WATER MANAGEMENT & HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCE
External Review
Water Management and Hydrological Science Graduate Program Self Study
October 2012
WATER MANAGEMENT & HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCE
External Review
Water Management and Hydrological Science Graduate Program Self Study
October 2012
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences College of Architecture College of Engineering College of Geosciences
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. INTRODUCTION 4 1.1 Welcome 1.2 Charge to the Review Team 2. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM 6 2.1 Texas A&M University 2.2 Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs 3. WMHS PROGRAM STRUCTURE 10 3.1 Program History 3.2 University Administration of WMHS Program 3.3 Administrative Structure of the WMHS Program 3.3.1 Executive Committee 3.3.2 Program Coordinator 3.4 Budget Allocations and Program Expenditures 4. THE WMHS GRADUATE PROGRAM 15 4.1 Admission Requirements and Procedures 4.2 The Curriculum 4.2.1 Master of Water Management (non-thesis) 4.2.2 Master of Science 4.2.3 Doctoral Degree 4.3 Designated Water Courses 5. WMHS STUDENTS 23 5.1 Program Enrollment Trends 5.2 Student Demographics 5.3 Student Publications and Presentations 5.4 Program Graduates 6. WMHS FACULTY 32 6.1 Faculty Teaching in WMHS Program 6.2 Faculty Advising 6.3 Faculty-Student Ratios 6.4 Research Funding for WMHS Program Faculty 6.5 Faculty Publications 6.6 Faculty Diversity 7. VISION, GOALS, AND ASSESSMENT 41 7.1 Texas A&M University Vision 2020 7.2 Strategic Plan/Program Assessment 7.2.1 WMHS Program Vision 7.2.2 WMHS Program Mission 7.2.3 WMHS Program Goals 7.3 Learning Outcomes 7.3.1 Outcomes for the Master of Water Management Degree 7.3.2 Outcomes for the Master of Science Degree 7.3.3 Outcomes for the Ph.D. Degree 7.4 Program Facilities 8. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES 49 8.1 Program Strengths 8.1.1 Faculty Expertise 8.1.2 Research Expertise 8.1.3 Curriculum 8.1.4 Quality of Students 8.1.5 Student Placement 8.1.6 Program Review by Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board 8.2 Program Weaknesses 8.2.1 External Program Visibility 8.2.2 Restrictive Funding of WMHS Student by Departments 8.2.3 Curriculum Weaknesses 8.2.4 Internal Program Identity 8.2.5 Lack of Student Office Space 8.2.6 Graduation Confusion 9. PLANS FOR THE NEXT 1-3 YEARS 54 9.1 Establish a WMHS External Advisory Committee 9.2 Seek to Establish Additional WMHS Endowed Scholarships 9.3 Establish On-Going Internships for WMHS students 10. APPENDICES 55 APPENDIX A Short Biographies of Water Faculty APPENDIX B Research Areas of Water Faculty APPENDIX C Characteristics of Texas Doctoral Programs APPENDIX D WMHS Recruitment Brochure EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This is the first external review of the Water Management and Hydrological Science (WMHS) program, and this document was prepared specifically for this purpose. Texas A&M University established in 2005 the interdisciplinary WMHS graduate degree program. Interdisciplinary faculty acting through an executive committee and program chair guide the program. The WMHS program currently comprises 57 faculty in 12 departments in the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Architecture, Engineering and Geosciences. Faculty who participate do double duty. Not only do they supervise and fund students in their respective departments, but they also supervise and fund students in the WMHS program. The WMHS program is structured to provide interdisciplinary breadth and disciplinary depth. Courses offered through the program provide students with an understanding of biophysical and social sciences, engineering, economics, finance and communication principles. The program offers three degrees: a Master of Water Management, a Master of Science and a Ph.D. The Master of Water Management is a non-thesis degree intended to provide professional graduate education emphasizing problem solving and technical skills for students who will manage public water systems and water resources. The Master of Science is a research-based thesis degree designed for students with technical backgrounds to complement their primary discipline by obtaining scientific, technical, or managerial expertise in water. The Ph.D. is a dissertation-based research degree designed to give students a comprehensive knowledge of water science and hydrology and provide training
Water Management and Hydrological Science 1 in methods of research. It is designed to prepare students for academic or research careers. Enrolment in the program continues to grow. Due to funding limitations, the program admits about 15 students a year. Overall, about 80% of the students have pursued the master’s degree and about 20% the doctorate. Most students are of domestic origin with nearly two-thirds from Texas. The master’s students are predominately U.S. citizens while the doctoral program reflects nearly an equal balance between domestic and international students. The international students that have enrolled in the program are truly diverse, hailing from 15 countries. The mission of the WMHS program is to educate the next generation of water managers and scientists. To date the program has succeeded. Of the 54 students who have graduated from the program, all but four are employed within the water industry. The master’s degree graduates are working in managerial, technical, educational, or science positions. Doctoral degree graduates are working in academic or research positions. Faculty who participate in the water program have exceptional publication and external funding records. Collectively, WMHS faculty members have generated approximately $125.4 million in external funding from competitive funding programs since 2005. The funds have supported robust research programs primarily in their respective departments, but they have also contributed greatly to WMHS graduate-student support. Although the program has been successful in preparing students for careers in the water industry, areas can always be improved. Funding from the Office of Graduate Studies has continued to increase, thus supporting more students. As financial resources from other areas become more limited, however, many departments will strongly encourage their faculty to offer research assistantships only to their students. There does not appear to be an easy solution to this issue, and the ultimate impact on the WMHS program remains uncertain. Another area of concern is the lack of office space for WMHS students. This problem has arisen because of increasing enrollment in the
2 Water Management and Hydrological Science program. Students in the WMHS program do not have the physical space for studying and research available to graduate students in departments, thus affecting the program’s recruiting efforts. Despite the financial limitations that all public universities face the WMHS program, through aggressive recruiting, higher visibility both on campus and off, and creative program offerings, should continue to grow and thrive. Issues to face are increasing visibility, private fundraising, and producing successful graduates to ensure that a degree in such a critical resource will become more sought after in succeeding years.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 3 1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Welcome Howdy. On behalf of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Faculty of Water Management and Hydrological Science (WMHS) Program the students and the entire Texas A&M University community, let me welcome you to Texas A&M University. This external review is a required periodic review of all Texas A&M University academic programs. The document provides an overview of the program, its history, faculty, students, curriculum, and our overall efforts at developing the next generation of water managers and scientists. We are honored you are serving on this review, and we value the experience you bring to the process. We look forward to your feedback as we strive for excellence. If you have questions prior to your visit to campus in November please let me know. Ronald Kaiser Chair, Graduate Water Program Professor of Water Law and Policy 409 k Agriculture and Life Sciences Building Phone: 979.845.5303 Cell: 979.268.1750 [email protected] 1.2 Charge to the Review Team Thank you for assisting us with continuous quality improvement of academic programs for the Water Management and Hydrological Science (WMHS) Interdisciplinary Graduate Program at Texas A&M University. The Academic Program Review (APR) to which you are contributing is part of a periodic review of all Texas A&M University academic programs. APR affords opportunity to assess the standards of our programs and to learn from review team members’ experiences with similar programs. In addition to the charge to the committee, this letter provides you with a brief overview of the WMHS graduate programs. The review team is charged with examining the programs listed in the chart below and making recommendations that we may use to inform continuous quality improvement processes. Resources that you will have for this assessment are a self-study to be completed by the Department, other materials that may be provided by the Department and our office, information you gain through personal interactions while visiting Texas A&M University, and any additional information that you request. Within the broad charge of informing continuous quality improvement are the following specific questions that we would like you to address: 1) While evaluating the program, please consider the resource context within which the program operates (both human and fiscal) and the absolute level of support the department receives from the university. Please comment on the
4 Water Management and Hydrological Science overall efficiency and effectiveness of the program’s use of these human and fiscal resources in pursuit of its mission. 2) Please address the following questions about assessment of learning outcomes: a) Has the program identified specific learning outcomes for its educational programs? b) Are these learning outcomes appropriate for this program. Please comment. c) Does the curriculum and instruction afford students opportunity to achieve the learning outcomes? d) Does the program have a written plan for assessment of its identified learning outcomes? Is that plan of acceptable quality? Are the metrics used for assessment appropriate and of acceptable quality? e) To what extent is the program successful in achieving its learning outcomes? f) Does the learning outcome assessment process inform continuous quality improvement? 3) Please share with us any strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to the current and future quality of each or all of these academic programs. 4) Please comment on the scope, efficacy, and desirability of current and potential collaboration of this department with other departments and groups, both on campus and off. 5) Please provide us your team’s judgment on the national ranking of this program, as a percentile rank. For example, is this program in the top 5% of programs in water management and hydrology science nationally? Top 10%? Top 50%? 6) Please address the program’s contributions to two guiding strategic initiatives developed by Texas A&M University. The first of these is a document developed in 1999, titled Vision 2020: Creating a Culture of Excellence, and identifies 12 specific areas of focus for Texas A&M’s future. The other is the more recent Action 2015: Education First, intended to build on our gains made since the inception of Vision 2020. Both documents may be referenced at http://provost.tamu.edu/strategic-planning-2010. Summaries of both documents will be provided upon your arrival at Texas A&M University.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 5 2. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
The Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) is one of the larger systems of higher education in the U.S. The System comprises 11 universities (Fig.1), seven state agencies, and a health science center. TAMUS educates more than 115,000 students and serves about 15 million Texans each year. With nearly 27,000 faculty and staff, TAMUS has a physical presence in 250 of the state’s 254 counties and a programmatic presence in every Texas county. TAMUS brings in more than $675 million annually in externally funded research helping to drive the state’s economy. Figure 1. The Texas A&M University System within the State
Texas A&M University - Commerce West Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University Texarkana
Texas A&M University Central Texas
Tartleton State University Prairie View A&M University
Texas A&M University San Antonio Texas A&M - Galveston
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi Texas A&M University - Texas A&M International University Kingsville
The Texas A&M University System consists of these components:: Universities Texas A&M University – College Station (flagship university) Texas A&M University at Galveston (branch) Texas A&M University at Qatar (branch in the Middle East) Prairie View A&M University Texas A&M University at Commerce Tarleton State University at Stephenville West Texas A&M University at Canyon
6 Water Management and Hydrological Science Texas A&M University at Kingsville Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi Texas A&M International University at Laredo Texas A&M University at Texarkana Texas A&M University Central Texas at Killeen Texas A&M University at San Antonio Texas A&M Health Science Center Agencies Texas A&M AgriLife Research Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service Texas A&M Forest Service Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory Texas A&M Transportation Institute 2.1 Texas A&M University On October 4, 1876, Texas A&M University started as Texas’ first public institution of higher learning. To date, the university has awarded more than 380,000 degrees. It is one of a select few academic institutions in the nation to hold triple federal designations as a Land-Grant, Sea-Grant and Space-Grant University. It offers more than 120 undergraduate degree programs and 240 master’s and Ph.D degree programs.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 7 Texas A&M University operates two branch campuses that award “Texas A&M University” degrees in Galveston and Qatar. The university also operates centers in Mexico, Costa Rica and Italy to facilitate education, research, and outreach. The annual research portfolio at the University is estimated to be in excess of $528 million, placing it among the top 20 universities nationwide. More than 80% of the 2,800 faculty members hold doctoral degrees. The faculty includes Nobel Prize, National Medal of Science, and Wolf Prize recipients. There are over two dozen faculty members who are members of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering or the Institute of Medicine. There are more than 50,000 Aggies currently enrolled on the main campus in College Station of which more than 9,000 are graduate students. Texas A&M University is the country’s sixth largest university in terms of student enrollment. It ranks among the top U.S. universities in attracting international students with more than 4,500 students from 120 countries. It consistently ranks among the country’s top 20 universities in terms of enrollment of National Merit Scholars. These are the 10 academic colleges at Texas A&M University: • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences • College of Architecture • Bush School of Government and Public Service • College of Education and Human Development • College of Geosciences • College of Liberal Arts • College of Science • College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences • Dwight Look College of Engineering • Mays Business School 2.2 Graduate Interdisciplinary Degree Programs At Texas A&M University, graduate degrees are awarded by traditional discipline-based academic departments, as well as by graduate interdisciplinary faculties. Graduate interdisciplinary faculties are relatively new to Texas A&M University with the earliest such faculty being officially recognized only in 1989. The formation of interdisciplinary faculties is primarily a faculty-driven process, created when faculty members and researchers from diverse academic departments who have overlapping programmatic interests come together to capitalize on their collective strengths. According to the University rules, an Interdisciplinary Degree Program (IDP) involves a group of faculty from more than one discipline representing single or multiple colleges, organized and administered for the purpose of enhancing research and scholarly activities and overseeing
8 Water Management and Hydrological Science graduate education for a degree program not offered in any existing academic unit. Approval of interdisciplinary degrees themselves is granted through the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Oversight of IDPs falls under the responsibility of the Council of Participating Deans, which consists of the deans of the colleges having faculty participating in the IDP, together with the Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost and Provost for Graduate Studies. Faculty participation in an IDP may be incorporated into promotion, tenure, and merit raise decisions based upon recommendations of the IDP. In addition, graduate degrees granted by IDPs are also subject to external review as part of the University’s commitment to academic excellence. Currently, there are 11 Interdisciplinary Degree Programs at the university level that are approved to offer graduate degrees by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. These are as follows: Interdisciplinary Degree Programs Masters Doctorate Agribusiness MAB Biotechnology MBIOT Engineering Systems Management MS (Online) Food Science and Technology MS Ph.D. Genetics MS Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering MS, ME Ph.D. Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences MS Ph.D. Neuroscience MS Ph.D. Nutrition MS Ph.D. Toxicology MS Ph.D. Water Management and Hydrological Science MS, MWM Ph.D.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 9 3. WMHS PROGRAM STRUCTURE
3.1 Program History In 2002 faculty in the Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, and Geosciences formed an ad hoc committee with the goal of establishing a new water degree program. From the onset, the committee was committed to developing a multidisciplinary degree. In 2003, the committee prepared the documentation necessary to offer three graduate degrees: a Ph.D., a Master of Science (thesis option), and a Master of Water Management (non-thesis option). Approval by the Faculty Senate, the Provost, President, Chancellor and Board of Regents was granted in 2004. In March of 2005, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board gave it final approval and in September 2005 the first students were admitted to the program. 3.2 University Administration of WMHS Program Interdisciplinary graduate programs, unlike conventional department-based programs, are a hybrid and rely on academic departments for administrative support staff, accounting, office space, and computer facilities. The level of support varies depending on the program and the department providing support. The current University administrative structure for managing IDPs, including the WMHS Program, requires that each IDP have a home dean who then reports to the Provost (Figure 3.2.). IDPs also report to the Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost for major policy issues. The WMHS Program is assigned to the College of Geosciences whose dean has overall responsibility of the program. Since its inception the WMHS
Figure 3.2. Administrative Structure for Interdisciplinary Degree Programs
10 Water Management and Hydrological Science program has been “housed” in the Department of Geography. The “home” department provides office space, part-time administrative support, and accounting functions. 3.3 Administrative Structure of the WMHS Program The Water Management and Hydrological Science (WMHS) Program is a partnership between the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Architecture, Engineering and Geoscience. The WMHS Faculty currently includes 57 members representing four colleges and 12 academic departments. The faculty is ultimately responsible for the program. Briefly, the WMHS faculty, through the Executive Committee, Program Chair, and Program Coordinator administers the program. Governance is by a five-member Executive Committee. The Executive Committee consists of four elected members, one each from the four academic colleges plus one at-large representative. The chair of the Executive Committee serves as the chair of the WMHS program. The Executive Committee and chair, coordinate the graduate program, review and accept applicants for admission, perform periodic curricula assessments, approve new courses for submission to the appropriate University Committees, make scholarship assignments and ensure a rigorous course of study for M.S. and Ph.D. candidates. Additional responsibilities include assessment of the learning objectives to improve curriculum and instruction, strengthen research and improve the overall effectiveness of graduate training. Executive Committee members are to serve for three years. However, in order to provide continuity through the formative years the current Executive Committee and Program Chair have remained in place. Participating Colleges and Departments College of Agriculture and Life Sciences • Agricultural Economics • Biological and Agricultural Engineering • Ecosystem Science and Management • Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences • Soil and Crop Sciences
Water Management and Hydrological Science 11 • Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences College of Architecture • Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning College of Engineering • Civil Engineering College of Geosciences • Atmospheric Sciences •Geography •Geology and Geophysics • Oceanography 3.3.1 Executive Committee The current members on the Executive Committee are:
Ronald Kaiser John (Rick) Giardino Ming Han Li Program Chair At Large College of Geosciences College of Architecture Professor, Recreation, Park and Tourism Department Head and Professor, Geology Associate Department Head and Sciences and Geophysics Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Patricia Smith Ralph Wurbs Rosario Sanchez Flores College of Agriculture and Life Sciences College of Engineering Program Coordinator Associate Professor, Biological and Professor, Civil Engineering Agricultural Engineering
12 Water Management and Hydrological Science 3.3.2 Program Coordinator Dr. Valeen Silvy was hired in 2005 as the program coordinator and served in this capacity until her death in 2011. Dr. Rosario Sanchez was hired in 2012 as program coordinator. She serves and assists the WMHS chair and the Executive Committee members. She manages day-to-day activities of the program, including, but not limited to advising graduate students, responding to inquiries, responding to emails from faculty and other Texas A&M personnel, drafting memos, letters, and other correspondence, and arranging seminars. She is also responsible for compiling and disseminating graduate applications for review by the faculty, correspondence with applicants, handling general graduate program inquiries, and compiling data for required reports. 3.4 Budget Allocations and Program Expenditures Funding for the WMHS program is provided by the Provost through the Office of Graduate Studies, by the College of Geosciences and by the Department of Geography. Funding for the last three years and the current year is presented in Table 3.4. Funds are used primarily for the Program Coordinator position and to support graduate students. In FYs 2010 and 2011, Dr. Valeen Silvy was the half-time program coordinator. After her death, the position was converted to a full-time position with the College of Geosciences contributing $16,000 for salary support. Graduate student support includes research assistantships, scholarships, tuition, and fee payments. Increasing the number of research assistantship has been achieved by offering to pay one half of the assistant’s cost with a participating faculty who will pay the other one-half cost. In addition a number of graduate students are supported by faculty through their research budgets, or through university fellowships, and this support is not included in the table.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 13 Most of our Master of Science students receive some degree of funding support either through scholarship, payment of fees, or research assistantships. Our doctoral students are primarily supported from research funds provided by the chair of their advisory committee. All of our doctoral students receive support. Table 3.4. WMHS Budget Allocation Source FY 2010 Coordinator Salary $35,000 Graduate Studies $74,400 Student support 39,400* Geography 3,000 Office expense 3,000 $77,400 $77,400
FY 2011 Coordinator Salary $35,000 Graduate studies $72,520 Student support 37,500 Geography 3,000 Office expense 3,000 $75,500 $75,500
FY 2012 Coordinator Salary 50,000** Graduate studies 82,950 Student support 59,950 Geoscience 28,000*** Office expense 3,000 Geography 3,000 New Computer 1,000 $113,950 $113,950
FY 2013 Coordinator Salary $50,700 Graduate studies $92,130 Student support 57,430 Geoscience 16,000 Office 3,000 Geography 3,000 $111,130 $111,130
* Student support includes assistantships, tuition and fee payments, scholarships and fellowships. ** Program Coordinator position converted to full time *** Includes $16,000 for the program coordinator position and $12,000 for fellowships and scholarships.
14 Water Management and Hydrological Science 4. THE WMHS GRADUATE PROGRAM
4.1 Admission Requirements and Procedures Admission to the WMHS program requires meeting all the Texas A&M University requirements and approval by the WMHS admissions committee. Grades earned during the applicant's entire college career are considered, and a satisfactory grade point average is required. All basic applications are filed electronically and transcripts and letters of reference are submitted to the Texas A&M Office of Admissions. Admission documents need to be submitted by the following dates: Domestic applicants by June 1 for the fall semester and November 1 for the spring semester. International applicants by May 1 for the fall semester and October 1 for the spring semester. GRE TAMU requires all applicants to submit a satisfactory General Record Exam score taken within the previous five years. The standard portions of the exam are required. To allow sufficient time for Texas A&M to receive scores, applicants should take the GRE by May to apply for fall admission and June for spring admission. Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) TAMU requires a satisfactory TOEFL score from within the last two years from applicants whose native language is not English. Exception is made for those applicants completing all four years of a baccalaureate degree in the United States or achieving a GRE Verbal score ≥ 400 (old format) or ≥ 146
Water Management and Hydrological Science 15 (new format). Official TOEFL scores should be sent to the TAMU Office of Admissions, code 6003. Letters of Recommendation Three recommendation letters are required and may be submitted electronically through the application system. Recommendations by research advisor(s) or professors are preferred. Interviews and Campus Visits Applicants may request an informational interview with faculty. Itineraries to meet faculty members and current graduate students can be arranged. Contact the WMHS Office for information. 4.2 The Curriculum The WMHS Program prepares graduates with an understanding of biophysical and social sciences, engineering, and communication through an interdisciplinary program of graduate courses. WMHS students may be associated with the home department of their advisor, but follow the WMHS degree plan, enrolling in classes offered by WMHS and by participating departments. The WMHS degree programs adhere to an interdisciplinary format that crosses traditional departmental boundaries to provide students with technical courses and access to state-of-the-art research facilities where students gain practical, hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge. Students applying for the master’s degree have until the start of the second semester to select a graduate chair and advisory committee. During the first semester all master’s students should consult with the program chair or program coordinator to identify a graduate chair and committee. The student’s advisory committee for the master’s degree will consist of no fewer than three members, two of whom must be members of the graduate WMHS faculty. At least one or more of the members must be from a department other than the student’s chair but all three may be on the water faculty. 4.2.1 Master of Water Management (non-thesis) This degree is intended to provide professional graduate education emphasizing problem solving and technical skills for students who will manage public water systems and water resources. The curriculum is structured but flexible enabling students, with the guidance of an advisory committee to design courses of study that are in accord with their career objectives. Required Water Courses (8 hours) WMHS 601 Applications and Problems in Hydrological Sciences WMHS 602 Contemporary Issues in Water Resources WMHS 681 Seminar-- 2 credit hours.
16 Water Management and Hydrological Science Common Body of Knowledge Water Courses (12 hours) RENR 662: Environmental Law and Policy AGEC 604: Natural Resource Economics or AGEC 606 Water Resource Economics CVEN 664: Water Resources Engineering, Planning Management GEOG 626: Fluvial Geomorphology or GEOL 410 Hydrogeology Designated Water Courses (12 hours) Free Electives (4 hours) No more than 4 credits of 400-level, or graduate courses 36 total hours required for degree 4.2.2 Master of Science The degree is designed for students with technical backgrounds to complement their primary discipline by obtaining scientific, technical, or managerial expertise in water. In addition to the water courses, students are required to take a research methods class and a statistics class from the designated list. Required Water Courses (8 hours) WMHS 601: Applications and Problems in Hydrological Science WMHS 602: Contemporary Issues in Water Resources WMHS 681: Seminar (2 credit hours) Required Statistics and Research Methods Courses (3 hours) Courses from Designated Water Courses list Designated Water Courses (15 hours) Research Hours (6 hours) Up to 6 credit hours for thesis research 32 total hours required for degree
Water Management and Hydrological Science 17 4.2.3 Doctoral Degree This degree is designed to give students a comprehensive knowledge of water science and hydrology and provide training in methods of research. Students will work with their chairs and the advisory committee to develop a course of study satisfying the curriculum. Students who have not taken graduate courses in statistics and research methods will be required to take one research methods course and two statistics courses from the designated list. Students applying for the Ph.D. degree program must have identified a graduate committee chair from the WMHS faculty who has agreed to serve in that capacity before they can be admitted to the WMHS program. The students’ advisory committee for the doctoral degree will consist of no fewer than four members, three of which must be members of the WMHS faculty. At least one or more of the members must be from a department other than the student’s chair but all four may be on the water faculty. Required Water Courses (9 hours) WMHS 601: Applications and Problems in Hydrological Science WMHS 602: Contemporary Issues in Water Resources WMHS 681: Seminar Required Statistics and Research Methods Courses (9 hours) Courses from Designated Water Courses list Designated Water Courses (22–25 hours) Free Electives (3–6 hours) Research Hours (21–28 hours) 64 total hours required for degree, if student enters with a master's degree. 4.3 Designated Water Courses These courses, listed by subject area, are intended to strengthen a student’s background in one or more areas. Students will take specialized courses drawn from a menu of water-related disciplinary courses. These designated electives give students the opportunity to tailor their specialized coursework in order to meet their career goals. Aquatic and Estuary Systems WFSC 611: Estuarine Ecology OCEN/WFSC 629: Lower Foodweb Dynamics of Aquatic Ecosystems OCEN 649: Estuarine Biogeochemistry OCEN/WFSC 650: Aquatic Microbial Ecology Climate ATMO 601 Fundamentals of Atmospheric Dynamics ATMO 629 Climate Change ATMO 631 Climate Modeling
18 Water Management and Hydrological Science Groundwater Hydrology and Modeling BAEN 674: Vadose Zone Hydrology CVEN 674: Groundwater Engineering GEOL 610: Field Methods in Hydrogeology GEOL 621: Contaminant Hydrogeology GEOL 625: Applied Groundwater Modeling SCSC 605: Pedology SCSC 650: Mode of Action and Environmental Fate of Herbicides Management ACCT 640: Accounting Concepts and Procedures I CVEN 603: Environmental Engineering Management FINC 635: Financial Management for Non-Business MGMT 655: Survey of Management MRKT 621: Survey of Marketing POLS 643: Theory and Practice of Public Administration POLS 645: Politics, Policy, and Administration PSAA 673: Conflict Resolution in Public Management WFSC 604: Systems Analysis and Simulation in Ecology and Natural Resource Management
Water Management and Hydrological Science 19 Planning GEOG 619: Human Impact on the Environment PLAN 616: Analyzing Risk/Hazard and Public Policy PLAN 620: Dispute Resolution in Planning PLAN 641: Problems of Environmental Planning Administration PLAN 647: Disaster Recovery and Hazard Mitigation PLAN 669: Urban Infrastructure Planning Statistics and Research Methods BAEN: 662 Statistical Methods in Biological and Agricultural Engineering STAT 601: Statistical Analysis STAT 651: Statistics in Research STAT 652: Statistics in Research II STAT 653: Statistics in Research III Research Methods AGEC 607: Research Methodology BUSH 631: Quantitative Methods in Public Management I CVEN 661: Research Methods for Engineers GEOG 611: Geographical Research Design SOCI 623: Measurement of Sociological Parameters EPSY 636: Techniques of Research PLAN 604: Planning Methods I WFSC 609: Wildlife Research Methods Surface Water Courses AGRO 611: Introduction to Environmental Biophysics BAEN 667: Entropy Theory in Water and Environmental Engineering BAEN 672: Small Watershed Hydrology BAEN 673: Modeling Small Watersheds CVEN 627: Engineering Surface Water Hydrology CVEN 628: Advanced Hydraulic Engineering CVEN 675: Stochastic Hydrology CVEN 664: Water Resources Engineering Planning and Management CVEN 665: Water Resources Systems Engineering ESSM 623: Ecohydrology ESSM 636: Range and Forest Watershed Management GEOG 626: Fluvial Geomorphology GEOL 633: River Restoration GEOL 631: Engineering Geomorphology GEOL 635: Engineering Geology SCSC 615: Reclamation of Drastically Disturbed Lands SCSC 658: Watershed and Water Quality Management Water and Environmental Quality BAEN 669: Water Quality Engineering CVEN 604: Environmental Analysis of Treatment Systems
20 Water Management and Hydrological Science CVEN 605:Environmental Measurement CVEN 609: Environmental Control of Oil and Hazardous Materials Spills CVEN 682: Environmental Remediation of Contaminated Sites GEOL 621: Contaminant Hydrology GEOL 641: Environmental Geochemistry SCSC 615: Reclamation of Drastically Disturbed Lands SCSC 637: Environmental Microbiology SCSC 650: Mode of Action and Environmental Fate of Herbicides SCSC 658: Watershed and Water Quality Management GEOL/WMHS 689: Geochemistry of Natural Waters Water, Economics, Law, and Policy AGEC 604: Natural Resource Economics AGEC 605: Water Resource Economics AGEC 659: Ecological Economics
Water Management and Hydrological Science 21 CVEN 664: Water Resources Engineering Planning and Management OCNG 676: Marine Environmental Policy: A Survey PSAA 606: Environmental Policy and Management PSAA 622: Public Finance PSAA 673: Conflict Resolution in Public Management RENR 660: Environmental Impact Analysis for Renewable Natural Resources RENR 662: Water and Environmental Law Water Informatics and Geographic Information Systems BAEN/FRSC 651: Geographic Information Systems BAEN/FRSC 652: Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Systems CVEN 658: Civil Engineering Applications of GIS GEOG 651: Remote Sensing for Geographical Analysis GEOG 660: Applications in GIS GEOG 661: Digital Image Processing and Analysis GEOG 665: GIS-Based Spatial Analysis and Modeling GEOG 695: Frontiers in Geographic Information Science PLAN 625: Geographical Information Systems in Landscape and Urban Planning PLAN 626: Advanced GIS in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Wetlands ESSM 628: Wetland Delineation ESSM 633: Wetland Plant Taxonomy ESSM 631: Ecological Restoration of Wetland and Riparian Systems WFSC/OCEN 629: Lower Food Web Dynamics of Aquatic Ecosystems OCEN 649: Estuarine Biogeochemistry WFSC 611: Estuarine Ecology WFSC 628: Wetland Ecology WFSC/OCEN 650: Aquatic Microbial Ecology
22 Water Management and Hydrological Science 5. WMHS STUDENTS
5.1 Program Enrollment Trends Since its 2005 inception total annual enrollment in the program continues to grow (Figure 5.1.). One hundred and twenty-four students have enrolled in the program. Although enrollment varies from year to year (See Table 5.1) an average 15 students join the program each year. Application-to- acceptance ratios average about 3 to 1, and more than two-thirds of the students who are accepted enroll. Many of our applicants apply to more than one school, and those who are accepted but don’t enroll usually do so based on a better financial aid package from another school. Figure 5.1 Total annual enrollment
Table 5.1 Number of students entering program by academic year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 MS7 3 6 7 7128 MWM332104774 Ph.D.38 47372 Total 13 11 5 20 18 17 26 14 Grand total 124 Overall student retention has not been a major issue. Of course, we would like to have a 100 percent retention rate, but that is difficult. Of the 90 master’s degree students only eight have not completed the program. Most left for personal, financial, or career change reasons. Four of the 34 doctoral students who enrolled in the program left for similar reasons.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 23 5.2 Student Demographics Master’s degree students comprise nearly three-quarters of total enrollment with about an equal number selecting either a thesis or non-thesis masters option. This balance between master’s and doctoral students reflects the reality of the job market in the water industry and academia. Figure 5.2 Enrollment by degrees sought
From a gender perspective about 60 percent of the students are male and 40 percent female. This ratio is fairly consistent in the master’s and doctoral degree programs and in the years of admission (see Figure 5.2.1 and Table 5.2.
Figure 5.2.1. Gender comparisons by year of admission
WMHS Students Annual Enrollment 18
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24 Water Management and Hydrological Science Table 5.2 Gender comparisons by year of admission and degree Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Masters Female 3 2 4 4 3 4 6 Male4 123482 Total 50 7 3 6 7 7 12 8 MWM Female 2 4 3 1 Male31264743 Total 40332104774 Doctoral Female 2 3 1 1 3 Male15 46242 Total 3438 47372 Students/year 13115 2018172614 Grand Total 124
Most of our students are of domestic origin (Figure 5.2.2). Ninety-one students are U.S. citizens and 33 students are international. Nearly two- thirds of our domestic students are from Texas. Our master’s students are predominately U.S. citizens while our doctoral program reflects nearly an equal balance between domestic and international students. Our international students are truly diverse hailing from some 15 different countries (Figure 5.2.3 and Table 5.2.1). Figure 5.2.2 Country of origin
Water Management and Hydrological Science 25 Figure 5.2.3 Country of origin for international students
Table 5.2.1 Number of students by country of origin 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Arab Emirates 1 China 1 2 2 2 Egypt 1 India 1 1 1 1 1 Iran 1 Jamaica 1 1 Jordan 1 1 Korea 3 1 Mauritius 1 Mexico 1 1 Nepal 1 Panama 1 South Africa 1 Taiwan 1 1 1 Uzbekistan 1 Total Inter.27126465 USA 114 4181213209 Grand total 13 11 5 20 18 17 26 14 5.3 Student Publications and Presentations The Program has not maintained a cumulative total on the number of WMHS student publications and presentations. However, over the last two years, as part of the student learning objectives listed in Section 7.3 on page 44, we have identified publication and presentation objectives for our
26 Water Management and Hydrological Science master’s and doctoral students. The master of water management degree has a learning objective that at least 50% of the graduates will have made a presentation or presented a poster at a professional or academic meeting. Over the last two years this objective has been achieved. The master of science objective is that at least 50% of the graduates will have prepared or submitted a research article by the time they graduate. Over the last two years this objective has also been achieved. Ph.D. students are expected to submit or publish one refereed article by the time they graduate. One doctoral student has graduated from the program over the last two years and she published 5 journal articles. 5.4 Program Graduates Our mission is to “prepare the next generation of water scientists, hydrologists, and managers through teaching and research that improves the reliability and quality of water resources for human well-being and development.” A metric of our success in meeting this mission is how many students we place in the water industry. We are clearly achieving our mission as 50 of 54 graduates (as shown in Table 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.4.3) are working in some sector of the water industry. On average Master of Water Management students graduate in 2 years, Master of Science in 2.5 years and doctoral students graduate in 5 years. The program has accepted 2 Fulbright scholarship students and they have taken 7 years to finish their degrees. As indicated in Table 5.4 the number of students graduating each year is increasing as our enrollment increases. Over the last four years an average of 10 master’s level students have graduated each year. The program averages one doctoral graduate per year.
Table 5.4 WMHS graduates per year 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012* Total MWM 032776227 MS 131225620 Ph.D. 11112017 Total 2 7 4101111954
* Only includes graduates through August 31, 2012
Our Master of Science students are working in research or managerial positions at water agencies or have continued their academic education. The Master of Water Management students are generally found in management and consulting positions at public agencies of the state of Texas and consulting companies. Our doctoral students are concentrated in the academic and research sectors in the United States. This fact offers a solid foundation of the water program degree options considering the job market demand of water managers and water experts as well as updated research and consulting profiles.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 27 Table 5.4.1 Employment of WMHS M.S. students
Master of Science First Enter Last Name Class Title Employer Name Project Manager/ Texas Water F 05 Gregory Lucas 2006 Ph.D. Student Resources Institute WMHS Program Ph.D. Candidate Ireland- F 05 Kati 2007 University of North KBA EnviroScience Stoddard Texas Water Resource North Carolina Rural F 05 Kelly Vanessa 2007 Specialist Water Association F 05 Meier Megan 2008 Family Rearing F 05 Rice Jeremy 2007 Hydrologist Freese & Nichols Inc. U.S Forest Services, F 07 Bazan Bobby 2010 Hydrologist Colorado F 08 Hewitt Natalie 2011 Project Manager Waste Management F 08 Hoff Aaron 2012 Hydrologoist EPA F 08 Mato Diana 2011 Family Rearing Ph.D. Student F 08 Shannack Sa'd 2010 Texas A&M University WMHS Program New Tech Carr F 09 Bumgardner Marisa 2011 Staff Scientist Environmental Group, Inc. Water Resource Texas Agrilife F 09 Clayton Brent 2012 Specialist Extension Service Ph.D. Student F 09 Cui Huijuan 2012 Texas A&M University WMHS Program Jeremia Water Resource Texas Agrilife F 10 Bowling 2012 h Specialist Extension Service Harris County Special Projects F 10 Cioce Danielle 2012 Watershed Protection Technician Group Senior Program Millennium Challenge S 07 Rapier Richard 2009 Officer Corporation S 07 Rose-Harvey Keisha 2009 Family rearing Water Quality S 09 McCrary Jordan 2011 Private Consulting Specialist Ph.D. candidate in S 10 Huang Chi-Ying 2012 urban and regional Texas A&M University planning S 10 Watson Eliza 2011 unknown
28 Water Management and Hydrological Science Table 5.4.2 Employment of WMHS M.W.M. students
Master of Water Management (non-thesis) Texas A&M F 05 Barker Mark 2007 Water Superintendent University, Qatar San Antonio F 05 Bereyso Steven 2007 Project Specialist Water System Harris County Senior Environmental Public F 05 Russo Nicholas 2009 Manager Infrastructure Department F 06 Bernal Christina 2008 Unknown San Antonio F 06 Conner Adam 2008 Water Resources Planner Water System Assistant Manager of Municipal F 06 Haas Melissa 2007 Environmental Health, District Services Safety and Compliance Inc., Houston Post Oak Savannah Water Resource F 07 Gholson Drew 2009 Goundwater Specialist Conservation District Houston- Galveston Area F 07 Murray Jeffrey 2009 Water Planner Council of Governments Texas Soil and Water F 08 Alexander Ashley 2010 Project Manager Conservation Board Texas Water F 08 Berthold Troy 2010 Project Manager Resources Institute Bluebonnet Groundwater F 08 Holland Zach 2010 Executive Director Conservation District Texas Agrilife F 08 Miller Valerie 2009 Stormwater Specialist Extension Private F 08 Rodgers Lashundra 2012 Water Quality Specialist consulting F 08 Strickler Maxwell 2010 Hydrologist U.S. C.O.E. Aqua Water Engineering Project F 09 D'Souza James 2011 Supply Manager Corporation Apache F 10 Edwards Dean 2011 Wetlands specialist Ecological Services Transmission Services Lower Colorado F 10 Gardner Benjamin 2012 Department River Authority
Water Management and Hydrological Science 29 Master of Water Management (non-thesis) Ph.D. candidate in spatial University of F 10 Yin Huawei 2011 science Texas @ Dallas Water S 08 Coe William 2009 Sales Representive Equipment Supply Corp Texas Engineering S 08 Fisher James 2009 Water education director Extension Service Texas Soil and Director of Information Water S 08 Reeves David 2009 Technology Conservation Board Desert Research S 08 Regmi Kopelia 2010 GIS Water Modeler Institute Texas Agrilife S 09 Alldredge Blake 2010 Water resource specialist Extension Service Pollution S 09 Ohlendorf Clayton 2010 Water Quality Specialist Control Services Inc. Ph.D. candidate in American S 10 Howard Brian 2011 international water University in development Jordan Texas AgriLife Extension Program S 10 Roberts Galen 2011 Extension Specialist Service McCrometer S 10 Setzler Adam 2011 Irrigation specialist Irrigation Services
30 Water Management and Hydrological Science Table 5.4.3 Employment of WMHS Ph.D. students
Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University, Ecosystem F 05 McDonald Alyson 2010 Assistant Professor Science and Management Department University of Post doc at Lawrence F 06 Arora Bhavna 2012 California Liversmore lab Berkeley University of F 06 Harvey Omar 2010 Assistant professor Southern Mississippi NWAN F 06 Nwaneshiudu Oke 2007 Executive Director Consulting Group WMHS Program Texas A&M F 06 Sanchez Rosario 2009 Coordinator University Texas Bureau of S 05 Huang Yun 2006 Research Scientist Economic Geology S 06 Zhang Xuesong 2008 Research Scientist China
Water Management and Hydrological Science 31 6. WMHS FACULTY
Currently, 57 faculty from 12 departments in four colleges are in the WMHS program. For a short biography on current members see Appendix A. Faculty roles and participation in the program vary. Some faculty are involved in chairing or serving on graduate student committees, while others teach a designated water course and chair a student committee. A few faculty have moved to administrative positions but wish to remain on the faculty to serve as advisors. 6.1 Faculty Teaching in WMHS Program A significant percentage of faculty have been involved in teaching in the water program. Fifteen faculty from the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Engineering and Geosciences have been involved in teaching, or team teaching, in the two required WMHS courses. Forty-six faculty, or former faculty, have been involved in teaching one or more of the designated water courses.
32 Water Management and Hydrological Science 6.2 Faculty Advising University rules and those of the Water Program govern the formation of student advisory committees and degree plans. Students in the master’s degree program must select a graduate chair, form an advisory committee, and file their degree plan by the end of the second semester. Prior to forming their committee, the program chair or program coordinator provide all advising. A master’s degree advisory committee consists of no fewer than three members, two of which must be members of the WMHS faculty. The committee chair must be a member of the water faculty. Since 2010, the program chair serves as the advisory committee chair for all Master of Water Management students. This practice improved advising efficiency. Doctoral students must have identified a chair from the WMHS faculty who has agreed to serve in that capacity before they can be admitted to the program. However, students have until the end of their third semester to finalize their advisory committee and file their degree plan. Advisory committees for the doctoral degree will consist of no fewer than four members, three of whom must be members of the WMHS faculty. At least 24 different members of the WMHS faculty have chaired student committees and nearly all members of the faculty have served on a student committee. Table 6.2 is a list of current students and their committee chairs. The list does not include master’s students admitted in the spring or fall of 2012 because they are not required to select a chair until the end of their second semester. Table 6.2 Current chairs of WMHS students with degree plans Fall 2012 Degree Chair Current Students Adams Silas MWM Ronald Kaiser Aurora Bhvana Ph.D. Binayak Mohanty Baber Thomas Ph.D. Ralph Wurbs Bowling Jeremiah M R. Srinivasan Castillo Cesar MS Inci Guneralp Chavez Ramiro Ph.D. Francisco Olivera Clary Calvin MS Terry Gentry Cui Huijuan Ph.D. VJ Singh Gamache Kevin Ph.D. Rick Giardino Garcia Victor MS Ronald Kaiser Gerlich Ryan MWM Ronald Kaiser Govil Kritika MS Jacqui Peterson Gregory Lucas Ph.D. R. Karthikeyan Ha MiAe Ph.D. Clyde Munster Havlik Jessica MWM Ronald Kaiser Joshi Champa Ph.D. Binayak Mohanty Kamps Ray Ph.D. James Heilman
Water Management and Hydrological Science 33 Fall 2012 Degree Chair Khedun Prakash Ph.D. Giardino/Singh Kim Sungwon Ph.D. Hongbin Zhan Kuitu Michael MWM Ronald Kaiser Leigh Eric MS Ronald Kaiser Lewis Alan MS Quiring/Kaiser Litt Joshua MS Rick Giardino Liu Ying Ph.D. Hongbin Zhan Nations Jennifer MS Ronald Kaiser Patil Sandeep MS Stephen Quiring Potter Steven Ph.D. Brad Wilcox Russo Nick Ph.D. Smith/Jabar Sandwald Jaison MWM Ronald Kaiser Shannak Sa'd Ph.D. Patricia Smith Soviti Malixole Ph.D. Kaiser/Giardino Sweeney James Ph.D. Robin Autenrieth Torres Janet MS Jacqui Peterson Totten James Ph.D. Ronald Kaiser Tu Min-cheng Ph.D. Patricia Smith Webb Mathew MWM Ronald Kaiser 6.3 Faculty-Student Ratios Forty WMHS faculty teach a required or directed elective graduate water course in the program. The remaining 17 either do not teach a water course or because of their current appointment do not teach. Currently 56 students are enrolled in the program, hence the faculty to student ratio is nearly 1 to 1. 6.4 Research Funding for WMHS Program Faculty Faculty who participate in the water program have exceptional records not only in their publication records but also in receiving water-related external grants. Grants support students in their respective departments as well as students in the WMHS. Collectively, WMHS faculty members have generated approximately $125.4 million in external funding from competitive funding programs since 2005. The funds have supported robust research programs that helped steer the intellectual and scientific direction of the graduate program in addition to providing both financial support and research opportunities for students. The funding record reflects the commitment of Texas A&M University, as a Tier 1 Research Institution, to maintain highly productive research programs that help attract the world’s best faculty and graduate students. Figure 6.4 below shows the breakdown of funding by general research category. As might be expected, there is considerable overlap within these categories owing to the interdisciplinary nature of hydrologic research in general, and to the multiple disciplines represented by the Water Program faculty in particular. Figure 6.4 is intended to provide a qualitative view of
34 Water Management and Hydrological Science the faculty research emphasis areas. Many studies, for example, were carried out in coastal or wetland regions but were counted in other categories because their primary focus was not on coastal or wetland processes. Similarly, there were international dimensions of a significant number of research projects and a number of projects were funded by international sources, but relatively few studies were focused entirely on international locales. Also, while nearly every research project was related in some way to general water resources planning and management, we have tried to break them into more distinct categories for the purposes of clarification. Figure 6.4 Water faculty external funding in millions of dollars (2005-2012)
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Contaminants: Approximately $38.8 million in external funds have been secured for hydrologic studies that focus primarily on the origin, transport, and fate of contaminants in aquatic environments, including surface water, groundwater, soil water, and water vapor within the vegetative canopy zone. This included research focused on, for example: desalination, water recycling and reuse, development of drinking water treatment systems, biodegradation of contaminants, water quality restoration, microbial contaminants, site-specific monitoring and assessment, non-point source pollution, and the impact of industrial waste products on local and regional water quality. Funding for these programs came from, for example, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, state agencies such as the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Hazardous Waste Research Center, and individual municipalities. Informatics: Approximately $35.5 million in research funding was generated in the broad area of hydrologic informatics and geographic information system applications in hydrologic research and water resources planning
Water Management and Hydrological Science 35 and management. Included in this category are, for example: database analysis of hurricane-related issues, support for on-line data analysis, GIS- based modeling of hydrologic processes, mapping analysis tool development, and land-surface process studies. Funding sources include, for example: the Department of Homeland Security, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Agriculture, private industries, state agencies such as the Texas Water Development Board and the Texas Department of Transportation, and individual municipalities. Climate: WMHS faculty secured approximately $18.1 million in funding to study climate and climate change processes. The climate category is particularly broad and includes fundamental climate modeling, atmospheric process research, satellite precipitation monitoring, drought prediction and response, flooding and adaptive flood management, climate uncertainty and urban and agricultural water resources planning, impacts of climate change on water availability, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, and extreme climate and hydrologic events. The funding has come from the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The high level of funding in this category reflects the relative importance of climate and climate change to water planning in the State of Texas. Agriculture: The importance of agricultural water management in Texas cannot be overstated, and the funded research totaled approximately $9.3 million. The category includes research on, for example: irrigation efficiency, plant water use, plant and soil interactions, aquaculture, water sustainability in agriculture, the economic and societal dimensions of agricultural water planning and management, agricultural water conservation, and hydrologic implications of agricultural production for biofuels biomass. The principal funding agency, as might be expected, is the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Other sources of research funding include, for example, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, private industry, international organizations, the Department of Defense, and the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board. Modeling: The modeling category includes basic research on fundamental hydrologic processes, hydrologic model development for basins of interest, water and carbon cycle studies, global hydrologic processes, hydrogeochemical processes, watershed hydrology, surface and groundwater processes, soil and water interactions, and plant-soil-water interactions. Funded research totals approximately $8.32 million. The research included in this category spans a full range of scales in space and time as well as scaling processes and multi-scale processes. Funding sources include, for example: the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Interior, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Aeronautics and
36 Water Management and Hydrological Science Space Administration, the U.S. Department of Energy, and an array of state and local agencies, private industries, and foundations. Education: The WMHS faculty have been proactive in seeking funding to improve water education at all grade levels from kindergarten through postdoctoral research. Approximately $6.1 million in funds have been secured to support, for example, undergraduate research experiences, water education for pre-service and in-service educators in grades K through 12, high-impact educational activities such as international research experiences, graduate research fellowships, efforts to improve the diversity of the future water resources workforce, and special fellowships for interdisciplinary hydrologic study. Texas A&M participates in a nationwide network of universities funded by the National Science Foundation to improve teacher preparation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), including integrating the study of hydrologic processes into existing STEM curricula. In addition to the National Science Foundation, funding for these activities has come from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Action Council for Minorities, private industries, municipalities, and private foundations.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 37 Ecohydrology: Research on the interactions between water, vegetation, and natural areas is increasingly encompassed in the emerging field of ecohydrology. Faculty in the Water Program have generated approximately $4.2 million in research funding to support groundbreaking work in, for example, hydrology and rangeland processes, water and ecosystem services, environmental water demands, biological processes for stormwater quality improvement, algal blooms, and freshwater inflows to wetlands and coastal areas. The research is funded by, for example, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Interior, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Texas Department of Transportation. Management: Water management and planning is an inherent part of nearly every research program included in this report. For that reason, it could encompass most every research dollar generated by the WMHS faculty. However, studies specific to local and regional water planning and management are included in this category, and total approximately $3.83 million in secured funding. Examples include watershed management for the Trinity, Sabine, and San Antonio rivers, an audit of the San Antonio Water System, water audits and marketing for the City of College Station, planning studies for the City of Bryan, the impact of water trading systems on municipal water planning, municipal water demand in Texas, development of the Water Rights Analysis Package (water availability and allocation modeling tool), and watershed protection plans for specific basins of interest. Sources of funding include the Texas Soil and Water Conservation Board, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the National Science Foundation, the Texas Department of Agriculture, and the National Forest Service. International: Hydrologic research with a specific international focus includes, for example, successful sanitation habits in rural India, and the political ecology of sanitation habits in rural India. Funding, which totaled approximately $789,000, came from the National Science Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among others. Coastal: Projects that were wholly focused on coastal or wetland environments were funded at a level of approximately $571,000. Research included, for example, the assessment and prediction of coastal erosion and morphological changes in the Upper Texas Gulf Coast (funded by the Texas Board of Higher Education), coastal prairie wetland restoration in Sheldon Lake State Park (funded by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department), coastal resiliency tools for local officials (funded by the Texas Sea Grant College Program), and the assessment of coastal water resources and watershed conditions in and around the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve (funded by the National Park Service).
38 Water Management and Hydrological Science 6.5 Faculty Publications Collectively, the WMHS faculty have a prolific water publication record. Over the past 5-7 years they have produced more than 700 publications, including books, book chapters and journal articles. This is not a complete record of their career publications as faculty were requested, for purposes of this report, to limit their publication listing to two pages. Many faculty have CVs that are more than 50 pages and one has a 150-page CV. Very brief WMHS faculty CVs are listed in Appendix A. 6.6 Faculty Diversity Participation as a member of the WMHS program is a voluntary action of each faculty member assigned to an academic home department. The WMHS program does not make faculty hiring decisions and has no control over the Texas A&M University faculty diversity. Thus the WMHS faculty is a reflection of department hiring practices. The WMHS program supports University efforts to increase faculty diversity. A review of the WMHS faculty indicates: 13 members of international origin, 11 female members and 2 members of Hispanic origin. The WMHS faculty
Water Management and Hydrological Science 39 diverse intellectual teaching, research, and publication backgrounds are indicated in Appendix A and B.
40 Water Management and Hydrological Science 7. VISION, GOALS, AND ASSESSMENT
7.1 Texas A&M University Vision 2020 The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission (SACS) and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) assess the quality of Texas A&M University as a whole. In 1999, Texas A&M embarked upon a comprehensive evaluation and planning program to meet the SACS and THECB guidelines and with the aim of securing recognition as a consensus “Top 10” public university by the year 2020. The program known as “Vision 2020” (vision2020.tamu.edu) was intended to build upon Texas A&M’s tradition of excellence, while identifying areas requiring improvement and recommending necessary action, without sacrificing the core values upon which the university is solidly founded or its proud and unique heritage. The report, Vision 2020: Creating a Culture of Excellence, sets forth individual recommendations categorized into 12 “imperatives” relating to all aspects of Texas A&M and its relationships with students, faculty, staff, the community, and the state, nation, and world it proudly serves. In 2012, Vision 2020 was updated through a campus-wide process of internal assessment called the Academic Master Plan and a University strategic plan called Action 2015: Education First. The document identified a number of imperatives that the university will target over the next decade. Of relevance to this review is the commitment to graduate education. The 12 imperatives are: 1. Elevate the Faculty and their Teaching, Research, and Scholarship 2. Strengthen the Graduate Programs 3. Enhance the Undergraduate Academic Experience 4. Build the Letters, Arts, and Sciences Core 5. Build on the Tradition of Professional Education
Water Management and Hydrological Science 41 6. Diversify and Globalize the Texas A&M Community 7. Increase Access to Knowledge Resources 8. Enrich the Campus Environment 9. Build Community and Metropolitan Connections 10. Demand Enlightened Governance and Leadership 11. Attain Resource Parity with the Best Public Universities 12. Meet the Commitment to Texas
Imperative 2: Strengthen Graduate Programs In any view to the future, the challenges of solving complex problems are certain to require interdisciplinary work. It is critical that the University foster an adaptive culture that embraces and encourages interdisciplinary research while continuing to embrace and encourage individual research. We should encourage and foster individual faculty, teams of scholars and practicing professionals from multiple disciplines to cross structural boundaries and create strategic and operational partnerships. Our priority should be to advance the frontiers of knowledge in meeting increasingly complex societal challenges. ALIGNMENT OF WMHS PROGRAM WITH THIS IMPERATIVE: The interdisciplinary nature of the WMHS Program is congruent with and an outstanding example of Imperative 2. Imperative 12: Meet Our Commitment to Texas Texas A&M is a public, land-grant institution that prepares educated problem-solvers to lead the state. Texas A&M’s aspiration to be among the best public universities in the country resonates with this historical mandate. The diverse population of Texas should have access to the best public education in America without having to leave the state. To further fulfill our mission, Texas A&M should engage in partnership with communities, industry, non-profit organizations and government entities to help solve the most difficult societal problems while honoring its heritage of enhancing economic and social well-being. Increased focus on excellence while maintaining relevance and access will allow Texas A&M to meet its commitment to Texas. ALIGNMENT OF WMHS PROGRAM WITH THIS IMPERATIVE: Most WMHS program graduates are employed by Texas water agencies and organizations and are working on Texas-specific water issues. Action 2015: Education First Goal 2: Elevate the impact of our scholarship to effectively advance the state, the nation, and the world in meeting societal challenges and opportunities. ALIGNMENT OF WMHS PROGRAM WITH THIS GOAL Providing an adequate supply of potable water for a growing Texas, United States and worldwide population is a widely recognized challenge. The research program and publication records of the WMHS faculty contained
42 Water Management and Hydrological Science in Appendix B clearly indicate they are addressing this challenge at multiple scales and levels. 7.2 Strategic Plan/Program Assessment 7.2.1 WMHS Program Vision In line with the Vision 2020, the WMHS program aspires to be among the top 10 public graduate programs in the nation for students pursuing an advanced degree in water management and hydrological sciences, fulfilling its part of TAMU’s mission with scholarship, leadership, and innovation in all aspects of research, teaching, and service. 7.2.2 WMHS Program Mission The mission of the WMHS Interdisciplinary Graduate Program is: To prepare the next generation of water scientists, hydrologists, and managers through teaching and research that improves the reliability and quality of water resources for human well-being and development. 7.2.3 WMHS Program Goals In furtherance of its mission, the Water Management and Hydrological Science Program seeks to: 1. Provide quality graduate education that is well-grounded in the fundamental principles of hydrology coupled with the latest technological advances in order
Water Management and Hydrological Science 43 to advance student’s problem solving skills, nurture discovery and innovation, develop life-long learning skills, and prepare students for national and international leadership roles and successful careers in academia, government, and industry. 2. Prepare M.S. and Ph.D. graduates to be exceptional scientists and managers, and future leaders in the water management and hydrological science at the state, national and international levels. 3. Advance the knowledge base of water management and hydrology by fostering multidisciplinary education and research efforts through connections with faculties in various departments and colleges to facilitate collaboration in teaching, research and service. 4. Foster an environment that brings together a number of professions and disciplines for an exchange of knowledge about the unique attributes of managing water. 5. Provide a teaching and research base for an ongoing series of research collaborations, lectures, seminars, and workshops that will improve communication and exchange of knowledge between Texas A&M University students and faculty, as well as other researchers from around the state. 6. Encourage the exchange of ideas and information between faculty and researchers at Texas A&M University and engineers, scientists, and managers in both the industry and government sectors. 7.3 Learning Outcomes In 2010 the WMHS Program developed a set of learning outcomes for each of its degrees. Student learning outcomes articulate the results the WMHS program expects students to gain during their educational experiences. Broadly, the WMHS program expects its graduates to demonstrate: 1. basic knowledge of the science and management related to water science and hydrology; 2. critical analysis and creative problem solving skills; and 3. effective communication. Each degree program has a slightly different set of learning outcomes and a set of achievement targets for each outcome. The program uses multiple measures to assess the degree of achievement of the learning outcomes. Each year, the program’s administrators compile student progress measured against these learning outcomes and achievement targets. 7.3.1 Outcomes for the Master of Water Management Degree This degree provides students with intellectual and technical foundations, including a broad understanding of hydrology, associated ecosystems and the interplay between biophysical and social sciences to solve and manage water resources. Learning Objectives 1. Understand biophysical and socio-economic principles related to water management.
44 Water Management and Hydrological Science Achievement Target (a) Completed the core classes with a 3.0 or better (b) Final Exam: Mastered the learning objectives with a 80% or better score (See learning assessment outcomes scale, Figure 7.3.1) 2. Effective communication Achievement Target (a) Fifty percent of the MWM students will present a paper or poster at a professional meeting (b) Final Exam: Mastered the learning objectives with a 80% or better score at (See learning assessment form, Figure 7.3.1) Results Over the last two years these outcomes were achieved for the MWM students. Figure 7.3.1 Learning outcomes rating scale for Master of Water Management 1. Is the student knowledgeable about the biophysical and socio-economic principles related to water management?
Please circle the extent to which the student meets supervisory committee expectations with respect to this learning outcome.
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 2. Did student effectively communicate in their final presentation?
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 3. Has the student prepared effective written materials in your class?
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 4. Has the student demonstrated a level of knowledge and expertise in order to prepare them for their future careers?
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Water Management and Hydrological Science 45 7.3.2 Outcomes for the Master of Science Degree This degree provides students with intellectual and technical foundations and research methods related to hydrological science to solve and manage water resources. Learning Objectives 1. Demonstrate knowledge and expertise related to hydrology and water management. Achievement Target (a) Final Exam: Mastered the learning objectives with a 80% or better score (See learning assessment form) 2. Effective communication of research findings Achievement Target (a) Fifty percent of the MS students will present a paper or poster at a professional meeting by the time they complete the program (b) Final Exam: Mastered the learning objectives with a 80% or better score (See learning assessment form Figure 7.3.2) 3. Publish a research paper Achievement Target (a) Fifty percent of the MS students will have prepared or submitted a referred research article by the time the complete the program Results Over the last two years these outcomes were achieved for the graduating MS students. Figure 7.3.2 Learning Outcomes Rating Scale for Master of Science 1. Students graduating from this program will be knowledgeable of, and be able to apply the scientific method to conduct research on water
46 Water Management and Hydrological Science management and hydrological science issues. Effectively applying the scientific method to conduct research is the ability to: define a problem, develop appropriate measures/methods to examine the problem, analyze data, and discuss the implications of findings.
Please circle the extent to which the student meets supervisory committee expectations with respect to this learning outcome.
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 2. Students graduating from this program should be able to verbally communicate about research conducted on water management and hydrological science. Effective communication is the appropriate and accurate word usage, and the clear and coherent organization and presentation of information related to water management and hydrological science.
Please circle the extent to which the student meets supervisory committee expectations with respect to this learning outcome.
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 3. Students graduating from this program should be able to effectively prepare written materials that address water management and hydrological science issues. Effective writing is the proper use of the English language; appropriate and accurate word usage, and clearly and coherently organized and presented information about water management and hydrological science.
Please circle the extent to which the student meets supervisory committee expectations with respect to this learning outcome.
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 4. Students graduating from this program should be able to demonstrate knowledge and expertise related to the key principles related to water management and hydrological science, in order to prepare them for their future careers.
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 7.3.3 Outcomes for the Ph.D. Degree This degree provides students with intellectual and technical foundations and advanced research methods related to hydrological science issues. It is intended to prepare the next generation of scientists for academic, consulting or research careers. Learning Objectives 1. Demonstrate advanced knowledge and expertise related to hydrology and research methods
Water Management and Hydrological Science 47 Achievement Target (a) Preliminary Exams: All students must pass preliminary exams. 2. Effective communication of research findings Achievement Target (a)All Ph.D. students will present at least one paper or poster at a professional meeting by the time they complete the program 3. Apply the scientific method in research and publication Achievement Target (a) Seventy-five percent of Ph.D. students will have submitted or published a referred research article before they complete the program Results Over the last two years, graduating Ph.D. students achieved these outcomes. 7.4 Program Facilities All graduate students at Texas A&M University have full access to computer labs and library resources. For WMHS students, the Geography Department has provided two open rooms that house 5-6 students per room and one office for the program coordinator. All student desks in these offices were acquired from a surplus property warehouse maintained by the University. Computers in the student offices were obtained from the Geography Department Computer Lab that were scheduled to be surplussed. Except for a few WMHS students who may have office space provided to them by their chair, this represents the totality of office facilities, desks and computers provided to WMHS students.
48 Water Management and Hydrological Science 8. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
The premise of the Water Management and Hydrological Science (WMHS) Graduate Program at Texas A&M University is that the program transcends the traditional options offered under agriculture, engineering, geology, or natural resources degree programs. The need to overcome these constraints by developing interdisciplinary programs in Water Management and Hydrological Science has been articulated in a report published in 1991 by the National Academy of Sciences. This report called for a new educational paradigm based on the concept that hydrologic science and water management was beyond the purview of a single department or discipline. This report called for reformulating water education based on a multidisciplinary model rather than a single discipline approach. Many land grant universities continue to offer a water degree as a subset of a single department. A unique feature of the Texas A&M University WMHS program is that it is not constrained by the limitations of a single department or college, as it draws on the faculty expertise throughout the University, nor does it require department approval for admission. Rather the WMHS faculty, through the Executive Committee makes admission decisions. Other universities that have taken an interdisciplinary approach include University of California at Davis, University of Florida, University of New Mexico (MS only), University of Nevada (Reno), University of Colorado (Boulder) and Oregon State University. In 2012 New Mexico State
Water Management and Hydrological Science 49 University adopted an interdisciplinary water program based on the Texas A&M University WMHS model. See agecon.nmsu.edu/fward/water/ New_Graduate_Program_Approval_Request_edited%207-18-2011.pdf Established in 1966, the University of Arizona's Department of Hydrology and Water Resources was the first in the nation dedicated solely to the science of water. It has a strong reputation in some specialist areas but it does not have the interdisciplinary breadth of many other programs. Since 2005, when the program officially started, 54 students have graduated with a WMHS degree from Texas A&M University. In addition to serving the students’ needs, the interdisciplinary faculty of WMHS has served as a catalyst in bringing researchers from diverse academic departments across campus to form successful research collaborations. Many of these collaborations may not have otherwise naturally happened. 8.1 Program Strengths 8.1.1 Faculty Expertise There is a wide-ranging pool of expertise among members of the WMHS faculty exhibiting the highest quality in terms of scholarship, external research support, and dedication to excellence. Core faculty who teach graduate courses and supervise graduate students are located in each of the four colleges and 12 departments. A review of their two-page CVs located in Appendix A reinforce the accolades that they deserve. 8.1.2 Research Expertise WMHS faculty research programs have breadth and depth. Two or more faculty members can be found in most research areas. (See Appendix B.) The scientists and scholars involved with WMHS program are committed to conceiving and carrying out research programs that improve public welfare, embrace the highest intellectual standards, and advance the understanding of water use and management. 8.1.3 Curriculum The WMHS program has a good blend of water related biophysical science, engineering, management, planning, and socio-economic courses. In its current form, the curriculum offers students—regardless of their background—the opportunity to gain a broad perspective of some of the most fundamental concepts in hydrology. We currently have a wide range of designated elective courses that---in principle—provide students with good theoretical understanding of important disciplines and sub-disciplines within the broader field of hydrology and water management. Many of these courses also provide students with the valuable toolkit essential for their research endeavors.
50 Water Management and Hydrological Science 8.1.4 Quality of Students The program attracts a number of high-quality applicants with an application to acceptance ratio of approximately 3:1. The quality of incoming graduate students, based on traditional metrics such as average GRE and TOEFL scores, and GPR, is high. Our graduate students compete well at professional meetings in poster and oral competitions that bring recognition to the WMHS program. Graduates of the program have jobs- ready skills and are found throughout the water industry. 8.1.5 Student Placement Our graduates are highly employable and have great success in obtaining jobs in the water industry. Of our 54 graduates, all except for two students who we were unable to locate and two students who have left the workforce to raise a family are working with water organizations or pursuing doctoral degrees in water-related areas. 8.1.6 Program Review by Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board requires each doctoral program at a public university to provide data on 18 prescribed characteristics. Though of basic informational use, the 18 characteristics fall markedly short of portraying the complete nature of a doctoral program and a complete program review. However, each University is to file an annual updated report. Appendix C contains the most recent report on the WMHS program.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 51 8.2 Program Weaknesses 8.2.1 External Program Visibility The program’s external visibility can be improved. One of the major reasons for this is not being a department with associated resources for student travel. Moreover, the program is relatively new and our graduate pool is fairly small. The lack of external visibility can hamper student recruiting, particularly among underrepresented groups. One effort to improve the program’s visibility is the water brochure found in the Appendix D. This brochure is distributed at state, national, and international conferences. 8.2.2 Restrictive Funding of WMHS Student by Departments As financial resources are becoming limited many departments will only fund their own students. Increasingly there are concerns that departments are restricting their faculty from offering research assistantships to WMHS students. 8.2.3 Curriculum Weaknesses Despite the fact that we have a wide range of Designated Elective Courses, there is a lack of coordination on the part of faculty and host departments on day and time of course scheduling. Faculty and departments have a high degree of discretion for days and times that courses are offered so there are often conflicts with other courses. 8.2.4 Internal Program Identity Internal university records and student tracking results in WMHS students being assigned to different departments based on the location of their chair. For example, a student whose chair is located in the Department of Soil and Crop Science is for record- keeping purposes assigned to that department. This has created student and program identity problems as they are unsure if they are a student in the Soil and Crop Science Department or in the WMHS program. 8.2.5 Lack of Student Office Space The Department of Geography has kindly provided office spaces for WMHS students and the Program Coordinator. Two office areas are allocated to students and four to six students share each office. As the WMHS enrollment has increased we are in dire need of space to accommodate up to 12 additional students. The Department of Geography is currently not able to provide additional space for our students. Consequently a number of WMHS graduate students have no place to “call home” to study or work. This makes it difficult to maintain an identify when WMHS graduate students do not have the same study and office resources as students in University departments.
52 Water Management and Hydrological Science 8.2.6 Graduation Confusion Students in the 11 interdisciplinary graduate programs used to attend University graduation as an interdisciplinary cohort. This practice served to highlight the interdisciplinary degree programs to the thousands of family and friends who attend Texas A&M graduation. It also enhanced the identity of each program. Today, interdisciplinary graduates, including WMHS master students, are required to attend the graduation ceremony based on their advisors’ colleges. This practice has resulted in the diminution of interdisciplinary graduate degree identities and created confusion as to which ceremony students should attend.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 53 9. PLANS FOR THE NEXT 1-3 YEARS
9.1 Establish a WMHS External Advisory Committee To date the WMHS Program has functioned without an external advisory committee. However, the Program has matured to the point where an external advisory committee can provide several benefits. It is envisioned that the Committee will provide feedback and guidance in terms of • Providing academic training to the students • Developing skills to be successful in industry • Strengthening the curriculum to be responsive to industry needs • Improving the career opportunities of the graduates • Increasing program visibility • Enhancing student recruitment • Developing internship and placement programs The Committee would meet once a year on campus for a day-long meeting. During these meetings, the Advisory Council interacts with the students, faculty, and TAMU administrators. 9.2 Seek to Establish Additional WMHS Endowed Scholarships An endowed WMHS fellowship was established to honor the contributions of Valeen Silvy. Val was the first WMHS program coordinator, and she passed away in 2011. Her fellowship provides a $1,250 annual grant to a deserving WMHS student. Potential donors will be identified and approached to establish scholarships or fellowships for WMHS students. 9.3 Establish On-Going Internships for WMHS students A number of water agencies, organizations, and students benefit from internships. Internship opportunities are often sporadic varying from year to year based on water organization needs. It is important for the WMHS program and students to provide some institutional continuity to this process. Our goal is to develop 10 on-going internships that will provide valuable work experience for our master’s students and for water agencies and organizations.
54 Water Management and Hydrological Science 10. APPENDICES
Water Management and Hydrological Science 55 APPENDIX A
Short Biographies of Water Faculty
56 Water Management and Hydrological Science Jacqueline Ann Aitkenhead-Peterson Assistant Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Assistant Professor, Department of Soils and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University
Education 2000 Ph.D., Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire 1996 M.S., Soil Science, University of Aberdeen 1995 B.S., Environmental Science, University of Stirling
Past Appointments 2006-2012 Assistant Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University 2002-2006 Research Assistant Professor Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire 2000-2002 Post-Doctoral Research Associate Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire 1997-2000 Graduate Teaching Assistant Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire 1994-1995 Teaching Assistant, Environmental Science, University of Stirling
Professional Activities/Awards Urban Field committee 2009-2012
Undergraduate curriculum Review committee 2011-2012
Search committee: Turf Ecologist – 2nd search, Texas A&M University 2011
Selected Grants/Research Funding Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A. (PI), McInnes K. (Co-PI), White R.H. (Co-PI) and Kelly S. (Co-PI). Construction of runoff facility. Award: $224,241 equipment and $34,000 funding; Program: $258,241. Award Dates: FY 2011-2012.
Aitkenhead-Peterson J. A. (PI) and Cioce D. M. (Co-PI). Source and Fate of DOC in urban watersheds. Texas A&M University, Office of Graduate Studies, Diversity Award. Award: $57,138; Program $57,138. 8/31/2010-8/30-2012.
Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A. and Steele M.K. Tom Slick Fellowship.Award: $30,412, Program: $30,412. 8/31/2010-8/30/2011
Aitkenhead-Peterson J. A. (PI) and Bilek M. K. (Co-PI). Urban sodicity in a humid subtropical climate: impact on biogeochemical cycling. Texas A&M University, Office of Graduate Studies, Diversity Award. Award: $84,000; Program $84,000. 8/ 31/2007-8/30-2010.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 57 Selected Water Publications Books
Urban Ecosystem Ecology, 2010, (Editors: Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A. and Volder A.). Agronomy Monograph 55. ASA,CSSA,SSSA Madison WI, USA. Citations:1
Book Chapters
Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A., Steele M.K. and Volder A., 2010, Services in Natural and Human Dominated Ecosystems. (Editors. J A Aitkenhead-Peterson and A Volder) Urban Ecosystem Ecology. Agronomy Monograph 55. ASA,CSSA,SSSA Madison WI, USA.
Steele M.K., McDowell W.H. and Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A., 2010, Chemistry of urban, sub-urban and rural streams. (Editors. J A Aitkenhead-Peterson and A Volder) Urban Ecosystem Ecology. Agronomy Monograph 55. ASA,CSSA,SSSA Madison WI, USA.
Journal Articles
Steele M.K. and Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A. 2012. Salt impacts on organic carbon and nitrogen leaching from senesced vegetation. Biogeochemistry.
Steele M.K. and Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A. 2012. Urban soils of Texas: Relating irrigation sodicity to water-extractable carbon and nutrients. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J.
Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A., Owings C.G., aAlexander M.B.,Larison N. and Bytheway J.A. 2012 Mapping the lateral extent of cadaver decomposition islands with soil chemistry. Forensic Science International, 216: 127-134.
Ng J.P., Hollister E.B., Gonzalez-Chavez C.A., Hons F.M., Zuberer D.A., Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A., Loeppert R. and Gentry T.J. 2012. Long-term tillage and cropping systems: impact on soil microbial populations and community composition. ISRN Ecology.
Pannkuk T.R., Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A., Steinke K., Thomas J.C., Chalmers D.R. and White R.H. 2011. Carbon, nitrogen and orthophosphate leaching from soils under single- and mixed-species landscapes. HortScience. 46:1533–1539.
Steele M.K. and Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A. 2011. Long-term sodium and chloride surface water exports from the Dallas/Fort Worth region. Science of the Total Environment.
Holgate L.C., Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A. and Gentry T.J. 2011. Irrigation water chemistry: Impact on microbial community composition and biogeochemical leaching under Lolium perenne (L.) ISRN Ecology 2011,797910.
Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A., Nahar N., Harclerode C. and Stanley N. 2011. Chemistry of urban and rural watersheds in central Texas. Urban Ecosystems. 14:195-210.
58 Water Management and Hydrological Science Viswanathan B., *Volder A., Watson T. and Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A. 2011. Impervious and pervious pavements increase soil CO2 concentrations and reduced root production of American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua). Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. 10:133-139.
Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A., Dvorak B., Volder A. and Stanley N. 2011. Chemistry of growth medium and leachate from green roof systems in south-central Texas. Urban Ecosystems, 14: 17-33.
Arveti N., Sarma M.R.S., Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A. and Sunil K. 2011. Fluoride incidence in groundwater: A case study from Talupula, Andhra Pradesh, India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment: 172: 427-442.
Pannkuk T., White R.H., Steinke K., Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A., Chalmers D.R. and Thomas J.C. 2010. Landscape Coefficients for Single- and Mixed-Species Landscapes in Southern Texas. HortScience: 45: 1529-1533.
González-Chávez M.C., Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A., Gentry T., Zuberer D., Hons F. and Loeppert R. 2010. Impact of long-term tillage and crop rotations on C, N and P pools and soil microbial communities. Soil and Tillage Research: 106:285-293.
Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A., Steele M.K., Nahar N. and Santhy K. 2009. Dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in urban and rural watersheds of south-central Texas: land use and land management influences. Biogeochemistry: 96: 119-129
Water Management and Hydrological Science 59 Robin L. Autenrieth Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment A.P. and Florence Wiley III Professor
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Dwight Look College of Engineering
Professor Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University with a joint appointment in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health of the Health Science Center’s School of Rural Public Health
Education 1986 Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University 1981 M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson College of Technology 1977 B.S., Biological Sciences, University of Maryland
Past Appointments 2000-2012 Joint appointment in the School of Rural Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health 1983-1985 Instructor, Clarkson College of Technology 1979-1983 Research Assistant, Clarkson College of Technology 1977-1979 Environmental Chemist/Biologist, Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corporation
Professional Activities/Awards 2004-2007, 2007-2010, 2010-2013 A.P. and Florence Wiley Professorship III 2004 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow 2003-2004 Neely ‘52/Dow Chemical Fellow 1991 Zachry Award for Excellence in Teaching
Selected Water Publications Books
Urban Ecosystem Ecology (2010). (Editors: Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A. and Volder A.). Agronomy
Book Chapters
Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A., Steele M.K. and Volder A. (2010) Services in Natural and Human
60 Water Management and Hydrological Science Journal Articles
Mendoza-Sanchez, I., Autenrieth, R.L., McDonald, J., Cunningham, J.A. 2009. Effect of pore velocity on biodegradation of cis-dichloroethene (DCE) in column experiments, Biodegradation
Bruce, ED, Autenrieth, RL, McDonald, TJ, Donnelly, KC, Burghardt, RC. 2009. Modeling Toxic Endpoints for Improving Human Health Risk Assessment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons -Parent Compounds and Simple Mixtures, Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry- Accepted October, 91(1): 137-156
Alarcon, A. Davies, F. Autenrieth, R.L., Zuberer, D. 2008. Arbuscular mycorrhiza and petroleum degrading microorganisms enhance phytoremediation of petroleum-contaminated soil, International Journal of Phytoremediation, 10:251- 263
Dimitriou-Christidis, P., Autenrieth, R.L., and Abraham, M.H. 2008. Quantitative structure-activity relationships for kinetic parameters of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon biotransformation. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 27
Desai, A.M., Autenrieth, R.L., Dimitriou-Christidis, P., and McDonald, T.J., 2007. Biodegradation kinetics of select polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) mixtures by Sphingomonas paucimobilis EPA505. Journal of Biodegradation
Dimitriou-Christidis, P., Autenrieth, R.L., McDonald, T.J., and Desai, A.M., 2007, Measurement of biodegradability parameters for single unsubstituted and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in liquid bacterial suspensions, “ Biotechnology and Bioengineering 97, 922-932
Dimitriou-Christidis, P., and Autenrieth, R.L., 2007. Kinetics of biodegradation of binary and ternary mixtures of PAHs. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 97, 788- 800
Bruce, Erica D., Abusalih, Afraa A., McDonald, Thomas J., Autenrieth, Robin L., 2007. Comparing Deterministic and Probabilistic Risk Assessments for Sites Contaminated by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs),” J. Environ. Sci. Health, Part A, Vol. A42, No. 6, pp. 697-706
Nwaneshiudu, O., R. Autenrieth, T. McDonald, K. Donnelly, E. Degollado, A. Abusalih. 2007. Risk of PAH exposure from ingested food: the Azerbaijan case study,” J. of Environmental Science and health, Part B, Vol. B42 (2)
Water Management and Hydrological Science 61 Sherry I. Bame Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University
Consultant Texas Information and Referral Network (TIRN) at Texas Department of Health and Human Services Commission (TxDHHSC)
Education 1985 Ph.D., University of Michigan, Dept. of Health Services, Management and Policy 1972 M.S., Boston University, Department of Public Health, School of Nursing 1969 B.S.N., University of Michigan, School of Nursing
Past Appointments 2006-2012 Assistant Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University 1984-2012 Professor; Urban Planning: Health and Human Services Planning and Policy, Disaster Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; 1978-1980 Instructor, Dept. of Health Services, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 1972-1974 Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Dept. of Public Health Nursing, Boston University, Boston, MA.
Professional Activities/Awards 2012 International Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action:
Nomination for Best Paper Presentation: S. Arlikatti, L Dicke, S. Bame 2011 International Alliance for Information and Referral Systems: “Outstanding Contributions for Meritorious Service” 2008 National Association of Professional Women: “Women in the Spotlight”
Selected Grants/Research Funding Bame SI (2011-2012) Department of Homeland Security: Science and Technology.
2-1-1 Nationwide Disaster Data Management System: Planning Phase to Develop Criteria and Protocols. ($275,000). (Approved; Award date pending Congressional approval of DHS Budget 2010-11). Investigators: Linda Daily and Tino Paz, United Way Worldwide, Arlington, VA.
62 Water Management and Hydrological Science VanZandt S (2009-2012) National Science Foundation. Developing a”Living Laboratory” for Examining Community Recovery after Disaster: Hurricane Ike” Co-PI’s: Highfield W, Xiao Y, Brody S, Peacock W, Bame S. ($570,847).
Bame SI (2008-2012) Department of Homeland Security: Community Preparedness, Response and Recovery Program. Unmet community needs from Katrina- Rita: 2-1-1 requests for help in Texas, 2005. Investigators: D. Wunneburger (GIS- LAUP), K. Parker. (2-1-1 Director and VP, United Way Brazos Valley). ($749,969).
Bame SI. (2009) Texas I and R Network, Texas Dept. of Health and Human Services Commission. Texas 2-1-1 Call Demand, Service Coverage and Elderly Risk for Unmet Needs, 2008. ($4950).
Bame SI. (2008-2009) United Way Brazos Valley. (College Station, TX) 2-1-1 Analysis of community unmet needs, Brazos Valley TX, 2008. ($7760).
Bame SI. (2008) Texas I&R Network, Dept. of Health and Human Services Commission. Texas 2-1-1 Service Coverage and Elderly Risk for Unmet Needs, 2007. ($7500).
Bame SI. (2007-2008) United Way Brazos Valley. (College Station, TX) 2-1-1 Analysis of community unmet needs, Brazos Valley TX, 2005. ($11,920).
Bame SI. (2006-2007) Texas I&R Network, DHHSC. Texas 2-1-1 Service Coverage and Elderly Risk for Unmet Needs, 2006. ($4900).
Bame SI (2006-2008) United Way Brazos Valley. 2-1-1 Analysis of community unmet needs, Brazos Valley TX, 2004. ($7,400).
Bame SI (2005-2006) Texas I&R Network, DHHSC. Coding Methods and Analysis of Texas 2-1-1 Data. ($4,950).
Bame SI (2005) Council of Governments and Emergency Operations Center, Brazos Valley. Analysis of 2-1-1 Emergency Needs, 2002 and 2003. ($1,500).
Selected Water Publications Book Chapters
2011-2012 Department of Homeland Security: Science and Technology. 2-1-1 Nationwide Disaster Data Management System: Planning Phase to Develop Criteria and Protocols. ($275,000). (Approved; Award date pending Congressional approval of DHS Budget 2010-11). Investigators: Linda Daily and Tino Paz, United Way Worldwide, Arlington, VA.
2009-2012 National Science Foundation. Developing a”Living Laboratory” for Examining Community Recovery after Disaster: Hurricane Ike” Co-PI’s: Highfield W, Xiao Y, Brody S, Peacock W, Bame S. ($570,847).
2008-2012 Department of Homeland Security: Community Preparedness, Response and Recovery Program. Unmet community needs from Katrina-Rita: 2-1-1 requests for help
Water Management and Hydrological Science 63 in Texas, 2005. Investigators: D. Wunneburger (GIS-LAUP), K. Parker. (2-1-1 Director and VP, United Way Brazos Valley). ($749,969).
Journal Articles
Bame, Sherry I.; Parker K, Lee JY, Payne C, Garza A, Norman A, Finley D, Desai A, Grover A, Shaw A, Bell R, Davis T, Harrison E, Shaw F, Xu M, Mhatre P, Dunn R. 2011. 2-1-1 Data to Monitor Unmet Disaster Needs: The Case of Katrina-Rita in Texas, 2005. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. (Accepted, resubmitted with revisions)
Tai, Teresa, Bame SI. (2010) Cost-benefit analysis of childhood asthma management through school-based clinic programs. Journal of Community Health (On-line version 8/28/2010; www.springer.com/home?SGWID=0-0-1003-0- 0&aqId=1402032&download=1&checkval=66307ff273949f122b24e3e35f4ec02e).
Bame, S. 2010. Targeting at-risk populations and identifying community needs through 2-1-1 data. Planning Technology. 98: Summer 2010: p. 5-7.
Tai, Teresa, Bame SI. 2008. Quality of Patient Care in U.S. Magnet Vs. Non-Magnet Hospitals Managed Care Interface. Vol. 21, No. 3: 15-19.
64 Water Management and Hydrological Science Bill Batchelor Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor and Holder of the R.P. Gregory ’32 Chair in Civil Engineering, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University
Education 1976 Ph.D., Sanitary Engineering, Cornell University 1974 M.S., Environmental Science and Engineering, Rice University 1971 B.A., Chemical Engineering, Rice University
Past Appointments 2007-2011 Arthur McFarland Professor, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University 1992-1998 Director, Institute for Environmental Engineering, Texas Engineering Exper. Station 1986-2012 Professor, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University 1981-1986 Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Texas A&M University 1976-1981 Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Texas A&M University
Professional Activities/Awards 2011-2012 R.P. Gregory ’32 Chair in Civil Engineering, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University 2007-2011 Arthur McFarland Professorship, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University 2007 Truman R. Jones Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University 2006-2007 Charles H. Barclay Jr. '45 Fellow, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Han, D.S., Batchelor, B., Abdel-Wahab, A., 2011. XPS Analysis of Sorption of Selenium (IV) and Selenium (VI) to Mackinawite (FeS), Environmental Progress, accepted and published online
Abdel-Wahab, A., Batchelor, B. 2011. Evaluating alternative aluminum sources for chloride removal from recycled cooling water", International Journal of Environment and Waste Management, accepted
Water Management and Hydrological Science 65 Atilhan, S., Bin Mahfouz, A., Batchelor, B., Linke, P., Abdel-Wahab, A., Nápoles- Rivera, F.,Jiménez-Gutiérrez, A., El-Halwagi, M.M. 2011. A Systems-Integration Approach to the Optimal Design and Operation of Macroscopic Water Desalination and Distribution Networks: A General Framework Applied to Qatar’s Water Resources”, Journal of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, accepted and published online
Park, S.H, Batchelor, B., Lee, C., Han, D.S., Abdel-Wahab, A. 2012. Perchlorate degradation using a titanium and membrane hybrid (TMH) system: Transport, adsorption, chemical reduction, Journal of Membrane Science, 390-391: 84-92
Bin Mahfouz, A., Atilhan, S., Batchelor, B., Linke, P., Abdel-Wahab, A. and El- Halwagi, M.M. 2012. A systems integration approach to the optimum operation and scheduling of biocide usage and discharge for seawater cooling systems”, International Journal of Process Systems Engineering, 2(1): 1–35
Han, D.S., Batchelor, B., Abdel-Wahab, A. 2012. Sorption of selenium (IV) and selenium (VI) onto synthetic pyrite (FeS2): Spectroscopic and microscopic analyses”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science”, 368: 496-504
Bin Mahfouz, A., Atilhan, S., Batchelor, B., Linke, P., Abdel-Wahab, A., El-Halwagi, M.M. 2011. Optimal Scheduling of Biocide Dosing for Seawater-Cooled Power and Desalination Plants, Journal of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 13:783-796
Lee, C., Batchelor, B., Park, S.H., Han, D.S., Abdel-Wahab, A., Kramer, T.A. 2011. Perchlorate Reduction During Electrochemically Induced Pitting Corrosion of Zero-Valent Titanium (ZVT), Journal of Hazardous Materials, 197:183-189
Han, D.S., Batchelor, B., Abdel-Wahab, A. 2011. Sorption of Selenium (IV) and Selenium (VI) to Mackinawite (FeS): Effect of Contact Time, Extent of Removal, Sorption Envelopes, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 186: 451-457
Ko, S., Batchelor, B., 2010. Effect of Cement Type on Performance of Fe(II)-based Degradative Solidification and Stabilization, Environmental Engineering Science, 27(11): 977-987
Han, D.S., Abdel-Wahab, A., Batchelor, B., 2010. Surface complexation modeling of arsenic (III) and arsenic (V) adsorption onto nanoporous titania adsorbents (NTAs), Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 348: 591- 599
Kim, E.J., B., Batchelor, B. 2009. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic investigation of interactions of arsenic with microwave synthesized pyrite as a function of pH, Environmental Engineering Science, 26(12): 1785-1793
Lee, H., Do, S., Batchelor, B., Jo, Y., Kong, S., 2009. PCE DNAPL Degradation using ferrous iron solid mixture (ISM), Chemosphere, 76(8): 1082-1087
66 Water Management and Hydrological Science Kim, E.J., B., Batchelor, B. 2009. Macroscopic and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic Investigation of Interactions of Arsenic with Synthesized Pyrite, Environmental Science and Technology, 43(8): 2899-2904
Do, S.-H., Batchelor, B., Lee, H.-K., Kong, S.-H., 2009. Hydrogen Peroxide Decomposition on Manganese Oxide (pyrolusite): Kinetics, Intermediates, and Mechanism, Chemosphere, 75(1): 8-12
Kim, E.J., Batchelor, B., 2009. Synthesis and Characterization of Pyrite (FeS2) using Microwave Irradiation", Materials Research Bulletin, 44: 1553-1558
Jung, B., Batchelor, B., 2008. Dechlorination of Trichloroethylene formed from 1,1,2,2- Tetrachloroethane by Dehydrochlorination in Portland Cement Slurry including Fe(II), Chemosphere, 71(4): 726-734
Jung, B., Batchelor, B. 2008. Analysis of Dechlorination Kinetics of Chlorinated Aliphatic Hydrocarbons by Fe(II) in Cement Slurries”, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 152(1): 62-70
Choi, J., Batchelor, B. 2008. Nitrate reduction by fluoride green rust modified with copper, Chemosphere, 70: 1108 – 1116
Song, H., Carraway, E.R., Kim, Y.H., Batchelor, B., Jeon, B.H., Kim, J.G. 2008. Amendment of hydroxyapatite in reduction of tetrachloroethylene by zero-valent zinc: Its rate enhancing effect and removal of Zn(II)”, Chemosphere, 73(9):1420 – 1427
Ko, S., Batchelor, B., 2007. Identification of Active Agents for Tetrachloroethylene Degradation in Portland Cement Slurry Containing Ferrous Iron”, Environmental Science and Technology, 41: 5824-5832
Jung, B., Batchelor, B. 2007. Influence of iron-bearing phyllosilicates on the dechlorination kinetics of 1,1,1-trichloroethane in Fe(II)/cement slurries”, Chemosphere, 68(7): 1254-1261
Abdel-Wahab, A., and Batchelor, B. 2007. Interactions Between Chloride and Sulfate or Silica Removals from Wastewater Using an Advanced Lime-Aluminum Softening Process: Equilibrium Modeling”, Water Environment Research, 79 (5): 528-535
Water Management and Hydrological Science 67 Jean Ann Bowman Research Scientist [email protected]
Current Appointment Associate Director, Texas Center for Climate Studies, Texas A&M University
Research Scientist, Office of the Vice President for Research, and Department of Geography, Texas A&M University.
Education 1999 Ph.D., Hydrology, Texas A&M University 1983 M.S., Physical Geography, Rutgers University 1979 B.S., Journalism, University of Colorado
Past Appointments 2010–2012 Associate Director, Texas Center for Climate Studies, Texas A&M University 2003–2012 Present Research Scientist, Office of Research Development, Texas A&M 2000–2012 Present Member, Graduate Faculty, Texas A&M University 2000–2012 Present Research Scientist, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University 2000–2002 Research Scientist, Office of Strategic Research Development, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M University 1995–2000 Research Assistant, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas A&M University
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Chin, A. and J.A. Bowman. 2003. Effects of Land Use Changes on the Yegua River, Texas,” In: Water for Texas – 2000 and Beyond, Texas A&M University Press
Bowman, J.A., F.W. Simmons, and B.C. Kimbel. 1991. Irrigation in the Midwest: Lessons from Illinois; Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 117(5), 700-715
Bowman, J.A. 1991. Ground-Water Quantity Laws and Management; Illinois State Water Survey Report of Investigation 114, Champaign, IL
Bowman, J.A. 1990. Groundwater Management Areas in the United States; Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 116(4), 484-502
Bowman, J.A. and G.R. Clark. 1989.Transitions in Midwestern Groundwater Law; Water Resources Bulletin, 25(2), 413-420
68 Water Management and Hydrological Science Bowman, J.A. and M.A. Collins. 1987. Impacts of Irrigation and Drought on Illinois Groundwater Resources; Illinois State Water Survey Report of Investigation 109, Champaign, IL
Water Management and Hydrological Science 69 Samuel David Brody Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor, Department of Marine Sciences at Galveston, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Education 2002 Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. 1996 M.S., Resource Policy and Behavior, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 1994 Graduate Diploma Environmental Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia. 1992 B.A., Environmental Studies and Anthropology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME.
Past Appointments 2009-2012 Director, Center for Texas Beaches and Shores, Texas A&M University, Galveston, TX. 2008-2009 Acting Director, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, Texas A&M University 2006-2012 Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. 2006-2008 Co-Director, Center for Texas Beaches and Shores, Texas A&M University, Galveston, TX. 2005-2012 Director, Environmental Planning and Sustainability Research Unit, Texas A&M University
Professional Activities/Awards 2008 Best Paper Award 2007, Journal of the American Planning Association. 2007 Award for Outstanding Research, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Selected Grants/Research Funding Principal Investigator (2002-2012) Center for Teaching Excellence, Texas A&M University, Teaching Incentive Grant, $4,000. Development of Case Studies in Environmental Dispute Resolution: Integrating teaching, research, and learning. A grant to publish a book of student-written case studies in dispute resolution to be used as a teaching aid in dispute resolution/conflict management courses throughout the University and the United States.
EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) (1999-2002) Doctoral Fellowship, $100,000.
A Model for Ecosystem Management Through Land Use Planning: Implementing the Principles of Ecosystem Management in Florida.
70 Water Management and Hydrological Science Rotary Ambassadorial Graduate Scholarship (1994) $34,000. Graduate study at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Selected Water Publications Books
Brody, S.D., Highfield, W.E., Kang, J.E. 2011. Rising Waters: Causes and consequences of flooding in the United States. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Cash, S.B. and Brody, S.D. 2010. Bringing corporate stakeholders to the table in collaborative ecosystem. In Steven A. Moore (ed.). Pragmatic Sustainability. Abingdon, UK: Routledge Press.
Brody, S.D. 2008. Ecosystem Planning in Florida: Solving Regional Problems Through Local Decision Making. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, ISBN 0 7546 7249 2.
Brody, S.D., Zahran, S. 2008. Estimating Flood Damage in Texas using GIS: Predictors, Consequences, and Policy Implications. In Daniel Sui (ed.). Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security: Research frontiers and challenges. NJ: Springer
Journal Articles
Brody, S.D., Peacock, W., Gunn, J. 2012. Ecological Indicators of Resiliency and Flooding Along the Gulf of Mexico. Ecological Indicators 18: 493-500
Van Zandt, S., Peacock, W., Henry, D., Grover, H., Highfield, W., Brody, S.D. 2012. Mapping Social Vulnerability to Enhance Housing and Neighborhood Resilience. Housing Policy Debate 22(1): 29-55
Brody, S.D., Gunn, Josh, Highfield, W.E., Peacock, W.G. 2011. Examining the Influence of Development Patterns on Flood Damages along the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Planning and Education Research 31(4): 438-448
Tang, Z., Brody, S.D., Li, R., Quinn, C., Zhao, N. 2011. Examining Locally-Driven Climate Change Policy Efforts in Three Pacific States. Ocean and Coastal Management 54: 415-426
Brody, S.D., Grover, H., Vedlitz, A., Lindquist, E. 2010. Examining Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Behaviors among State and Local Public Sector Organizations in the United States. Local Environment 15(6): 591- 603
Tang, Z., Brody, S.D., Quinn, C., Chang, L. 2010. Moving from Agenda to Action: Evaluating Local Climate Change Action Plans. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 53(1): 41-62
Zahran, S., Brody, S.D., Highfield, W., Vedlitz, A. 2010. Nonlinear Incentives, Plan Design, and Flood Mitigation: The Case of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Community Rating System. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 53(2): 219-239
Water Management and Hydrological Science 71 Brody, S.D., Kang, Jung Eun, Bernhardt, S.P. 2010. Identifying Factors Influencing Flood Mitigation at the Local Level in Texas and Florida: the Role of Organizational Capacity. Natural Hazards 52:167–184
Brody, S.D., Kang, Jung Eun, Zahran, S., Bernhardt, S.P. 2009. Evaluating Local Flood Mitigation Strategies in Texas and Florida. Built Environment 35(4): 492-515
Baker, Justin, Shaw, W.D., Bell, D., Brody, S.D., Neilson, W. 2009. Explaining Subjective Risks of Hurricanes and the Role of Risks in Intended Moving and Location Choice Models. Natural Hazards Review 10(3): 102-112
Zahran, S., Weiler, S., Brody, S., Lindell, M., Highfield, W. 2009. Modeling National Flood Insurance Policy Holding at the County Scale in Florida, 1999-2005. Journal of Ecological Economics 68(10): 2627-2636.
Zahran, S., Shelly, T., Peek, L., Brody, S.D. 2009. Natural Disasters and Social Order: Modeling Crime Outcomes in Florida. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 27(1): 26-52.
Tang, Zhenghong, Brody, S.D. 2009. Linking Planning Theories with Factors Influencing Local Environmental-Plan Quality. Environment and Planning B 36: 522-537.
Zahran, S., Brody, S.D., Maghelal, P., Prelog, A., Lacy, M. 2009. Cycling and Walking: Explaining the Spatial Distribution of Healthy Modes of Transportation in the United States. Transportation Research Journal D 13: 462-470
Brody, Samuel D., Zahran, Sammy, Highfield, Wesley, Bernhardt, Sarah, and Vedlitz, Arnold. 2009. Policy Learning for Flood Mitigation: a longitudinal assessment of CRS activities in Florida. Risk Analysis 29(6): 912-929
72 Water Management and Hydrological Science Kelly Brumbelow Associate Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Associate Professor, Water Resources Engineering, Texas A&M University
Education 2001 Ph.D., in Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology 1994 Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology 1994 B.S., in International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
Past Appointments 2009-2012 Associate Professor with Tenure, Zachry Dept. of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University 2002-2009 Assistant Professor Zachry Department of Civil Engineering 2001-2002 Research Engineer II, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) 2000-2002 Assistant Director, Georgia Water Resources Institute 1995-2001 Instructor, School of CEE 1994-2001 Graduate Research Assistant, School of CEE
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Rasekh, A, M. E. Shafiee, E. Zechman, and K. Brumbelow. 2012. Sociotechnical risk assessment for water distribution system contamination threats. Journal of Hydroinformatics. In preparation (anticipated submission May 2012).
Rasekh, A., and K. Brumbelow. 2012. Water as warning medium: Food–grade dye injection for drinking water contamination emergency response. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. In review/revision (submitted Feb. 2012).
Rasekh, A., and K. Brumbelow. 2012. Drinking water contamination emergency response to mitigate health and system serviceability impacts. Journal of Water. Kelly Brumbelow, Ph.D., P.E. Page 2 of 14. Resources Planning and Management. In preparation (anticipated submission Apr 2012).
Bristow, E., and K. Brumbelow. 2011. Using multi–infrastructure simulation to aid disaster planning and mitigation: Tools and techniques for water distribution managers and emergency planners. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. In review/revision (submitted Sep. 2011).
Bourne, S.F., K. Brumbelow, J.C. Hampson, and L. Gowdish. 2011. Forecasting climate change–induced shifts in storm frequency and intensity in Florida. The Florida Watershed Journal 5(2), 11–17.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 73 Rasekh, A., and K. Brumbelow. 2012. Probabilistic analysis and optimization to characterize critical water distribution system contamination scenarios. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. In press. Available online: link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943–5452.0000242
Kanta, L, and K. Brumbelow. 2011. Vulnerability, risk, and mitigation assessment of water distribution systems for insufficient fire flows. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. In review/revision (submitted Mar. 2011).
Giacomoni, M.H., E. Zechman, and K. Brumbelow. 2011. Hydrologic footprint residence: An environmentally friendly criterion for best management practices. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 17(1), 99–108.
Kanta, L., E. Zechman, and K. Brumbelow. 2012. Multiobjective evolutionary computation approach for redesigning water distribution systems to provide fire flows. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 138(2), 144–152.
Booker, G., J. Torres, S. Guikema, A. Sprintson, and K. Brumbelow. 2010. Estimating cellular network performance during hurricanes. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 95(4), 337–344.
Torres, J., K. Brumbelow, and S. Guikema. 2009. Risk classification and uncertainty propagation for virtual water distribution systems. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 94(8), 1259–1273.
Yamijala, S., S. Guikema, and K. Brumbelow. 2009. Statistical models for the analysis of water distribution system pipe break data. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 94(2), 282–293.
Brumbelow, K., and A. Georgakakos. 2007. Optimization and assessment of agricultural water sharing scenarios under multiple socio–economic objectives. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 133(3), 264–274.
Brumbelow, K. and A. Georgakakos. 2007. Consideration of climate variability and change in agricultural water resources planning. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 133(3), 275–285.
Brumbelow, K. and A. Georgakakos. 2007. Determining crop–water production functions using yield–irrigation gradient algorithms. Agricultural Water Management 87(2), 151– 161.
74 Water Management and Hydrological Science Anthony T. Cahill Associate Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University
Education 1998 Ph.D., Environmental Engineering (specialization in hydrology and water resources engineering), Johns Hopkins University 1993 M.E.S., Major: Hydrology, Yale University. 1990 B.A., Yale University
Professional Activities/Awards 1995-1998 NASA Earth Systems Sciences Fellowship 1994-1996 USDA Training Fellowship 1990 Cum laude distinction, Yale University
Selected Water Publications Books
Parlange, M.B., J.D. Albertson, W.E. Eichinger, A.T. Cahill and T.J. Jackson, Evaporation: Use of fast response turbulence sensors, raman lidar and passive microwave remote sensing, in: Vadose Zone Hydrology: Cutting Across Disciplines, M.B. Parlange and JW Hopmans (eds.), Oxford University Press, in press.
Journal Articles
Cahill, A.T., M.B. Parlange, T.J. Jackson, P. O’Neill and D.R. Nielsen. 1998. Estimation of evaporation from remotely sensed soil moisture measurements: a state space model, Water Resources Research
Cahill, A.T., M.B. Parlange, T. J. Jackson, P. O’Neill and T.J. Schmugge. 1998. The differing efficacy of the alpha and beta methods for parameterizing evaporation from non-vegetated surfaces, Journal of Applied Meteorology
Cahill, A.T., F. Ungaro, M.B. Parlange and D. Nielsen. 1998. Combined spatial and Kalman filter estimation of optimal soil hydraulic properties, Water Resources Research
Cahill, A.T., M.B. Parlange, A. Prosperetti and S. Whitaker. 1998. Theory for thermally-induced convective transport of water vapor, Water Resource Research
Szilagyi, J., M.B. Parlange, G.G. Katul, J.D. Albertson, A.T. Cahill. 1998. An objective method for determining principal time scales of coherent eddy structures using orthonormal wavelets, Advances in Water Research, submitted
Water Management and Hydrological Science 75 Parlange, M.B., A.T. Cahill, D.R. Nielsen, J.W. Hopmans and O. Wendroth.1998. Review of heat and water movement in field soils, Soil and Tillage Research, 47:5-10
Cahill, A.T. and M.B. Parlange. 1998. On water vapor transport in field soils, Water Resources Research, 34:731-739
76 Water Management and Hydrological Science Kung-Hui (Bella) Chu Associate Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University
Education 1998 Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley 1991 M.S., Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Cornell University 1987 B.S., Environmental Engineering, National Chung-Hsing University (Taiwan)
Past Appointments 2005-2012 Associate Professor, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University (Assistant Professor, 2005-2011) 2008-2012 Interdisciplinary Faculty of Toxicology, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Water Program, Texas A&M University 2002-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Faculty of Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 2001-2002 Environmental Engineer, Bechtel National, Inc and ENVIRON Corp., CA 1999-2001 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California at Berkeley, CA 1990-1991 Sanitary Engineer, Department of Water Pollution Control, San Jose, CA
Professional Activities/Awards 2010 TEES Select Young Fellow (four recipients form Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University) 2007 Science News highlighted my research on estrogen biodegradation. Feature article: “Getting estrogen out of water” Science News. March 10, 2007. vol. 171. no. 10, pp 152- 153. 2007 Research paper on “17-Estradiol-degrading bacteria isolated from activated sludge” was highlighted in Science and Technology Concentrates of Chemical and Engineering News (C and ENews), January 8, 2007.
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Kim, M., N. Wang, T. McDonald and K. H. Chu. 2012. Biodefluorination and biotransformation of fluorotelomer alcohols by two alkane-degrading Pseudomonas strains. Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Water Management and Hydrological Science 77 Lee, D., F. Zhao, Y. H. Rezenom, D. H. Russell and K. H. Chu. 2012. Biodegradation of triclosan by a wastewater microorganism. Water Research
Li, M.-H., Sung, C.Y., Kim, M.H., Chu, K. H., 2012. Performance of bioretention system in treating urban highway runoff: a comparison study of designs with and without an internal water storage layer. Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China, ISSN 1673- 1530 (in English and Chinese), 140-147
Hu, A., He, J., Chu, K. H., and C.-P. Yu. 2011. Genome sequence of a 17?-estradiol- utilizing bacterium Sphingomonas sp. KC8, Journal of Bacteriology. 193(16):4266- 4267
Kim, M.H., Sung, C.Y., Li, M.-H., and K. H. Chu. 2011. Bioretention for stormwater quality improvement in Texas: Removal effectiveness of Escherichia coli. Separation and Purification Technology
Chang, H., Cho, K. C., Kuo, C. G., Kao, M. J., Huang, K. D., Chu, K. H., and X. P. Lin. 2011. Application of a schottky barrier to dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) with multilayer thin films of phtoelectodes. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 509, Supplement 1, S486-489
Roh, H., and K. H. Chu. 2011. Effects of solid retention time on the performance of bioreactors bioaugmented with a 17-estradiol-utilizing bacterium, Sphingomonas strain KC8. Chemosphere. 84(2):227-233
M. H. Li, C. Y. Sung, M. Kim, and K. H. Chu. 2011. Assessing performance of bioretention boxes in hot and semi-arid regions: A highway application pilot study. accepted by Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Roh, H., and K. H. Chu. 2010. A 17-estradiol-utilizing bacterium, Sphingomonas strain KC8: Part I - Characterization and abundance in wastewater treatment plants. Environmental Science and Technology. 44(13): 4943-4950
Yu, C. P. and K. H. Chu. 2011. Molecular quantification of virulence gene- containing Aeromonas in water samples collected from different drinking water treatment processes. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 176(1-4):225-238
Roh, H., N. Subramanya, F. Zhao, C. P. Yu, J. Sandt, and K. H. Chu. 2009. Biodegradation of wastewater micropollutants by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. Chemosphere. 2009. 77(8):1084- 1089
Roh, H., C. P. Yu, M. E. Fuller, and K. H. Chu. 2009. Identification of hexahydro- 1,3,5-trinitro- 1,3,5-triazine (RDX)-degrading microorganisms via 15N-stable isotope probing. Environmental Science and Technology. 43(7):2505-2511
Yu, C. P. and K. H. Chu. 2009. Occurrence of pharmaceuticals and personal care products along the West Prong Little Pigeon River in east Tennessee, USA. Chemosphere. 75(10):1281-1286
78 Water Management and Hydrological Science Yu, C. P., S. K. Farrell, B. Robinson, and K. H. Chu. 2008. Development and applications of real- time PCR assays for quantifying total and aerolysin gene- containing Aeromonas in source, intermediate, and finished drinking water.” Environmental Science and Technology. 42(4):1191- 1200
Yu, C. P., H. Roh, and K. H. Chu. 2007. 17-Estradiol-degrading bacteria isolated from activated sludge. Environmental Science and Technology. 41: 486-492
Water Management and Hydrological Science 79 Sam E. Feagley Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor/Visiting Professor, Soil Environmental Specialist, Texas AgriLife Extension, Texas A&M University
Education 1979 Ph.D., Soil Chemistry, University of Missouri 1976 M.S., Soil Fertility, Texas A&M University 1974 B.S., Chemistry, Texas A&M University
Past Appointments 2006-2012 Assistant Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University 2009-2012 Professor and Visiting Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas AgriLife Extension 2000-2011 Professor and Visiting Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas AgriLife Extension 1995-2000 Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas AgriLife Extension Service 1982-1995 Associate Professor, Agronomy, Louisiana State University 1979-1982 Assistant Professor, Agronomy, Louisiana State University
Selected Grants/Research Funding Monitoring and Educational Programs Focused on Escherichia coli Bacteria and Nutrient Runoff on Dairy Operations in the Leon Watershed. Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board, 10/07-9/10
Improvement and Standardization of Laboratory Quality Assurance and Quality Control for Mehlich III Soil Test Methodology: Phase 1 and Phase 2, Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board, 3/07-9/10
Evaluation of the Texas Phosphorus Index in the Poultry Areas of Texas. Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board. 10/04-09/10
Characterization of nutrient transport from land applied biosolids. K3BMI, 7/03- 03/04.
Development of online nutrient management certification course for TSPs and development/deliver of educational program for CAFOs. National Integrated Water Quality Program, USDA, 9/03-8/06
Evaluation of the Texas Phosphorus Index for the Leon and Bosque River watersheds. Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board. 10/02-03/05.
80 Water Management and Hydrological Science Evaluation of the Texas Phosphorus Index on the High Plains. Texas Cattle Feeders Association. 12/02-12/04
Reclamation and revegetation of earthen drainage channels. Harris County Flood Control District. ($60,000) 3/97-2/98; ($60,000) 4/98-4/99; ($60,000) 6/99-6/01; ($90,000) 7/01-7/03; ($125,000) 8/03-9/07; ($125,000) 12/08-2/09, 3/09-12/11
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Steele M.K. and Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A. (2012). Salt impacts on organic carbon and nitrogen
Feagley, Sam E., Todd A. Carpenter, and Sherri L. Dunlap. 2009. Effect of organic soil amendments in dispersive soils on soil quality. Proceedings for IECA Annual Meeting. Feb. 10-11, 2009.
McFarland, Mark L., Sam E. Feagley and Tony L. Provin. 2009. Land Application of Drilling Fluids: Landowner Considerations. Soil and Crop Science Publication, SCS-2009-08.
Feagley, Sam, Mark Atwell, and Jacob Eickstead. 2009. Lead in your garden? SCS- 2009-16.
Feagley, Sam. 2009. Evaluation of three soil sampling methods: Professional judgment, simple random, and systematic random. Texas Animal Manure Management Issues Conference. Sept. 29-30, 2009.
Provin, Tony, Sam Feagley, John Pitt, and Mark McFarland. 2008. Soil testing following flooding, overland flow of waste waters and other freshwater related disasters. Soil and Crop Sciences Publication SCS-2008-07.
Provin, Tony, Mark McFarland, Sam Feagley, and Larry Redmon. 2008. Pasture and soil management following tidal saltwater intrusion. Soil and Crop Sciences Publication SCS-2008-06.
Osmond, D.L., M.L. Cabrera, S.E. Feagley, G.E. Hardee, C.C. Mitchell, P.A. Moore, Jr., R.S. Mylavarapu, J.L. Oldham, J.C. Stevens, W.O. Thom, F. Walker, and H.Zhang. 2006. Comparing ratings of the southern phosphorus indices. J. Soil Water Cons. 61(6):325-337.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 81 Guy Fipps Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Director, Irrigation Technology Center, Texas A&M University
Professor and Extension Agricultural Engineer, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University
Education 1988 Ph.D., Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 1984 M.S., Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 1977 B.A., Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin 1979 B.S., Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station
Past Appointments 2005-2006 Senior Advisor for Water, Afghan Reconstruction Group, US Embassy-Kabul, US Department of State (temporary, non-career appointment) 1985-1988 USDA National Needs Fellow, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University 1981-1982 Engineer, Radian Corporation, Austin, TX. Environmental and Engineering Consulting 1980-1981 Research Associate, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University. Biomass Gasification Project
Professional Activities/Awards 2011 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Superior Paper Award.
Selected Grants/Research Funding 2007 Rio Grande Initiative: Task 1: $78,000, Irrigation District Assistance, Task 2: $ 97,158, ITC, Task 3: $ 44,156, Institutional (DMS), $10,000 for aquatic weed research, $25,000 for canal automation projects. 2008 Rio Grande Initiative: Task 1: $90,000, Irrigation District Assistance, Task 2: $ 73,000, ITC, Task 3: $ 74,000, Institutional (DMS), $10,000 for aquatic weed research, $25,000 for canal automation projects. 2008 Utah State University - Water Management Audit, Burkina Faso for the MCC-$17,000.
82 Water Management and Hydrological Science 2009 Rio Grande Initiative: Task 1: $90,000, Irrigation District Assistance, Task 2: $ 73,000, ITC, Task 3: $ 74,000, Institutional (DMS). 2010 Rio Grande Initiative: Task 1: $120,000, Irrigation District Assistance, Task 2: $ 110,000, ITC, Task 3: $ 105,000, Institutional (DMS).
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
K., D. Chalmers, J. Thomas, R. White, and G. Fipps. 2010. Characteristics of St. Augustine grass Cultivars. Steinke, Crop Science. Drought Response and Recovery. 50:2017-2083
Huang, Y. and G. Fipps. 2009. Developing a Modeling Tool for Flow Profiling in Irrigation Distribution Networks. 2(3) 18
D.M. Endale and G. Fipps. 2001. Simulation-based Irrigation Scheduling as a Water Management Tool in Developing Counties, by Irrigation and Drainage, the Journal of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, 50(3), pp 249-257
G. Fipps. 2001. Potential Water Savings in Irrigated Agriculture in the Low Rio Grande Basin of Texas. TWRI TR-183, Texas Water Resources Institute, College Station
Water Management and Hydrological Science 83 Delbert M. Gatlin, III Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor and Associated Department Head for Research and Graduate Programs, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Intercollegiate Faculty of Nutrition, Texas A&M University
Education 1983 Ph.D. Nutrition/Biochemistry, Minor: Wildlife and Fisheries, Mississippi State University 1980 B.S. Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Fisheries Ecology/ Aquaculture Option, Texas A&M University
Past Appointments 2003-2012 Associate Senior Scientist, Aquaculture Protein Centre of Norway. 1998-2012 Professor, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Faculty of Nutrition, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 1994-2012 Associate Head for Research and Graduate Programs, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 2006-2007 Interim Head, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 1993-1998 Associate Professor, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Faculty of Nutrition, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 1990-1993 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nutrition, Texas A&M University, College Station. 1987-1993 Assistant Professor, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 1985-1987 Assistant Professor, Department of Agriculture, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, AR 1984-1985 Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
Professional Activities/Awards 2007 Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence for Administration, Texas A&M University 2010 Research of the Year, Texas Aquaculture Association Vice-Chair, Committee on Nutrient Requirements of Fish and Shrimp, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences.
84 Water Management and Hydrological Science Selected Grants/Research Funding USDA Southern Regional Aquaculture Center, "Effect of nutrition on body composition and subsequent storage quality of farm-raised channel catfish". Total=$825,000/3 yr.; $110,000 TAMUS.
Sea Grant College Program, "Fatty acid and lipid nutrition of red drum: effects on cold adaptation, immunocompetency and product quality". $73,230/2 yr. (W. H. Neill, D. H. Lewis and R. F. Sis Co-PIs).
USDA Southern Regional Aquaculture Center, "Enhancement of the immune response to Edwardsiella ictaluri in channel catfish". Total=$100,000/2 yr.; $49,664 TAMUS. (W. H. Neill Co-PI).
Texas Advanced Technology Program, "Dietary protein regulation of growth and gastrointestinal function in red drum". $209,276/2 yr. (D. S. MacKenzie Co-PI).
USDA Southern Regional Aquaculture Center, "Improving production efficiency of warmwater aquaculture species through nutrition". Total=$764,500/3 yr.; $195,000 TAMUS. (J. T. Davis, L. V. DiMichele and W. H. Neill Co-PIs).
Selected Water Publications Books
Committee on Nutrient Requirements of Fish and Shrimp (2011) Nutrient Requirements of Fish and Shrimp. National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 376 pp.
Nakagawa, H., M. Sato and D. M. Gatlin III (Editors) (2007) Dietary Supplements for the Health and Quality of Cultured Fish. CABI, Oxon UK, 244 pp.
Committee on Animal Nutrition (1997) The Role of Chromium in Animal Nutrition. National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 80 pp.
Book Chapters
Davis, D., T. Nguyen, M. Li, D. M. Gatlin III, and T. O’Keefe. 2009. Advances in aquaculture nutrition: catfish, tilapia and carp nutrition. In: New Technologies in
Gatlin, D. M., III and P. Li. 2008. Use of Diet Additives to Improve Nutritional Value of Alternative Protein Sources. In: Alternative Protein Sources in Aquaculture Diets (C. Lim, C. D. Webster and C.-S. Lee, eds.), pp. 501-522. Haworth Press, New York.
Gatlin, D. M., III. 2008. Non-infectious Diseases: Nutritional Factors. In: Fish Diseases (J. C. Eiras, H. Segner, T. Wahli and B. G. Kapoor eds.), pp. 1201-1224, CABI, Oxon, UK.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 85 Gatlin, D. M., III and P. Li. 2007. Nucleotides. In: Dietary Supplements for the Health and Quality of Cultured Fishes (H. Nakagawa, M. Sato and D. M. Gatlin III, eds.), pp.193-209, CABI, Oxon, UK.
Journal Articles
Davies, J. A., A. Buentello, S. Patnaik, A. L. Lawrence, A. Mustafa, M. E. Hume, D. M. Gatlin III, and M. C. Kemp. 2011. Effect of dietary supplementation of acidic calcium sulfate (Vitoxal) on growth, survival, immune response and gut microbiota of the Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. J. World Aquaculture Society, 834-844.
Grisdale-Helland, B., D. M. Gatlin, III, E. Corrent and S. J. Helland. 2011. The minimum dietary lysine requirement, maintenance requirement and efficiency of lysine utilization for growth of Atlantic salmon smolts. Aquaculture Res., 42:1509- 1529.
Cheng, Z., J. A. Buentello and D. M. Gatlin III. 2011. Dietary nucleotides influence immune responses and intestinal morphology of red drum Sciaenops ocellatus. Fish and Shellfish Immunol., 30:143-147.
Buentello, J. A., C. Pohlenz, D. Margulies, V. P. Scholey, J. B. Wexler, D. Tovar- Ramírez, W. H. Neill, P. Hinojosa-Baltazar and D. M. Gatlin III. 2011. Apreliminary study of digestive enzyme ontogeny and amino acid composition of early juvenile yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares). Aquaculture, 312:205–211.
Zheng, Z. L., K. Y. Wang, D. M. Gatlin III and J.M. Ye. 2011. Evaluation of GroBiotic -A in regard to growth, muscle composition, immune responses and resistance against Aeromonas hydrophila in Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus. J. World Aquaculture Soc., 42:549-557.
Cheng, Z., J. A. Buentello and D. M. Gatlin III. 2011. Effects of dietary arginine and glutamine on growth performance, immune responses and intestinal structure of red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus. Aquaculture, 319:247–252.
Walker, S., W. H. Neill, A. L. Lawrence, and D. M. Gatlin III. 2011. Effects of temperature and starvation on ecophysiological performance of the Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei). Aquaculture, 319:439–445.
86 Water Management and Hydrological Science Terry Joe Gentry Assistant Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Assistant Professor of Soil and Aquatic Microbiology, Texas A&M University
Education 2005 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 2003 Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arizona 1998 M.S., Agronomy, University of Arkansas 1993 B.S., Agronomy, University of Arkansas
Past Appointments 2006-2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University 2003-2005 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1999-2003 Graduate Research/Teaching Associate, Department of Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, University of Arizona 1995-1999 Research Specialist/Graduate Assistant, Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, University of Arkansas 1993-1995 Research Analyst, Agronomy, Agricultural Experiment Station, University of the Virgin Islands
Professional Activities/Awards 2011 Special Achievement Award for Research, Soil and Crop Sciences Department, Texas A&M University 2008 Special Achievement Award for Teaching, Soil and Crop Sciences Department, Texas A&M University 2002 University of Arizona Foundation Outstanding Teaching Associate Award
Selected Grants/Research Funding University of Arizona Foundation Outstanding Teaching Associate Award, 2002
Special Achievement Award for Teaching, Soil and Crop Sciences Department, Texas A&M University, 2008
Selected Water Publications Books
Gentry T.J., Z. He, and J. Zhou. 2009. Detection and characterization of uncultivated microorganisms using microarrays, p. 35-58. In S. Epstein (ed.). Uncultivated Microorganisms, Microbiology Monographs. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
Water Management and Hydrological Science 87 Gentry T.J., C.W. Schadt, Z. He, and J. Zhou. 2007. Chapter 83, Functional gene arrays for microbial community analysis, p. 1052-1062. In C.J. Hurst, R.L. Crawford, J.L. Garland, D.A. Lipson, A.L. Mills, and L.D. Stetzenbach (ed.). Manual of Environmental Microbiology, Third Edition. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.
Gentry, T.J., and J. Zhou. 2006. Chapter 17, Microarray-based microbial identification and characterization, p. 276-290. In Y.-W. Tang and C.W. Stratton (ed.) Advanced Techniques in Diagnostic Microbiology. Springer, New York, NY
Schadt, C.W., J. Liebich, S.C. Chong, T.J. Gentry, Z. He, H. Pan, and J. Zhou. 2005. Chapter 11, Design and use of functional gene microarrays (FGAs) for the characterization of microbial communities, p. 331-368. In T. Savidge and H. Pothulakis (ed.) Microbial Imaging. Methods in Microbiology. Vol. 34. Academic Press, Inc., London, UK
Journal Articles
Deng, L., S.A. Senseman, T.J. Gentry, D.A. Zuberer, T.L. Weiss, T.P. Devarenne, and E.R. Camargo. 2012. Effect of selected herbicides on growth and hydrocarbon content of Botryococcus braunii (Race B). Ind. Crops Prod. 39:154-161
Ng, J., E.B. Hollister, M.C.A. González-Chávez, F.M. Hons, D.A. Zuberer, J.A. Aitkenhead-Peterson, R. Loeppert, and T.J. Gentry. 2012. Impacts of cropping systems and long-term tillage on soil microbial population levels and community composition in dryland agricultural setting. ISRN Ecology. Vol 2012
Rothlisberger, K.L., F.M. Hons, T.J. Gentry, and S.A. Senseman. 2012. Oilseed meal effects on the emergence and survival of crop and weed species. Appl. Environ. Soil Sci. Vol 2012
Wang, A.S., P. Hu, E.B. Hollister, K.L. Rothlisberger, A. Somenahally, T.L. Provin, F.M. Hons, and T.J. Gentry. 2012. Impact of Indian mustard (Brassica juncea) and flax (Linum usitatissimum) seed meal applications on soil carbon, nitrogen, and microbial dynamics. Appl. Environ. Soil Sci. Vol 2012
Golub, K.W., A.D. Smith, E.B. Hollister, T.J. Gentry, and M.T. Holtzapple. 2011. Investigation of intermittent air exposure on four-stage and one-stage anaerobic semi-continuous mixed-acid fermentations. Bioresour. Technol. 102:5066-5075
Holgate, L.C., J.A. Aitkenhead-Peterson, and T.J. Gentry. 2011. Irrigation water chemistry: Impact on microbial community composition and biogeochemical leaching under perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne [L.]). ISRN Ecology. Vol 2011
Hollister, E., A.J. Hammett, M. Holtzapple, T. Gentry, and H. Wilkinson. 2011. Microbial community composition and dynamics in a semi-industrial-scale facility operating under the MixAlco™ bioconversion platform. J. Appl. Microbiol. 110:587-596
Hu, P., A.S. Wang, A.S. Engledow, E.B. Hollister, K.L. Rothlisberger, J.E. Matocha, D.A. Zuberer, T.L. Provin, F.M. Hons, and T.J. Gentry. 2011. Inhibition of the
88 Water Management and Hydrological Science germination and growth of Phymatotrichopsis omnivora (Cotton Root Rot) by oilseed meals and isothiocyanates. Appl. Soil Ecol. 49:68-75
Somenahally, A.S., E.B. Hollister, R.H. Loeppert, W. Yan, and T.J. Gentry. 2011. Microbial communities in rice rhizosphere altered by intermittent and continuous flooding in fields with long-term arsenic application. Soil Biol. Biochem. 43:1220- 1228
Somenahally, A.S., E.B. Hollister, W. Yan, T.J. Gentry, and R.H. Loeppert. 2011. Water management impacts on arsenic speciation and iron-reducing bacteria in contrasting rice-rhizosphere compartments. Environ. Sci. Technol. 45:8328-8335
Van Nostrand, J.D., L. Wu, W. Wu, Z. Huang, T.J. Gentry, Y. Deng, J. Carley, S. Carroll, Z. He, B. Gu, J. Luo, C.S. Criddle, D.B. Watson, P.M. Jardine, T.L. Marsh, J.M. Tiedje, T.C. Hazen, and J. Zhou. 2011. Dynamics of microbial community composition and function during in situ bioremediation of a uranium- contaminated aquifer. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 77:3860-3869
Cardenas, E., W.-M Wu, M.B. Leigh, J. Carley, S. Carroll, T. Gentry, J. Luo, D. Watson, B. Gu, M. Ginder-Vogel, P.K. Kitanidis, P.M. Jardine, J. Zhou, C.S. Criddle, T.L. Marsh. and J.M. Tiedje. 2010. Significant association between sulfate-reducing bacteria and uranium-reducing microbial communities as revealed by a combined massively parallel sequencing–indicator species approach. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 76:6778-6786
Gao, W., T.J. Gentry, T.L. Mehlhorn, S.L. Carroll, P.M. Jardine, and J. Zhou. 2010. Characterization of Co(III) EDTA-Reducing bacteria in metal- and radionuclide- contaminated groundwater. Geomicrobiology J. 27:93-100
Gontcharova, V., E. Youn, R.D. Wolcott, E.B. Hollister, T.J. Gentry, and S.E. Dowd. 2010. Black Box Chimera Check (B2C2): a Windows-based software for batch depletion of chimeras from bacterial 16S rRNA gene datasets. Open Microbiol. J. 4:47-52
Gonzalez-Chavez, M.C.A., J.A. Aitkenhead-Peterson, T.J. Gentry, D. Zuberer, F. Hons, and R. Loeppert. 2010. Soil microbial community, C, N, and P responses to long-term tillage and crop rotations. Soil Till. Res. 106:285-293
Harmel, R.D., R. Karthikeyan, T. Gentry, and R. Srinivasan. 2010. Effects of agricultural management, land use, and watershed scale on E. coli concentrations in runoff and streamflow. Trans. ASABE 53:1833-1841
Water Management and Hydrological Science 89 John Richard Giardino Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor and Department Head of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University
Education 1979 Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 1971 M.A., Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 1969 B.S., Colorado State University-Pueblo, Colorado
Past Appointments 2011 Head Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, September 2011 to present 2000-2007 Dean of Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University 1989-1996 Head Department of Geography 1984-1989 Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics and Geography, Texas A&M University 1978-1984 Assistant Professor, Geography and Geology, Texas Tech University 1977-1978 Instructor, Science Division, Doane College. Introductory courses in geography and geology. 1972-1974 Lecturer, University of Zambia 1971-1972 Instructor, Southern Colorado State College
Professional Activities/Awards 1996 Distinguished Teaching Award, Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University 1995 Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award, National Council for Geographic Education 1992 E. Guthrie Advisor Award Nominee 1990-1991 Scholastic Advisor’s Award, Corps of Cadets, Texas A&M University 1989 Distinguished Teaching Award, Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University 1989 Almon Fellow, Hockaday School, Dallas, Texas 1995 Meritorious Service Award, Geological Society of America 1995 Award for Support and Encouragement, Hispanic Graduate Student Association of Texas A&M University 1994 Diversity Award, Office of the Senior Vice President and provost for outstanding achievement of promoting diversity among students, faculty and staff of Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University
90 Water Management and Hydrological Science 1994 Visiting Geographic Scientist, Association of American Geographers Visiting Geographic Scientist Program 1993 Elected Member, Phi beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars. 1992 Outstanding Service Award for 1988-1992, National Council for Geographic Education 1980 Fellow, Geological Society of America 1975 Fellow, Royal British Geographical Society
Selected Grants/Research Funding Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) - NSF, with K. Watson and L. Sayavedra, $ 2,500,000, September 2003- September 2008, Texas A&M System LSAMP Phase III Program: Cultivating the Future.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)- FAIM Program, USDA, $480,976, September 2006-September 2007.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)- FAIM Program, USDA, $618,830, September 2005-September 2006.
National Park Services (NPS), Assessment of Water Resources and Watershed Conditions in and Adjacent to Cape Krusenstern National Monument and Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska, with Ron Kaiser, $89,659, May 2005- August 2006.
Texas Water Development Board, Meander Migration on the Brazos River, $40,000, September 2010-2012.
Texas Water Development Board, Processes and Visualization of Meander Development, $40,000, September 2010-2012.
Texas Water Development Board, Sediment Budget for the Sabine River, Texas, $48,000, September 2011-on going.
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Janke, J.R., Regmi, N.R., Giardino, J.R., Vitek, J.D., Rock Glacier. In: Landforms of the Periglacial
Giardino, John R., Regmi, Netra R., and Vitek, John D. 2010. Rock Glacier, In: Encyclopedia of Ice Snow and Glaciers, V.P. Singh,; P. Singh, and U. K. Haritashya (Eds.), Springer, 1000 p.
Khedun, C.P., A.K. Mishra, H.K. Beaudoing, J.D. Bolten, R.A. Kaiser, J.R. Giardino, and V.P. Singh. 2012. Understanding changes in water availability in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo del Norte basin under the influence of large scale climate indices using the Noah land surface model, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/ 2011JD016590.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 91 Khedun, C.P., R. Sanchez, and J.R. Giardino. 2009. Climate change and transboundary water resources, AWRA Water Resources Impact, 11(2).
Regmi, Netra R., Giardino, John R., Vitek, John D., 2010, Assessing Susceptibility to Landslides: Using Models to Understand Observed Changes in Slopes, Geomorphology, 122 (1-2), pp. 25-38. (Science Direct Top 25 Hottest Article, Geomorphology, July-September, 2010).
Regmi, Netra R., Giardino, John R., Vitek, John D., and Dangol, V., 2010, Mapping Landslide Hazards in Western Nepal: A Comparison of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, Environmental and Engineering Geosciences, 16, 127- 142.
Regmi, Nerta R., Giardino, John R., Vitek, John D., 2010, Modeling Susceptibility to Landslides Using the Weight of Evidence Approach: Western Colorado, USA, Geomorphology, 115 (1-2), pp. 172-187. (Science Direct Top 25 Hottest Article, Geomorphology, October 2009-September 2010 Academic Year, January-March, 2010)
Khedun, C.P., A.K. Mishra, M. Özger, H. Kato-Beaudoing, J.D. Bolten, J.R. Giardino, and V.P. Singh (2010), Assessing the Impacts of Climate Variability on the Water Resources in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo Basin, Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010: Challenges of Change, ASCE- EWRI, Providence, RI, May 2010, DOI: 10.1061/41114(371)9
Norwine, James R., John R. Giardino, and Sushma Krishnamurthy, (eds). Water for Texas: 2000 and Beyond, Texas A&M University Press, 2005, 271 p.
Vitek, J.D., N.R. Regmi, D. Humbolt, J.R. Giardino, (2008), Stone Polygons: Observations of Surficial Activity – 1975-2004. (In Press), Proceeding for 9th International Permafrost Conference, 2008.
Degenhardt, J.J., J.R. Giardino, A.F. Pitty and R.A. Marston, (2007), Interpretation of a Block Stream in Tom Mays Canyon, Franklin Mountains, TX and the San Juan Mountains, CO USA, Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, pp. 51(3), 377-396.
92 Water Management and Hydrological Science James R. Gilley Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University
Education 1971 Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Major - Agricultural Engineering; Minor - Fluid Mechanics 1968 M.S., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, Major - Agricultural Engineering 1966 B.S., with High Distinction, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, Major - Agricultural Engineering
Past Appointments 1988-1993 Head of the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department, Iowa State University 1975-1988 Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 1968-1975 Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Professional Activities/Awards 1998 Awarded the ASAE Massey-Ferguson Educational Award 1993 Elected to the grade of Fellow of ASAE ? 1980-1982 Who's Who in Engineering
Selected Grants/Research Funding Energy Reduction Through Improved Irrigation Practices, supported by Old West Regional Commission, 1975-77, $121,000.
Management of Irrigated Agriculture with a Limited Water and Energy Supply, supported by Old West Regional Commission, 1976-1979, $168,000. With Watts (Ag Eng) and Sullivan (Agronomy).
Energy Reduction in Irrigation, Private Grant, 1977-78, $10,000.?Irrigation System Capacity Analysis, Nebraska Foundation, 1979-82, $30,000.
Low Energy Center-Pivot Sprinkler Irrigation Systems, Supported by DOE, 1978-81, $147,000. With Mielke (Agronomy, USDA-ARS) and Wilhelm (Agronomy, USDA- ARS).
Water and Energy Conservation Using Center-Pivot Irrigation and Reduced Tillage Systems, Supported by OWRT, 1978-1981, $122,000. With Mielke (Agronomy, USDA-ARS) and Wilhelm (Agronomy, USDA-ARS).
Water Management and Hydrological Science 93 Water and Energy Conservation to Improve Irrigation Scheduling Practices, Supported by USDA-SEA-AR, 1979-1983, $205,000. With Watts (Ag Eng).
Revegetation for Increased Productivity of Abandoned Irrigated and Dry Farm Land. USDA- CSRS, 1983-86, $63,000. With Stubbendieck (Agronomy) and Waller (Agronomy).
Development of Methodology and Criteria for Irrigation Management Under Limited Water Conditions. USGS, 1985-88, $128,000. With Supalla (Ag Economics) and Martin (Ag Eng).
Development of Improved Water Application and Management Techniques for Moving Irrigation Systems. USGS, 1986-89, $117,000. With Martin (Ag Eng) and Norman (Agronomy). January 2012
Development of Advanced Irrigation Management Methods. Burlington Northern Foundation, 1988-91, $51,000. With Martin (Ag Eng) and Supalla (Ag Economics).
Preparing Undergraduate Engineers for Research in Biophysical Systems. NSF Undergraduate Research Program, 1988-89, $41,000. With Ag Engineering Faculty.
Selected Water Publications Books
Wallender, W.W., K.K. Tanji, B. Clark, R.W. Hill, E.C. Stegman, J.R. Gilley, J.M. Lord and R.R. Robinson. 2007. Drip irrigation and salt flow model for table grapes in Coachella Valley, California. Irrigation and Drainage Systems 21(1):79-95.
Wallender, W.W., K.K. Tanji, B. Clark, R.W. Hill, E.C. Stegman, J.R. Gilley, J.M. Lord, and R.R. Robinson. 2012. Chapter 27. Conceptual Water Flow and Salt Transport for Flux-Limited and Ponded Infiltration. ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice No. 71 Agricultural Salinity Assessment and Management, 2nd edition. Eds. W.W. Wallender and K.K. Tanji. American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston Virginia, pp. 825-851.
Journal Articles
Michelson, A., M. Chavez, R. Lacewell, J. Gilley, and Z. Sheng. June 2009. Evaluation of Irrigation Efficiency Strategies for Far West Texas: Feasibility, Water Savings and Cost Considerations. Final Report prepared for Far West Texas Planning Group, Rio Grande Council of Governments, and Texas Water Development Board. 65p.
Michelson, A., M. Chavez, R. Lacewell, J. Gilley, and Z. Sheng. June 2009. Evaluation of Irrigation Efficiency Strategies for Far West Texas: Feasibility, Water Savings and Cost Considerations. TR- 360. Publication of the Texas Water Resources Institute. 62p.
Michelson, A., M. Chavez, R. Lacewell, J. Gilley, and Z. Sheng. 2008. Evaluation of Irrigation Efficiency Strategies for Far West Texas. Report prepared for Far West
94 Water Management and Hydrological Science Texas Planning Group, Rio Grande Council of Governments, and Texas Water Development Board. 59p.
Michelson, A., R. Lacewell, J. Gilley and Z. Sheng. 2008. Applicability and Effectiveness of Water Conservation Practices to Mitigate Drought Impact. Paper presented the UCOWR/NIWR Annual Conference, July 22-24, Durham, North Carolina.
Michelson, A., R. Lacewell, J. Gilley, Z. Sheng, and M. Chavez. 2008. Evaluation of Irrigation Efficiency Strategies for Far West Texas: Feasibility, Water Savings and Cost Considerations. Paper presented at the Far West Texas Water Planning Group, November 13, Alpine, Texas.
Michelson, A., R. Lacewell, J. Gilley, Z. Sheng, and M. Chavez. 2008. Water Conservation in Agriculture: How Much More Water Can Be Saved? Paper presented at the AWRA Annual Conference, November 17-20, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 95 Ronald C. Griffin Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor of Water Resources Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
Education 1980 Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1977 M.S., Economics, Colorado State University 1975 B.S., Mathematics, Colorado State University Past Appointments
1993-2012 Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Texas A&M University 1986–1993 Associate Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Texas A&M University 1980–1986 Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Texas A&M University 1979–1980 Research Associate, University of Wisconsin, U.S. Office of Water Research and Technology
Professional Activities/Awards Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing during 1991, Water Resources Research.
American Agricultural Economics Association Quality of Communication Award for 1992, Honorable Mention.
Selected Grants/Research Funding A Portfolio-based Approach to Managing Climate-related Uncertainty in Urban Water Supply Planning, Texas A&M and NOAA 9/2011 - 8/2013 $300,000
Institutional Mechanisms for Accessing Irrigation District Water 9/2010 - 8/2012 $102,443 NIWR/USGS, U.S. Department of the Interior
An Econometric Investigation of Urban Water Demand in the U.S. 10/2006 - 12/2008 $104,000 USGS, U.S. Department of the Interior
Analysis of Municipal Water Demand in Texas 10/2004 - 10/2006 $75,000 Texas Water Development Board
Cottonseed Oil as a Substitute for Diesel Fuel: Economic Feasibility 9/2001 - 8/2002 $20,778 Texas Food and Fiber Commission
Senate Bill 1 Rio Grande Regional Water Plan 3/1999 - 8/2000 $3,626 Turner, Collie, and Braden
96 Water Management and Hydrological Science Integrated Water Resource Plan Phase II 11/1997 - 2/1999 $17,397 Lower Rio Grande Development Council
The Practice of Cost-Benefit Analysis for Projects Emphasizing Navigation 1/1996 - 8/1996 $10,000 Texas Transportation Institute, Center for Ports and Waterways
Valuing and Managing Water Supply Reliability 9/1995 - 8/1996 $38,920 Texas Water Development Board
An Economic Evaluation of Water Marketing in a Low Transaction Cost Setting 9/1989 - 8/1991 $129,400 U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Selected Water Publications Books
Shortle, James S. and Ronald C. Griffin, editors. Irrigated Agriculture and the Environment. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2001.
Ronald C. Griffin. Water Resource Economics: The Analysis of Scarcity, Policies, and Projects. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.
Ronald C. Griffin, editor. Water Policy in Texas: Responding to the Rise of Scarcity. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2011.
Book Chapters
Ronald D. Lacewell, Sharif M. Masud, Ronald C. Griffin, and Glenn S. Collins. "Economic Implications of Agricultural Biomass as an Alternative Energy Source." In Energy from Biomass, Chapter VII, pp. 249-288, edited by Edward A. Hiler and Bill A. Stout. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985.
R. D. Lacewell, D. L. Larson, R. C. Griffin, G. S. Collins, and W. A. LePori. "Alternate Sources of Energy for Pumping." In Energy and Water Management in Western Irrigated Agriculture, pp. 257-290, edited by N. K. Whittlesey. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986.
Ronald C. Griffin. "The Application of Water Market Doctrines in Texas." In Markets for Water: Potential and Performance, pp. 51-63, edited by W. Easter, M. Rosegrant, and A. Dinar. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
Shortle, James S. and Ronald C. Griffin. “Economic Perspectives on Irrigated Agriculture and the Environment.” In Irrigated Agriculture and the Environment, pp. ix-xix, edited by James S. Shortle and Ronald C. Griffin. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2001.
Ronald C. Griffin. "Texas Water Marketing and Pricing." In Water Policy in Texas: Responding to the Rise of Scarcity, pp. 49-77, edited by R.C. Griffin. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2011.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 97 Ronald C. Griffin, Dannele E. Peck, and Josefina Maestu. "Introduction: Myths, Principles, and Issues in Water Trading." In Water Trading and Global Water Scarcity: International Perspectives, pp. xx-yy, edited by Josefina Maestu. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, forthcoming 2012.
Journal Articles
David Bell and Ronald C. Griffin. "An Annual Quasidifference Approach to Water Price Elasticity." Water Resources Research 44 (2008): W08420, doi:10.1029/ 2007WR006233.
Ronald C. Griffin. "Benchmarking in Water Project Analysis." Water Resources Research 44 (2008): W11418, doi:10.1029/2008WR006868.
Ronald C. Griffin. "Comment on 'Pricing for water conservation with cost recovery'." Water Resources Research 45 (2008): W10601, doi:10.1029/ 2009WR007901.
David Bell and Ronald C. Griffin. "National Urban Water Demand with Periodic Error Correction." Land Economics 87 (2011): 528-544.
Ronald C. Griffin and James W. Mjelde. "Distributing Water's Bounty." Ecological Economics 72 (2011): 116-28.
Ronald C. Griffin. "Engaging Irrigation Organizations in Water Reallocation." Natural Resources Journal. Forthcoming 2012.
Ronald C. Griffin. "The Origins and Ideals of Water Resource Economics in the U.S." Annual Review of Resource Economics 4. Forthcoming 2012.
98 Water Management and Hydrological Science Inci Guneralp Assistant Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Assistant Professor Geography Department, Texas A&M University
Education 2007 Ph.D., Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 1999 M.S., Geotechnical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey 1994 B.S., Civil Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Past Appointments 2006 Instructor Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign 1994-1997 Project Engineer IMECE Water Resources Management and Environmental Technologies, I?stanbul, Turkey
Professional Activities/Awards 2012 G.K. Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphological Research Association of American Geographers, Geomorphology Specialty Group 2006 Reds Wolman Student Research Award Association of American Geographers, Geomorphology Specialty Group 2006 Graduate Teacher Certificate Award Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 2005 Excellence in Teaching Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 2005 Best Student Paper Award AAG, Graduate Student Affinity Group 2004-2005 Charles S. Alexander Fellowship University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign 2002-2003 Marion G. Russell Graduate Fellowship University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Selected Grants/Research Funding Fluvial and coastal ecomorphodynamics: scales, scenarios and management, Ministry of Education, University and Research (Ministero dell’Universita, dell’Istruzione e della Ricerca)
Biomorphodynamic Coupling of River Meandering and Riverine Landscapes, NASA Data Grant, ALOS/PALSAR data, Alaska Satellite Facility, University of
Water Management and Hydrological Science 99 Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, PI: Gu?neralp, I?.; Co–PIs: Anthony M. Filippi, David Cairns, Award date: 03/22/2011, $9,250.
Channel Morphology based on River Styles Hydraulic and Large Scale Units of the San Antonio River at Instream Flow Selected Study Sites, the Texas Water Development Board, TAMU Project No: 10–0379, PI: Gu?neralp, I?.; Performance period: 05/01/2010–12/31/2012, TAMU, $45,000 (Students supported: X. Zhang, Ph.D. Student, Geography, as GA–R Fall 2011).
Survey and Analysis of Channel Morphology of the Brazos River along the Selected Study Sites for River Assessment, the Texas Water Development Board, Contract No: 0904830966, PI: Gu?neralp, I?., Performance period: 06/01/2010–10/31/ 2012, TAMU, $40,000 (Students supported: C. Swann, PhD student, Geography, as GA–R in Spring, Summer, and Fall 2010).
Channel Avulsion Processes on the Brazos and the Navasota Rivers, Texas, the Texas Water Development Board, Contract No: 0904830968, PI: Gu?neralp, I?., Co–PI: Filippi, A. M.; Performance period: 06/01/2010–10/31/2012, TAMU, $40,000 (Students supported: L. Chen, MS student, Geography, Spring 2010; J. Heo, PhD student, Geology, as GA–R, Summer and Fall 2010).
Curvature–migration Relations and Planform Migration of Meandering Rivers, NSF Geography and Regional Science (GRS), Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, No: BCS045209, PI: Rhoads, B. L., Co–PI: Gu?neralp, I?.; Performance period: 07/01/2004–06/31/2006, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, $10,972.
Selected Water Publications Books
2012 Abad, J.D., Güneralp, I., Zolezzi, G., Hooke, J., (Eds.) Meandering channels, Geomorphology (In press).
Book Chapters
2005 Guneralp, I., and Rhoads, B.L., The spatial structure of planform dynamics of meandering rivers, In Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, 773–782, International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research, Urbana, IL. dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781439833896.ch84
Journal Articles
Guneralp, I., Abad, J.D., Zolezzi, G., Hooke, J., 2012, Meandering channels: Advances and challenges in research, Geomorphology, dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.geomorph.2012.04.011.
Filippi, A.M., Bhaduri, B.L.,, Naughton, T., King, A.L., Scott, S.L., Gu?neralp, I?., 2011, Hyperspectral aquatic radiative transfer modeling using a high–performance computing– based approach, GIScience and Remote Sensing, 49(2), 275–298. dx.doi.org/10.2747/1548– 1603.49.2.275.
100 Water Management and Hydrological Science Guneralp, I., Rhoads, B.L., 2011, Influence of floodplain erosional heterogeneity on planform complexity of meandering rivers, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L14401. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011GL048134.
Guneralp, I., Rhoads, B.L., 2010, Spatial autoregressive structure of meander evolution revisited, Geomorphology 120(3–4), 91–106. dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.geomorph.2010.02.010.
Guneralp, I., Rhoads, B.L., 2009, Empirical analysis of planform curvature– migration relation of meandering rivers, Water Resources Research, 45, W09424. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008WR007533.
Guneralp, I., Rhoads, B.L., 2009, Planform change and stream power in the Kishwaukee River watershed, Illinois: Geomorphic assessment for environmental management, In Management and Restoration of Fluvial Systems with Broad Historical Changes and Human Impacts, edited by A. James, S. Rathburn, and R. Wittecar, GSA Special Papers 451, 109– 118. dx.doi.org/10.1130/2009.2451(07).
Abad, J.D., Rhoads, B.L., Gu?neralp, I?., Garci?a, M.H., 2008, Flow structure at different stages in a meander–bend with bendway weirs, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 134(8), 1052–1063. dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0733– 9429(2008)134:8(1052).
Guneralp, I., Rhoads, B.L., 2008, Continuous characterization of the planform geometry and curvature of meandering rivers, Geographical Analysis, 40(1), 1–25. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0016–7363.2007.00711.x.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 101 James L. Heilman Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor of Environmental Physics Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University
Education 1977 Ph.D., Agronomy, Kansas State University 1974 M.S., Agronomy, South Dakota State University 1972 B.S., Engineering Physics, South Dakota State University
Past Appointments 1980 Professor, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University 1977-1980 Research Soil Physicist, Remote Sensing Institute, South Dakota State University
Professional Activities/Awards 2003 Fellow, American Society of Agronomy 2002 Big 12 Faculty Fellowship 1989 Award of Commendation for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Water Resources, National Association of Water Institute Directors and National Association of Land Grant Universities.
Selected Water Publications Books
Shortle, James S. and Ronald C. Griffin, editors. Irrigated Agriculture and the Environment.
Book Chapters
Litvak, M.E., S. Schwinning and J. L. Heilman. 2010. Woody plant rooting depth and ecosystem function of savannas: a case study from the Edwards Plateau karst, Texas, USA.InHill,MJ., and N.P. Hanan (eds.) Ecosystem function in global savannas: Measurement and modeling at landscape to global scales.
McInnes, K. J. and J. L. Heilman. Relaxed Eddy Accumulation. 2005. Micrometeorological Measurements in Agricultural Systems. ASA Monograph 47.
Journal Articles
Elkington, R. J., K. T. Rebel, J. L. Heilman, M. E. Litvak, S. C. Dekker and G. W. Moore. 2012. Species- specific water use by woody plants on the Edwards Plateau, Texas. Ecohydrology (accepted).
102 Water Management and Hydrological Science Jarvis, J.D., R. Collett, G. Wingenbach, J. L. Heilman and D. Fowler. 2012. Developing a foundation for constructing new curricula in soil, crop, and turfgrass sciences. J. Nat. Resour. Life Sci. Educ. 41:7- 14
Moore, G. W. and J. L. Heilman. 2011. Proposed principles governing how vegetation changes affect transpiration. Ecohydrology DOI: 1002/eco.232
Tokumoto, I., J. L. Heilman, K. J. McInnes and R. H. Kamps. 2011. Sealing neutron probe access-tubes in rocky soils using expandable polyurethane foam. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 75:1922-1925
Bendevis, M. A., M. Keith Owens, J. L. Heilman and K. J. McInnes. 2010. Carbon gain and water loss from two evergreen trees in a semiarid woodland. Ecohydrology 3:107-115.
Heilman, J. L., K. J. McInnes, and J. F. Kjelgaard. 2009. Energy balance and water use in a subtropical karstwoodland on the Edwards Plateau, Texas. J. Hydrol. 373:426-435.
Savage, M. J., and J. L. Heilman. 2009. Infared calibration of net radiometers and infrared thermometers. Agric. For. Meteorol. 149:1279-1293.
Kjelgaard, J.F., J. L. Heilman, K. J. McInnes, M. K. Owens and R. H. Kamps. 2008. Carbon dioxide exchange in a subtropical, mixed C3/C4 grassland on the Edwards Plateau, TX. Agric. For. Meteorol. 148:153-163.
Manyame, C., C. L. Morgan, J. L. Heilman, D. Fatondji, B. Gerard and W. A. Payne. 2007. Modeling hydruaulic properties of sandy soils in Niger using pedotransfer functions. Geoderma 141:407-415.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 103 Bruce E. Herbert Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor and Holder of the Enron Oil and Gas Teaching Professorship in Geosciences, Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University
Education 1992 Ph.D., Soil Chemistry, University of California, Riverside 1988 M.S., Soil Science, University of California, Riverside 1982 B.A., Chemistry, Colgate University
Past Appointments 2004-2012 Texas Professional Geologist, License 3445. 2004 Member, TAMU Delegation to Universities Council on Water Resources, UCOWR. 2002-2007 Associate Director of Geosciences, Information Technology in Science (ITS) Center for Learning and Teaching, Texas A&M University 2007-2011 Assistant Department Head and Graduate Coordinator, Geology and Geophysics 1998-2003 Coordinator of Undergraduate Programs, Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University 1997-2006 Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University 1992-1997 Assistant Professor, Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University 1989-1991 DOE Research Associate, Savannah River Ecology Lab, Aiken, SC 1989-1990 Lecturer, Freshman Chemistry and Environmental Geology, University of South Carolina, Aiken, Aiken, SC
Professional Activities/Awards 2009 Awarded the EOG Teaching Professorship in Geosciences 2006 Big Bend VFT, Recommended resource for iGuide site, Encyclopaedia Britannica 2006 Assessing Technology in Teaching Award, Office of Distant Education, TAMU 2005 Nomination, K.B. Woods Award for best paper, Ettringite Formation in Lime-–Treated Soils: Establishing Thermodynamic Foundations for Engineering Practice, Transportation Research Board, National Academies
Selected Grants/Research Funding Llhoist North America. Innovative Mineral Additives for Warm Mix Asphalt: Materials and Mechanisms. 2012. B. Herbert. $20k.
104 Water Management and Hydrological Science NSF-DUE, The CIRTL Network - Shaping, Connecting, and Supporting the Future National STEM Faculty Continuation. B. Matheiu, PI. B. Herbert, Co-PI among others. $4.96 million. 2012 (award 0717768)
NSF-DUE, Cutting Edge Embedded Assessment. B. Herbert, Invited researcher. 2011-2013. Travel funding. NSF-CLT. The CIRTL Network Shaping, Connecting, and Supporting the Future National STEM Faculty. 2008-2010.
B. Mathieu, PI. B. Herbert, Co-PI among others. $5.2 million. (Award 0717768)?Federal Highway Administration. Aggregate–asphalt interactions: Role of mineral surface chemistry, organic functional groups and competition with water
2006-2011. Flexible Pavements Consortium (Western Research Institute (University of Wyoming), the Texas Transportation Institute (TAMU), the University of Wisconsin, Madison, University of Nevada-Reno and Advanced Asphalt Technologies, LLC at Sterling, Virginia). $57 million (Herbert share $300,000)
Lone Star Infrastructure. Amelioration of ettringite formation in lime-amended soils using cyclodextrin amendments. 2004-–2005. B. Herbert and D. Little. $50k.
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Miller, C., D.N. Little, A. Bhasin, N. Gardiner, and B. Herbert. In press. Surface energy characteristics of natural minerals and their impact of aggregate bitumen bond strengths and asphalt mixture durability. Transportation Res. Board. (Submitted Nov. 2011, Accepted Feb. 2012).
Kuo, L. J, Louchouarn, P., and B.E. Herbert. 2011. Influence of combustion conditions on yields of solvent extractable anhydrosugars and lignin phenols in chars: Implications for characterizations of biomass combustion residues. Chemosphere. 85(5): 797-805.
Kim, H., and B. Herbert. 2011. Inquiry resources collection as a boundary object supporting meaningful collaboration in a wiki-based scientist-teacher community. J. Sci. Ed. and Technol. 10.1007/s109560119342z.
Kim, H., Miller, H. R., Herbert, B., Pedersen, S., and C. Loving. 2011. Using a wiki in a scientist-teacher professional learning community: Impact on teacher perception changes. J. Sci. Ed. and Technol. 10.1007/s109560119336x.
Harvey, O.R., B.E. Herbert, R.D. Rhue, and L. J. Kuo. 2011. Metal interactions at the biochar water interface: Energetics and structuresorption relationships elucidated by flow adsorption microcalorimetry. Environ. Sci. and Te chnol. 45(13): 5550–5556.
Kuo, L. J, Louchouarn, P., and Herbert, B. E. 2011. Combustion derived substances in deep basins of Puget Sound: Historical inputs from fossil fuel and biomass combustion. Environ. Pollution. 159(4): 983-990.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 105 Miller, H.R., McNeal, K.S., and B.E. Herbert. 2010. Inquiry in the physical geology classroom: Supporting students' conceptual model development. J. Geog. Higher Ed. 34(4): 595-615.
Harvey, O.R.; J. P. Harris; B. E. Herbert. 2010. Natural organic matter and the formation of calciumsilicate hydrates in lime-stabilized smectites: A thermal analysis study. Thermochim. Acta. 505 (1-2):106-113
Little, D.N., S. Nair, and B. Herbert. 2010. Addressing some basic issues regarding sulfate induce heave in lime treated soils. J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng. 136(1): 110-–118.
Markley, C.T. and B.E. Herbert. 2009. Kinetic modeling of arsenate reduction by a freshwater cyanobacterium as a function of increasing N:P Ratios. Environ. Modeling and Assessment. DOI 10.1007/s1066600992128.
Choi, J.C. 2009. Adsorption, bioavailability, and toxicity of cadmium to soil microorganisms. Geomicrobiology J. 26:248–255. (Paper on PhD research conducted in Herbert’s lab)
Markley, C.T., Miller, H.R., Kneeshaw, T., and B.E. Herbert. 2009. The relationship between instructors’ conceptions of geoscience learning and classroom practice at a research university. J. Geosci. Ed. 57(4): 213-223.
Markley, C.T. and B.E. Herbert. 2009. Arsenic risk assessment: The importance of speciation in different hydrologic systems. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution. 204: DOI:10.1007/s1127000900526.
Kim, H., Miller, H. R., Herbert, B. E., Loving, C., and Pedersen, S. (2009). Evolution of collaboration and mentoring using social network tools within a professional development community for novice science teachers. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), Charleston, SC.
106 Water Management and Hydrological Science Yongheng Huang Assistant Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Assistant Professor, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University
Education 2002 Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1999 M.S., Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 1994 B.S., Environmental Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Past Appointments 2011-2012 Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, CAMRIS Technologies Corp., Texas 2005-2006 Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, Connecticut, USA 2003-2005 Postdoctoral Research Associate/Lecturer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, USA 1994-1996 Environmental Engineer, Fujian Environmental Protection Administration, Fujian, China
Professional Activities/Awards 1997-1998 Presidential Scholarship, the City University of Hong Kong 2010 Excellent Research Award, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Selected Grants/Research Funding Y.H. Huang (PI) Pilot-Scale Field Demonstration of the Hybrid ZVI/FeOx Water Treatment for Treating FGD Wastewater at Plant Wansley. $381k (Initial contract was $268k and an amendment $113k), Southern Company and Electric Power Research Institute (FY2010-2012)
Y.H. Huang (PI), C. Munster, P. Smith, R. Karthikeyan, S. Mukhtar, and M. Pina (Co-PIs) Preparing Underrepresented Scholars for Challenges in Agricultural Biosecurity and Sustainability – A Research and Leadership PhD Program. CSREES, United States Department of Agriculture, $229,500 (2008-2012)
Thomas Abia (PI), Y. Huang (Co-PI). In Situ Arsenic Removal from Groundwater using Iron Oxide Coated Sand. TWRI-USGS, $5,000 (2009-2010).
Y. Huang (PI) Field Demonstration of a Toxic Metal Removal Chemical Process and Reactor System for Treating FGD Wastewater. Southern Company, Inc. $20,000 (2009).
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Water Management and Hydrological Science 107 Huang, Y.H.; Saiers, J.E.; Harvey, J.W.; Neo, G.B., Mylon, S. (2008) “Advection, Dispersion, and Filtration of Fine Particles within Emergent Vegetation of the Florida Everglades.” Water Resources Research, 44, W04408, doi:10.1029/ 2007WR006290
Huang, Y.H.; Singh, V.P.; Smith, T.L. (2009) “Mining water from oil and gas production” Louisiana Civil Engineer, May Issue, 2009, page 11-14
Huang, Y.H.*; Zhang, T.C. (2006) “Reduction of nitrobenzene and formation of iron corrosion coatings in zerovalent iron systems.” Water Research, 40(16), 3075- 3082
Zhang, T.C.; Huang, Y.H.* (2006) “Profiling iron corrosion coating on Fe0 grains in a zero-valent iron system under the influence of dissolved oxygen.” Water Research, 40(12), 2311-2320
Huang, Y.H.*; Zhang, T.C. (2006) “Reduction of nitrite and formation of iron corrosion coatings in zerovalent iron systems.” Chemosphere, doi:10.1016/ j.chemosphere.2006.01.025
Zhang, T.C.; Huang, Y.H. (2006) “Fate of Fe2+ and evolution of iron oxides in a nitrate-removal zerovalent iron system at circumneutral pH.” Journal of Environmental Engineering (ASCE), 132(5), 527-536
He, S.J.; Huang, Y.H.; Wang, J.L. (2006) “Start-up performance of an anaerobic baffled reactor.” Journal of Tsinghua University (Qinghua Daxue Xuebao, Ziran Kexueban), 46(6), 865-867. (in Chinese)
Hu, C.; Zhang, T.C.; Kendrick, D.; Huang, Y.H.; Dahab, M.F.; Surampalli, R. (2006) “Muskegon Wastewater Land Treatment System: P Fate and Transport in Soils and Its Life Expectancy.” Engineering in Life Sciences, 6(1), 17-25
108 Water Management and Hydrological Science Fouad H. Jaber Assistant Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Texas Agrilife Extension, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Texas A&M University
Education 2001 Ph.D., Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University 1995 M.S., Irrigation, American University of Beirut 1992 B.S., Agriculture/Diploma of Agricultural Engineering, American University of Beirut
Past Appointments 2007-2012 Assistant Professor, Extension Specialist, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas Agrilife Extension, Texas A&M University System, Urban Solutions Center, Dallas, TX 2002–2007 Post- Doctoral Research Associate, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, Immokalee, FL 1999–2001 Environmental Science and Engineering Institute Fellow, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 1995-1996 Water Resources Engineer, Dar Al-Handassah (www.dargroup.com) Beirut, Lebanon 1994 Agricultural Development Worker, Save the Children Fund, Beirut, Lebanon
Professional Activities/Awards 1998 Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching in Engineering, Purdue University, 1999 Research Fellowship from the Environmental Science and Engineering Institute of Purdue University 2001 Best paper award of the Information and Emerging Technologies Division of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers 2008 Best Technical Note Award, Watershed Council, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 2011 Blue Ribbon Award for best extension publication, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
Selected Grants/Research Funding Landscape Water Conservation Demonstration-Urban Solutions Center . TCEQ Trinity River Initiative $9000. FY09 (Dotty Woodson, PI, Fouad Jaber Co-PI)
Water Management and Hydrological Science 109 Rain Gardens as a Stormwater Best Management Practice at Myers Park, Collin County. TCEQ Trinity River Initiative. $8000. FY09 (Fouad Jaber, PI)
Upper Trinity Watershed Green Building Infrastructure for Stormwater Management. TCEQ 319h grant. $644,400. FY10 (Fouad Jaber, PI, Taner Ozdil, Collaborator)
Green Infrastructure for greywater and A/C condensation reuse. Qatar National Research Fund- National Priorities Research Program. $491,045 ($279,545 for my program) FY10 (Fouad Jaber, PI, Hazim Qiblawey, co-PI)
Modeling low impact development for optimal performance in Texas Coastal Zones. Texas Sea Grant/NOAA. $189,595. FY12
Modeling the effect of stormwater control measures on stormwater runoff in League City, TX. City of League City, TX. $30,000. FY12
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Shannak S., Jaber F.H., and Lesikar B. 2012. Irrigation scheduling and tank size effect on rainwater harvesting systems as stormwater control measures. Resource Conservation and Recycling. In Review
Jaber F. H. and Shukla S. 2012. MIKE SHE: Model use, Calibration and Validation. Transactions of the ASABE. In Review
Shukla S., Jaber F. H., Goswami, D. and Srivastava S. 2012. Evapotranspiration losses for pepper under plastic mulch and shallow water table conditions. Irrigation Science. Accepted
Ampim P.A.Y., Sloan J.J., Cabrera R.I, Harp, D.A., and Jaber F.H. 2010. Green Roof Growing Substrates: Types, Ingredients, Composition and Properties. Journal of Environmental Horticulture 28(4):244-252.
Jaber F. H. and Shukla S. 2007. Accuracy of hydrodynamic modeling of flood detention reservoirs. Journal of hydrologic engineering ASCE, 12(2):225-230.
110 Water Management and Hydrological Science John S. Jacob Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor and Extension Specialist, Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism, Environmental Quality and Coastal Community Development, Texas A&M University, Director, Texas Coastal Watershed Program
Education 1992 Ph.D., Pedology, Texas A&M University 1984 M.S., Soil Science (Pedology and Mineralogy), Texas Tech University 1981 B.S., Soil Science, Texas Tech University
Past Appointments 2010 Professor and Extension Specialist, Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Sciences Department. Director, Texas Coastal Watershed Program, Houston, TX 2000-2010 Associate Professor, Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Sciences Department. Director, Texas Coastal Watershed Program 1997-2000 Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Soil and Crop Sciences Department and Texas Sea Grant, Texas A&M University. 1996-1997 Senior Environmental Scientist, Fugro International, Inc. Houston, Texas. Environmental impact assessments, oil and gas operations in South America. 1995-1996 Research Fellow, Environmental Institute of Houston, University of Houston-Clear Lake. Taught graduate course in Wetland Geoecology. Developed and taught environmental short courses in Wetlands and Environmental Site Assessment. 1994-1995 Assistant Training Specialist, Texas Engineering Extension Service. College Station, TX. Developed and taught short courses on wetland delineation and soil and groundwater remediation. 1990-2012 Independent Consultant. Scores of wetland delineations, mainly on the upper Gulf Coast of Texas; Geoarchaelogical investigations in U.S. and Central and South America. Natural resource analysis and policy.
Professional Activities/Awards 2011 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Superior Paper Award
Selected Grants/Research Funding Analysis of Wetland Loss in the Greater Houston Area, 2011, $5,000 Rice University
Water Management and Hydrological Science 111 Coastal Prairie Wetland Restoration, 2010–2013, $390,538 Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board
Rain Gardens: Mitigating Runoff, 2010–2012, $101,686 General Land Office
Dickinson Bayou Implementation Project, 2010–2011, $90,000 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
Selected Water Publications Books
Moulton, D.S., and J.S. Jacob. 2000. Texas Coastal Wetlands Guidebook. Texas Sea Grant. 66p. TAMU-SG-00-605. College Station.
Book chapters
Jacob, J.S. 2010. Urbanización resiliente: Primera respuesta al cambio climático en las costas del Golfo de México. (Resilient urbanism: First response to climate change on the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico). In: A. Yáñez-Arancibia (Ed.) Impactos del Cambio Climático sobre la Zona Costera. Instituto de Ecología A. C., INECOL, Texas Sea Grant Program NOAA, Instituto Nacional de Ecología INE-SEMARNAT, México DF. (www2.ine.gob.mx/publicaciones/ descarga.html?cv_pub=638&tipo_file=pdf&filename=638)
Journal Articles
Wilcox, B.P., D.D. Dean, J.S. Jacob, A. Sipocz. 2011. Evidence of surface connectivity for Texas Gulf Coast depressional wetlands. Wetlands 31:451-458. DOI 10.1007/s13157-011-0163-x
Jacob, J.S. 2009. Reply to Discussion – “Is denser greener? A model for evaluating higher density development as an urban stormwater-quality best management practice” by Kenneth W. Potter and Glenn E. Moglen. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 1-4. DOI: 10.1111 ⁄ j.1752-1688.2009.00382.x.
Jacob, J.S., and R. Lopez. 2009. Is denser greener? A model for evaluating higher density development as an urban stormwater-quality best management practice. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 45(3):687-701. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2009.00316.x
Schuett, M.A., J.S. Jacob, J. Lu, and L. Respess. 2008. Keeping our charm: Residents, growth, and quality of life issues in a small but growing Texas coastal community. Journal of Extension. 46, No. 6. December. Article Number 6FEA1.
Hansen, R.D., S. Bozarth, J. Jacob, D. Wahl, T. Schreiner. 2002. Climatic and Environmental Variability in the Rise of Maya Civilization: A Preliminary Perspective from Northern Peten. Ancient Mesoamerica, 13:273-295.
112 Water Management and Hydrological Science Nordt, L.C., T.W. Boutton, J.S. Jacob, R.D. Mandel. 2002. C4 plant productivity and climate-CO2 variations in South-Central Texas during the Late Quaternary. Quaternary Research 58:182-188.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 113 Ronald A. Kaiser Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Chair Water Management and Hydrologic Science Program (WMHS).
Professor, Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences, Texas A&M University
Education 1988 LL.M., University of California at Berkeley 1976 J.D., Thomas M. Cooley Law School 1971 M.S., Michigan State University 1969 B.S., Michigan State University
Past Appointments 1980-1995 Assistant/Associate Professor, Texas A&M University 1976-1980 Attorney, Michigan Department of Natural Resources 1971-1973 Environmental Specialist, Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Professional Activities/Awards 2012 Service Award, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 2005-2012 Chair of WMHS Program 2002-2005 Developed along with colleagues the WMHS program 1988-1995 Founding Editor, Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Journal
Selected Grants/Research Funding 2011 Develop Residential Water Budgets, City of College Station, $80,000. 2009 Climate Change/Impact on Water Resources, Rio Grande Basin, State of Coahuila, Mexico, $40,000. 2010 Assessing Urban Water Conservation Strategies, City of College Station, $80,000. 2008 Desalination Plant Risk Assessment, San Antonio Water System, $22,000. 2007 Storm Hazard Natural Resources Recovery Plans, National Park Service, $320,000
Selected Water Publications Book Chapters
Kaiser, R. “Conjunctive Management of Surface and Groundwater Resources” in Essentials of Texas Water Resources (M. Sahs Ed.) State Bar of Texas. 2012.
114 Water Management and Hydrological Science Kaiser, R., "Texas Water Institutions and Laws" in Water Policy in Texas: Responding to the Rise of Scarcity, (R. Griffin Ed) Resources for the Future, Wash D.C. 2011.
Kaiser, R. “Texas Water Law”, in Water and Water Rights (Robert Beck Ed.). Michie Co: Charlottesville, VA. 2009.
Journal Articles
Khedun, C. P., A. K. Mishra, J. Bolten, H. K. Beaudoing, R. A. Kaiser, J. Giardino, and V. P. Singh Understanding changes in water availability in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo del Norte basin under the influence of large-scale circulation indices using the Noah land surface model, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2011JD016590. 2012
Sanchez, R. and R. Kaiser. (2011). "Multilateral cooperation: water as a tool not as a goal" Journal of the International Relations and Affairs Group 1 (1) 75-91. 2011.
Kaiser, R. Designing the Texas A&M University Graduate Water Degree Program, Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, 139 (47). 2008.
Wagner, M , Kaiser, R and U. Kruetter. "Managing the Commons Texas Style: Wildlife Management and Groundwater Associations on Private Lands, Journal of American Water Resources Association 43(3) 698.
Wagner, M., Kaiser, R., and N. Wilkins. Collective Action and Social Capital of Wildlife Management Associations, Journal of Wildlife Management 71(5) 1729. 2007.
Kaiser, R. Groundwater Management in Texas: Intelligent Design or Evolution. Kansas Journal of Law and Policy. XV(3) 467. 2006.
Kaiser, R. Water Issues in Texas: Problems in Search of Solutions. Texas Bar Journal. March,04, 188. 2006.
Woodward, R., and R. Kaiser. Market Structures for U.S. Water Quality Trading. Review of Agricultural Economics. 24(2) 366. 2003.
Woodward, R, A.M. Wicks, and R. Kaiser. The Structures of Water Quality Trading Markets: Theory and Practice Journal of American Water Resources Association 38 (4) 967. 2002.
Kaiser, R and Frank Skillern. Deep Trouble: The Hidden Threat of Aquifer Depletion in Texas. Texas Tech Law Review 32 (2), 249. 2001.
Kaiser, R. and L. Phillips . Dividing The Waters: Water Marketing As A Reallocation And Conflict Mitigation Strategy In The Edwards Aquifer Region. Natural Resources Journal 38, 442. 2001.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 115 R. Karthikeyan Associate Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Associate Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, Texas A&M University
Education 2001 Ph.D., Engineering; Major: Biological and Agricultural Engineering Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 1997 M.S., Agricultural Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 1993 B. Eng., Agricultural Engineering Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India
Past Appointments 2011-2012 Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department Water Management and Hydrologic Science (Adjunct), Associate Professor, Texas A&M University 2005-2012 Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department Water Management and Hydrologic Science (Adjunct), Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University 2002-2005 Non-lethal Environmental Evaluation and Remediation Center Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, Post doctoral Research Associate 2001-2002 Research Associate/Laboratory Supervisor Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Professional Activities/Awards 2011 BP Teaching Excellence Award, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University Montague Teaching Scholar, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), Texas A&M University The Montague-CTE 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University 2008 Team Award for Superior Service, AgriLIFE Extension, Texas A&M University
Selected Grants/Research Funding 2009-2012 Development of watershed protection plan for Geronimo Creek Watershed, TX $162,000 2009-2012 Attoyoc Bayou water quality assessment and planning, $70,050 2009-2011 Assessment of bacterial loading in Buck Creek using the SELECT, $61,160
116 Water Management and Hydrological Science 2007-2011 Fate and transport of E. coli in rural Texas landscapes and streams, $214,989
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Sullivan, B. and R. Karthikeyan. 2011. Occurrence and prevalence of antibiotic resistant bacteria in a perennial stream. Journal of Natural and Environmental Sciences, 2(2): 25-31.
Riebschleager, K., R. Karthikeyan, R. Srinivasan, and K. McKee. 2011. Estimating potential E. coli sources in a watershed using spatially explicit modeling techniques. Journal of American Water Resources Association,(In Press).
Karthikeyan, R., P. A. Kulakow, B.A. Leven, and L. E. Erickson. 2011. Plant-based remediation of vehicle wash sediments contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons: A field demonstration. Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy, 31(1): 139-146 (published online, March 2011 DOI 10.1002/ep.10545).
Harmel, D., R. Karthikeyan, T. Gentry, and R. Srinivasan. 2010. Effects of agricultural management, land use, and watershed scale on E. coli concentrations in runoff and streamflow. Transactions of ASABE, 53 (6): 1833-1841.
Teague, A., R. Karthikeyan, M. Babar-Sebens, R. Srinivasan, and R. Persyn. 2009. Spatially explicit load enrichment calculation tool to identify E. coli sources in watersheds. Transactions of ASABE, 52(4): 1109-1120.
Deepti, R. Karthikeyan, and M. Babar-Sebens. 2009. Predicting the fate and transport of E. coli in two Texas River Basins. Journal of American Water Resources Association, 45(4): 928-944.
Babbar-Sebens, M. and R. Karthikeyan. 2009. Consideration of sample size for estimating contaminant load reductions using load duration curves. Journal of Hydrology, 372(2009): 118-123.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 117 Ann Lee Kenimer Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies
Professor Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Education 1990 Ph.D., Agricultural Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign 1987 M.S., Agricultural Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1985 B.S., Agricultural Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Past Appointments 2007-2011 Associate Dean for Academic Operations, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University 2008-2009 Interim Executive Associate Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University
Professional Activities/Awards 2008-2009 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Outstanding Alumna, Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech 2003-2005 Exemplary Teacher, National Case Study of Learner-Centered Approaches in Colleges of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources 2007 Minnie Stevens Piper Professor, Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation 2006 Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence, Texas A&M University 2006 Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award, Texas A&M University 2005-2006 CTE Faculty Teaching Academy Professor, Texas A&M University Center for Teaching Excellence 2005 Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 2004 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University 2001 W. Farrall Young Educator Award, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers 1998-1999 Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
118 Water Management and Hydrological Science Selected Grants/Research Funding NSF. Information Technology in Science Centers for Teaching and Learning. Cohort III. The Water Environment. A. Kenimer, P. Haan. $100,000. 2004-06. Approximately $60,000 to Kenimer.
NSF. Information Technology in Science Center for Teaching and Learning. Cohort II. Sustainable coastal margins. B. Herbert, S. Brody, A. Cahill, A. Kenimer. $160,000. 2002-04. Approximately $35,000 to Kenimer.
TSSWCB/USEPA, Section 319(h) Nonpoint Source Pollution Program. Wetlands for nonpoint source pollution control from small agricultural watersheds. A. L. Kenimer (PI), R. W. Griffin, L. M. Hauck, H. J. Lang, B. J. Lesikar, F. L. Mitchell. $383,029. 1996-99. Approximately $110,000 to Kenimer.
USDA Challenge Grant. Natural systems for agricultural wastewater treatment and water quality management. Overall project: S. Chen, Project Director, $151,107. TAES subcontract: A. L. Kenimer, $40,000. 1996-99. Approximately $40,000 to Kenimer.
USDA/CSREES Special Water Quality Grant. A spatial decision support system for water quality management. Overall project: J. G. Lee, Project Director, $1,930,000. TAES subcontract: R. Srinivasan, A. L. Kenimer, $577,909. 1995-99. Approximately $60,000 to Kenimer.
Texas Water Resources Institute. Effectiveness of wetlands as a best management practice for agriculture. A. L. Kenimer (PI), M. J. McFarland. $50,880. 1994-97. Approximately $40,000 to Kenimer.
Selected Water Publications Book
Peterson, T. R., A. L. Kenimer, W. E. Grant. 2004. Chapter 6: Using mediated modeling to facilitate collaborative learning among residents of the San Antonio watershed, Texas, USA, 136-163. In Mediated Modeling: Building Shared Understanding and Concerns to Solve Complex Environmental Problems, M. van der Belt, ed. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Journal Articles
Mukhtar, S., S. Sadaka, A. Kenimer, N. Rahman, J. Mathis. 2008. Acidic and alkaline bottom ash and composted manure blends as a soil amendment. Bioresource Technology 99(13): 5891-5900.
Lesikar, B. J., O. A. Garza, R. A Persyn, A. L. Kenimer, M. T. Anderson. 2006. Food service establishment wastewater characterization. Water Environment Research 78(8): 805-809.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 119 Robert William Knight Associate Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Associate Professor of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University
Education 1980 Ph.D., Range Watershed Management, Texas A&M University 1977 M.S., Range Watershed Management, Oregon State University 1975 B.S., Forest Management and Range Management, University of Nevada
Past Appointments 2010-2012 Professor and Extension Specialist. Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences Department. Director, Texas Coastal Watershed Program. Houston, TX 2000-2010 Associate Professor. Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences Department. Director, Texas Coastal Watershed Program. Houston 1992-2006 Associate Department Head for Academic and Student Affairs 1990-1992 Assistant Department Head for Student Affairs 1981-1987 Assistant Professor of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University 1980-1981 Post Doctoral Research Associate, Texas A&M University
Professional Activities/Awards 2011 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Superior Paper Award. 2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Range Science Education Council and Society for Range Management 2006 Honorary Member - Golden Key Honor Society 2005 Outstanding Publication Award, Texas Section Society for Range Management 2005 Melvin and Annette Peters Advising Award, Texas A&M University 2005 Association of Former Students Distinguished College Level Teaching Award 2004 Mentor of the Year, Texas A&M University 2001 National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Teaching Award of Merit 2001, 2005 Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher - Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management.
120 Water Management and Hydrological Science Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Wilcox, B., K. Owens, R.W. Knight, R. Lyons. 2005. Do Woody plants affect streamflow on semiarid karst rangelands? Ecological Applications. 15: 127-136.
Savabi, M.R., W.J. Rawls, R.W. Knight. 1995. Water erosion prediction project (WEPP) rangeland hydrology component evaluation on a Texas range site. J. Range Manage. 48: 535-541.
Knight, R.W. 1993. Managing environmental impacts of grazing. In Proceeding of Livestock Stocking Rate Workshop. Presented six times throughout Texas in 1993 and 1994.
Welch, T.G., R.W. Knight, K. Caudle, A. Garza, and J.M. Sweeton. 1991. Impact of grazing management on nonpoint source pollution. Texas Agriculture Extension Service. L-5002. 4p.
Carlson, D.E., T.L. Thurow, R.W. Knight, and R.K. Heitschmidt. 1990. Affect of mesquite removal on the water balance of Texas Rolling Plains Rangeland. J. Range Manage. 43:491-496.
Skousen, J.G., C.A. Call and R.W. Knight. 1990. Natural revegetation of an unreclaimed lignite surface mine in east-central Texas. Southwestern Naturalist. 35;434-440.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 121 Ronald D. Lacewell Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Federal Relations, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
Education 1970 Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University 1967 M.S., Agricultural Economics, Texas Tech University 1964 B.S., Statistics, American University 1963 B.S., Agricultural Economics, Texas Tech University
Past Appointments 1973-1978 Associate Professor, Texas A&M University 1970-1973 Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University 1967-1970 Economist, U.S.D.A., ERS 1966 Instructor, Texas Tech University 1963-1964 Statistician, Bureau of the Census
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Lacewell, R.D., M. Dubois, A.M. Michelsen, M.E. Rister, and A.W. Sturdivant. “Transboundary Water Crises: Learning From Our Neighbors in the Rio Grande (Bravo) and Jordan River Watersheds.” Journal of Transboundary Water Resources. Vol. 01, pp.95-123 (February, 2010).
Boyer, C.N., M.E. Rister, C.S. Rogers, A.W. Sturdivant, R.D. Lacewell, C.?Browning, J.R. Elium III and E.K. Seawright. “Economies of Size in Municipal Water Treatment Technologies: A Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley Case Study.” Texas Water Resources Institute. TR-367. College Station, TX. July 2010.
Rogers, C.S., A.W. Sturdivant, M.E. Rister, R.D. Lacewell, and J.G. Santiago. “Economic and Financial Costs of Conventional Surface-Water Treatment: A Case Study of the McAllen Northwest Facility.” Texas Water Resources Institute. TR-311. College Station, TX. February, 2010.
Sheng, Z. A.W. Sturdivant, A.M. Michelsen, and R.D Lacewell. “Rapid Economic Assessment of Flood-Control Failure Along the Rio Grande: A Case Study.” In Chennat Gopalakrishnan and Norio Okada (Eds.), Water and Disasters (pp. 86- 106). New York: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group (January, 2008).
Boyer, C.N. “Economies of Size in Municipal Water Treatment Technologies: Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley. Master’s thesis. Texas A&M University. August 2008. Co-Chair
122 Water Management and Hydrological Science Rogers, C.S. “Economic Costs of Conventional Surface-Water Treatment: A Case Study of the McAllen Northwest Facility.” Master’s thesis. Texas A&M University. May 2008. Co-Chair
Yow, S.R. "An Investigation of Unintended Consequences of Legislation." Undergraduate thesis. Texas A&M University. April 2008. Mentor
Water Management and Hydrological Science 123 Ming-Han Li Associate Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Associate Professor/Associate Research Engineer of Texas Transportation Institute
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
Education 2001 Ph.D., Engineering; Major: Biological and Agricultural Engineering Kansas State 2002 Ph.D., Urban and Regional Science, Texas A&M University 1998 Master of Landscape Architecture, Texas A&M University 1995 M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Texas 1990 B.S., Agricultural Engineering, National Taiwan University
Past Appointments 2003-2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University 2001-2003 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University 2000 Assistant Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University 1996-2000 Associate Research Engineer, Environmental Management Program, Texas Transportation Institute 2003-2010 Assistant Research Engineer, Environmental Management Program, Texas Transportation Institute 2003 Acting Program Manager, Environmental Management Program, Texas Transportation Institute
Selected Grants/Research Funding 2010-2013 Co-PI, Preparing for EPA Effluent Limitation Guidelines. Texas Department of Transportation. With (PI) Jett McFalls (Texas Transportation Institute), Michael Barrett (The University of Texas at Austin) and Ted Cleveland (Texas Tech University). $736,293 2009-2011 Co-PI, Establish Effective Lower Bounds of Watershed Slope for Traditional Hydrologic Methods. Texas Department of Transportation. With (PI) Ted Cleveland (Texas Tech University) and Will Asquith (USGS). $464,600 (26%) 2007-2012 PI, Bioretention for Stormwater Quality Improvement in Texas. Texas Department of Transportation. With Mike Teal (Texas Transportation Institute) and Kung-Hui Chu (TAMU). $564,364 (70%)
124 Water Management and Hydrological Science 2007-2009 Co-PI, Water Retention Techniques for Roadside Vegetation Establishment in Arid Regions of Texas. Texas Department of Transportation. With Jim Schutt (PI, Texas Transportation Institute), Jim Rogers (WTAMU) and Clay Robinson (WTAMU). $183,000 (3%) 2007-2009 Co-PI, Roadside Sediment Control Device Evaluation Program. Texas Department of Transportation. With Jett McFalls (PI, Texas Transportation Institute). $270,000 (5%) 2006-2010 Co-PI, Synthesis and Study of the Establishment and Management of Roadside Vegetation. Texas Department of Transportation. With Jim Schutt (PI) and Jett McFalls (Texas Transportation Institute). $510,000 (5%)
Selected Water Publications Book chapters
Ingold, T.S., Li, M.-H., 2011. Chapter 10. Slopes – erosion control. In: S.K. Shukla (Ed.), Handbook of Geosynthetic Engineering, 2nd Edition, Thomas Telford Ltd., London, UK, 209-222.
Li, M.-H., Dvorak, B., Sung, C.Y., 2010. Bioretention, low impact development, and stormwater management. In: J. Aitkenhead-Peterson, V. Astrid (Eds.), Urban Ecosystem Ecology. Agronomy Monograph 55. American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, 413-430.
Li, M.-H., 2007. Case study 2: Goode Road/Cottonwood Creek, Hutchins, Texas. In: National Engineering Handbook, 210-VI, Part 654: Stream Restoration Design, Case Studies. Natural Resource Conservation Service, The United States Department of Agriculture, CS2-1-CS2-9.
Journal Articles
Li, M.-H., Sung, C.Y., Kim, M.-H., Chu, K.-H., 2012. Performance of bioretention system in treating urban highway runoff: a comparison study of designs with and without an internal water storage layer. Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China, ISSN 1673-1530 (in English and Chinese), 140-147.
Kim, M., Sung, C.Y., Li, M.-H., Chu, K.-H., 2012. Bioretention for stormwater quality improvement in Texas: removal effectiveness of Escherichia coli. Separation and Purification Technology, 84, 120-124.
Sung, C.Y., Li, M.-H., 2012. Considering plant phenology for improving the accuracy of urban impervious surface mapping in subtropical climate regions. International Journal of Remote Sensing 33 (1), 261-275.
Li, M.-H., Sung, C.Y., Kim, M., Chu, K.-H., 2011. Assessing performance of bioretention boxes in hot and semi-arid regions: a highway application pilot study.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 125 Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2262, 155-163.
Sung, C.Y., Li, M.-H., Rogers, G.O., Volder, A., Wang, Z., 2011. Investigating alien plant invasion in urban riparian forests in a hot and semi-arid region. Landscape and Urban Planning 100, 278- 286 .
Yang, B., Li, M.-H., 2011. Assessing planning approaches by watershed streamflow modeling: case study of The Woodlands, Texas. Landscape and Urban Planning 99, 9-22.
McFalls, J., Raut Desai, A., Foster, D., Li, M.-H., 2010. Proposed test protocol for evaluating the performance of sediment control devices for roadside stormwater runoff. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2170, 74-83.
Sung, C.Y., Li, M.-H., 2010. The effect of urbanization on stream hydrology in hillslope watersheds in central Texas. Hydrological Processes 24, 3706-3717.
Yang, B., Li, M.-H., 2010. Ecological engineering in a new town development: drainage design in The Woodlands, Texas. Ecological Engineering 36 (12), 1639- 1650.
Li, M.-H., Yi, Y.-J., McFalls, J., 2009. Lifetime cost and performance of slope erosion control products for construction. Geosynthetics International 16 (3), 139-146.
Lee, J.S., Li, M.-H., 2009. The impact of detention basin design on residential property value: case studies using GIS in the hedonic price modeling. Landscape and Urban Planning 89 (1-2), 7-16.
Li, M.-H., Chibber, P., 2008. Overland flow time of concentration on very flat terrains. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2060, 133-140.
Li, M.-H., Khanna, S., 2008. Aging of rolled erosion control products for channel erosion control. Geosynthetics International 15 (4), 224-231.
Li, M.-H., Barrett, M.E., 2008. The relationship between antecedent dry period and highway pollutant: conceptual models of buildup and removal processes. Water Environment Research 80 (8), 740-747.
126 Water Management and Hydrological Science Michael K. Lindell Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
Director of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, Texas A&M University
Education 1975 Ph. D., Social/Quantitative Psychology, University of Colorado 1969 B.A., Psychology, University of Colorado
Past Appointments 1997-2001 Professor of Construction Science, Texas A&M University 1996-1997 Associate Professor of Administrative Sciences, George Washington University 1995-1996 Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology, George Washington University 1995-1996 Research Associate Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University 1987-1995 Associate Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University 1986-1987 Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology 1974-1989 Research Scientist, Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers
Selected Water Publications Books
Lindell, M.K., Prater, C.S. and Perry, R.W., 2007, Introduction to Emergency Management. Hoboken NJ: John Wiley.
Perry, R.W. and Lindell, M.K., 2007, Emergency Planning. Hoboken NJ: John Wiley.
Lindell, M.K., Prater, C.S. and Perry, R.W., 2006, Fundamentals of Emergency Management. Emmitsburg MD: Federal Emergency Management Agency Emergency Management Institute.
Lindell, M.K. and Perry, R.W., 2004, Communicating Environmental Risk in Multiethnic Communities. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage
Tierney, K.J., Lindell, M.K. and Perry, R.W., 2001, Facing the Unexpected: Disaster Preparedness and Response in the United States. Washington DC: Joseph Henry Press
Water Management and Hydrological Science 127 Book chapters
Lindell, M.K. (in press). Emergency management. In P. Bobrowsky (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards. Heidelburg: Springer.
Lindell, M.K. (in press). Recovery and reconstruction after disaster. In P. Bobrowsky (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards. Heidelburg: Springer.
Lindell, M.K. (in press). Response to environmental disasters. In S. Clayton (Ed.) Handbook of environmental and conservation psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Lindell, M.K. (in press). North American cities at risk: Household responses to environmental hazards. In T. Rossetto, H. Joffe and J. Adams (Eds.). Cities at Risk: Living with Perils in the 21st Century. Dordrecht: Springer.
Lindell, M.K. (2012). Risk perception and risk communication. In P. Bobrowsky (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards. Heidelburg: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978- 1-4020-4399-4,
Lindell, M.K. (2011). Disaster studies. In B. Klandermans (Ed.) Sociopedia. Available at www.sagepub.net/isa/resources/pdf/Disaster%20Studies.pdf.
Lindell, M.K. (2011). Katrina trailers: A cautionary tale about the challenges of temporary housing. In E.J. Blakely et al. (Eds.) Managing Urban Disaster Recovery: Policy, Planning, Concepts and Cases (pp. 158-160). New York: Crisis Response Publications.
Lindell, M.K. (2008). Cross-sectional research. In N. Salkind (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology (pp. 206-213). Thousand Oaks CA: Sage.
Lindell, M.K. and Perry, R.W. (2007). Planning and preparedness. In K.J. Tierney and W.F. Waugh, Jr. (Eds.) Emergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government, 2nd ed. (pp. 113-141). Washington DC: International City/ County Management Association.
Perry, R.W. and Lindell, M.K. (2007). Responding to disaster. In K.J. Tierney and W.F. Waugh, Jr. (Eds.) Emergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government, 2nd ed. (pp. 159-181). Washington DC: International City/County Management Association.
Journal Articles
Lindell, M.K. and Perry, R.W. (2012). The Protective Action Decision Model: Theoretical modifications and additional evidence. Risk Analysis, 32, 616-632.
Wu, H.C., Lindell, M.K. and Prater, C.S. (2012). Logistics of hurricane evacuation in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 15, 445-461.
128 Water Management and Hydrological Science Tang, Z., Lindell, M.K. Prater, C.S., Wei, T. and Hussey, C.M. (2011). Examining local coastal zone management capacity in U.S. Pacific coastal counties. Coastal Management, 39, 105-132.
Lindell, M.K., *Kang, J.E. and Prater, C.S. (2011). The logistics of household evacuation in Hurricane Lili. Natural Hazards, 58, 1093-1109.
Ge, Y., Peacock, W.G. and Lindell, M.K. (2011). Florida households’ expected responses to hurricane hazard mitigation incentives. Risk Analysis, 31, 1676-1691.
Lindell, M.K. and Prater, C.S. (2010). Tsunami preparedness on the Oregon and Washington coast: Recommendations for research. Natural Hazards Review, 11, 69- 81.
Zhang, Y., Hwang, S.N. and Lindell, M.K. (2010). Hazard proximity or risk perception? Evaluating environmental hazards’ effects on housing value. Environment and Behavior, 42, 597-624.
Zhang, Y., Lindell, M.K. and Prater, C.S. (2009). Vulnerability of community businesses to environmental disasters. Disasters, 33, 38-57.9
Al-Nammari, F.M. and Lindell, M.K. (2009). Earthquake recovery of historic buildings: Exploring cost and time needs. Disasters, 33, 457-481.
Lindell, M.K., Arlikatti, S. and Prater, C.S. (2009). Why people do what they do to protect against earthquake risk: Perceptions of hazard adjustment attributes. Risk Analysis, 29, 1072-1088.
Terpstra, T., Lindell, M.K. and Gutteling, J.M. (2009). Does communicating (flood) risk affect (flood) risk perceptions? Results of a quasi-experimental study. Risk Analysis, 29, 1141-1155.
Zahran, S., Weiler, S., Brody, S.D., Lindell, M.K. and *Highfield, W.E. (2009). Modeling national flood insurance policy holding at the county scale in Florida, 1999-2005. Ecological Economics, 68, 2627-2636.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 129 Franco Marcantonio Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Robert R. Berg Professor in Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University
Assistant Department Head, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University
Education 1994 Ph.D., Geological Sciences, Columbia University, Lamont- Doherty Earth Observatory 1992 MPhil Geological Sciences, Columbia University, Lamont- Doherty Earth Observatory 1988 M.S., Geology, McMaster University 1986 B.S., Double major: Chemistry and Geology, Carleton University
Past Appointments 1996-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Tulane University 2002-2006 Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University 2006-2010 Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M 1995-1996 Post-doctoral research associate, Yale University. Osmium isotopes in coastal and deep-sea sediments. Advisor: Karl Turekian 1994-1995 Post-doctoral research scientist, Columbia University. Helium in deep-sea sediments. Advisors: Robert Anderson and Peter Schlosser
Professional Activities/Awards 2012 Holder of the Robert R. Berg Professorship 1997-2006 Member of the Speaking of Science Program (Louisiana BoRSF) 1997-1998 Oak Ridge Associated Universities Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
Selected Grants/Research Funding 230Th dynamics in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean: testing the 230Th- normalization method to estimate sediment fluxes. Principal Investigator (co-PI M. Lyle, Department of Oceanography, TAMU), National Science Foundation, 07/ 01/09-06/30/12, $401,841.
Constraining Temporal Movement of the ITCZ in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Using Radiogenic Isotopes. Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, 07/01/2011-6/30/2013, $234,035.
130 Water Management and Hydrological Science Principal Investigator (co-PIs E. Grossman, B. Miller, M. Schmidt, D. Thomas),National Science Foundation, Acquisition of a High-Resolution Inductively-Coupled Plasma for Earth and Environmental Science Research at Texas A&M University, 08/01/08-07/31/11, $450,000.
Investigating the He-3/Th-230 ratios as a proxy for deep-sea sediment redistribution National Science Foundation, Principal Investigator (co-PI J. McManus at WHOI),10/01/05-09/30/08 (in no-cost extension), $136,000 ($211,000 to WHOI).
Millennial variations in Arabian Sea sediment proxies: connection to N. Atlantic climate National Science Foundation (Earth System History Program: Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Division of the NSF), Principal Investigator (co-PI Tom Bianchi), 5/1/2004-4/30/2007, $204,507.
Collaborative research: An isotope ratio mass spectrometer for biogeoscience research and teaching at the University of New Orleans and Tulane University, National Science Foundation, co-Principal Investigator (PI Jim Sickman at UNO), 09/01/04-08/31/06, $185,612.
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Xie, R.C. and Marcantonio F., 2012, Deglacial Dust Provenance Changes in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific and Implications for ITCZ Movement, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 317-318, 386-395.
Woodard, S. C., Thomas, D. J., and Marcantonio, F., 2012, Thorium-derived dust fluxes to the equatorial Pacific Ocean, 58 Ma, GCA, in press.
Piela, C., Lyle, M., Marcantonio, F., Baldauf, J., and Olivarez Lyle, A., 2012, Biogenic Sedimentation in the Equatorial Pacific: Carbon Cycling and Paleoproduction, 12-24 Ma, Paleoceanography, in press.
Schmidt, M, Weinlein, W., Marcantonio, F., and Lynch-Stieglitz, J., 2012, Solar forcing of the global tropical hydrologic cycle during the early Holocene, Paleoceanography, in press.
Louchouarn, P., Kuo, L-J., Brandenberger, J., Marcantonio, F., Garland, C. and Gill G., 2012, Pyrogenic inputs of anthropogenic Pb and Hg to sediments of the Hood Canal, Washington, in the 20th century: Evidence from stable Pb isotopes and PAH signatures, Environmental Science and Technology, in press.
Xie, R., Marcantonio, F., Schmidt, M., 2012, Response of Antarctic Intermediate Water to weaker Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during the last deglaciation, Paleoceanography, in revision.
Allison, M. A., Bianchi, T. S., Miller, A. J., Schreiner, K. M., and Marcantonio, F., 2012, Developing Late Holocene Climate Archives from Arctic Coastal Settings Using Organic and Mineral Proxies, Geophysical Research Letters, in review.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 131 Singh, A.K, Marcantonio, F., Lyle, M., 2012, Dissolved 230Th-232Th Dynamics in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean, to be submitted to Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Singh, A., Marcantonio, F., Lyle, M. ,2011, Sediment focusing in the Panama Basin, Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 309, 33-44, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.06.020.
Miller, C. A., Peucker-Ehrenbrink, B., Walker, B. D., and Marcantonio, F., 2011, Re- assessing the surface cycling of molybdenum and rhenium, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75, 7146-7179.
McGee, D., Marcantonio, F., McManus, J., Winckler, G., 2010, The response of excess 230Th and extraterrestrial 3He to sediment redistribution at the Blake Ridge, western North Atlantic, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 299, 138-149, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.029.
Marcantonio, F., Thomas, D., Woodard, S., McGee, D., and Winckler, G., 2009, Extraterrestrial 3He in Paleocene sediments from Shatsky Rise: Constraints on sedimentation rate variability, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 287, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.07.029.
Francois, R., Frank, M., Rutgers van der Loeff, M., Bacon, M. P., Geibert, W., Kienast, S., Anderson, R. F., Bradtmiller, L., Chase, Z., Henderson, G., Marcantonio, F., and Allen, S. E., 2007, A reply to “Do geochemical estimates of sediment focusing pass the sediment test in the equatorial Pacific?” Paleoceanography, 22, PA1216, doi:10.1029/2005PA001235.
Xu, Y. and Marcantonio, F., 2007, Strontium isotope variations in the lower Mississippi River and its estuarine mixing zone, Marine Chemistry, 105, 118-128, doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2007.01.004.
McGee, D., Marcantonio, F., and Lynch-Stieglitz, J., 2007, Deglacial changes in dust flux in the eastern equatorial Pacific, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 257, 215- 230, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.033.
Grzymko, T., Marcantonio, F., McKee, B. A., and Stewart, C. M. (2007) Temporal variability of uranium concentrations and 234U/238U activity ratios in the Mississippi River and its tributaries, Chemical Geology, 243, 344-356, doi:10.1016/ j.chemgeo.2007.05.024.
Pourmand, A., Marcantonio, F., Bianchi, T. S., Canuel, E. A., and Waterson, E. J., 2007, A 28-ka history of sea surface temperature, primary productivity and planktonic community variability in the western Arabian Sea, Paleoceanography, 22, PA4208, doi:10.1029/2007PA001502.
132 Water Management and Hydrological Science Christopher C. Mathewson Regents Professor Emeritus [email protected]
Current Appointment Senior Professor and Regents Professor, Emeritus Engineering Geology, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University
Education 1971 Ph.D., Geological Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 1965 M.S., Geological Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 1963 B.S., Civil Engineering, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio
Past Appointments 2011 Named Regents Professor Emeritus, Texas A&M University 2001 Senior Professor, Geology, Texas A&M University 1982-2011 Professor, Geology (Engineering Geology), Department of Geology and Geophysics 1982-1996 Director, Center for Engineering Geosciences 1992 WES Graduate Institute, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS 1988 WES Graduate Institute, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS 1978-1982 Leader, Engineering Geosciences Research Program, College of Geosciences 1977-1978 Director, Center for Applied Geosciences, College of Geosciences 1976-1982 Associate Professor, Geology (Engineering Geology), Department of Geology 1971-1976 Assistant Professor, Geology (Engineering Geology), Department of Geology
Professional Activities/Awards 2011 Christopher C. Mathewson Scholarship 2011 Charles R. Sherman Award 2008 Engineering Geologists 2008 Karl and Ruth Terzaghi Outstanding Mentor Award 2007 Pete Henley Mentor Award
Selected Grants/Research Funding 2007 Unusual Sedimentation of a Galveston Bay Wetland, Pine Gully, Seabrook, Texas, City of Seabrook, TX.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 133 2005 Simplified Method for Estimating Scour, Texas Department of Transportation, Austin, TX, 1 September 2005 — 31 August 2007, jointly with Civil Engineering and Texas Transportation Institute, $222,575.00
Selected Water Publications Book
Lignite, Proceedings, 1980, Texas A&M University Lignite Symposium, Texas A&M University, Center for Energy and Mineral Resources, College Station, TX.
Engineering Geology, 1981, Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, Columbus, OH, 450p.
Rock Mechanics, Theory--Experiment-Practice,1983, Proceedings, 24th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Texas A&M University/Association of Engineering Geologists, 858 p.
Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Physical-Chemical-Biological Processes Affecting Archaeological Sites, 1989, Department of the Army, US Army Engineers, Washington, DC, Contract Report EL-89-1, 301 p.
Journal Articles
The Role of the San Antonio River in History, Development and Success of San Antonio, Field trip led for the National Association of State Boards of Geology (ASBOG), 2011, Field Trip Guidebook, 41 p.
Impact of Hurricane Ike on an Engineered Coast, Texas Section of the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, 2010, Field Trip Guidebook, 47 p., with Eric Stiffler
J. Bowman, M. Adams, K. McLeroy, V. Nathan, C. Mathewson, T. McDonald, 2010, The Detection of Sub-lethal Concentrations of Cyanide in Drinking Water Using the Eclox Enhanced Chemiluminescence (ECL) Assay,”
The “Grand Canyon” of Canyon lake: Geologic Risks to Visitors, Texas Section of the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, 2009, Field Trip Guidebook, 22 p., with Benjamin Kolkmeier
Hurricane Ike – Impact on an Engineered Coast, Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, 2008, AEG News, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 20-24, with Eric A. Stiffler
134 Water Management and Hydrological Science Bruce A. McCarl Regents Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Texas Agrilife Research, Senior Faculty Fellow
Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M University, TAES Fellow
Regents Professor, Texas A&M University
Professor, Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
Education 1973 Ph.D., Management Science, Pennsylvania State University 1970 B.S., Business Statistics, University of Colorado
Past Appointments 1982-1985 Professor, Agriculture and Resource Economics, Oregon State University 1980 Visiting Professor, Agriculture and Resource Economics, Oregon State University 1979-1982 Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Purdue University 1973-1978 Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Purdue University
Professional Activities/Awards IPCC Lead Author on Economics of Adaptation for 2013 report IPCC Mitigation Chapter Lead Author and participant in 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Member NAS America's Climate Choices Study, Limiting Panel
Member Texas Water Development Board Climate Change Panel
Journal Editor, Associate Editor AJAE 1986-1991; Associate Editor Water Resources Research 1989-2001; Associate Editor Climatic Change, 2001-date; Coordinating Editor, Choices 2004-7
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Chang, C.C., C.C. Chen, and B.A. McCarl, "Evaluating the Economic Impacts of Climate Change Induced Sea Level Rise with Possible Adaptation Strategies on Taiwan Agricultural Sector", Agricultural Economics, forthcoming, 2012.
Mu, J.E., B.A. McCarl, and A. Wein, "Climate Influences on Livestock and Crop Land Use", Mitigation and Adaptation of Strategies for Global Change, forthcoming, 2012.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 135 Koleva, N.G., U.A. Schneider, and B.A. McCarl, "Pesticide and greenhouse gas externalities from US agriculture - The impact of their internalization and climate change", Climate Change Economics, forthcoming, 2011.
Chambwera, M., G. Heal, C. Dubeux, S. Hallegatte, L. Leclerc, A. Markandya, B.A. McCarl, R. Mechler, and J. Neumann, "Economics of Adaptation", IPCC WG II Contribution to The Fifth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2013: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Gillig, D., B.A. McCarl, L.L. Jones, and F.O. Boadu, "Economic Efficiency and Cost Implications of Habitat Conservation: An Example in the Context of the Edwards Aquifer Region," Water Resources Research, 40(4), 2004.
Koleva, N.G., U.A. Schneider, and B.A. McCarl, "Pesticide and greenhouse gas externalities from US agriculture - The impact of their internalization and climate change", Climate Change Economics, forthcoming, 2011.
Feng, S.J., A.D. Hagerman, J.H. Mu, B.A. McCarl, and W.W. Wang, "Climate Change and the West: A Multifaceted Issue", Western Economics Forum, Volume IX, 1- 10, 2010.
McCarl, B.A., "Analysis of Climate Change implications for Agriculture and Forestry: An Interdisciplinary Effort", Climatic Change, 100, 119-124, 2010.
Chen, C. D. Gillig, B.A. McCarl, "Effects of Climatic Change on a Water Dependent Regional Economy: A Study of the Texas Edwards Aquifer", Climatic Change, 49, 397-409, 2001.
Chen, C.C., and B.A. McCarl, "Pesticide Usage as Influenced by Climate: A Statistical Investigation", Climatic Change, 50, 475-487, 2001.
Chen, C.C., and B.A. McCarl, "Hurricanes and possible intensity increases: Effects on and reactions from US Agriculture", Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 41, 1(April ), 125-144, 2009.
McCarl, B.A., "Vulnerability of Texas Agriculture to Climate Change", Impact of Global Warming on Texas, Chapter 6, Second Edition, edited by Jurgen Schmandt, Judith Clarkson and Gerald R. North, University of Texas Press, ISBN: 978-0-292- 72330-6, 2011.
McCarl, B., X. Villavicencio, and X. Wu, "Climate Change and Future Analysis: Is Stationarity Dying", American J. of Agricultural Economics, Volume 90, Issue 5, 1242- 1247, 2008.
136 Water Management and Hydrological Science Kevin J. McInnes Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor of Environmental Physics, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University
Education 1985 Ph.D., Agronomy, Washington State University 1981 M.S., Soil Science, Washington State University 1979 B.S., Agronomy, Kansas State University
Past Appointments 1994-2000 Associate Professor, Texas A&M University 1988-1994 Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University 1985-1988 Research Scientist, CSIRO, Australia
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
McInnes, K.J. and J.T. Thomas. 2012. Passive control of downslope capillary wicking of water in sand-based root zones. Hort Science. 47:275-279.
Goebel, T.S., K.J. McInnes, S.A. Senseman, R.J. Lascano, L.S. Marchand, T.A. Davis. 2011. Modifying polymer flocculants for the removal of inorganic phosphate from water. Tetrahedron. Lett. 52: 5241-5244.
McInnes, K.J. and J.T. Thomas. 2011. Water storage in putting greens constructed with United States Golf Association and Airfield Systems designs. Crop Sci. 51:1261- 1267.
Bendevis, M.A., M. Keith Owens, J.L. Heilman and K.J. McInnes. 2010. Carbon gain and water loss from two evergreen trees in a semiarid woodland. Ecohydrology 3:107-115.
Heilman, J. L., K. J. McInnes, and J. F. Kjelgaard. 2009. Energy balance and water use in a subtropical karst woodland on the Edwards Plateau, Texas. J. Hydrol. 373:426-435.
Piñuela, J.A., D. Andina, K.J. McInnes, A.M. Tarquis. 2007. Wavelet analysis in a structured clay soil using 2-D images. Nonlin. Processes Geophys. 14:425–434.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 137 James W. Mjelde Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
Education 1985 Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois 1982 M.S., Applied Economics, Montana State University 1980 B.S., Fish and Wildlife Management, Montana State University 1979 B.S., Premedicine, Montana State University
Past Appointments 1994-1997 Graduate Advisor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University 1990-1995 Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University 1985-1990 Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University 1996-2001 Faculty Associate, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
Professional Activities/Awards Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University, Distinguished Achievement Award – Teaching, College Level, 2011.
Fellow to the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS), University of Oklahoma, August 1994 - present.
Faculty Recognition Award given by Graduate Students Association - September 1995.
Outstanding Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics given by the Agricultural Economics Undergraduate Club, 1988 89 and 1989 90 academic years.
Selected Grants/Research Funding America’s Locks and Dams: “A Ticking Time Bomb for Agriculture?” United Soybean Board, Co-Principle Investigator, (March 2011 – December 2012), $138,900
Impacts of Biomass Sorghum Feedstock Production on Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the South Central Region, USDA, Co-Project Director, (March 2011 - February 2016), $995,100 joint with Prairie View A&M and TAMU AGEC Component $110,011
The Value of Non-Medical Transportation for Improving the Quality of Life for the Rural Elderly: Methodology and Information Considerations, University
138 Water Management and Hydrological Science Transportation Center for Mobility, Principal Investigator, (January 2011 -August 2012), $119,987
Climate Information for Managing Risk through Agricultural Land and Machinery Contractual Arrangements, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Co-Principal Investigator (June 2004-September 2008), $187,501
Effect of Climate Change, Forest Certification, Biotechnology and Industrial Concentration on the U.S. Forest Products Industry and Trade USDA CSREES (August 2003 - August 2006). Co-Principal Investigator, $175,000
Development of Climate Forecasts Decision Making Teaching Materials for Junior High School Teachers and Students National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Principal Investigator, (May 2003-April 2006), $229,874
Effects of Seasonal Climate Forecasts on the Competitiveness in the Grain Market National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Principal Investigator, (April 1, 1996 - May, 1999), $214,815
Selected Water Publications Book chapters
Griffin, R.C. and J.W. Mjelde. “Valuing Water Supply Reliability.” American Journal Agricultural Economics 82(May 2000): 414-426. Reprinted in Grafton, R. Quentin, editor. Economics of Water Resources. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009
Jerko, C.A., J.W. Mjelde, and D.A. Bessler. “Dynamic Interactions in the Western United States Electricity Spot Markets.” Modeling Prices in Competitive Electricity Markets, D.W. Bunn, ed. John Wiley and Sons, Finance Series. April 2004
Shafer, C. and J.W. Mjelde. “Weather, Agricultural Production, and Futures.” in Handbook of Agricultural Meteorology, J.F. Griffiths, ed. Oxford University Press. New York. 1994
Mjelde, J.W., L. Garoian, and J.R. Conner. “Counterintuitive Decision Rules in Complex Dynamic Models: A Case Study.” In Proceedings: Applications of Dynamic Programming to Agricultural Decision Problems, C.R. Taylor ed. Westview Press. Boulder, CO. 1993
Mjelde, J.W., R.D. Lacewell, H. Talpaz, and C.R. Taylor. “Economics of Irrigation Management.” In Management of Farm Irrigation Systems, G.J. Hoffman, T.A. Howell and K.H. Solomon editors. American Society Agricultural. Engineers. 1990
Journal Articles
Kim, J.Y., J.W. Mjelde, T.K. Kim, C.K. Lee, and K.M. Han. , 2012, “Comparing Willingness-to-Pay Between Residents and Non-residents When Correcting Hypothetical Bias: Case of Endangered Spotted Seal in South Korea.”
Water Management and Hydrological Science 139 Lee, C.K., J.W. Mjelde, and T.K. Kim., 2012,“Estimating the Effects of Different Admission Fees on Revenues for a Mega-Event Using a Contingent Valuation Method.”
Jin, Y., J.W. Mjelde, and K.K. Litzenberg., 2011, “Importance of Job Attributes and Location in Undergraduate Students’ Initial Job Selection.”
Mjelde, J.W., Y.H. Jin, C.K. Lee, T.K. Kim, and S.Y. Han. “Development of a Bias Ratio to Examine Factors Influencing Differences in People’s Actions.” Journal of Environmental Management 95(2012): 39-48.
Griffin, R.C. and J.W. Mjelde. “Distributing Water’s Bounty.” Ecological Economics 72 (15 December 2011): 116-128.
Wolfley, J.L., J.W. Mjelde, D.A. Klinefelter,V. Salin. “Machinery Sharing Contractual Issues and Impacts on Net Returns of Agribusiness Firms.” Journal of Applied and Resource Economics 36(1 April 2011):139-159.
Mjelde, J.W., K.L. Litzenberg, and J.R. Lindner. “Using Science Curriculum to Teach Decision Making: A Probabilistic Approach.” Journal of Natural Resource and Life Science Education 40(2011):36-44.
Musumba, M., Y. Jin, and J.W. Mjelde. “Factors Influencing International Graduate Students Career Preferences.” Education Economics 19, 5(2011):501-517. First published on 04 September 2009 (iFirst) URL: dx.doi.org/10.1080/ 09645290903102902.
Lee, C.K., J.H. Lee, T.K. Kim and J.W. Mjelde. “A Choice Experiment Valuation of Management Alternatives for Reintroduction of the Endangered Korean Goral.” Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 25 (Issue 6 2010): 534-543.
Lee, C.K., S. Moon, and J.W. Mjelde. “Examining the Effects of Changes in Tourism Receipts Associated with World Cup and 9/11 on the Korean Economy.” Tourism Economics 16(3 September 2010): 611-628(18).
Lee, C.K., J.H. Lee, T.K. Kim, and J.W. Mjelde. “Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Bird-Watching Tour and Interpretive Services Using a Choice Experiment.” Journal of Sustainable Tourism 18(5 June 2010): 695-708
140 Water Management and Hydrological Science Binayak P. Mohanty Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor, Departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University
Education 1992 Ph.D., Soil and Water Engineering (major) and Environmental Engineering (minor), Iowa State University 1987 M.E., Soil and Water Engineering (major) and Water Resources Engineering (minor), Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand 1985 B.Sc., Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India
Past Appointments 2001-2004 Associate Professor (Hydrology), Depts. of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University 1993-2001 Associate, Assistant, and Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside; located at U. S. Salinity Laboratory, USDA-ARS 1992-1993 Postdoc, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 1988 Research Associate, Agricultural Land and Water Development Program, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
Professional Activities/Awards 2012 TAES Fellow, Texas AgriLife Research 2012 TEES Fellow, Texas A&M Engineering 2012 College of Agriculture Nominee for University Level Association of Former Students (AFS) Distinguished Achievement in Research Award, Texas A&M University 2011 Western Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors’ Research Excellence Award as a Member of W-2188 “Characterizing Mass and Energy Transport at Different Vadose Zone Scales” Regional Research Group 2011 TEES Fellow, Texas A&M Engineering 2010 William Keeler Faculty Fellow, Texas A&M Engineering 2010 College of Engineering Nominee for University Level Association of Former Students (AFS) Distinguished Achievement in Research Award, Texas A&M University 2009 Award for Research Excellence, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University
Water Management and Hydrological Science 141 2007 Ruth and William Neely '52/Dow Chemical Fellow, Texas A&M Engineering 2007 College of Agriculture Nominee for University Level Association of Former Students (AFS) Distinguished Achievement in Research Award, Texas A&M University
Selected Grants/Research Funding NSF-S-STEM (Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), Water Engineering Research Scholars (WATER Scholars), Co- Principal Investigator (PI: Autenrieth, Civil Engineering), 01/10-12/14, $597,978
NASA-THP (Terrestrial Hydrology Program), Multi-Platform Soil Moisture Scaling over the Southern Great Plains Using In Situ, Satellite Retrieval, and Data Assimilation, Principal Investigator. (Co-PI: Jackson, USDA), 01/09-12/12, $872,334
KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (IAMCS) at Texas A&M University, Co-Investigator (Earth Sciences Application) (PI: Calvin, Statistics), 06/ 08-05/13, $25 million NIH-HIEHS (National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences):
Nitrates, Nitrites, and Nitrosatable Drugs and Risk of Selected Birth Defects, Co- Principal Investigator. (PI: Brender, Health Science), 05/07-04/11, $1.42 million
Selected Water Publications Book chapters
Jacques, D., J. Vanderborght, D. Mallants, B.P. Mohanty, and J. Feyen. Analysis of Solute Redistribution in Heterogeneous Soil, I. Geostatistical Approach to Describe the Spatial Scaling Factors. In geoENV I-Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, Soares et al. (eds.), Kluwer Academic, 271-282, 1997.
Mohanty, B.P., and P.J. Shouse. Scaling of Soil Hydraulic Properties Near Saturation - Two Case Studies. “Vadose Zone Science and Technology Solutions,” Department of Energy, (invited), Battelle Press, Columbus, OH, Book plus CD- ROM (index.1460), 2000.
Mohanty, B.P., and M.Th. van Genuchten. Modeling Preferential Flow in a Macroporous Field Soil-A Case Study. “Vadose Zone Science and Technology Solutions,” Department of Energy, (invited), Battelle Press, Columbus, OH, Book plus CD-ROM (index.1461), 2000.
Zhu, J. and B.P. Mohanty. Upscaling of Hydraulic Properties in Heterogeneous Soils. “Scale Issues in Soil Physics”, (Pachepsky, Radcliffe, and Selim, editors) (invited), CRC press, Boca Raton, pp. 97- 117, 2003.
142 Water Management and Hydrological Science Journal Articles
Arora, B., and B.P. Mohanty, and J.T. McGuire, Uncertainty in Dual Permeability Model Parameters for Structured Soils. Water Resources Research. 2012
Jana, R., and B.P. Mohanty, On Topographic Controls of Soil Hydraulic Parameter Scaling at Hillslope Scales. Water Resources Research. 2012
Jana, R., and B.P. Mohanty, A Topography-Based Scaling Algorithm for Soil Hydraulic Parameters at Hillslope Scales: Field Testing. Water Resources Research. 2012
Jana, R., and B.P. Mohanty, A Comparative Study of Multiple Approaches to Soil Hydraulic Parameter Scaling Applied at the Hillslope Scale. Water Resources Research. 2012
Joshi, C., B.P. Mohanty, J. Jacobs, and A.V.M. Ines, Spatiotemporal Analyses of Soil Moisture from Point to Footprint Scale in two Different Hydroclimatic Regions, Water Resources Research, 2011
Jana, R., and B.P. Mohanty, Enhancing PTFs with Remotely Sensed data for Multi- Scale Soil Water Retention Estimation. Journal of Hydrology, 2011
Mohapatra, P.K, R. Vijay, P.R. Pujari, S. K. Sundaray, B.P. Mohanty, Determination of Processes Affecting Groundwater Quality in the Coastal Aquifer Beneath Puri City, India: A Multivariate Statistical Approach. Water Science and Technology, 2011
Arora, B., and B.P. Mohanty, and J.T. McGuire, Inverse Estimation of Parameters for Multi-Domain Flow Models in Soil Columns with Different Macropore Densities. Water Resources Research, 2011. (featured article in WRR)
Hansen, D.J., J.T. McGuire, and B. P. Mohanty, Enhanced Biogeochemical Cycling and SubsequentReduction of Hydraulic Conductivity Associated with Soil Interfaces in the Vadose Zone.Journal of Environmental Quality, 2011
Sartori, F., T. L. Wade, J. L. Sericano, B.P. Mohanty, and K. A. Smith. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Soil of the Canadian River Floodplain in Oklahoma. Journal of Environmental Quality. 2010
Das, N.N., B.P. Mohanty, Y. Efendiev. Characterization of Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity in Agricultural Field Using Karhunen-Loève Expansion with the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Technique. Water Resources Research, 2010
Das, N.N., B.P. Mohanty, E.G. Njoku. Profile Soil Moisture Across Spatial Scales Under Different Hydroclimatic Conditions. Soil Science, 2010
Joshi, C., and B.P. Mohanty, Physical Controls of Near-Surface Soil Moisture Across Varying Spatial Scales in an Agricultural Landscape During SMEX02. Water Resources Research, 2010
Water Management and Hydrological Science 143 Georgianne W. Moore Associate Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Associate Professor, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University
Education 2003 Ph.D. Environmental Sciences, Interdisciplinary Program, Oregon State University 1995 B.S. Applied Biology, Department of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Past Appointments 2003−2005 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Texas AgriLife Research, Uvalde, TX
Professional Activities/Awards Texas Environmental Excellence Award (2008) for the Rio Grande Basin Initiative project. Given by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The TEEA celebrates the efforts of citizens, communities, businesses, and organizations to preserve and protect the Texas environment.
USDA National Water Program Outstanding Integrated Activities for Water Resources Award (2007) Awarded to the Rio Grande Basin Initiative project. Department of Agriculture– Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (USDA–CSREES). The award was presented at the USDA–CSREES National Water Conference in Savannah, GA.
Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence for Industry-Agency-University-Association Partnership. (2006). Awarded to the Rio Grande Basin Initiative team. Presented at the Texas A&M Agriculture’s Awards Convocation.
National Science Foundation Long-Term Ecological Research Graduate Assistantship.
(2002) Impacts of species diversity on stand level vegetation water use. $20,844 NASA Earth Systems Science Fellowship. (2001) $16,000
Selected Grants/Research Funding 2011 Young Investigator's Award, Awarded to Fan Li. $917. Merit-based award given to support travel and registration for the BASIN 2011 conference on the Roles of Stable Isotopes in Water Cycle Research. Keystone, CO 2009 Regents’ Graduate Fellowship, Awarded to Li Fan. $18,000 Merit- based fellowship given to new graduate students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
144 Water Management and Hydrological Science Montgomery County Board of Commissioners. (9/10-8/11) Economic Impacts of Lake-Level Reductions on Lake Conroe Area: Lake Area Property Values, Property Tax Revenues and Sales Tax Revenues G. Rogers (PI), S. Brody, G. Moore, and D. Shaw. $141,879. External contract.
USDA National Needs Graduate Fellowship. (8/10-7/12) A Graduate Training Program in Forest Resources: Developing Integrated Expertise in Forest Resource Management, Conservation, and Restoration. K. Krutovsky (PI), U. Kreuter, J. Gan, C. Loopstra, P. Merton, G. Moore, S. Propescu, W. Rogers, M. Tjoelker, R. Washington-Allen, S. Whisenant, B. Wilcox, X. Wu. $362,290. External competitive.
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (7/06-6/11) Efficient Irrigation for Water Conservation in the Rio Grande Basin. B. Harris (PI) and 29 co-PI’s, including G. Moore. Six separate awards totaling $6,250,009: 2005 ($1,388,981), 2006 ($1,548,069), 2008 ($1,151,931), 2009 ($1,081,453), and 2010 ($1,079,575). Congressional appropriations. Annually, submit internal competitive proposals to B. Harris.
US Department of Energy, National Institute for Climate Change Research. (7/07- 6/11) Woody Plant Encroachment into Karst Terrain: Implications for Regional Cycles of Carbon, Water and Energy. J. Heilman (PI), K. McInnes, M. Litvak, and G. Moore. $282,000. External competitive.
Wintergarden Groundwater Conservation District. (10/06-9/07) Determining Long- Term Cumulative Effects of Brush Clearing on Soil Water Percolation over a Broad Geographic Area. M. K. Owens (PI) and G. W. Moore. $20,000. External contract.
USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service via Texas Department of Agriculture. (5/05-4/07) Phase II: Leon River Restoration Project. W. Hamilton (PI), R. Conner, G. W. Moore, F. E. Smeins, and N. Wilkins $337,825 Congressional appropriations.
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
G. W. Moore, B. J. Bond, and J. A. Jones. (In Press) A comparison of annual transpiration and productivity in monoculture and mixed-species Douglas-fir and red alder forests. Forest Ecology and Management Journal Impact
G. W. Moore, D. A. Barre, and M. K. Owens (In Press) Does shrub removal increase groundwater recharge in SW Texas semi-arid rangelands? Rangeland Ecology and Management Journal Impact
Watts, D. A and G. W. Moore. 2011. Water Use Dynamics of Giant Reed (Arundo donax) from Leaf to Stand. Wetlands
Moore, G. W. and J. L. Heilman. 2011. Invited Commentary: Potential principles governing how vegetation changes affect transpiration. Ecohydrology
Water Management and Hydrological Science 145 Moore, G. W., J. A. Jones, and B. J. Bond. 2011. The role of transpiration in predicting stream flow at hourly to interannual scales in a forested catchment. Hydrological Processes
Moore G.W. and M.K. Owens 2011. Transpirational water loss in invaded and restored riparian forests of the Rio Grande. Restoration Ecology
Moore, G. W, Watts, D. A., and J. A. Goolsby. 2010. Ecophysiological responses of Arundo donax to herbivory. Invasive Plant Science and Management.
Moore, G. W., D. A. Barre, and M. K. Owens. 2010. Changes in soil chloride following shrub removal and subsequent regrowth. Geoderma.
Moore, G. W., B. J. Bond, J. A. Jones, and F. C. Meinzer. 2010. Thermal-dissipation sap flow sensors may not yield consistent sap-flux estimates over multiple years. Trees: Structure and Function
Moore, G. W., J. R. Cleverly and M. K. Owens. 2008. Nocturnal transpiration in riparian Tamarix thickets authenticated by sap flux, eddy covariance and leaf gas exchange measurements. Tree Physiology
Owens, M. K., and G. W. Moore. 2007. Saltcedar water use: Realistic and Unrealistic Expectations. Rangeland Ecology and Management.
Moore, G. W. and M. K. Owens. 2006. Removing adult overstory trees stimulates growth and transpiration of conspecific juvenile trees. Rangeland Ecology and Management
Czarnomski, N. M., G. W. Moore, T. G. Pypker, J. Licata and B. J. Bond. 2005. Precision and accuracy of three alternative soil water content instruments in two forest soils of the Pacific Northwest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Moore, G.W., B.J. Bond, J.A. Jones, N. Phillips and F.C. Meinzer. 2004. Structural and compositional controls on transpiration between 40- and 450-yr-old forests in Western Oregon, USA. Tree Physiology
Bond, B.J., J.A. Jones, G.W. Moore, N. Phillips, D.A. Post and J.J. McDonnell. 2002. The zone of vegetation influence on baseflow revealed by diel patterns of streamflow and vegetation water use in a headwater basin. Hydrological Processes
Callaway, R.M., K.O. Reinhart, G.W. Moore, D.J. Moore and S.C. Pennings. 2002. Epiphyte host preferences and host traits: mechanisms for species-specific interactions. Oecologia
146 Water Management and Hydrological Science Miguel A. Mora Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University
Adjunct Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University
Adjunct Professor, Intercollegiate Faculty of Toxicology, Texas A&M University
Adjunct Professor, Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences, Texas Tech University
Education 1990 Ph.D., Ecology, University of California, Davis (UCD) 1984 M.S., Ecology, University of California, Davis 1977 B.S., Biochemical Engineering, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico, D.F.
Past Appointments 2000-2007 Field Station Leader and Research Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Geological Survey 1993-2000 Research Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Biological Survey, National Biological Service, and U.S. Geological Survey 1995-2007 Adjunct Professor, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University 1990-1992 Research Associate, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and Pesticide Research Center, Michigan State University 1991-1992 Consultant, Ropes and Gray Attorneys at Law 1989-1990 Postgraduate Research Associate, Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Veterinary Medicine, UCD. Research Assistant, California Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory System, School of Veterinary Medicine, UCD. 1987-1988 Department Head, Subdelegation of Ecology, Secretaría de Desarrollo Urbano Ecología (government agency), State of Jalisco, Mexico.
Professional Activities/Awards 2010 SETAC, Presidential citation for exemplary service. 2010 YouTube blurb on my Research on aplomado falcons, EarthSky Communications, Inc. Austin, TX, www.youtube.com/watch?
2007 Short biography profiled in book “Latinos in Science, Math, and Professions” by D. E. Newton, pp 159-160, 2007, Facts on File, Inc, New York.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 147 2004-2012 Professional career highlighted in SACNAS web page: www.sacnas.org/biography/Biography.asp?mem=154&type=2
2004-2012 Professional career highlighted in University of Michigan web page: www.umich.edu/~meldi/4_profiles_minprof.html
2004 Honorary Member, Science Advisory Board, Instituto Tecnologico de Jiquilpan, Jiquilpan, Michoacán, Mexico.
Selected Water Publications Book chapters
Lacher, Jr. TE, J Bickham, C Gascon, R Green, RD Moore, and M Mora. 2010. Impacts of Contaminants and Pesticides on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Structure and Function. P 111- 145, in Kendall R. et al. Eds. Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Contaminants and Biodiversity Issues. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, FL.
Mora, M.A., J. Garcia, M.P. Carpio-Obeso, and K. King. 2003. Contaminants without borders: A regional assessment of the Colorado River delta ecosystem. P 1125-1134, in D.J. Rapport, W.L. Lasley, D.E. Rolston, N.O. Nielsen, C.O. Qualset, and A.B. Damania (eds.) Managing for Healthy Ecosystems, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida USA.
Quensen III, J.F., J.M. Tiedje, S.A. Boyd, C. Enke, R. Lopshire, J. Giesy, M. Mora, R. Crawford, and D. Tillitt. 1992. Evaluation of the suitability of reductive dechlorination for the bioremediation of PCB-contaminated soils and sediments. In: Soil decontamination using biological processes. pp. 91-100.
Journal Articles
Parkes, M.L., M. A. Mora, and R. A. Feagin. 2012. Using Scale, Cover Type, and GIS to Evaluate Nuisance Cattle Egret Colony Site Selection. Waterbirds 35:56-63.
Engelman, Catherine A., William E. Grant, Miguel A. Mora, Marc Woodin. 2012. Modelling effects of chemical exposure on birds wintering in agricultural landscapes: The western burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia hypugaea) as a case study. Ecological Modelling 224:90-102.
Mora, M.A., J. L. Sericano, C. Baxter. 2012. Swallows as Indicators of Environmental Pollution of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Basin: Are Persistent Organic Pollutants a Concern? Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 62:512-518, DOI: 10.1007/s00244-011-9718-3.
Mora MA, Baxter C, Sericano JL, Montoya AB, Gallardo JC, Rodríguez-Salazar JR. 2011. PBDEs, PCBs, and DDE in eggs and their impacts on aplomado falcons (Falco femoralis) from Chihuahua and Veracruz, Mexico. Environmental Pollution. 159:3433- 3438, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2011.08.025.
148 Water Management and Hydrological Science Mora, M.A., B. Brattin, C. Baxter, and J. W. Rivers. 2011. Regional and interspecific variation in Sr, Ca, and Sr/Ca ratios in avian eggshells from the USA. Ecotoxicology 20:1467- 1475, doi: 10.1007/s10646-011-0703-4.
Phalen, D.N., M. L. Drew, B. Simpson, K. Roset, K. Dubose, and M. Mora. 2010. Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica in cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) chicks from central Texas: Prevalence, serotypes, pathogenicity and epizootic potential. Journal Wildlife Diseases 46:379-389.
Brumbaugh WG, Mora MA, May TW, Phalen DN. 2010. Metal exposure and effects in voles and small birds near a mining haul road in Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Alaska. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 170:73-86, doi: 10.1007/s10661-009- 1216-y.
Cobos, VM, Mora MA, Escalona G, Calme S, Jiménez J. 2010. Variation in plasma cholinesterase activity in the clay-colored robin (Turdus grayi) in relation to time of day, season, and diazinon exposure. Ecotoxicology 19:267-272, doi: 10.1007/s10646- 009- 0409-z.
Sitzlar, M. A, M. A. Mora, J. A. Fleming, F. W. Bazer, J. W. Bickham, C Matson. 2009. Potential effects of environmental contaminants on P450 aromatase activity and DNA damage in swallows from the Rio Grande and Somerville, Texas, USA. Ecotoxicology 18:15-21.
Mora, M. A. 2008. Persistent organochlorine pollutants and stable isotopes in resident and migrant passerine birds from northwest Michoacán, Mexico. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 55:488-495.
Mora, M. A., A. B. Montoya, P. W. Juergens, M. C. Lee, A. Macías-Duarte, R. Rodríguez- Salazar, A. Lafón-Terrazas. 2008. Persistent Environmental Pollutants in Eggs of Aplomado Falcons from Northern Chihuahua, Mexico, and South Texas, USA. Environment International 34:44-50.
Pisani, J. M., W. E. Grant and M. A. Mora. 2008. Simulating the impact of cholinesterase- inhibiting pesticides on non-target wildlife in irrigated crops. Ecological Modelling 210:179-192.
Mora, M.A., R. Taylor, and B. Brattin. 2007. Potential ecotoxicological significance of elevated concentrations of strontium in eggshells of passerine birds. The Condor 109:199-205.
Mora, M.A., R.S. Skiles, and M. Paredes. 2007. Further assessment of environmental contaminants in avian prey of the peregrine falcon in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 52:54-59.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 149 Cristine Morgan Associate Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Associate Professor, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University
Education 2003 Ph.D., Soil Science, University of Wisconsin- Madison 2003 Minor Law, University of Wisconsin Law School 2000 M.S., Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1998 B.S., Plant and Environmental Soil Science, Texas A&M University Magna Cum Laude
Past Appointments 2003-2010 Assistant Professor of Hydropedology, Texas A&M University
Professional Activities/Awards American Association of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. Superior Paper Award 2009.
Young Scholar Award. 2009. Soil Science Society of America Division S-6.
Honored Professor Award. 2010. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Undergraduate Student Council.
Editors Citation for Excellence. Outstanding Reviewer. 2010. Soil Science Society of America Journal.
Selected Grants/Research Funding Analysis of Wetland Loss in the Greater Houston Area, 2011, $5,000 Rice University
Coastal Prairie Wetland Restoration, 2010–2013, $390,538 Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board
Rain Gardens: Mitigating Runoff, 2010–2012, $101,686 General Land Office
Dickinson Bayou Implementation Project, 2010–2011, $90,000 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
Selected Water Publications Book chapters
Morgan, C.L.S., C.C. Molling, J.M. Norman, K. McSweeney, and B. Lowery. 2003. Evaluating soil data from several sources using a landscape model. In Y. Pachepsky,
150 Water Management and Hydrological Science D.E. Radcliffe, and H.M. Selim. (ed.) Scaling methods in soil physics. CRC Press, NY. pp. 243-260.
Journal Articles
Kishné, A. Sz., Y. Ge, C.L.S. Morgan, W.L. Miller. 2012. Surface cracking of a Vertisol related to the history of available water. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 76:548–557.
Kim, D., D. Cairns, J. Bartholdy and C.L.S. Morgan. 2012. Scale-dependent correspondence of floristic and ediphatic gradients across salt marsh creeks. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 102: 276–294.
Chakraborty, S., D.C. Weindorf, Y. Zhu, B. Li, C.L.S. Morgan, Y. Ge, J. Galbraith. 2012. Spectral reflectance variability from soil physicochemical properties in oil contaminated soils. Geoderma. 177-178:80–89.
Sarkhot, D.V., S. Grunwald ,Y. Ge, C.L.S. Morgan. 2012. Total and available soil carbon fractions under the perennial grass Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers and the bioenergy crop Arundo donax L. Biomass and Bioenergy. 41: 122-130.
Ge, Y., C.L.S. Morgan, S. Grunwald, D.J. Brown, D.V. Sarkhot. 2011. Comparison of soil reflectance spectra and calibration models obtained using multiple spectrometers. Geoderma. 161:202-211.
Sarkhot, D.V., S. Grunwald, Y. Ge, C.L.S. Morgan. 2011. Comparison and detection of total and available soil carbon fractions using visible/near infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. Geoderma. 164:22-32.
Sakirkin, S.L., C.L.S. Morgan, J.C. MacDonald, B.W. Auvermann. 2011. Effect of diet composition on the determination of ash and moisture content in solid cattle manure with visible near-infrared spectroscopy. Applied Spectroscopy. 65:1056- 1061.
Cheng-Chung, C., A. Garcia-Uribe, J. Zou. C.L.S. Morgan. 2011. Micro side-viewing optical probe for VNIR-DRS soil measurement. IEEE Sensors Journal. 10: 2527- 2532.
Sakirkin, S.L.P., C.L.S. Morgan, and B.W. Auvermann. 2010. Effects of sample processing on ash content determination in solid cattle manure with visible/near- infrared spectroscopy. Transactions of ASABE.53: 421-428.
Kishné, A.Sz., C.L.S. Morgan, Y. Ge and W.L. Miller. 2010. Antecedent soil moisture affecting surface cracking of a Vertisol in field conditions. Geoderma. 157:109–117.
Chakraborty, S., D.C. Weindorf, C.L.S. Morgan, Y. Ge, J. Galbraith, B. Li, and C.S. Kahlon. 2010. Rapid identification of oil contaminated soils using visible near- infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. Journal of Environmental Quality 39:1378-1387.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 151 Preece, S.L., C.L.S. Morgan, B.W. Auvermann, K. Wilke*, and K. Heflin. 2009. Determination of ash content in solid cattle manure with visible near-infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. Transactions of ASABE 52:609-614.
A. Somenahally, D.C. Weindorf, L. Darilek, J.P. Muir, R. Wittie, C. Thompson and C.L.S. Morgan. 2009. Spatial variability of soil test phosphorus in manure amended soils on three dairy farms in North Central Texas. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 64:89-97.
Ge, Y., J.A. Thomasson, R. Sui, and C.L.S. Morgan. 2009. A module-specific post- processing calibration methods to improve cotton yield mapping. Computer and Electronics in Agriculture. 68:161-167.
Kishné, A.Sz., C.L.S. Morgan, and W.L. Miller. 2009. Vertisol crack extent associated with gilgai and soil moisture in the Texas Gulf Coast Prairie. Soil Science Society of America Journal 73:1221-1230.
Morgan, C.L.S., T. Waiser*, D.J. Brown, and C.T. Hallmark. 2009. Simulated in situ characterization of soil organic and inorganic carbon with visible near-infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. Geoderma 151:249-256.
Lepore, B.J, C.L.S. Morgan, J.M. Norman, and C.C. Molling. 2009. A mesopore and matrix infiltration model for landscape management applications. Geoderma 152:301–313.
Ge, Y., J.A. Thomasson, R. Sui, C.L.S. Morgan, S.W. Searcy and S.B. Parnell 2008. Spatial variation of fiber quality and associated loan rate in a dryland cotton field. Precision Agriculture 9:181-194.
Chang, H.C., L.B. Kish, A.Sz. Kishné, and C.L.S. Morgan. 2008. On the vibration- induced conductivity fluctuations of soils. Fluctuations and Noise Letters 8:L125- L140.
152 Water Management and Hydrological Science Saqib Mukhtar Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor and Extension Agricultural Engineer, Texas AgriLife Extension and Research
Associate Department Head and Extension Program Leader for Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas AgriLife Extension
Education 1989 Ph.D., in Agricultural Engineering with a Minor in Water Resources, Iowa State University 1984 M.S., in Agricultural Engineering, Iowa State University 1981 B.S., in Agricultural Engineering, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Past Appointments 2010-2012 Interim Associate Department Head and Extension Program Leader for Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas AgriLife Extension 2004-2010 Associate Professor and Extension Agricultural Engineer, Texas AgriLife Extension and Research, Texas A&M System 1998-2004 Assistant Professor and Extension Agricultural Engineer, Texas AgriLife Extension and Research, Texas A&M System 1993-1998 Agricultural Engineering Field Specialist, Iowa State University Extension 1991-1993 Civil Engineer, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Engineering Project Office 1990-1991 Civil Engineer, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Fort Dodge Area Office
Professional Activities/Awards National Excellence in Multistate Research Award, Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy (ESCOP), June 2011. (USDA-NIFA Multistate Research Committee S-1032)
The Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center Community of Practice (web- based educational program) was named Outstanding Community of Practice for by National Extension Team Award. Eight member Leadership Team included faculty from Rutgers, University of Georgia, and University of Nebraska, Texas AgriLife Extension, Washington State University, and Montana State University. June 2011.
Regional Excellence in Multistate Research Award, Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors, April 2011. (USDA-NIFA Multistate Research Committee S-1032).
Water Management and Hydrological Science 153 The 2010 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) G. B. Gunlogson Countryside Engineering Award for outstanding achievements and leadership through extension education and cutting-edge research in environmental quality management of animal production operations. June, 2010.
The 2010 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Texas Environmental Excellence Award in Agriculture. Team included members from Texas AgriLife Research, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, West Texas A&M University, Kansas State University, and USDA-Agricultural
Selected Grants/Research Funding Co-PI (PI, Richard Stowell, University of Nebraska) on National Facilitation of Extension Programming in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation for Animal Agriculture. USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). $4,290,000. 2011-2016.
Co-PI on Renewable Energy And Environmental Sustainability Using Biomass From Dairy And Beef Animal Production Facilities. US-DOE. $992,000. 2005- 2006.
Co- PI on Marketing Composted Manure to Public Entities. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Contract No. 582-2-44407. $824,094. 2002-2006.
Co-PI on Air Quality: Odor, dust, and gaseous emissions from concentrated animal feeding operations in the southern Great Plains. USDA-CSREES Project 06-502525- 8904. $4,696,265. 2002-2008.
Co-PI on Odor Abatement and Emissions Inventories from Agricultural Operations. Funded by Agricultural Air Quality Legislative Initiative. $700,000. 1999-2003.
Selected Water Publications Book chapters
Jones, D. D., R. K. Koelsch, S. Mukhtar, R. E. Sheffield, and J. W. Worley. 2006. Closure of Earthen Manure Structures (Including Basins, Holding Ponds, and Lagoons). In: Animal Agriculture and the Environment: National Center for Manure and Animal Waste Management White Papers. J. M. Rice, D. F. Caldwell, F. J. Humenik, Editors, Pages 263-284. St. Joseph, Michigan: ASABE.
Priyadarsan, S., K.Annamalai, B. Thein, J. Sweeten, and S. Mukhtar. 2005. Animal Waste as a Source of Renewable Energy. In: Agriculture As a Producer and Consumer of Energy, J. Outlaw, K. Collins and J. Duffield, Editors, Pages 266-282. CAB International, Wallingford, UK.
Mukhtar S. 2004. Poultry Production: Manure and Wastewater Management. In Encyclopedia of Animal Science, W. Pond and A. Bell, Editors, Pages 744-747. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY.
154 Water Management and Hydrological Science Mukhtar, S., and P. Haan. 2003. Poultry Manure Management Water Requirements and Utilization. In: Encyclopedia of Water Science, B.A. Stewart and T. A. Howell, Editors, Pages 607-609. Mercel Dekker, New York, NY.
Mukhtar, S., S. Feagley, and B. L. Harris. 2000. Animal Waste Management in the Rural South. Publication No. 15. In Millennium Series, The Rural South: Preparing for the Challenges of the 21st Century. Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University.
Journal Articles
Borhan, M. S., S. C. Capareda, S. Mukhtar, W. B. Faulkner, R. McGee and C. B. Parnell, Jr. 2012. Comparison of seasonal phenol and p-cresol emissions from ground- level area sources in a dairy operation in central Texas. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association. 62: 381-392.
Mukhtar, S., S. Borhan and J. Beseda II. 2011. Evaluation of a Weeping Wall Solid- Liquid Separation System for Flushed Dairy Manure. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 27(1): 135–142.
Borhan, M. S., S. C. Capareda, S. Mukhtar, W. B. Faulkner, R. McGee and C. B. Parnell, Jr. 2011. Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ground Level Area Sources in Dairy and Cattle Feedyard Operations. Atmosphere (2) 303-329.
Borhan, M. S., S. C. Capareda, S. Mukhtar, W. B. Faulkner, R. McGee and C. B. Parnell, Jr. 2011. Determining Seasonal Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ground- Level Area Sources in a Dairy Operation in Central Texas. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association. 61: 786-795.
Giri, S. S. Mukhtar and R. Wittie. 2010. Vegetative Covers for Sediment Control and Phosphorus Sequestration from Dairy Waste Application Fields. Transactions of the ASABE. 52 (3) 803-811.
Capareda, S. C., S. Mukhtar, C. Engler and L. B. Goodrich. 2010. Energy usage survey of dairies in the Southwestern United States. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 26 (4): 667-675.
Mukhtar, S., S. Borhan, S. Rahman and J. Zhu. 2010. Evaluation of a field-scale surface aeration system in an anaerobic poultry lagoon. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 26(2): 307-318.
Mukhtar, S., A. Mutlu, R. E. Lacey and C. B. Parnell. 2009. Seasonal ammonia emissions from a free-stall dairy in central Texas. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association. 59: 613-618.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 155 Clyde L. Munster Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor, Agricultural Engineering Department, Texas A&M University
Education 1992 Ph.D., Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University 1982 M.S., Civil Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1980 B.S., Civil Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Past Appointments 1999-2012 Peer Review of Teaching Committee 1998-2012 Promotion and Tenure Committee 2008-2012 Development Coordination Committee 2003-2012 Agricultural Systems Management Undergraduate Program 2007-2008 Ad Hoc Curriculum Review Committee 1992-2008 Graduate Programs Committee and Computer and Educational Aids Committee 1998-2008 Instructional Fees 2003-2012 Ad Hoc Water Task Group 1996-2001 Soil and Water Teaching Work Group
Professional Activities/Awards 2011 College of Agriculture and Life Science Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award for Team Research 2000 Institute for Land and Water Management, Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences Department, Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, in Leuven, Belgium, Jan - May, 2000. Fulbright research project title: The effects of global warming on production agriculture. 2010 Bush Excellence Award for International Education 1997 Invited by the U.S. EPA to be a member of the Peer Review Panel to evaluate grant proposals for a Bioremediation Request for Proposals. Over 100 bio remediation proposals were evaluated for $6,000,000 in funding at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA, May 19 – 22
Selected Grants/Research Funding Drought Decision Making Tool for Agricultural Producers, USDA – NIFA, PI, C. Munster, co-PIs, T. Cothren and R. Schumacher, 2010-2014, $498,649
156 Water Management and Hydrological Science S‐STEM: WATer Engineering Research Scholars (WATER Scholars), National Science Foundation, PI, Robin Autenrieth, co‐PIs, C. Munster, B. Mohanty, and J. Pettibon, 2010‐ 2015, $597,978
Best Management Project (BMP) Assessment Using Rainfall Simulation – Ft. Hood, TX, USDA – NRCS, PI, B. Fox, co‐PIs, C. Munster, B. Wilcox, and B. Harris, 2010‐2013, $299,700
Enhancing the Quality of Marketable Products Derived from Mobile Fast Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass, Texas AgriLife Research Bioenergy Initiatives, Lead PI, Sergio Capareda, co-PIs, Clyde Munster, Sandun Fernando, Don Vietor, Tony Provin and Marco Palma, 2009-2011, $350,000
Optimizing the Logistics of a Mobile Fast Pyrolysis System for Sustainable Bio- Crude Oil Production, DOE North Central Sun Grant Program, Lead PI, S. Capareda, co-PIs, C. Munster, D. Vietor, T. Provin and M. Palma, 2009-2011, $700,000
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Hansen, N.E., D.M. Vietor, C.L. Munster, R.H. White, and T.L. Provin. 2012. Runoff and nutrient losses from constructed soils amended with compost. Applied and Environmental Soil Science, Vol. 2012, Article ID 542873, 9 pages.
Bumguardner, M.L., C.L. Munster, M. Ha, and T.L. Provin. 2012. Soil loss due to residue removal in the Oso Creek Watershed, Texas. Transactions of ASABE, in review.
Bumguardner, M.L., C.L. Munster, and M. Ha. 2012. GIS modeling of feedstock transportation logistics for mobile pyrolysis in Texas. Biomass and Bioenergy, in review.
Schnell, R.W., D.M. Vietor, T.L. Provin, C.L. Munster, and S. Capareda. 2012. Capacity of biochar application to maintain energy crop productivity: Soil chemistry, sorghum, and runoff water quality effects. JEQ, 41:1-8.
Palma, M.A., J.W. Richardson, B.E. Roberson, L.A. Ribera, J. Outlaw, C.L. Munster. 2011. Economic feasibility of a mobile fast pyrolysis system for sustainable bio-crude oil production. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, Vol. 14, Issue 3.
Schnell, R., D. Vietor, C. Munster, R. White, T. Provin, and S. Mukhtar. 2010. A preliminary study on the potential for cycling solids from geotube treatment of dairy lagoon wastewater. American-Eurasian J. Agric. and Environ. Sci., 8(6): 695- 704.
Schnell, R., D. Vietor, C. Munster, R. White, and T. Provin. 2010. Effect of Turfgrass Establishment Practices and Composted Biosolids on Water Quality. J. Environ. Qual. 39:697-705.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 157 Vietor, D.M., R.W. Schnell, C.L. Munster, T.L. Provin and R.H. White. 2010. Biosolid and Alum effects on runoff losses during turfgrass establishment. Bioresource Technology 101: 3246-3252.
Vietor, D.M., R.W. Schnell, C.L. Munster, T.L. Provin and R.H. White. 2010. Effect of Alum Treatments on Turfgrass Coverage and Runoff Losses during Establishment. HortScience 45 (1): 119-124.
Schnell, R.W., Vietor, D.M., C.L. Munster, R.H. White, and T.L. Provin. 2009. Effects of composted biosolids and nitrogen on turfgrass establishment, sod properties, and nutrient export at harvest. HortScience 44: 1746-1750.
Hansen, N.E., D.M. Vietor, C.L. Munster, R.H. White, and T.L. Provin. 2009. Runoff water quality from constructed roadside soils receiving large volume-based compost applications. Transactions of ASABE 52:793-800.
Dai, Xiaoyan, Donald M. Vietor, Frank M. Hons, Tony L. Provin, Richard H. White, Thomas W. Boutton, and Clyde L. Munster. 2009. Effect of Composted Biosolids on Soil Organic Carbon Storage During Establishment of Transplanted Sod. HortScience, April 2009; 44: 503 - 507.
Sassen, D.S., M.E. Everett, and C.L. Munster. 2009. Ecohydrogeophysics at the Edwards Aquifer: insights from polarimetric ground-penetrating radar. Near Surface Geophysics, 2009: 427-438.
158 Water Management and Hydrological Science William Harold Neill Professor Emeritus [email protected]
Current Appointment Senior Professor and Professor Emeritus of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University
Education 1971 Ph.D., Zoology, with a minor in Mathematical Statistics, University of Wisconsin 1967 M.S., Zoology, University of Arkansas 1965 B.S., Zoology, University of Arkansas
Past Appointments 2000-2007 Field Station Leader and Research Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Geological Survey
Professional Activities/Awards 2011 Professor Emeritus, Texas A&M University 2007 Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University, Distinguished Achievement Award (College Level) for Teaching 1995 WFSC Nominee for Award in Excellence for Team Research (West Texas Aquaculture Project) 1974 Outstanding Texas Fisheries Worker Award, in Education, Texas Chapter of the American Special Achievement Award from the National Marine Fisheries Service 1965-1966 National Science Foundation Cooperative Graduate Fellowship
Selected Grants/Research Funding Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, "Monitoring and Modeling Strategy for Improved Management of Juvenile Red Drum Production for Stock Enhancement, Continued." $89,845; 2009-2012.
Sea Grant Program, "Utilization of Seafood Processing Wastes in Aquaculture through Integrated Nutritional and Feed Manufacturing Technologies" $165,436 (Co-PI with Del Gatlin, M.N. Riaz, and A.L. Lawrence; 2008-2010.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, "Monitoring and Modeling Strategy for Improved Management of Juvenile Red Drum Production for Stock Enhancement, Continued." $28,895; 2007-2008.
Sea Grant Program, "Effects of Environmental Variation and Feed Quality on Juvenile Red Drum Performance." $154,928 (Co-PI with Del Gatlin and Robert Vega); 2004-2006.
TAMU-CONACyT Collaborative Research Program, "Strategic Research to Increase Fisheries Productivity and Strengthen the Tuna Aquaculture Industry in Northwest
Water Management and Hydrological Science 159 Mexico: the Yellowfin Tuna Plan." $25,000. (Co-PI with Alejandro Buentello ); 2003-2004.
Sea Grant Program, "Development and Application of Hypervariable DNA Markers (Microsatellites) to Issues in Red Drum Stock Enhancement." $339,599 (Co-PI with John Gold and Del Gatlin); 2001-2004.
US Environmental Protection Agency, "Development of an Urban Watershed Rehabilitation Method Using Stakeholder Feedback to Direct Investigation and Restoration Planning." $905,931 ($120,000 to Neill); 1998-2002.
Sea Grant Program, "Field Test of an Ecophysiological Model to Predict Habitat Value for Recruitment of Juvenile Redfish." $187,605; 1998-2002.
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Vega, R.R., W.H. Neill, J.R. Gold, and M.S. Ray. In Press, 2011. Enhancement of Texas sciaenids (red drum and spotted seatrout). Proc. UJNR 2010 Symposium.
Buentello, J.A., C. Pohlenz, D. Margulies, V.P. Scholey, J.B. Wexler, D. Tovar- Ramirez, W.H. Neill, P. Hinojosa-Baltazar, and D.M. Gatlin III. 2011. A preliminary study of digestive enzyme activities and amino acid composition of early juvenile yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares). Aquaculture 312:205-211.
Gautam, R., M. Bani-Yaghoub, W.H. Neill, D. Dopfer, C. Kaspar, and R. Ivanek. 2011. Modeling the effect of seasonal variation in ambient temperature on the transmission dynamics of a pathogen with a free-living stage: Example of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in a dairy herd. Prevent. Vet. Med. 102:10-21.
Strongin, K., C.M. Taylor, M.E. Roberts, W.H. Neill, and F. Gelwick. 2011. Food habits and dietary overlap of two silversides in the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway: The invasive Menidia audens versus the native Labidesthes sicculus. Am. Midl. Nat. 166:224-233.
Walker, S.J., W.H. Neill, A.L. Lawrence, and D.M. Gatlin III. 2011. Effects of temperature and starvation on ecophysiological performance of the Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei). Aquaculture 319:439-445.
Fonseca, V.F., W.H. Neill, J.M. Miller, and H.N. Cabral. 2010. Ecophys.Fish perspectives on growth of juvenile soles, Solea solea and Solea senegalensis, in the Tagus estuary, Portugal. J. Sea Research 64:118-124.
Walker, S.J., W.H. Neill, A.L. Lawrence, and D.M. Gatlin III. 2010. Effect of salinity and body weight on ecophysiological performance of the Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 380:119-124.
Buentello, J.A., W.H. Neill, and D.M. Gatlin. 2010. Effects of dietary prebiotics on growth, feed efficiency and non-specific immunity of juvenile red drum Sciaenops ocellatus fed soybean-based diets. Aquaculture Research 41:411-418.
160 Water Management and Hydrological Science Burr, G., M. Hume, W.H. Neill, and D.M. Gatlin III. 2008. Effects of prebiotics on nutrient digestibility of a soybean-meal-based diet by red drum Sciaenops ocellatus (Linnaeus). Aquaculture Research 39:1680-1686.
Fontaine, L.P., K.W. Whiteman, P. Li, G.S. Burr, K.A. Webb, J. Goff, D.M. Gatlin III, W.H. Neill, K.B. Davis, and R.R. Vega. 2007. Effects of temperature and feed energy on the performance of juvenile red drum. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 136:1193-1205.
Li, P., D.M. Gatlin III, and W.H. Neill. 2007. Dietary supplementation of a purified nucleotide mixture transiently enhanced growth and feed utilization of juvenile red drum Sciaenops ocellatus. J. World Aquacult. Soc.38:281-286.
Ma, L., E. Saillant, D.M. Gatlin III, W.H. Neill, R.R. Vega, and J.R. Gold. 2007. Heritability of cold tolerance in red drum. N. Amer. J. Aquaculture 69: 381-387.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 161 John William Nielsen-Gammon Regents Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Regents Professor and Texas State Climatologist, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
Texas State Climatologist
Education 1990 Ph.D., Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1987 M.S., Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1984 B.S., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Past Appointments 2000-2011 Professor of Meteorology, Texas A&M University 2008-2009 Acting Executive Associate Dean and Associate Dean for Research, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University 2003-2007 Associate Director, The Center for Atmospheric Chemistry and the Environment 1997-1998 Deputy Speaker, Texas A&M Faculty Senate 1996-2000 Associate Professor of Meteorology, Texas A&M University 1991-1996 Assistant Professor of Meteorology, Texas A&M University 1990-1991 Postdoctoral Research Associate, State University of New York at Albany
Professional Activities/Awards 2011 Weather Hero, John C. Freeman Weather Museum 2011 Regents Professor, Texas A&M University System 2011 Newsmaker Image Award, Texas A&M University 2011 The Woody Guthrie Award Presented to a Thinking Blogger 2011 Fellow, American Meteorological Society 2007 Certificate of Recognition, National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1997 Editor's Award, American Meteorological Society 1996 Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching, Texas A&M University Association of Former Students, 1995 Presidential Faculty Fellow, National Science Foundation/White House 1995 Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Geosciences and Maritime Studies, Association of Former Students
162 Water Management and Hydrological Science Selected Grants/Research Funding “Climate Change and Water in Texas: Projections and Sustainability”, 36 months, $1,216,000, National Science Foundation, Bruce McCarl, PI (portion $379,000)
“Development of a High Resolution Drought Trigger Tool (HiRDTT) for the United States”, January 2011, 36 months, $496,000, United States Department of Agriculture, RF 409011.
“Drought Decision Making Tool for Agricultural Producers”, November 2010, 36 months, $499,000, United States Department of Agriculture, Clyde Munster, PI, RF 501021-02001.
“Climate Change, Drought and Policymaking in the U.S. Southern Region”, September 2005, 3 years, $800,000, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NA05OAR4311121, A. Vedlitz, P.I.
“Umbrella Contract (MM5 Modeling of August 2000 Houston Ozone Episode and Other Tasks)”, September 2001, two years, $308,000, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Selected Water Publications Book
National Research Council, 2008: Review of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program’s Synthesis and Assessment Product 1.3: “Reanalysis of Historical Climate Data for Key Atmospheric Features: Implications for Attribution of Causes of Observed Change”. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., in press. (Panel member)
National Research Council, 1992: Coastal Meteorology: A review of the state of the science, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 99 pp. (Panel consultant and co-author)
Book chapters
Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., 2011: The changing climate of Texas. pp. 39-68 in The Impact of Global Warming on Texas, second edition. J. Schmandt, G. R. North, and J. Clarkson, eds., University of Texas Press, Austin, 318 pp., ISBN 978-0-292- 72330-6.
Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., and B. McRoberts, 2009: March 1843: The most abnormal month ever? pp. 123-148 in Historical Climate Variability and Impacts in North America. L.-A. Dupigny-Giroux and C. Mock, ed., Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., and D. A. Gold, 2008: Dynamical diagnosis: a comparison of quasigeostrophy and Ertel potential vorticity. pp. 183-202 in Synoptic-Dynamic Meteorology and Weather Forecasting: A Tribute to Fred Sanders. L. F. Bosart and H. B. Bluestein, Eds., Amer. Meteor. Soc., 423 pp.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 163 Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., 2003: Weather and climate. (20 pp.) Texas Master Naturalist Statewide Curriculum, M. M. Haggerty, ed., Texas Cooperative Extension and Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept.,
Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., 2003: Large-scale atmospheric systems. Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water: Dynamics, Climate, Physical Meteorology, Weather Systems, and Measurements, T. D. Potter and B. R. Colman, Eds. John Wiley and Sons, pp. 509-541.
Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., 2003: Overview of weather systems. Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water: Dynamics, Climate, Physical Meteorology, Weather Systems, and Measurements, T. D. Potter and B. R. Colman, Eds. John Wiley and Sons, pp. 503-508.
Journal Articles
Bei, N., F. Zhang, and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, 2011: Ensemble-based observation targeting for improving ozone prediction in Houston and the surrounding area. Pure Appl. Geophys., 163, 539-554, doi:10.1007/s00024-011-0386-z
McRoberts, D. B., and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, 2012: The use of a high-resolution SPI for drought monitoring and assessment. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 51, 68-83, doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-10-05015.1
Fall, S., A. Watts, J. Nielsen-Gammon, E. Jones, D. Niyogi, J. R. Christy, and R. A. Pielke Sr., 2011: Analysis of the impacts of station exposure on the U.S. Historical Climatology Network temperatures and temperature trends. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D14120, doi:10.1029/2010JD015146
McRoberts, D. B., and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, 2011: A new homogenized United States climate division precipitation data for analysis of climate variability and change. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 50, 1187-1199, doi:10.1175/2010JAMC2626.1
Banta, R. M., C. J. Senff, R. J. Alvarez, A. O. Langford, D. D. Parrish, M. K. Trainer, L. S. Darby, R. M. Hardesty, B. Lambeth, J. A. Neuman, W. M. Angevine, J. Nielsen- Gammon, S. P. Sandberg, and A. B. White, 2011: Dependence of daily peak O3 concentrations near Houston, Texas on environmental factors: Wind speed, temperature, and boundary-layer depth. Atmos. Env., 45, 162-173, doi:10.1016/ j.atmosenv.2010.09.030.
Hu, X.-M., J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, and F. Zhang, 2010: Evaluation of three planetary boundary layer schemes in the WRF model. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 49, 1831-1844, doi: 10.1175/2010JAMC2432.1.
Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., X.-M. Hu, F. Zhang, and J. Pleim, 2010: Evaluation of planetary boundary layer scheme sensitivities for the purpose of parameter estimation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 138, 3400-3417, doi: 10.1175/2010MWR3292.1.
164 Water Management and Hydrological Science Gerald R. North Distinguished Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Distinguished Professor Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University
Adjunct Professor of Geography, Texas A&M University
Education 1966 Ph.D., Physics, University of Wisconsin 1960 B.S., Physics, University of Tennessee
Past Appointments 2003-2009 Holder of the Harold J. Haynes Endowed Chair in Geosciences 1995-2003 Head, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University 1986-1999 Director of Climate System Research Program, Texas A&M University 1986-1993 Senior Consulting Scientist, Applied Research Corporation, Landover, MD 1987-1993 Senior Consulting Scientist, Applied Res. Corp. Technologies, College Station, TX l978-1986 Physical Scientist, AST (GS-15), Climate/Radiation Branch, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 1980-1986 Lecturer/Adjunct Prof., Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland College Park, MD 1977-1980 Professor, Department of Physics, University of Missouri 1972-1977 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Missouri 1974-1975 Senior Fellow, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 1968-1972 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Missouri 1966-1968 Research Associate, Department of Physics. University of Pennsylvania
Professional Activities/Awards 2008 Recipient of the Jule G. Charney Award from the American Meteorological Society 2006 Editor’s Citation for Outstanding Referee for Geophysical Research Letters, American Geophysical Union. 2005-2010 Editor in Chief, Reviews of Geophysics 2003-2008 Holder of the Harold J. Haynes Endowed Chair in Geosciences 1995-1996 Interim Editor, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences 1993-1996 Associate Editor, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
Water Management and Hydrological Science 165 Selected Water Publications Book chapters
Schmandt, J., J. Clarkson, G. R. North, 2009: Impact of Global Warming on Texas; Revised 2nd Edition. University of Texas Press, in press. 43
North, G. R., and T. Erukhimova 2009: An Introduction to Atmospheric Thermodynamics, Cambridge. University Press, 267p.
North, G. R., et al. Editors, 2006: Report of the NRC/NAS Committee on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2000 Years, National Academies Press, 2006.
North, G.R., 1997: Glossary Editor, Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate, Oxford Univ. Press.
North, G. R., J. Schmandt and J. Clarkson, (Editors), 1994: Impact of Global Warming on Texas. Author of two chapters. 242 pages. Univ. of Texas Press, Austin, TX.
Crowley, T. C. and G. R. North, 1991: Paleoclimatology. Oxford Univ. Press. 340 pages. 1996: First Paperback Printing.
Journal Articles
Mahajan, S. G. R. North, R. Saravanan, M. G. Genton, 2012: Statistical significance of trends in monthly heavy precipitation over the US. Clim. Dyn., 38, 1375-1387. DOI 10.1007/s00382-011-1091-4
North, G. R., J. Wang, and M. Genton, 2011: Correlation Models for Temperature Fields, J. Clim., 24, 5850- 5862.
Liu, Xioadong, Libin Yan, Ping Yang, Zhi-Yong Yin, and Gerald R. North, 2010: Influence of Indian Summer Monsoon on Aerosol loading in East Asia, J. Appl. Meteorol. and Climatol., doi: 10.1175/2010JAMC2414.1
Banner, Jay L., Charles S. Jackson1, Zong-Liang Yang, Katharine Hayhoe, Connie Woodhouse, Lindsey Gulden, Kathy Jacobs, Gerald North, Ruby Leung, Warren Washington, Xiaoyan Jiang, and Richard Casteel, 2010: Climate Change Impacts on Texas Water: A White Paper Assessment of the Past, Present and Future and Recommendations for Action. TX Water Journ., 1, 1-19.
Li, Yue, Gerald R. North, Ping Yang, Bryan A. Baum, 2010: Exploration of the MODIS Cloud-Top Retrieval Products for the Investigation of Equatorial Wave Systems, J. Appl. Meteorol. and Climatol., 49, 2050- 2057.
Monahan, A. H., J. C. Fyfe, M. H. P. Ambaum, D. P. Stephenson, G. R. North, 2009: Empirical Orthogonal Functions: The Medium is the Message, J. Climate, 22, 6501- 6514.
166 Water Management and Hydrological Science Hong, Gang, Ping Yang, Patrick Minnis, Yong X. Hu, and Gerald North, 2008: Do contrails significantly reduce daily temperature range? 35, doi:10.1029/ 2008GL036108
Lee, C. K., S. S. P. Shen, B. Bailey, G. R. North, 2008: Factor analysis for El Nino signals in sea surface temperature and precipitation. Theor. Appl. Climatol., DOI 10.1007/s00704-008-0056-y.
Wu, Q., Karoly, D., G. R. North, 2008: Role of water vapor feedback on the amplitude of the seasonal cycle of the global average temperature. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, doi:10.1029/2008GL033454, 2008.
Li, B, A. Murthi, K. Bowman, G. North, M. Genton, M. Sherman, 2009: Statistical tests of the Taylor hypothesis: an application to precipitation fields, J. Hydrol., 10, 254-265.
North, G. R., 2007: An Inconvenient Truth and the scientists, Geojournal, 70, 27-31. 133 Wu, W. and G. R. North, 2007: Thermal Decay Modes in Simple Climate Models, Tellus, 59, 618-626.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 167 Francisco Olivera Associate Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University
Division Head of E&WR Engineering, Texas A&M University
Education 1996 Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Texas 1988 M.S., Hydraulic Engineering, International Institute for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering at Delft, Netherlands 1981 Professional Degree in Civil Engineering, Catholic University of Peru at Lima, Peru
Past Appointments 1995-2001 Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin – Department of Civil Engineering 1981-1992 Professor, Catholic University of Peru – Department of Engineering
Professional Activities/Awards 2011 TAMU Civil Eng. - Dick and Joyce Birdwell Endowed Teaching Award 2008-2010 TAMU Civil Eng. - Wiley Developmental Professorship 2007 TAMU Civil Eng. - Dick and Joyce Birdwell Endowed Teaching Award 2003 ASCE - Excellence in Civil Engineering Education Fellow 1999 Texas DOT - Top Ten Research Findings and Innovations Award
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Kim, D. and F. Olivera, On the relative importance of the Different Rainfall Statistics in the Calibration of Stochastic Rainfall Generation Models, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000453, 2011.
Cho, H. , D. Kim, F. Olivera and S. Guikema, Enhanced speciation in particle swarm optimization for multi-modal problems, European Journal of Operations Research 213 (2011): 15-23, 2011.
Mousavi, M.E., J.L. Irish, A.E. Frey, F. Olivera and B.L. Edge, Global warming and hurricanes: The potential impact of hurricane intensification and sea level rise on coastal flooding, Climatic Change 104: 575 – 597, 2011.
Irish, J.L., A.E. Frey, J.D. Rosati, F. Olivera, L.M. Dunkin, J.M. Kaihatu, C.M. Ferreira (*) and B.L. Edge, Potential Implications of global warming and barrier
168 Water Management and Hydrological Science island degradation on future hurricane inundation, Ocean and Coastal Management 53 (2010): 645 -657, 2010.
Frey, A.E., F. Olivera, J.L. Irish, L.M. Dunkin, J.M. Kaihatu, C.M. Ferreira (*) and B.L. Edge, The impact of climate change on hurricane flooding inundation, population affected and property damages, Journal of the American Water resources Association 46 (5): 1049 - 1059, 2010.
Larentis, D.G., W. Collischonn, F. Olivera and C.E.M. Tucci, GIS-based procedures for hydropower potential spotting, Energy 35 (2010): 4237 - 4243, 2010.
Zaitchik, B.F., M. Rodell and F. Olivera, Evaluation of the Global Land Data Assimilation System using global river discharge data and a Source to Sink routing scheme, Water Resources Research 6: W05507, 2010.
Choi, J. F. Olivera and S. Socolofsky, Storm Identification and Tracking Algorithm for Modeling of Rainfall Fields using 1-hour NEXRAD Rainfall Data in Texas, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 14 (7): 721 -730, 2009.
Cho, H. and F. Olivera, Effect of the spatial variability of land use, soil type and precipitation on streamflows in small watersheds, Journal of the American Water Resources Association 45 (3): 673 – 686, 2009.
Cho, H., F. Olivera and S. Guikema, A derivation of the number of minima of the Griewank function, Applied Mathematics and Computation 204 (2008): 694 - 701, 2008.
Choi, J., S. Socolofsky and F. Olivera, Hourly Disaggregation of Daily Rainfall in Texas Using Measured Hourly Precipitation at Other Locations, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 13 (6): 476 -487, 2008.
Olivera, F., J. Choi, D. Kim and M. Li, Estimation of Average Rainfall Areal Reduction Factors in Texas Using NEXRAD Data, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 13 (6): 438 - 448, 2008.
Olivera, F. and B. DeFee , Urbanization and Its Effect on Runoff in the Whiteoak Bayou Watershed, Texas, Journal of the American Water Resources Association 43 (1): 170 - 182, 2007.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 169 Kathleen O’Reilly Associate Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
Faculty Member, Asian Studies Program, Texas A&M University
Faculty Member, Women and Gender Studies Program, Texas A&M University
Education 2002 Ph.D., Geography, University of Iowa 1996 M.S., Geography, University of Alabama 1989 B.M., Westminster Choir College 1986 Pre-engineering, Oregon State University
Past Appointments 2006-2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University 2004 -2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Associate Member, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 2002-2004 Women in Under-Represented Areas Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
Professional Activities/Awards 2012 Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence Award, Nominee, Graduate Student Council and College of Geosciences Nominee, Texas A&M University 2003 J. Warren Nystrom Competition Finalist, Association of American Geographers 2002-2004 Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Women in Under-Represented Areas (1 of 3), University of Kentucky
Selected Grants/Research Funding 2011-2013 Successful Sanitation Habits in Rural India ($353,000), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Development, Water, Sanitation, Health Program
2010-2015 CAREER Award # BCS-0956022 ($435,944) ‘Human Waste and Human Welfare: A Political Ecology Approach to Sanitation in Rural India’ National Science Foundation
2008 Senior Short Term Fellowship ($10,000), Drinking Water Sustainability’, American Institute of Indian Studies
170 Water Management and Hydrological Science 2007 Glassock Center Stipendiary Faculty Fellow ($1500), Texas A&M University Melburn G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and Department of Geography
2005-2009 Grant # BCS- 0734156 ($99,944), ‘Women Fieldworkers in NGOs’National Science Foundation
2000 Junior Fellowship for Doctoral Research in India ($12,000) American Institute of Indian Studies
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
O’Reilly, K. “Geography matters: the importance of land, water, and space in sanitation studies.” 2012, WH2O: The Journal of Gender and Water 1(1):8-9. wh2ojournal.com
O’Reilly, K. and R. Dhanju. “Hybrid drinking water governance: Community participation and ongoing neoliberal reforms in rural Rajasthan, India.” 2012, Geoforum 43:623–633
O’Reilly, K. “Development is Seductive.” 2012, Environment and Planning A 43:2795-2797.
O’Reilly, K. “They are not of this house: the gendered cost of water’s commodification.” 2011, Economic and Political Weekly April 30, XLVI (18):49-55.
O’Reilly, K. “We are not contractors: professionalizing the interactive service work of NGOs in Rajasthan, India.” 2011, Economic Geography 87(2): 207-226.
O’Reilly, K. and R. Dhanju. “Your report is completely wrong! (aapkii report ek dum galat hai!): Locating spaces inside NGOs for feedback and dissemination.” 2010, Human Organization 69(3):285-294.
O'Reilly, K. “Combining sanitation and women’s empowerment in water supply: An example from Rajasthan.” 2010, Development in Practice. 20th Anniversary issue, 20(1):45-56.
O’Reilly, K. “The Promise of Patronage: Adapting and adopting neoliberal development”, 2010, Antipode 42(1):179-200.
O’Reilly, K., Nina Laurie, Farhana Sultana and Sarah Halvorson. “Introduction” to special issue, “Global Geographies of Gender and Water,” of Gender, Place and Culture., 2009, 16(4):381-385.
O'Reilly, K. “Insider responses: women fieldworkers and the implementation of gendered participation,” In Gender and Natural Resource Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions., 2008, Bernadette Resurreccion and Rebecca Elmhirst, eds. London: Earthscan.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 171 O'Reilly, K. “‘Where the knots of narrative are tied and untied’: the Dialogic Production of Gendered Development Spaces in Rajasthan, India.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers., 2007, 97(3):613-634.
172 Water Management and Hydrological Science Suresh D. Pillai Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor and Texas AgriLife Faculty Fellow, Food Safety and Environmental Microbiology Program, Poultry Science and Nutrition and Food Science Departments, Texas A&M University
Director, National Center for E-Beam Research, Texas A&M University
Member of Graduate Faculties of Poultry Science, Food Science and Technology, Biotechnology, Veterinary Pathobiology, Toxicology, Soil and Crop Sciences
Education 1989 Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arizona 1985 M.S., Industrial Microbiology, University of Madras, India 1983 B.S., Botany, University of Madras, India
Past Appointments 2004-2010 Chair, Graduate Biotechnology Program, Texas A&M University 2000-2005 Associate Director, Institute of Food Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University 2000-2004 Associate Professor and TAES Faculty Fellow -Food Safety and Environmental Microbiology Program, Poultry Science Dept. Texas A&M University 1998-1999 Associate Professor, Texas A&M Univ. Research Center, El Paso, and Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University Member, Graduate Faculty, Biology Dept., New Mexico State University Member, Graduate Faculty, Biology Dept., University of Texas 1992- 1998 Assistant Professor, Texas A&M Univ. Research Center, El Paso, and Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University 1991-1992 Research Scientist - Accelerated Products Development Program, Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD.
Professional Activities/Awards 2012 President’s Travel Fund Award- Society for Applied Microbiology (SFAM) 2011-2012 Member, Board of Directors, Avantti MediClear, Tijuana, Mexico 2010-2012 Member, Science Advisory Board, BCR Environmental, Jacksonville, FL 2008 President’s Travel Fund Award- Society for Applied Microbiology (SFAM) 2007-2010 Distinguished Lecturer, Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) 2007 State of Texas Environmental Excellence Award (Team-member)
Water Management and Hydrological Science 173 2006-2010 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Department of Homeland Security Center for Advanced Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA) 2006-2012 Expert Panel Member, Govt. Accountability Office (GAO), Washington, DC.
Selected Grants/Research Funding Utilization of the National Center for Electron Beam Research Facility and Texas A&M To Produce Irradiated Food Products. NASA-Wyle Principal Investigator (May 2011- Sept 2012)
Surfactant-Modified Zeolite (SMZ) Filter Technology To Control Waterborne Pathogen Transmission in the Mekong River Basin, Cambodia. IERC. S. Korea. Principal Investigator (Jan 2011- Dec 2011)
National Center for Electron Beam Food Research- food Safety. (Federal Initiative) USDA-NIFA Principal Investigator (9/09-8/10)
Integrating Microbial Target Capture with Flow Field Fractionation for Lab on a Chip Device for Food Matrices. Dept. Homeland Security –National Center for Food Protection and Defense- Principal Investigator (10/2009- 9/2010)
Development of generic irradiation doses for quarantine treatment using X-rays, E- Beam and Gamma – International Atomic Energy Agency. Principal Investigator (9/2009 – 8/2014
Development of Wide Area Radiation Sources for Wastewater Treatment – Co- Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation –SBIR
Patents Combined chemical oxidant and E-Beam irradiation for biosolid disinfection and stabilization Suresh D. Pillai and Robert S. Reimers (US patent pending)
2012 High energy electron beam irradiation for the production of immuno-modulators in poultry. Jack McReynolds, Suresh D. Pillai, Palmy Jesudhasan and Martha Cepeda (US Patent 8,173,139 2007 Removal of biological pathogens using surfactant-modified zeolites. Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Robert S. Bowman and Suresh D. Pillai. U.S. Patent 7,311,839
Selected Water Publications Books
R.C. Bier, S.D. Pillai, T.D. Phillips and R.L. Ziprin (Editors) (2004). Pre-harvest and Post-harvest Food Safety; Contemporary Issues and Future Directions. Institute of Food Technologists/Iowa State University Press
Pillai, S.D. (Editor) (1998) Microbial Pathogens within Aquifers-Principles and Protocols. Springer-Verlag.
174 Water Management and Hydrological Science Book chapters
Pillai, S.D (2012). Pathogen contamination of dog chew toys. In: Case studies in food safety and quality management: Lessons from real-life situations (Ed. J. Hoorfar) Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK.
Reed, A.L., and S.D. Pillai (2012). E-Beam based ionizing radiation technology for municipal biosolid treatment. In: Solids Processing Design and Management Manual. (ed J. Smith). Water Environment Federation, Alexandria, VA
Pillai, S.D. (2011) Empowering billions with food safety and food security In: In Food and Agriculture, Thematic Volume- International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy-2009 (Eds. Arun Sharma and S.F. D’Souza), Published by Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, Department of Atomic Energy, India
Rambo, C., and S.D. Pillai (2011). Pathogen testing in fresh produce and irrigation water. In: Rapid Detection, Characterization and Enumeration of Foodborne Pathogens. (Ed, J. Hoorfar). ASM Press, Washington DC
Nair, C., D. Prince, C. Rambo, and S.D. Pillai (2010). Contemporary Issues in Food Safety. In: Comprehensive Food Fermentation Food Biotechnology. A. Pandey, , C. Larroche, R. Soccol, E. Gnansounou, and P. Nigam (eds). AsiaTech Publishers, New Delhi.
Sivakumar, K.K., P.Jesudhasan* and S.D. Pillai (2011) Detection of Autoinducer (AI-2) like Activity in Food Samples In: Quorum Sensing: Methods and Protocols (ed. K. Rumbaugh). Humana Press
Pillai, S.D., D. H. D’Souza, G.D. Giovanni, A. Sharma, M. Patterson (2008). Microbiological safety of foods: contemporary challenges and solutions. In: Biotechnology. A. Pandey, C. Larroche, C. R. Soccol, and C-G Dussap, (eds) . AsiaTech Publishers
Pillai, S.D., and L.A. Braby. (2007) Electronic pasteurization of foods. In: Advances in Thermal and Non-Thermal Food Preservation. G.Tewari and V. Juneja (eds). Blackwell Publishing, Ames, IA.
Pillai, S.D. L. Braby, and J. Maxim. (2006). Technical Challenges and Research Directions in Electronic Food Pasteurization. In: Food Irradiation Research and Technology. C.H. Sommers and X. Fan (eds). Blackwell Publishing.
Pillai, S.D. and E. Vega (2007) Molecular Detection and Characterization Tools. In: Microbial Source Tracking. P 65-91. (ed. J.W. Santo Domingo and M.J. Sadowsky) American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington, DC
Water Management and Hydrological Science 175 Steven M. Quiring Associate Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography
Associate Member of the Environmental Faculty, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University
Education 2005 Ph.D., Climatology, University of Delaware. Newark, DE, USA 2005 Higher Education Teaching Certification, Center for Teaching Effectiveness, University of Delaware. Newark, DE 2001 M.S., Geography, University of Manitoba. Winnipeg, MB, Canada 1999 B.A., (Honors) Geography, University of Winnipeg. Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Past Appointments 2005–2011 Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography 2003–2004 Graduate Research Assistant, University of Delaware, NSF-funded project: Development of a bias-corrected precipitation database and climatology for Arctic regions (PI: Dr. David Legates) 2002-2004 Lecturer, University of Delaware, Department of Geography 2002 Lab Instructor, University of Delaware, Department of Geography 2001 Lecturer, University of Manitoba, Department of Geography 1999 GIS Programmer/Analyst, Centre for Earth Observation Science, University of Manitoba, NSERC-funded project: Developing a geospatial framework for the North Water Polynya Study (PI: Dr. David Barber)
Selected Grants/Research Funding 2012 Co-Principal Investigator: College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University: Enhancing Research Intensive Capstone Courses with more Fieldwork (01/01/12- 5/31/14; $61,000); with Co-PIs: D. Cairns, D. Collins, O. Frauenfeld, C. Houser, A. Klein, C. Lafon, S. Quiring and B. Roark.
2011 Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation, CAREER: Drought Predictability and the Role of Land-Atmosphere Interactions in the U.S. Great Plains (03/ 15/11-02/28/16; $486,121) (NSF Award: AGS-1056796).
2008 Co-Principal Investigator: Department of Energy, Collaborative Proposal: Climate-Induced Changes in Hurricane Winds, Surge, and Risk to Electric Power Systems (09/01/08–08/31/11; $450,000); with S. Guikema (PI) and J. Irish (PI) (Grant No. DE-FG02-08ER64644).
176 Water Management and Hydrological Science 2008 Co-Principal Investigator: The Southern Company, Hurricane Risk Modeling Project: Phase II (04/11/08–03/31/09; $67,512; contract extension 04/01/09– 07/ 31/09; $15,000); with S. Guikema (PI) (TAMRF Proposal #0800755).
2005 Principal Investigator: Texas Water Development Board, Drought Monitoring Index for Texas (11/01/05–1/31/07; $138,846); with J. Nielsen-Gammon (Co-PI), R. Srinivasan (Co-PI), T. Miller (Co-PI), and B. Narasimhan (Co-PI) (TWDB Contract No. 2005-483028).
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Guikema, S. D. and S. M. Quiring (2012) Hybrid data mining-regression for infrastructure risk assessment based on zero-inflated data. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 99: 178-182. DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.10.012
Nateghi, R., Guikema, S. D. and S. M. Quiring (2011) Comparison and validation of statistical methods for predicting power outage durations in the event of hurricanes. Risk Analysis, 31: 1897-1906. DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2011.01618.x
Houser, C., Brannstrom, C., Quiring, S. M. and K. K. Lemmons (2011) Study abroad field trip improves test performance through engagement and new social networks. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 35: 513-528. DOI: 10.1080/ 03098265.2010.551655
Quiring, S. M., Zhu, L., and S. Guikema (2011) Importance of soil and elevation characteristics for modeling power system outages due to hurricanes. Natural Hazards, 58: 365-390. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9672-9
Quiring, S. M., Schumacher, A. B., Labosier, C., and L. Zhu (2011) Variations in mean annual tropical cyclone size in the Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research– Atmospheres, 116, D09114, doi:10.1029/2010JD015011.
Guikema, S. D., Quiring, S. M., and S. R. Han (2010) Prestorm estimation of hurricane damage to electric power distribution systems. Risk Analysis, 30: 1744- 1752.DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01510.x
Sherman, D. J., Li, B., Quiring, S. M., and E. Farrell (2010) Benchmarking the war against global warming. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(4): 1– 12. dx.doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2010.500195
Meng, L. and S. M. Quiring (2010) Examining the influence of spring soil moisture anomalies on summer precipitation in the U.S. Great Plains using the Community Atmosphere Model version 3 (CAM3). Journal of Geophysical Research–Atmospheres, 115, D21118, doi:10.1029/2010JD014449.
Quiring, S. M. and S. Ganesh (2010) Evaluating the utility of the Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) for monitoring meteorological drought in Texas. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 150: 330–339. dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.agrformet.2009.11.015
Water Management and Hydrological Science 177 Meng, L. and S. M. Quiring (2010) Observational relationship of sea surface temperatures and precedent soil moisture with summer precipitation in the U.S. Great Plains. International Journal of Climatology, 30: 884–893.
Quiring, S. M. and D. B. Kluver (2009) Relationship between winter/spring snowfall and summer precipitation in the northern Great Plains of North America. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 10: 1203–1217.
Quiring, S. M. (2009) Developing objective operational definitions for monitoring drought. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 48: 1217–1229. dx.doi.org/ 10.1175/2009JAMC2088.1
Quiring, S. M. (2009) Monitoring drought: An evaluation of meteorological drought indices. Geography Compass, 3/1: 64–88, 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00207.x
Han, S. R., Guikema, S. D., Quiring, S. M., Lee, K. H., Rosowsky, D. V., and R. A. Davidson (2009) Estimating the spatial distribution of power outages during hurricanes in the Gulf coast region. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 94: 199– 210. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2008.02.018
Quiring, S. M. and G. B. Goodrich (2008) Nature and causes of the 2002 to 2004 drought in the southwestern United States compared with the historic 1953 to 1957 drought. Climate Research, 36: 41–52.
Quiring, S. M. and D. R. Legates (2008) Application of CERES-Maize for within- season prediction of rainfed corn yields in Delaware, USA. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 148: 964–975. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.01.009
Meng, L. and S. M. Quiring (2008) A comparison of soil moisture models using Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) observations. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 9:641– 659. dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008JHM916.1?(*AAG Climate Specialty Group “John Russell Mather” Paper of the Year)
Quiring, S. M. (2007) Trends in publication outlets of geographer-climatologists. The Professional Geographer, 59(3): 357–364.
178 Water Management and Hydrological Science Daniel L. Roelke Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor, Departments of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, and Oceanography, Texas A&M University
Education 1997-98 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Consortium of Oceanographic Research and Education, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi 1993-97 Ph.D., Oceanography, Texas A&M University 1990-93 M.S., Oceanography, Texas A&M University 1985-89 B.S., Earth Science, Minor in Chemistry, Millersville University, PA
Past Appointments 2004-2011 Associate Professor, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University 1998-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University
Professional Activities/Awards 2010 Nominated for Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research (Texas A&M University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences) 2010 Elected to the National Harmful Algal Bloom Committee (USA) 2010 Invited to serve a second term on the editorial board of The American Naturalist 2009 Invited to serve as “Opponent” in the dissertation defense of Andreas Brutemark (E. Graneli, Chair), University of Kalmar Sweden. 2009 Invited to organize a special session for the 30th Annual Conference of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), New Orleans, LA, USA focused on ecohydrology and the fate of phycotoxins. 2008 Invited to write a chapter for the multivolume Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science (vol. 9, Elsevier) focused on incidence of hypoxia in coastal waters. 2008 Elected to the Faculty Senate, Texas A&M University 2007 Invited to join the editorial board of The American Naturalist 1998 Invited to participate in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea: Young Scientists Conference on Marine Ecosystem Perspectives (limited to 2 participants per country)
Water Management and Hydrological Science 179 Selected Grants/Research Funding 2010-2012 Approaches to Golden Algae control, Federal-Level Initiative, Department of Defense, Texas AgriLife Research, $850,000 ($450,000 FY11, $300,000 FY12). – lead PI [all of this award was passed through these agencies to support research in which I was involved (see below)]. 2006-2009 Toxic Golden Alga in Texas (Understanding and Managing the Problems), Federal-Level Initiative, Department of Energy, Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, $1,100,000 ($500,000 FY07, $600,000 FY09). – lead PI [portions of this award were passed through these agencies to support research in which I was involved (see below)]. 2005-2006 Conservation of Caddo Lake, TX, Federal-Level Initiative, US Fish and Wildlife, Caddo Lake Institute, Texas Water Resources Institute, $300,000. – co-PI [this initiative led to an RFP administered through the Caddo Lake Research Institute]. 2002-2004 Golden Algae Blooms in Texas, State-Level Initiative, Texas, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, $1,200,000. – co PI [this initiative led to RFPs administered through TPWD, and funding through the state with additional RFPs has continued through the 08-10 bi-annum].
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Roelke, D.L., Brooks, B.W., Grover, J.P., Kalisek, D.M. and Harris, B.L. 2012. Approaches to Golden Algae Control: In-Lake Mesocosm Experiments, ERDC/EL CR-12-1, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. 62 pages.
Granéli, E., B. Edvardsen, D.L. Roelke, J.A. Hagström. 2012. The ecophysiology and bloom dynamics of Prymnesium spp. Harmful Algae (invited paper). 14:260- 270.
Grover, J.P., D.L. Roelke, B.W. Brooks. 2012. Modeling of plankton community dynamics characterized by algal toxicity and allelopathy: A focus on historical Prymnesium parvum blooms in a Texas reservoir. Ecological Modelling. 227:147- 161.
Roelke, D.L., R.H. Pierce. 2011. Effects of inflow on harmful algal blooms – some considerations. Journal of Plankton Research. 33: 205-210.
Roelke, D.L., J.P. Grover, B.W. Brooks, J. Glass, D. Buzan, G.M. Southard, L. Fries, G.M. Gable, L. Schwierzke-Wade, M. Byrd, J. Nelson. 2011. A decade of fish-killing Prymnesium parvum blooms in Texas: Roles of inflow and salinity. Journal of Plankton Research. 33: 243-254.
180 Water Management and Hydrological Science Brooks, B.W., J.P. Grover, D.L. Roelke. 2011. Prymnesium parvum, An emerging threat to inland waters. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (featured article). 30: 1955-1964.
Eldridge, P.M., D.L. Roelke. 2011. Hypoxia in waters of the coastal zone: Causes, effects, and modeling approaches. In: Wolanski, E. and McLusky D.S. (eds.) Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science, Vol. 9, pp. 193–215. Waltham: Academic Press.
Grover, J.P., K.W. Crane, J.W. Baker, B.W. Brooks, D.L. Roelke. 2011. Spatial variation of harmful algae and their toxins in flowing-water habitats: a theoretical exploration. Journal of Plankton Research. 33: 211-228.
James, S.V., T.W. Valenti, D.L. Roelke, J.P. Grover, B.W. Brooks. 2011. Probabilistic ecological assessment of microcystin-LR: A case study of allelopathy to Prymnesium parvum. Journal of Plankton Research. 33: 319-332.
James, S.V., T.W. Valenti, K.N. Prosser, J.P. Grover, D.L. Roelke, B.W. Brooks. 2011. Sunlight amelioration of Prymnesium parvum acute toxicity to fish. Journal of Plankton Research. 33: 265-272.
Schwierzke-Wade, L., D.L. Roelke, B.W. Brooks, J.P. Grover, T.W. Valenti Jr. 2011. Prymnesium parvum bloom termination: Role of hydraulic dilution. Journal of Plankton Research. 33: 309-318.
Spatharis, S., D.L. Roelke, P.G. Dimitrakopoulos, G.D. Kokkoris. 2011. Analyzing the (mis)behavior of Shannon index in eutrophication studies using field and simulated phytoplankton assemblages. Ecological Indicators. 11: 697-703. 2010
Roelke D.L., Eldridge P.M. 2010. Losers in the ‘Rock-Paper-Scissors’ game: The role of non-hierarchical competition and chaos as biodiversity sustaining agents in aquatic systems. Ecological Modelling. 221: 1017-1027.
Roelke, D.L., G.M. Gable, T.W. Valenti, J.P. Grover, B.W. Brooks, J.L. Pinckney. 2010. Hydraulic flushing as a Prymnesium parvum bloom-terminating mechanism in a subtropical lake. Harmful Algae. 9: 323–332.
Roelke, D.L., L. Schwierzke, B.W. Brooks, J.P. Grover, R.M. Errera, T.W. Valenti Jr., J.L. Pinckney. 2010. Factors influencing Prymnesium parvum population dynamics during bloom formation: Results from in-lake mesocosm experiments. Journal of American Water Resources Association. 46: 76-91.
Brooks, B.W., S.V. James, T.W. Valenti Jr., F. Urena-Boeck, C. Serrano, J.P. Berninger, L. Schwierzke, L.D. Mydlarz, J.P. Grover, D.L. Roelke. 2010. Comparative toxicity of Prymnesium parvum in inland waters. Journal of American Water Resources Association. 46: 45-62.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 181 W. Douglass Shaw Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
Education 1985 Ph.D., Economics, University of Colorado 1977 B.A., Geography, University of Colorado
Past Appointments 2002-2003 Visiting Associate Professor, Division of Economics and Business, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401 1995-2004 Associate Professor, Dept. of Applied Economics and Statistics and Faculty member of the Graduate Program in Hydrologic Sciences, University of Nevada – Reno. Tenure received in Spring 1999 1994 Temporary Special Programs Lecturer, Economics Institute, Boulder, CO 1987-1991 Vassar College, Assistant Professor of Economics
Professional Activities/Awards Research Fellow Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
Selected Grants/Research Funding $314,000 “Perceived Risks from Arsenic in Drinking Water.” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, PI, Fall, 2005 to December 31, 2007 [Co-PI’s are Mary Riddel, Paul Jakus, Mark Walker].
$372,5000 – “Arsenic in Churchill County, Nevada domestic water supplies” U.S.D.A., Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) National Integrated Water Quality Program, Co-PI with Mark Walker, 2002-2004 (36 months – 2002 to 2005).
$767,000 – NSF/EPA Competitive grant: co-P.I. with Glenn Miller, Wally Miller, and Scott Tyler. 3 years, Jan. 1st 1997-Dec. 31st, 2000: “Geochemical, Biological and Economic Effects of Arsenic and Other Oxyanions on a Mining Impacted Watersheds.” Economics: The Impacts of Mine Dewatering in the Humboldt River Basin.” [Lead economist, EPA Grant # R 825289-01-0; NEV05146, code #1330-153- 5185].
$900,000 – Funded Consulting Project – Co-P.I. and co-manager on Natural Resource Damage Assessment of the Kalamazoo River and for Saginaw Bay and River, for Michigan Department of Natural Resources, 1993-1995.
182 Water Management and Hydrological Science $300,000 – Funded Consulting Project – Assessment of the Impacts of Reservoir Level Changes for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power Administration and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1993-1994 (Co-manager of project)
Selected Water Publications Book
Water Resource Economics and Policy: An Introduction. W. D. Shaw. 2005. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishers.
“The New Economics of Outdoor Recreation.” Nick Hanley, W. D. Shaw, and R. Wright (editors). 2003. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Press. Includes original contributed chapters: “Introduction” by the editors; “Finite Mixture within Random Utility Models.” J.S. Shonkwiler and W.D. Shaw; and, “Are Climbers Fools? Modeling Risky Recreation” P. Jakus, M. Riddel and W.D. Shaw.
Book chapters
“Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: Decisions under Risk and Uncertainty” Chapter prepared for book, Encyclopedia of Environmental and Resource Economics, Jason Shogren (ed.), Texas A&M University, November 2011.
“Searching for a Model of Multiple-Site Recreation Demand that Admits Interior and Boundary Solutions.” E.R. Morey, D. Waldman, D. Assane, and W.D. Shaw. A chapter in Revealed Preference Approaches to Environmental Valuation, Volume 1, Joseph Herriges and Cathy Kling, (eds.) 2008, ISBN: 978-0-7546-2714-2. [Originally published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1995.]
“Estimating the Cost of Leisure Time in Recreation Demand Models.” Peter Feather and W.D. Shaw. A chapter in Revealed Preference Approaches to Environmental Valuation, Volume 1, Joseph Herriges and Cathy Kling, (eds.) 2008, ISBN: 978-0-7546-2714-2. [Originally published in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1999.]
“Three Ships that Pass in the Night: Risk, Ambiguity, and the Willingness to Pay- Willingness to Accept Disparity.” W. Douglass Shaw and Rich Woodward, Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, Newsletter,2007, Vol. 27 (2/November).
“Valuing Environmental Changes in the Presence of Risk: An Update and Discussion of Some Empirical Issues.” P. Jakus, M. Riddel, and W.D. Shaw. Chapter 7 in International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics: A Survey of Current Issues: 2005/2006, Henk Folmer and Tom Tietenberg (eds.) Northampton, Mass: Edward Eglar Press.
“Comparing Consumer’s Surplus Estimates Calculated from Intercept and General Survey Data.” W. D. Shaw, E. Fadali, and F. Lupi. Proceedings of the W-133 (U.S.D.A.) Regional Economics Group, compiled by J. Scott Shonkwiler. Las Vegas, Nevada, February, 2003.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 183 “Principles of Water Resources: History, Development, Management, and Policy” by Thom Cech. Book review, Resources Policy, 2002, Vol. 28: 80-81.
“The Economic Benefits of Rock Climbing.” By T. Grijalva and W. D. Shaw. 2002. World Mountaineering and Climbing, the UIAA Journal, March 2nd Issue, 2002 [see www.journal.uiaa.ch]. Also published in Benefits and Costs of Mountaineering for Regions and Communities, Proceedings, UIAA Conference on the Benefits of Mountaineering, Trento, Italy [May, 2002].
Journal Articles
“Does Climate Change Information Affect Stated Risks of Pine Beetle Impacts on Forests? An Application of the Exchangeability Method.” With Simone Cerroni (University of Trento, Italy), Forthcoming, Forest Policy and Economics, accepted March 2012.
Do Travelers Pay for Managed Lane Travel as They Claimed They Would?: A Before-After Study of Houston Katy Freeway Travelers. Prem Chand Devarasetty, M. Burris, and W.D. Shaw. Accepted for publication, Transportation Research Record: the Journal of the Transportation Research Board, February 2012.
“Arsenic-related mortality risks for smokers and non-smokers.” W. Douglass Shaw, Mary Riddel, and Paul Jakus. Forthcoming and in press, Contemporary Economic Policy, 2012, 30, accepted May 2011. First version originally submitted in October 2009.
“The Effect of Weather on Physical Activity among Older Adults: Controlling for Location Selection with Longitudinal Data.” Richard A. Dunn, W. Douglass Shaw and Michael Trousdale. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 2012, 20 (January): 80-92.
“Variation in The Value of Travel Time Savings and its Impact on the Benefits of Managed Lanes.” Sunil Patil, Mark Burris, W. Douglass Shaw, and Sisinnio Conas. Transportation Planning and Technology, 2011, Vol. 34 (6/August): 547-67.
“Travel Using Managed Lanes: An Application of a Stated Choice Model for Houston, Texas.” Sunil Patel, Mark Burris, and W. Douglass Shaw. Transport Policy, 2011, 18 (4/August): 595- 603.
“Water Management, Risk and Uncertainty: What Water Resource Managers Wish They Knew in the 21st Century.” W. Douglass Shaw and Richard T. Woodward. Western Economic Forum, 2011/2010, 9 (Fall): 9-21. Posted online at www.waeaonline.org.
“Species Preservation versus Development: An Experimental Investigation under Uncertainty.” Therese Grijalva, Robert P. Berrens, and W. Douglass Shaw. Ecological Economics, 2011, 70 (5/March): 995-1005.2
184 Water Management and Hydrological Science Vijay P. Singh Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering, Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Education 1998 D. Sc., Environmental and Water Resources Engineering. The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 1974 Ph. D., Civil Engineering with specialization in Hydrology and Water Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins. 1970 M. S., Engineering with specialization in Hydrology. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada 1967 B. S., Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Soil and Water Conservation Engineering. U.P. Agricultural University, Pant College of Technology, Pantnagar, Nainital, U.P., India
Past Appointments 2004-2006 Adjunct Professor, School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University 2001-2006 Coordinator of Environmental and Water Resources Systems Engineering Program, Louisiana State University 1983-1998 Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (from August 1983 to present), and Coordinator of Water Resources Program, Louisiana State University 1984-1986 Director, Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute, College of Engineering 1978-1981 Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, and Member, Graduate Faculty Department of Civil Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 1977-1978 Associate Research Professor of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Professional Activities/Awards Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering (from July 1, 2006-present), Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University
Arthur K. Barton Endowed Professor Emeritus (June 2006-present), Luisiana State University
Water Management and Hydrological Science 185 Selected Grants/Research Funding A Water Quality Decision Model for the Identification of Priority Sites for the Implementation of Best Management Practices to Maintain Dissolved Oxygen Levels in the Ouachitaq River Basin. This project was funded by Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality for about $654,000 for a period of 3 years beginning with January 15, 2002. It is in cooperation with Ms. E. Roider, Dr. D.D. Adrian, Dr. G. Hammitt, and Dr. J. Pardue.
Assessment and Remediation of Public Health Impacts due to Hurricanes and Major Flooding Events. This project was funded by Millennium Trust Health Excellence Fund for $ 3,685,490 for a period of 5 years beginning with January 1, 2002. It is in cooperation with Drs. I. Van Heerden and 14 others.
Selected Water Publications Books
Singh, V.P., Entropy Theory and its Applications in Environmental and Water Engineering. John Wiley, New York, in press, 2012.
Premlata Singh, P., Singh, M.K. and Singh, V.P., Contaminant Transport in Unsteady Groundwater Flow. VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft and Co. KG, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2011.
Rai, R.K., Upadhyay, A., Ojha, C.S.P. and Singh, V.P., The Yamuna River Basin: Water Resources and Environment. Springer, 2011.
Rakhecha, P.R. and Singh, V.P., Applied Hydrometeorology. 384 pp., Capital Publishing Company-Springer, New Delhi, India, 2009.
Mogheir, Y., de Lima, J..M.P. and Singh, V.P., Groundwater Quality Monitoring Networks Redesign Using Entropy Theory: Gaza Strip Case Study. 260 pp., VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft and Co. KG, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2009.
Book chapters
Singh, V.P. Mishra, A. K. and Chowdhary, H., Climate Change and its Impact on Water Resources Engineering. Chapter in: Modern Water Resources Engineering: Handbook of Environmental Engineering series, Volume 15, edited by L.K. Wang and C.T. Yang, Humana Press-Springer Science, New York, in press, 2012.
Rai, R.K. and Singh, V.P., Global Water Balance and Food Security. Chapter in: Soil Water and Agronomic Productivity, edited by R. Lall, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, in press, 2012.
Uddameri, V. and Singh, V.P., The Competition between Environmental, Urban and Rural Groundwater Demands and the Impacts on Agriculture in Edwards Aquifer Area, Texas. Chapter in: Soil Water and Agronomic Productivity, edited by R. Lall, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, in press, 2012.
186 Water Management and Hydrological Science Journal Articles
Jhajharia, D., Dinpashoh, Y., Kahya, E., Singh, V.P. and Fakheri-Fard, A., Trends in Reference Evapotranspiration in the Humid Region of Northeast India. Hydrological Processes, Vol. 26, pp. 421-435, 2012.
Ozger, M., Mishra, A.K. and Singh, V.P., Long Lead Time Drought Forecasting Using a wavelet and Fuzzy Logic Combination Model: A Case Study in Texas. Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 13, pp. 284-297, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-10- 05007.1, 2012.
Patil, S. and Singh, V.P., Dispersion in Submerged Vegetated Flow with Coherent Vortices. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 1-9, 2012.
Maheshwari, B.L., Simmons, B.L. and Singh, V.P., Integrated Water Resources Management: Understanding its Complexity in Peri-Urban Landscapes. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 229-236, 2012.
Zhang, Z., Xu, C.-Y., El-Tahir, M.E.H., Cao, J. and Singh, V.P., Spatial and Temporal Variations of Precipitation in Sudan and their Possible Causes during 1948-2005. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Analysis, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 429-442, 2012.
Long, D. and Singh, V.P., A Modified Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (M-SEBAL) Based on a Trapezoidal Framework. Water Resources Research, Vol. 48, W02528, doi: 10.1029/2011WR010607, pp. 1-24, 2012.
Long, D. and Singh, V.P., Deriving Theoretical Boundaries to Address Scale Dependencies of Triangle Models for Evapotranspiration Estimation. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 117, pp. 1-17, DO5113, doi: 10.1029/2011JD017079, 2012.
Long, D. and Singh, V.P., A Two-Source Trapezoid Model for Evapotranspiration (TTME) from Satellite Imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 121, pp. 370-388, 2012.
Zhang, Q., Singh, V.P., Li, J., Jiang, F., and Bai, Y., Spatio-Temporal Variations of Precipitation Extremes in Xinjiang, China. Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 434-435, pp. 7-18, 2012.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 187 Patricia Kay Smith Associate Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Associate Professor, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University
Education 2000 Ph.D., Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University 1996 M.S., Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University 1992 B.S., Management, Oklahoma State University
Past Appointments 2000–2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University
Professional Activities/Awards 2012-2015 Cintron University Professor for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence 2011 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Superior Paper Award.
Selected Grants/Research Funding Preparing Underrepresented Scholars for Challenges in Agricultural Biosecurity and Sustainability USDA CSREES National Needs, $229, 500
Preparing Underrepresented Scholars for Research Careers in BAEN and Veterinary Medicine, USDA Multicultural Scholars Program, $144,000
2004-2006 Water in the Environment, Information Technology in Science (ITS) Center for Teaching and Learning (NSF funded center), $40,000
Effects of Urbanization on Ecological Services In a Semi-Arid Region of the United States NASA Land Cover-Land Use Change Program (NRA-00-OES-8), 2001-2004, $33,000
2000-2002 Environmental Education Resource for Human and Ecological Risk Assessment Project, Information Technology in Science (ITS) Center for Teaching and Learning. (NSF funded center), $84,000
188 Water Management and Hydrological Science Selected Water Publications Book Chapters
Harmel, Daren, Patricia Smith and Kati Migliaccio. 2010. Chapter 12. Uncertainty in Measured Water Quality Data. in Water Quality Concepts, Sampling and Analysis. Yuncong Li and Kati Migliaccio eds. CRC Press.
Journal Articles
Harmel, R.D., P.K. Smith and K.W. Migliaccio. 2010. Modifying Goodness-of-fit indicators to incorporate both measurement and model uncertainty in model calibration and validation. Trans. ASABE 53(1): 55-63.
Sahoo, D., P.K. Smith and A.V.M. Ines. 2010. Autocalibration of HSPF for simulation of streamflow using a genetic algorithm. Trans. ASABE 53(1): 75-86.
Sahoo, D3. and P.K. Smith. 2009. Hydrologic trend detection in a rapidly urbanizing and semi-arid and coastal river basin. J. of Hydrology. 367(2009): 217- 227.
Osborn, G.S., D. A. Charbonnet3, P.K. Smith, M.D. Matlock. 2008. A Chamberless Method for Determining SOD. Trans. of the ASABE. 51(3): 1123-1131.
Birt, L.3, R.A. Persyn and P.K. Smith. 2007. Evaluation of Texas Compost Specifications for Stormwater Erosion Control. Trans. of the ASABE. Accepted.
Birt, L3. R.A. Persyn and P.K. Smith. 2007. Technical Note: Evaluation of an indoor nozzle-type rainfall simulator. Trans. of the ASABE. In press
Harmel, R.D. and P.K. Smith. 2007. Consideration of Measurement Uncertainty in the Evaluation of Goodness-of-Fit in Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling. J. of Hydrology. 337: 326-336.
Charbonnet3, D. A., G. S. Osborn, P. K. Haan6, M. D. Matlock. 2006. Application and validation of the spreadsheet method for determining SOD. Trans ASABE. 49(6):2039-2050.
Paul, S.3, R. Srinivasan, J. Sanabria, P.K. Haan6, S. Mukhtar and K. Neimann. 2006. Groupwise modeling study of bacterially impaired watersheds in Texas: Clustering analysis. JAWRA. 42(4):1017-1031.
Peschel, J.M.4, P.K. Haan6 and R. E. Lacey. 2006. Influences of soil data set resolution on hydrologic modeling. JAWRA. 42(5):1371-1389.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 189 Raghavan Srinivasan Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor Texas A&M University and Texas AgriLife Research
Director of Spatial Sciences Laboratory, Texas A&M University
Adjunct Professor, School of Rural Public Health, Health Science Center, Texas A&M University
Education 1992 Ph.D., Agricultural Engineering, Purdue University, 1989 M.S., Agricultural Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok) 1984 B.E., Agricultural Engineering, TNAU (India)
Past Appointments 1999-2004 Associate Professor, Texas A&M University and Texas Agricultural Experiment Station 1999- 2000 Assistant Director of Mapping Science Laboratory, Texas A&M University 1996-1999 Assistant Professor, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station 1992-1996 Agricultural Engineer and Associate Research Scientist, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Professional Activities/Awards 2009 Texas AgriLife Extension Superior Service Team Award 2008 American Society of Agronomy Extension Educational Materials Award for the Southern Region Water Quality Regional Web site (srwqis.tamu.edu) 2004 AWRA Boggess Award for paper “Simulated Impacts of El Nino/ Southern Oscillation on United States Water Resources” 2001 Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence in recognition of outstanding contributions and performance as a member of a research team (Soil and Water Assessment Tool Team) 1998 Awarded Scientist of the Year at Blackland Research Center
Selected Water Publications Journal Articles
Betrie, G. D., Y. A. Mohamed, A. van Griensven, and R. Srinivasan. 2011. Sediment management modelling in the Blue Nile Basin using SWAT model. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 807-818. doi:10.5194/hess-15-807-2011
190 Water Management and Hydrological Science Srinivasan, R., X. Zhang, J. Arnold. 2010. SWAT Ungauged: Hydrological Budget and Crop Yield Predictions in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Transactions of the ASABE. Vol. 53(5): 1533-1546.
Tuppad, P., M. F. Winchell, X. Wang, R. Srinivasan, J. R. Williams. 2009. ArcAPEX: Arcgis Interface For Agricultural Policy Environmental Extender (APEX) Hydrology/Water Quality Model. International Agricultural Engineering Journal 2009, 18(1-2):59-71.
Schuol, J., K. C. Abbaspour, H. Yang, R. Srinivasan, and A. J. B. Zehnder. 2008. Modeling blue and green water availability in Africa, Water Resources. Research, 44, W07406, doi:10.1029/2007WR006609.
Srinivasan, R., J. G. Arnold, and C. A. Jones. 1998. Hydrologic modeling of the United States with the Soil and Water Assessment Tool. Water Resources Development. 14(3): 315-325.
Srinivasan, R., T. S. Ramanarayanan, J. G. Arnold and S. T. Bednarz. 1998. Large area hydrologic modeling and assessment: Part II - model application. Journal of American Water Resources Association. 34(1): 91-102.
Zhang, X., F. Liang, R. Srinivasan, and M. Van Liew. 2008. Estimating Uncertainty of Streamflow Simulation using Bayesian Neural Networks. Water Resour. Res., doi:10.1029/2008WR007030.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 191 John D. Vitek Professor Emeritus [email protected]
Current Appointment Adjunct Professor in Geology and Geophysics and Geography, Texas A&M University
Education 1973 Ph.D., Geography, University of Iowa, Iowa City 1970 M.A., Geography, University of Iowa, Iowa City 1964 B.S., Mathematics and Geography, Wisconsin State University, Stevens Point
Past Appointments 2008 Adjunct Professor in Geology and Geophysics and Geography, Texas A&M University 2005-2008 Assistant Dean, Office of Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University 2003-2005 Professor of Geology, Oklahoma State Univ.; retired from OSU. 2002-2003 Interim Executive Vice President, August 2002 through June 2003 1997-2002 Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, July 1997 1995-1997 Interim Assoc. Vice-President for Academic Planning, May 1995 1994-1998 Co-Editor-in-Chief of Geomorphology, published by Elsevier Sci. 1992-1995 Professor of Geology (inc. a 50% appointment with the NASA Aerospace Education Services Project) 1989-1992 Associate Dean, Graduate College, Oklahoma State 1982-1988 Assistant Dean, Graduate College, Oklahoma State (50%) 1982-1992 Coordinator of Environmental Sciences, Oklahoma State 1984-1986 Professor of Geography, Oklahoma State University
Professional Activities/Awards 2007 Recipient of Mel Marcus Distinguished Career Award, Geomorphology Specialty Group AAG 2004 Named Outstanding Faculty Advisors for Residential Life (along with Peggy Vitek), Oklahoma State University, May 2004 2004 Named Senior Editor for Special Issues of Geomorphology 2001 Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium Achievement Award
Selected Grants/Research Funding 1996-2001 Marks, S. and Vitek, J.D., Knowledge of the Environmental System: Student Contributions to Data Collection and Interpretation; NASA EPSCoR, Oct. 1, 1996 to September 30, 1999 ($326,997). Renewed through September, 2001 ($216,000).
192 Water Management and Hydrological Science 1993 Mills, T.J. and Vitek, J.D., Environmental Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Perspective of Science, Technology, and Societal Interactions; Summer Academy for High School Students, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education ($37,379).
Selected Water Publications Books
1993. Vitek, J. D. and Giardino, J.R., co-editors, Geomorphology: The Research Frontier and Beyond; Amsterdam, Elsevier, The 24th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, 265 pages.
1987. Giardino, J.R., Shroder, J.F., Jr., and Vitek, J. D., (eds.), Rock Glaciers; London, Allen and Unwin, 355 pp.
1982. Rooney, J.F., Zelinsky, W., Louder, D., Pennington, C., and Vitek, J.D., This Remarkable Continent: An Atlas of United States and Canadian Society and Cultures; Texas A&M Press, College Station, 316 pages.
1982. Norris, R.E., Harries, K.D., and Vitek, J.D., Instructor's Manual to Accompany Geography: An Introductory Perspective; C.E. Merrill, Columbus, 126 pages.
1982. Norris, Robert E., Harries, Keith D., and Vitek, John D., Geography: An Introductory Perspective; C.E. Merrill, Columbus, 472 pages (in second printing).
1980. Coates, Donald R. and Vitek, John D. (eds.), Thresholds in Geomorphology; Allen and Unwin, Boston, 498 pages.
Book chapters
1993 Vitek, J.D. and Ritter, D.F., Geomorphology in the USA; in Walker, H.J. and Grabau, W.E. (eds), The Evolution of Geomorphology, J. Wiley and Sons, New York, p. 469-481.
1993 Vitek, J.D. and Giardino, J.R., Preface; in Vitek, J.D. and Giardino, J.R. (eds.), Geomorphology: The Research Frontier and Beyond, Amsterdam, Elsevier, pages ix-xiv.
1992 Giardino, J.R., Vitek, J.D., and DeMorett, J.L., A Model of Water Movement in Rock Glaciers and Associated Water Characteristics; in Dixon, J. and Abrahams, A. (eds), Periglacial Geomorphology, J.Wiley and Sons, p. 159-184.
1989 Vitek, J.D., A Perspective on Geomorphology in the Twentieth Century: Links to the Past and Future; in Tinkler, K.(ed.), The History of Geomorphology; London, Unwin Hyman, p. 293-324.
1987 Vitek, J.D. and Giardino, J.R., Rock glaciers: A review of the knowledge base; in Giardino, J.R., Shroder, J.F.Jr., and Vitek, J.D. (eds.), Rock Glaciers; London, Allen and Unwin, p. 1 26.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 193 1987 Vitek, J.D. and Giardino, J.R., Rock Glacier Bibliography; in Giardino, J.R., Shroder, J.F., Jr., and Vitek, J.D. (eds.), Rock Glaciers; London, Allen and Unwin,p.305 343.
1982 Walsh, S.J., Vitek, J.D., and Gregory, M.S., Landsat digital analysis of forest clearcuts and reforestations; in Johannsen, C.J. and Sanders, J.L. (eds.), Remote Sensing for Resource Management, Soil Conservation Society of America, p. 159 171.
Journal Articles
2011 Giardino, J.R., Schroeder, C., Vitek, J.D., Gamache, K.R., Lee, A.A., Giardino, M.F., Geology Field Camp (G-Camp): An Educational Experience for 4th-12th Grade Teachers; In The Trenches, 1(1):11-12.
2010 Regmi, N.R., Giardino, J.R., and Vitek, J.D., Assessing susceptibility to landslides: Using models to understand observed changes in slopes: Geomorphology 122 (1-2):25-38.
2010 Regmi, N.R., Giardino, J.R., and Vitek, J.D., Modeling susceptibility to landslides using the weight of evidence approach: Western Colorado, USA, Geomorphology 115: 172-187.
2010 Regmi, N.R., Giardino, J.R., Vitek, J.D., Dangol, V., Mapping landslide hazards in western Nepal: A comparison of qualitative and quantitative approaches: Environment and Engineering Geoscience, 16(2):127-142.
2010 Giardino, J.R., Regmi, N.R., and Vitek, J.D., Rock Glaciers; in Encyclopedia of Snow, Ica and Glaciers; edited by Singh, V.P., Singh, P., Haritashya, U.K.; Spring Verlag.
2008 Vitek, J.D., Regmi, N.R., Humbolt, D, and Giradino, J.R., Stone Polygons in Southern Colorado, USA: Observations of surficial activity – 1975-2004; Ninth International Permafrost Conference, D. L. Kane and K. M. Hinkel (eds), Vol. 2, pp. 1857-1862.
194 Water Management and Hydrological Science Bradford P. Wilcox Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University
Education 1986 Ph.D., Rangeland Hydrology, Department of Animal and Range Science, New Mexico State University 1982 M. S., Rangeland Ecology, Department of Range and Wildlife, Texas Tech University 1978 B. S., Rangeland Management, Department of Range and Wildlife, Texas Tech University
Past Appointments 2004–2006 Professor, Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University 2000–2004 Associate Professor, Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University 1996–2000 Chief Scientific Officer, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil 1991–1996 Research Hydrologist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 1988–1991 Research Hydrologist, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Boise, Idaho 1985–1988 Visiting Assistant Professor, Watershed Science, Department of Earth Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Professional Activities/Awards 2011 Outstanding Contribution to Rangeland Management Award, Texas Section of the Society for Range Management 2011 Ming Ko Woo Lecturer for the Canadian Geophysical Union 2010 Outstanding Technical Publication, Texas Section of the Society for Range Management 2008 Outstanding Technical Publication, Texas Section of the Society for Range Management 2005 Outstanding Technical Publication, Texas Section of the Society for Range Management 2004 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in the Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University 2002 Outstanding Technical Publication, Texas Section of the Society for Range Management
Water Management and Hydrological Science 195 Selected Grants/Research Funding Wilcox, B. P. (PI), M. Sorice, W. Fox, C.Hart, and J. Angerer. Managing rangeland watersheds for enhanced ecosystem services: learning from the past and planning for the future. USDA CSREES Managed Ecosystems, 20010–2013, $400,000.
Krutovsky, K. (PI), B. P. Wilcox (Co-PI), et al. A graduate program in forest resources: developing integrated expertise in forest resource management, conservation and restoration, USDA CSREES National Needs Fellowship Program, 2010–2013, $234,000.
Wilcox, B.P. (PI), W. Fox, U. P. Kreuter, C. Hart, and S. Wang. Watershed conservation on grazing lands in central Texas: Cowhouse Creek case study. USDA CSREES, 2008–2011, $600,000.
Wilcox, B. P. (PI), and C. Munster. Edwards Aquifer Authority. A study to augment groundwater recharge through cedar control: a feasibility study in the recharge zone of the Edwards Aquifer, 2003–2007, $300,000.
Winemiller, K., N. Wilkens, B. P. Wilcox (Co-Pi), and C. Munster. U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Ecohydrological impact of juniper in the Pedernales Watershed, 2003–2004, $306,000.
Wilcox, B. P. (TAMU-PI), L. Stern (UT-PI), and others. National Science Foundation. Ecohydrology of semiarid woodlands: Role of woody plants in the water cycle, 2003–2006, $497,693 ($331,360 to TAMU).
Rabuffetti, A., and B. P. Wilcox (Co-PI), National Science Foundation. Global Change Research in the Americas: Round 3 of the IAI Initial Science Program, 1997–2000, $1,878,984.
Wilcox, B. P. (Co-PI), and others. Los Alamos National Laboratory Environmental Restoration Project. Ecological and hydrological processes in semiarid ecosystems: implications for long-term contaminant mobility and landfill cover design. Fiscal Years 1991–1996, $400,000–$800,000 per year.
Selected Water Publications Book chapters
Anderson, E.P., A.C. Encalada, J.A. Maldonado-Ocampo, M.E. McClain, H. Ortega, and B.P. Wilcox. 2011. Environmental flows: a concept for addressing effects of river alterations and climate change in the Andes. In S.K. Herzog, R Martinez, P.M. Jorgensen and H. Tiessen (eds.) Climate Change and Biodiversity in the Tropical Andes. Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, 348 pp.
Wilcox, B. P. 2004. Runoff from rangelands: the role of shrubs. In W. A. McGinty, C. W. Hanselka, D. N. Ueckert, W. Hamilton, and M. Lee (eds.), Introduction to Brush Management. Texas A&M University, College Station, pp. 227–238. Invited contribution.
196 Water Management and Hydrological Science Wilcox, B. P., and J. R. Simanton. 1998. Evaluation of the WEPP hillslope model on stable and eroding semiarid woodlands. In J. Boardman and D. Favis-Mortlock (eds.), NATO Advanced Research Workshop—Global Change: Modelling Soil Erosion by Water. Series I: Global Environmental Change, Vol. 55, pp. 131–140. Invited contribution.
Wilcox, B. P., J. Pitlick, C. Allen, and D. Davenport. 1996. Runoff and erosion from a rapidly eroding pinyon-juniper hillslope. In M. G. Anderson and S. Brooks (eds.), Advances in Hillslope Processes, John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 61–78.
Wilcox, B. P., B. D. Newman, C. D. Allen, K. D. Reid, D. Brandes, J. Pitlick, and D. W. Davenport. 1996. Runoff and erosion on the Pajarito Plateau: observations from the field. In F. Goeff and L. McFadden (eds.), New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, Geology of the Los Alamos–Jemez Mountains Region, pp. 433–439.
Journal Articles
Sorice, M.G., U.P. Kreuter, B.P. Wilcox, W.E. Fox. 2012. Classifying owners of drylands: implications for ecosystem services. Journal of Arid Environments 80:56- 64.
Wilcox, B.P., M.S. Seyfried, D.D. Breshears, J.J. McDonnell. 2012. Ecohydrologic connections and complexities in drylands: new perspectives for understanding transformative landscape change. Ecohydrology 5:143-144.
Turnbull, L., B.P. Wilcox, J. Belnap, S. Ravi, P. D'Odorico, D. Childers, W. Gwenzi, G. Okin, J. Wainwright, K. Caylor and T. Sankey. 2012. Understanding the role of ecohydrological feedbacks in ecosystem-state change in dryland ecosystems. Ecohydrology 5:174-183.
Wilcox, B.P., L. Turnbull, M.H. Young, J.Williams, S. Ravi, M.S. Seyfried, D.R. Bowling, R.L. Scott, M.J. Germino, T. Caldwell, and John Wainwright.2012. Invasion of shrublands by exotic grasses: ecohydrological consequences in cold vs. warm deserts. Ecohydrology 5:160-173.
Wilcox, B.P. M.G. Sorice, and M.H Young. 2011. Dryland ecohydrology in the Anthropocene--taking stock of human-ecological interactions. Geography Compass 5/3:112-127.
Wilcox, B.P., D.D. Dean, J.S. Jacob and A. Sipocz. 2011. Evidence of surface connectivity for Texas Gulf Coast Depressional Wetlands. Wetlands 31:451-458.
Archer, S.R. K. W. Davies, T.E. Fulbright, K.C. McDaniel, B.P. Wilcox, and K.I. Predick. 2011. Brush management as a rangeland conservation tool: a critical evaluation. NRCS National CEAP evaluation.
Wilcox, B.P., J. Walker, and J. Heilman. 2010. Commentary on "Effects of brush control on evapotranspiration in the North Concho River watershed using eddy covariance techniques. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 65: 83a-84a.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 197 Richard T. Woodward Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
Education 1997 Ph.D., Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1994 M.S., Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1984 B.A., Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Past Appointments 2000-2007 Field Station Leader and Research Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Geological Survey 2003-2011 Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University 1997-2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University 1994-1994 Consultant, World Resources Institute 1988-1991 Research Associate for the World Resources Institute, Washington DC and San José, Costa Rica 1985-1987 Peace Corps Volunteer, Costa Rica
Professional Activities/Awards 1998 Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Honorable Mention, American Agricultural Economics Association 1998 Henry C. Taylor Doctoral Dissertation Award, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin – Madison. 1995-1996 Joseph L. Fisher Fellowship from Resources for the Future 1991-1992 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellowship,
Selected Grants/Research Funding Center for Teaching Excellence Incentive Grant ($650) for the purchase of the National Geographic on CD-ROM and supporting software. Images from the CD- ROM are integrated into lectures for AGEC 350. 1998. (Internal, competitive)
Using the Internet to Teach Market-Based Policies for Water Quality Management: NutrientNet.edu.” Richard T. Woodward (P.I.) with Co-PIs: Marty Matlock (University of Arkansas) and Paul Faeth (World Resources Institute). United States Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service Higher Education Challenge Grants Program. $227,772 (Texas A&M’s share of direct costs, $67,853) August 2003 - July 2006. (External, competitive)
198 Water Management and Hydrological Science NSF IGERT: Applied Biodiversity Science - Bridging Ecology, Culture, and Governance for Effective Conservation. PIs L. Fitzgerald (WFSC) and A. Stronza (RPTS). Applied Biodiversity Science - Bridging Ecology, Culture, and Governance for Effective Conservation Lee Fitzgerald (WFSC) and Amanda Stronza (RPTS) PIs, three Co-PIs and 15 Faculty Participants. $3,002,038 (External, competitive)
Selected Water Publications Books
Penson, John B., Jr., Oral Capps, Jr., C. Parr Rosson III and Richard T. Woodward. Introduction to Agricultural Economics, fifth edition. 2010. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2006. (fourth edition, 2006)
Book chapters
Kim, Hwa Nyeon±, Richard T. Woodward and Wade L. Griffin. 2009. “Can Transferable Rights Work in Recreational Fisheries?” in Evolving Approaches to Managing Marine Recreational Fisheries. D.R. Leal and V. Majaraj (eds.), Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Riechers, Robin, Wade Griffin and Richard Woodward. 2006 . “The Texas Inshore Bay and Bait License Buyback Program.” in Fisheries Buybacks. Rita Curtis and Dale Squires (eds.), Ames, IA: Blackwell Publishing.
Woodward, Richard T., Griffin, Wade L. and Wui, Yong-Suhk±. 2005. “DPSIM Modelling: Dynamic Optimization in Large Scale Simulation Models.” in Applications of Simulation Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics. R. Scarpa and A. Alberini (eds.), Chapter 14, pp. 275-294. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Publisher.
Bishop, Richard C. and Woodward, Richard T. 1999. “Sustainability, Economy and Environment.” in Environmental Economics: Theory, Application, and Policy. D. Chapman (ed.), pp. 373-394. Reading MA: Addison Wesley.
Journal Articles
Newburn, David and Richard T. Woodward. 2012. “An Ex Post Evaluation of the Great Miami Water Quality Trading Program.” Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 48(1): 156–169. DOI:10.1111/j.1752-1688.2011.00601.x
Griffin, Wade. L and Richard T. Woodward. 2011. “Determining the Policy- Efficient Management Strategies in Fisheries using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).” Marine Policy. 35:496–507
Woodward, Richard T. 2011 “Double Dipping in Pollution Markets” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 61(2):153-169
Freeman, Matthew A. ± and Richard T. Woodward. 2010. “Sequential License Buyback Auctions: An Experimental Analysis.” Marine Resource Economics. 25(4):355-372.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 199 Blackman, Allen and Richard T. Woodward (senior authorship shared) “User- Financing in a National Payments for Environmental Services Program: Costa Rican Hydropower” Ecological Economics. 69 (2010) 1626-1638.
Baker, Justin±, W Douglass Shaw, David Bell±, Samuel D. Brody, William Neilson, Mary Riddel and Richard Woodward. 2009. “Explaining Subjective Risks of Hurricanes and the Role of Risks in Intended Moving and Location Choice Models.” Natural Hazards. 10(3):102-112.
Baker, Justin±, W. Douglass Shaw, Mary Riddel and Richard Woodward. 2009. “Changes in Subjective Risks of Hurricanes as Time Passes: Analysis of a Sample of Katrina Evacuees.” Journal of Risk Research.12(1): 59-74.
Moeltner, Klaus and Richard T. Woodward. 2009. “Meta-Functional Benefit Transfer for Wetland Valuation: Making the Most of Small Samples,” Environmental and Resource Economics. 42(1):89-109.
Woodward, Richard T. and W. Douglass Shaw. 2008. “Allocating Resources in an Uncertain World: Water Management and Endangered Species” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90(3):593-605.
Nguyen, To N±. and Richard T. Woodward. 2008. “NutrientNet: An Internet-based Approach to Teaching Market-Based Policy for Environmental Management.” Journal of Economic Education 42(2):38-54.
Shaw, W. Douglass and Richard T. Woodward. 2008. “On Why Environmental and Resource Economists Should Care about Non-expected Utility Models.” Resource and Energy Economics 30(January):66-89.
Nguyen, To N. ±, W. Douglass Shaw, Richard T. Woodward, Robert Paterson and Kevin Boyle. 2007. “An Empirical Study of Option Prices for Hunting Permits.” Ecological Economics 63(August):476-484
200 Water Management and Hydrological Science Ralph A. Wurbs Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Arthur McFarland Professor of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University
Education 1978 Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Water Resources Systems Planning and Management Program, Colorado State University 1974 M.S., Civil Engineering, Water Resources Engineering Program, University of Texas 1971 B.S., Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University
Past Appointments 1971-1980 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth District 1969-1970 Texas Department of Transportation
Professional Activities/Awards 2009-2012 Freese and Nichols Faculty Fellow 2008 Truman R. Jones Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award 2000 National J. M. Robbins Teaching Excellence Award from Chi Epsilon Honor Society 1999 Southwest Region Teaching Excellence Award from Chi Epsilon Honor Society 1993 Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award 1991/1992 Zachry Award for Excellence in Teaching 1996/2005 Texas Section ASCE John B. Hawley Award for Best Paper
Selected Grants/Research Funding Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, 1996, 1997-2003, 2005-2012
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Fort Worth District, 1988-1989, 2001-2005 USACE Hydrologic Engineering Center, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1995 USACE Engineering Research and Development Center, 1983-1987 USACE Institute for Water Resources, 1992-1993
U.S. Department of Energy and Baylor University, 2007-2008 U.S. Department of Energy, National Institute for Global Environmental Change, 1998-2003 U.S. Department of the Interior and Texas Water Resources Institute
Cooperative University Research Program, 1983-1988, 1992-1994, 2001-2004, 2007- 2008
Water Management and Hydrological Science 201 Texas Water Development Board, 1992-1994, 1997-1998, 2007-2008 Brazos River Authority, 1986-1988, 2008-2010 Lower Rio Grande Development Council, 1997- 1998 Corpus Christi, 1997
Texas Advanced Technology Program, 1990-1992 Center for Mineral and Energy Resources, 1983-1986 KTM and WKM Industries, 1982-1983
Selected Water Publications Books
R.A. Wurbs and W.P. James, Water Resources Engineering, 838 pages, Prentice- Hall, 2002.
R.A. Wurbs, Modeling and Analysis of Reservoir System Operations, 372 pages, Prentice-Hall, 1996.
R.A. Wurbs, Water Management Models, 250 pages, Prentice-Hall, 1995.
Book chapters
R.J. Hoffpauir and R.A. Wurbs, " Modeling Environmental Instream Flow Requirements," Proceedings of Spring 2012 Conference, Texas Section, American Society of Civil Engineers, April 2012.
R.A. Wurbs, "Chapter 1 Generalized Models of River System Development and Management," Current Issues in Water Management (U. Uhlig, Editor), InTech Publishers, 2011.
R.A. Wurbs, "Modeling Reservoirs from a Water Allocation Perspective," Universities Council on Water Resources Annual Conference, Planning for Tomorrow’s Water: Snowpack, Aquifers, and Reservoirs, July 2011.
R.J. Hoffpauir and R.A. Wurbs, "Daily Version of Water Rights Analysis Package Modeling System," Proceedings of Spring 2011 Conference, ASCE Texas Section, April 2011.
R.A. Wurbs, "Institutional Dimensions of River/Reservoir System Modeling: Lessons from Implementation of the Texas Water Availability Modeling System," World Water and Environmental Resources Congress 2010, Environmental and Water Resources Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, May 2010.
R.A. Wurbs and C.H. Lee, "Natural Salt Pollution in the Brazos River Basin," Proceedings of Spring 2010 Conference, Texas Section, American Society of Civil Engineers, April 2010. R.A. Wurbs, "New and Expanded WRAP Modeling Capabilities," Proceedings of Fall 2009
Journal Articles
R.A. Wurbs, "Reservoir/River System Management Models," Journal of Texas Water, Texas Water Resources Institute, Vol. 3, No. 1, April 2012.
202 Water Management and Hydrological Science R.A. Wurbs and C.H. Lee, "Salinity in Water Availability Modeling," Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier Science, Vol. 407, No. 2, 451-459, November 2011.
T.J. Kim and R.A. Wurbs, "Modeling River/Reservoir System Management with the Expanded WRAP," Journal of Civil Engineering, Korean Society of Civil Engineers, Springer Publishing, Vol. 15, No. 8, November 2011.
T.J. Kim and R.A. Wurbs, "Development of Monthly Naturalized Flow Using Water Rights Analysis Package (WRAP)-Based Methods," Journal of Civil Engineering, Korean Society of Civil Engineers, Springer Publishing, Vol. 15, No. 7, September 2011.
R.A. Wurbs and T.J. Kim, "River Flows for Alternative Conditions of Water Resources Development," Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 16, No. 2, February 2011.
T.J. Kim and R.A. Wurbs, "Development of a Condensed Model for Managing a River/Reservoir System Based on Texas Water Availability Modeling System," Journal of Civil Engineering, Korean Society of Civil Engineers, Springer Publishing, Vol. 15, No. 1, January 2011.
R.A. Wurbs and T.J. Kim, "Condensing Water Availability Models to Focus on Specific Water Management Systems," Journal of Texas Water, Texas Water Resources Institute, Vol. 1, No. 1, September 2010.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 203 Hongbin Zhan Professor [email protected]
Current Appointment Endowed Ray C. Fish Professor in Geology, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University
Education 1996 Ph.D., Hydrology/Hydrogeology, University of Nevada 1993 M.S., Physics, University of Nevada 1989 B.S., Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Past Appointments 2002-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University 1996-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University 1995-1996 George B. Maxey Fellow of Water Resource Center, Desert Research Institute
Professional Activities/Awards 2010-2013 Distinguished Endowed Chang-Jiang Scholar, Ministry of Education, China 2010 Endowed Ray C. Fish Professor in Geology, Texas A&M University 2009 Dean’s Distinguished Achievement Award in Faculty Teaching 2006 Fellow of Geological Society of America 2004 Distinguished Oversea Young Scientist Award, National Science Foundation of China 2002 Fred Burggraf Award, Transportation Research Board (TRB), The National Academics 2001-2002 Big 12 Faculty Fellowship, Texas A&M University 1999-2000 Montague Scholar, Center for Teaching Excellence, Texas A&M University
Selected Grants/Research Funding Giardino, J.R., Marcantonio, F., Everett, M., Zhan, H., and Pope, M., Pathways to Doctorate. Texas A&M University, $38,000, 2011-1012.
Hu, B., Zhan, H., Study on the rheological mechanism and the long-term stability of weak joint rockmass of reservoir bank high slopes under the influence of periodic large-scale water level fluctuation, National Science Foundation of China (No. 41172281), RMB 800,000 (equivalent to $125,000), 2012-2015.
Zhan, H., and Sparks, D., “Is water table a "material" free surface?”, Advanced Research Program (ARP), Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board , $120,000, 2008-2010.
204 Water Management and Hydrological Science Qian, J., Zhan, H., Theoretical and experimental study of solute non-Fickian transport in fractured media, National Science Foundation of China, #40872166, RMB 390,000, 2009-2011.
Zhan, H., and Huang, G., “Non-Darcian flow and transport in soils and aquifers”, National Science Foundation of China, RMB 400,000 ($50,000), 2005-2008.
Selected Water Publications Book chapters
Zhan, H., Sun, D., and Huang, G., Non-Fickian dispersion in non-uniform flow field, in Environmental Geosciences, Vol. 4, International Professionals for Advancement of Chinese Earth Science (IPACES), Chapter 6, 119-140, Higher Education Press of China, 2008.
Journal Articles
Mieles, J, and Zhan, H., Analytical solutions of one-dimensional multispecies reactive transport in a permeable reactive barrier-aquifer system, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, in press,
Qian, J., Liang, M, Chen, Z., and Zhan, H., Eddy correlations for water flow in a single fracture with abruptly changing aperture, Hydrological Processes, in press, 2012.
Li, J., You, K., Zhan, H., and Huang, G., Analytical solution to subsurface air pressure in a three-layer unsaturated zone with atmospheric pressure changes, Transport in Porous Media, in press, 2012.
Li, J., Zhan, H., Huang, G., and You, K., Determining air permeability in coastal unsaturated zones,Environmental Earth Sciences, in press, 2012.
Li, J., Huang, G., Wen, Z., and Zhan, H., A laboratory experiment on radial non- Darcian flow in confinedaquifer under steady-state conditions, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (in chinese), 43(1), 76-83, 2012.
Gao, G., Zhan, H., Feng, S., Huang, G., and Fu, B., A mobile-immobile model with an asymptotic scale-dependent dispersion function, Journal of Hydrology, 424-425, 172-183, 2012.
You, K., and Zhan, H., Can atmospheric pressure and water table fluctuations be neglected in soil vapor extraction? Advances in Water Resources, 35, 41-54, 2012.
Xu, X., Huang, G., Zhan, H., Qu, Z., and Huang, Q., Integration of SWAP and MODFLOW-2000 for modeling groundwater dynamics in shallow water table areas, Journal of Hydrology, 412-413, 170-181, 2012.
Qian, J., Wang, L., Zhan, H., and Chen, Z., Urban land-use effects on groundwater phosphate distribution in a shallow aquifer, Nanfei River basin, China Hydrogeology Journal, 19, 1431-1442, 2011.
Water Management and Hydrological Science 205 Gao, G., Feng, S., Ma, Y., and Zhan, H., One-dimensional two-region model for reactive solute transport with scale-dependent dispersion and its application, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (in Chinese), 42(6), 631-640, 2011.
You, K., Zhan, H., and Li, J., Analysis of models for induced gas flow in the unsaturated zone, Water Resources Research, 47, W04515, 2011.
Li, J., Zhan, H., Huang, G., and You, K., Tide-induced airflow in a two-layered coastal land with atmospheric pressure fluctuations, Advances in Water Resources, 34, 649-658, 2011.
You, K., Zhan, H., and Li, J., Gas flow to a barometric pumping well in a multilayered unsaturated zone, Water Resources Research, 47, W05522, 2011.
Ma, Y., Feng, S., Zhan, H., Liu, X., Su, D., Kang, S., and Song, X., Water infiltration in layered soils with air entrapment: Modified Green-Ampt model and experimental validation, ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 16(8), 628-638, 2011.
Wen, Z., Huang, G., and Zhan, H., Non-Darcian flow to a well in leaky aquifers with the Forchheimer equation, Hydrogeology Journal, 19(3), 563-572, 2011.
Li, J., Zhan, H., and Huang, G., Applicability of the linearized governing equation of gas flow in porous media, Transport in Porous Media, 87, 815-834, 2011.
Wen, Z., Zhan, H., Huang, G., and Jin, M., Constant-head test in a leaky aquifer with a finite-thickness skin, Journal of Hydrology, 399, 326-334, 2011.
Qian, J., Zhan, H., Chen, Z., and Ye, H., Experimental study of solute transport under non-Darcian flow condition in a single fracture, Journal of Hydrology, 399, 246-254, 2011.
Qian, J., Chen, Z., Zhan, H., Guan, H., Experimental study of the effect of roughness and Reynolds number on fluid flow in rough-walled single fractures: a check of local cubic law, Hydrological Processes, 25(4), 614-622, 2011.
Wen, Z., Huang, G., and Zhan, H., Solution for non-Darcian flow to an extended well in fractured rock, Ground Water, 49(2), 280-285, 2011.
206 Water Management and Hydrological Science APPENDIX B
Research Areas of Water Faculty
Our faculty work in the following areas.
Agricultural Water Management
Kelly Brumbelow, Sam Feagley, James Gilley, Ronald Lacewell, Clyde Munster, Vijay Singh, Patricia Smith
Coastal Studies
Bruce Herbert, Daniel Roelke, Sam Brody, Mike Lindell
Climate Variability/Change
Kelly Brumbelow, Bruce McCarl, James Mjelde, Gerald North, Steven Quiring
Contaminant Detection, Transport, Remediation
Bruce Herbert, Karthi Karthikeyan, Cristine Morgan, Jacqueline Ann Aitkenhead- Peterson, Suresh Pillai, Terry Gentry, Robin Autenrieth, Bill Batchelor, Sam Feagley, Ann Kenimer, Francisco Olivera
Ecohydrology
Binayak Mohanty, Georgianne Moore, Clyde Munster, Jacqueline Ann Aitkenhead- Peterson, Bradford Wilcox
Economics of Water
Ronald Griffin, Ronald Kaiser, Ronald Lacewell, Bruce McCarl, James Mjelde, Douglas Shaw, Richard Woodward
Hydrology
Tony Cahill, John (Rick) Giardino, Chris Mathewson, Georgianne Moore, Clyde Munster, Francisco Olivera, Vijay Singh, Patricia Smith, John (Jack) Vitek, Bradford Wilcox, Ralph Wurbs, Hongbin Zhan
Hydrogeology
John (Rick) Giardino, Bruce Herbert, Chris Mathewson, Kevin McInnes, Binayak Mohanty, Clyde Munster, John (Jack) Vitek, Hongbin Zhan, Inci Guneralp
Water Management and Hydrological Science 207 Infomatics and Geographic Information Systems
John (Rick) Giardino, Francisco Olivera, Steven Quiring, Raghavan (Srini) Srinivasan
Modeling (Groundwater)
Bruce Herbert, Kevin McInnes, Binayak Mohanty, Cristine Morgan, Vijay Singh, Hongbin Zhan
Modeling/Surface Water
Tony Cahill, Clyde Munster, William Neill, Francisco Olivera, Steven Quiring, Daniel Roelke, Vijay Singh, Patricia Smith, Raghavan (Srini) Srinivasan, Ralph Wurbs
Riparian/Stream Restoration
Sam Feagley, John (Rick) Giardino, Ming Han Li, Mike Lindell, Francisco Olivera, Jacqueline Ann Aitkenhead-Peterson
Stormwater Management
Sam Brody, Kelly Brumbelow, John Jacob, Ming Han Li, Mike Lindell, Francisco Olivera
Water Conservation
Kelly Brumbelow, James Gilley, Ronald Griffin, Ronald Kaiser, Ronald Lacewell, Douglas Shaw, Richard Woodward
Water Management/Policy Analysis
Robin Autenrieth, Sherry Bame, Sam Brody, Kelly Brumbelow, Ronald Griffin, Ronald Kaiser, Mike Lindell, Douglas Shaw, Richard Woodward, Ralph Wurbs
Watershed Management
Sam Brody, Kelly Brumbelow, Sam Feagley, John (Rick) Giardino, John Jacob, Ronald Kaiser, Georgianne Moore, Patricia Smith, Bradford Wilcox, Ralph Wurbs
Water Resources Planning
Sam Brody, Kelly Brumbelow, Ronald Kaiser, Ming Han Li, Mike Lindell, Georgianne Moore, Kathleen O'Reilly, Ralph Wurbs
208 Water Management and Hydrological Science Water Recreation
Ronald Kaiser, Douglas Shaw, Richard Woodward
Wetland Science Management
Sam Brody, Bruce Herbert, John Jacob, Ann Kenimer, Robert Knight, William Neill, Daniel Roelke, Georgianne Moore
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Characteristics of Texas Doctoral Programs
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