistry; environmental radiochemistry; metal-organic interactions; the physical/chemical processes controlling the fate of chemical species in natural and engineered systems.
Tissa H. Illangasekare, P.E., AMAX Distinguished Chair and Professor, Director, Center for the Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP). PhD, Colorado State University. Water flow and fate and transport of chemicals in porous and fractured media; groundwater hydrology; numerical modeling; hazardous waste and groundwater remediation; multiphase flow; operations research; conjunctive management of surface and groundwater; flow in snow; fracture flow and dam safety; intermediate scale testing of chemical transport in subsurface.
John McCray, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Arizona; Contaminant hydrology, subsurface remediation, vadose-zone hydrology, subsurface vapor-transport, watershed hydrology, mathematical modeling, soil-based wastewater treatment.
Junko Munakata Marr, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Stanford University. Biological degradation of organic compounds; microbial communities in groundwater and water treatment systems; application of molecular biology techniques to environmental systems.
Robert L. Siegrist, Ph.D., P.E., DEE. Division Director and Professor. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Environmental characterization and risk assessment; In situ remediation of contaminated land; Onsite wastewater reclamation and water reuse.
John R. Spear, Assistant Professor. PhD, Colorado School of Mines. Molecular microbial ecology; environmental microbiology in diverse environments; applied environmental microbiology (e.g., microbial biomass as a source of protein; biofuels); heavy metal and radionuclide bioremediation; application of advanced robotics for sample acquisition; environmental reclamation; environmental policy (land and water); and environmental impact analysis.
Emeritus Faculty
John C. Emerick, Emeritus Associate Professor, PhD, Colorado State University, Aquatic and wetland ecology, Environmental assessment, Watershed scale environmental analysis.
Philippe Ross, Professor. Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Aquatic Ecotoxicology, Contaminated Sediments, Metals Bioavailability, Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, Roadway Runoff, Plankton Ecology.
Adjunct Faculty
Frederico Cheever, Adjunct Professor, JD UCLA School of Law, Environmental Law, Land Conservation Transactions, Federal Wildlife Law, Property and Public Land Law.
Asimakis (Maki) P. Iatridis, Adjunct Professor. JD, New York University. Environmental law, environmental policy, and environmental remediation law.
Rock Pring, Adjunct Professor. JD, University of Michigan. Environmental law and environmental policy.
Paul Queneau, Adjunct Professor. Ph.D., P.E., University of Minnesota. Recycling and waste minimization; hazardous waste management.
Paddy Ryan, Adjunct Professor, PhD University of Canterbury, Environmental Biology, Aquatic Biology, Nature Photography, Marine Ecology.
George William (Jerry) Sherk, Associate Research Professor. D.Sc., George Washington; J.D., Denver. Environmental management/health; sustainable management/allocation of water resources; water-energy nexus; environmental/water law and policy. (CV-pdf)
Daniel Teitelbaum, Adjunct Professor. MD, Einstein College of Medicine. Environmental toxicology, human risk analysis.
Staff
Juanita Chuven, Administrative Assistant
Tim VanHaverbeke, Program Manager