This is a listing of faculty members at Virginia universities that specialize in water resources. If you would like to have your name added to this list, please contact the Water Center staff at water@vt.edu. Faculty may also be added to our email distribution list by contacting Kevin McGuire.
| Faculty Name | Department/University | Research Interests |
| Changwoo Ahn cahn@gmu.edu | Environmental Science and Policy/George Mason University | Wetland ecosystem ecology, ecological engineering, wetland creation and restoration |
| George Allen geoallen@vt.edu | Geosciences/Virginia Tech | Remote sensing of hydrology, limnology, surface water resources, fluvial geomorphology |
| Paul Angermeier biota@vt.edu | Fish and Wildlife Conservation/Virginia Tech | Ecology and conservation of fishes, ecosystem services provided by watersheds, use of biotic communities to assess water quality |
| Mike Aust waust@vt.edu | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation/Virginia Tech | Effects of forestry best management practices (BMPs) on water quality, riparian forests and water quality, management of forested wetlands |
| Brian Badgley badgley@vt.edu | School of Plan and Environmental Sciences/Virginia Tech | Fate and transport of microbial contaminants, aquatic microbial ecology, biogeochemistry |
| Natasha Bell natashabell@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Ecological engineering, treatment wetlands, water quality, wastewater treatment |
| Elinor Benami elinor@vt.edu | Agricultural & Applied Economics/Virginia Tech | Water resource monitoring/drought early warning, encouraging compliance with water regulations, evaluating welfare impacts of water-related insurance programs (e.g., drought, flood) |
| Fred Benfield benfield@vt.edu | Biological Sciences/Virginia Tech | Stream ecology |
| Brian Benham benham@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Nonpoint source pollution control, watershed modeling, household quality |
| Gregory Boardman gboard@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Industrial waste treatment, water and wastewater treatment, environmental toxicology, aquaculture |
| Dean R. Bork drbork@vt.edu | Landscape Architecture/Virginia Tech | Watershed sensitive site design/planning, low impact development, stormwater management |
| Darrell Bosch bosch@vt.edu | Agricultural and Applied Economics/Virginia Tech | Water quality, cost, economic incentives |
| Brian Brown stonefly@vt.edu | Biological Sciences/Virginia Tech | Aquatic community ecology, river network structure, benthic macroinvertebrates, crayfish |
| Paul A. Bukaveckas pabukaveckas@vcu.edu | Center for Environmental Studies/Virginia Commonwealth University | Harmful algal blooms, nutrient cycling, rivers |
| Tom Burbey tjburbey@vt.edu | Geosciences/Virginia Tech | Hydrogeology, aquifer mechanics, land subsidence |
| Karen Bushaw-Newton kbushaw@nvcc.edu | Biology and Natural Sciences/Northern Virginia community College | Aquatic microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, stream restoration and dam removal |
| Ryan Calder rsdc@vt.edu | Population Health Sciences/Virginia Tech | Water quality, environmental modeling, environmental policy, decision analysis, risk analysis, exposure assessment. |
| Cayelan Carey cayelan@vt.edu | Biological Sciences/ Virginia Tech | Limnology, lake and reservoir ecology, water quality, biogeochemistry, plankton, diatoms |
| Frederick Cheng frederick.cheng@virginia.edu | Environmental Sciences/University of Virginia | Ecohydrology, nutrient biogeochemistry, environmental modeling, nature-based solutions for water quality issues |
| Julia Cisneros cisneros@vt.edu | Geosciences/ Virginia Tech | Fluvial Geomorphology, Sedimentology, Sediment Transport, Morphodynamics |
| Kelly Cobourn kellyc13@vt.edu | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation/ Virginia Tech | Water resource economics, water rights, management of surface water and groundwater, irrigation |
| Alasdair Cohen agcohen@vt.edu | Population Health Sciences/Virginia Tech | Drinking water, rural health, environmental epidemiology |
| Bernard J. Cosby bjc4a@virginia.edu | Environmental Sciences/ University of Virginia | Biogeochemistry, environmental modeling, catchment science |
| William Cox cox@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Water law, water resources planning, water policy |
| Jonathan A. Czuba jczuba@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering /Virginia Tech | River/floodplain morphodynamics, river hydraulics, sediment transport, dam removal, watershed modeling |
| W. Lee Daniels wdaniels@vt.edu | Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences/Virginia Tech | Mining impacts on water quality, wetland creation and restoration, land application of wastes, water quality |
| Brenda Davy bdavy@vt.edu | Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise/Virginia Tech | Water and beverage intake, dietary assessment, obesity prevention and treatment |
| Kevin P. Davy kdavy@vt.edu | Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise/Virginia Tech | Investigating the role of water and beverage consumption in obesity prevention and treatment, and assessing beverage intake patterns |
| Andrea Dietrich andread@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Water quality and water treatment, sensory analysis of odorous compounds |
| Paul A. Dirmeyer pdirmeye@gmu.edu | Dept. of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences/George Mason University | Land-atmosphere interaction, global water and energy cycles, numerical modeling, water and climate |
| Randel Dymond dymond@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Sustainable land development, urban stormwater quality and quantity, geographic information systems |
| Zachary Easton zeaston@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Hydrology, water quality, watershed modeling |
| Dwayne Edwards dredwards@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Surface hydrology, statistical characterization, modeling and monitoring |
| Marc Edwards edwardsm@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Corrosion, aquatic chemistry, engineering ethics |
| Drew Ellis awellis@vt.edu | Geography/Virginia Tech | Hydroclimatic variability and change, drought, water resource sustainability |
| Sally Entrekin sallye@vt.edu | Entomology/Virginia Tech | Aquatic entomology, restoration, and food webs |
| Luis Escobar escobar1@vt.edu | Fish and Wildlife Conservation/Virginia Tech | Aquatic invasive species in fresh and sea waters, climate change coastal ecosystem health, epidemiology and ecology of water-borne pathogens |
| Joseph O. Falkinham, III jofiii@vt.edu | Biological Sciences/Virginia Tech | Epidemiology and ecology of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Role of bacteria in Mn-cycling in water distribution systems |
| Hosein Foroutan hosein@vt.edu | Civil & Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Emerging pollutants in environmental flow systems, air-water and sediment-water interactions, computational fluid dynamics |
| Kirin Emlet Furst kfurst@gmu.edu | Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering/George Mason University | Water treatment, wastewater reuse, drinking water policy, exposure risk assessment, fate and transport of emerging contaminants |
| Eranga Galappaththi eranga@vt.edu | Geography/Virginia Tech | Indigenous knowledge systems, social-ecological systems, water resource governance |
| Daniel Gallagher dang@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Environmental statistics and data analysis, risk assessment, food safety, environmental modeling and simulation |
| JP Gannon jpgannon@vt.edu | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation/Virginia Tech | Streamflow generation, catchment hydrology, hydrology teaching |
| Joseph Garcia garciaje@longwood.edu | Biological and Environmental Sciences/ Longwood University | Human impacts on fluvial systems, historical Piedmont erosion, fluvial geomorphology and statigraphy |
| Raj GC rajgc@vt.edu | School of Public and International Affairs/Virginia Tech | Multiple-use water services (MUS), water security and sanitation, sustainable rural water supply, water policy and governance, water-food nexus |
| Adil Godrej agodrej@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Environmental modeling and simulation, nonpoint pollution monitoring and control |
| Stan Grant stanleyg@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Pollutant fate and transport modeling, river and coastal water quality, addressing environmental challenges through convergence research |
| Austin Gray austindg@vt.edu | Biological Sciences/Virginia Tech | Aquatic toxicology; occurrence, fate, and impact of emerging contaminants; aquatic microbial ecology, biogeochemistry |
| Ralph Hall rphall@vt.edu | School of Public and International Affairs/Virginia Tech | Multiple-use water services, sustainable WASH, human right to water |
| Conrad Heatwole heatwole@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Hydrology, watershed modeling, geospatial analysis |
| W. Cully Hession chession@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Channel morphology, sediment transport and fate, stream restoration |
| Erich Hester ehester@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering /Virginia Tech | Stream and river hydraulics, ecosystem restoration, water quality |
| Margaret Anne Hinkle hinklem@wlu.edu | Earth and Environmental Geosciences/ Washington and Lee University | Water quality, biogeochemistry, mining remediation, contaminant fate and transport (metals and emerging contaminants) |
| Erin R. Hotchkiss ehotchkiss@vt.edu | Biological Sciences/Virginia Tech | Stream and river ecology, limnology, biogeochemistry, water quality |
| Paul R. Houser phouser@gmu.edu | Geography and Geoinformation Sciences/George Mason University | Land surface-atmospheric remote sensing, in-situ simulation, hydrologic data assimilation, global water and energy cycling |
| Luke Juran ljuran@vt.edu | Geography/ Virginia Tech | Sustainable water-resources management; household water-treatment and safe storage; hydro-social cycle; water–hazards interface; human-nature interactions |
| Yanghui Kang yanghuikang@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystems, land-atmosphere interactions, nature-based climate solutions |
| Anuj Karpatne karpatne@vt.edu | Computer Science/Virginia Tech | Combining process-based models with machine learning, scientific knowledge-guided machine learning, improving robustness and generalization of machine learning in water research |
| David Kibler kiblerdf@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Urban hydrology, stormwater management, flood forecasting, hydraulic structures |
| Ashleigh Kirker akirker@vt.edu | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation/Virginia Tech | Connections between headwater catchments, urban landscapes, and sediment legacies. Impacts of upstream land-use change on downstream water quality |
| Karen Kline klinek@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Water quality modeling, watershed management, TMDLs |
| William Knocke knocke@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Physical-chemical treatment of water and wastewater, chemistry of aquatic systems, sludge treatment and disposal |
| Leigh-Anne Krometis krometis@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Indicator bacteria, public health, rural drinking water |
| Yanna Lambrinidou yanna@vt.edu | Science and Technology Studies/Virginia Tech Northern Virginia Center | Lead in drinking water policy, science and engineering ethics, public participation in environmental science research |
| Theo Lim tclim@vt.edu | Urban Affairs and Planning/ Virginia Tech | Integrated land/water resource planning and management, green infrastructure, urban planning, environmental policy |
| Erin Ling ejling@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Private water supplies (wells, springs, and cisterns), drinking water and human health, behavior change and water quality impacts |
| John Little jcl@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Emissions from building materials, hypolimnetic oxygenation of stratified lakes and reservoirs |
| Landon Marston lmarston@vt.edu | Civil & Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Water use science / water footprint; water infrastructure; water governance; multiscale, complex human-water systems. |
| Christine May maycl@jmu.edu | Biology/James Madison University | Stream ecology, ecogeomorphology, ecohydrology |
| Karen McGlathery kjm4k@virginia.edu | Environmental Sciences/University of Virginia | Aquatic ecology, biogeochemical controls on estuarine nutrient dynamics, ecophysiology of algae and seagrasses, marine conservation and management. |
| Kevin McGuire kevin.mcguire@vt.edu | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation/Virginia Tech | Hydrology, watershed management, biogeochemistry |
| Daniel McLaughlin mclaugd@vt.edu | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation/Virginia Tech | Ecohydrology, wetland and stream processes, emerging environmental sensors, watershed hydrology, biogeomorphology |
| Meryl Mims mims@vt.edu | Biological Sciences/Virginia Tech | Conservation biology, species vulnerability to climate change, intermittent stream ecology, landscape genetics in freshwaters |
| Saied Mostaghimi smostagh@vt.edu | CALS Research/Virginia Tech | Nonpoint source pollution control, environmental impact assessment |
| Dave Muñoz davidmunozpauta@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Compound flood hazards, coastal to inland hydrodynamics, deep learning & data fusion |
| Don Orth dorth@vt.edu | Fish and Wildlife Conservation/Virginia Tech | Stream habitat management, environmental flows, fish population analysis |
| James Parkhurst jparkhur@vt.edu | Fish and Wildlife Conservation/Virginia Tech | Wetland ecology and management, wetland wildlife management, wetland creation and restoration |
| Jim Pease peasej@vt.edu | Agricultural and Applied Economics/Virginia Tech | Farm and watershed modeling, economics of best management practices, water policy |
| Ryan M. Pollyea rpollyea@vt.edu | Geosciences and Mining & Minerals Engineering/Virginia Tech | Geologic CO2 sequestration, injection-induced seismicity, numerical modeling |
| Amy Pruden-Bagchi apruden@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Applied environmental microbiology, antibiotic resistance, mine drainage remediation |
| Cliff Randall cliff@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Biological nutrient removal, eutrophication, industrial wastewater treatment, water pollution control |
| Megan Rippy mrippy@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Ecological engineering, green stormwater infrastructure, and freshwater salinization |
| Siddharth Saksena ssaksena@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Hydrologic modeling and flood forecasting, data science applications to water resources, land use and climate change impacts on water quantity/quality |
| David Sample dsample@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Stormwater management, modeling, design |
| Todd Scanlon tms2v@virginia.edu | Environmental Sciences /University of Virginia | Land-atmosphere interaction, catchment hydrology, ecohydrology |
| Stephen Schoenholtz schoenhs@vt.edu | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation/Virginia Tech | Forest hydrology, watershed management, water quality, biogeochemistry, soil science |
| Madeline Schreiber mschreib@vt.edu | Geosciences /Virginia Tech | Hydrology, geochemistry |
| Durelle Scott dscott@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Ecohydrology, biogeochemistry, water quality |
| Yang Shao yshao@vt.edu | Geography/Virginia Tech | Watershed modeling, geospatial analytics, and land use/cover change |
| Manoo Shirzaei shirzaei@vt.edu | Geosciences/Virginia Tech | Wetlands, groundwater, managed recharge, flow mechanics, flooding, and sea level rise |
| Julie Shortridge jshortridge@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Climate change adaptation, water infrastructure planning, disaster preparedness and impacts assessment, coupled natural-human systems |
| Sunil Sinha ssinha@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Water infrastructure systems, asset management, infrastructure rehabilitation, pipelines |
| James A. Smith jsmith@virginia.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/University of Virginia | Water, pathogens, nanosilver |
| Leonard Smock lsmock@vcu.edu | Biology/Virginia Commonwealth University | Stream and wetland ecology, macroinvertebrates, bioassessment |
| Venkat Sridhar vsri@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Climate change impact assessments, hydrological modeling, water management and decision support |
| Meredith Steele steelem@vt.edu | Crop and Soil Environmental Science/Virginia Tech | Water Quality and quantity, ecosystem services, urbanization, biogeochemical cycling |
| Morgan Steffen steffemm@jmu.edu | Biology Department / James Madison University | Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms, aquatic microbial communities, and -omics and systems biology |
| Kurt Stephenson kurts@vt.edu | Agricultural and Applied Economics/Virginia Tech | Water resource economics and policy, nutrient credit trading, stormwater management, incentives to reduce nutrient runoff |
| Ryan Stewart ryan.stewart@vt.edu | Crop and Soil Environmental Science/Virginia Tech | Critical zone processes, vadose zone hydrology, soil physics |
| Wendy Stout wstout@vt.edu | Center for Coastal Studies/VA Seafood AREC/VCE/ Fralin Life Science/Virginia Tech | Geospatial analysis, collaboration, outreach, and policy development for coastal resilience, coastal zone management, flood risk management, and sea level rise and subsidence |
| Brian D. Strahm brian.strahm@vt.edu | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation/Virginia Tech | Biogeochemistry, terrestrial-aquatic linkages, watershed management, soil science, nutrient dynamics |
| Kyle Strom strom@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering / Virginia Tech | River Mechanics, Environmental Hydraulics, Sediment Transport, Geomorphology, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, and Experimental Methods. |
| R. Quinn Thomas rqthomas@vt.edu | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation/Virginia Tech | Biogeochemistry, climate change, land-atmosphere interactions, ecosystem-climate feedbacks, modeling of ecosystems and Earth systems |
| Theresa Wynn Thompson tthompson@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Stream and wetland restoration, streambank erosion, urban stream systems |
| Peter J. Vikesland pvikes@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Effects of climate change; evaporation from water-limited soils; hydrology-soil-vegetation interactions in changing climate; stormwater, groundwater |
| Susanna Werth swerth@vt.edu | Department of Geosciences/Virginia Tech | Water cycle, water resources, temporally variable gravity field, surface deformation, climate change, modeling, signal processing |
| Richard Whittecar rwhittec@odu.edu | Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences/Old Dominion University | Wetland geology and hydrology |
| Mark A. Widdowson mwiddows@vt.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Virginia Tech | Groundwater modeling, contaminant transport, monitored natural attentuation, bioremediation, phytoremediaiton, hydrology and hydraulics |
| Mary Leigh Wolfe mlwolfe@vt.edu | Biological Systems Engineering/Virginia Tech | Hydrologic modeling, NPS pollution control, watershed management |
| Kang Xia kxia@vt.edu | School of Plant and Environmental Sciences/Virginia Tech | Environmental occurrence, fate, and impact of organic compounds including pesticides, emerging contaminants; Water treatment technologies, animal manure and biosolids best management |
| Jaewan Yoon jyoon@odu.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering/Old Dominion University | Meso- and macro-scale water quality in freshwater and estuarine domains |
| Wei Zhang wzb@vt.edu | Agricultural and Applied Economics/Virginia Tech | Agricultural water use, conservation programs, and water quality |
| Stephanie Zick sezick@vt.edu | Geography/Virginia Tech | Tropical meteorology & hurricanes precipitation, numerical weather prediction radar meteorology, shape analysis |
