Other participating and support faculty are from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biology, the Department of Civil Engineering, and the Department of Management Sciences and Statistics. The following is a list of the departments and the faculty.
College of Sciences
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Geology
Stuart Birnbaum, Ph. D.
Professor
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, England, 1977
Sedimentary Geology; Stratigraphy Geology; Geochemistry
Alan Dutton, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Ph.D. in Geology, University of Texas at Austin, 1982
Hydrogeology; Aqueous Geochemistry
Weldon Hammond, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1984
Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology
Lance Lambert, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1992
High-Resolution Stratigraphy, Carbonate Petrology, Paleontology
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, 2003
Hydrogeologic/Environmental Application of GIS
Debajyoti Paul, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2002
Isotope Geochemistry
Alyson Ponomarenko, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Tulane University-New Orleans, LA, 2001
Igneous Petrology, Geoarchaeology, Shallow Subsurface Geophysics, Geoscience Education
Robert Smith, Ph. D.,
Professor, Ph.D.
The University of Iowa, 1972
Mineralogy and Petrology
Eric Swanson, Ph. D.
Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1977
Volcanology, Geology of the Sierra Madre Occidental Volcanic Field.
College of Sciences
Department of Biology
Stephanie Elliott, M.S.
Lecturer III
M. S. in Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio
Ecology
Neal Guentzel, Ph. D.
Professor
Ph.D. in Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin
Microbiology; Enteric infections, bioremediation
Craig Jordon, Ph. D.
Senior Lecturer.
Ph. D. in Ecology, University of Texas at Austin
Animal Behavior, Environmental Law
Nancy Klepper, Ph. D.
Lecturer III
Ph. D.
Wildlife Biology
Jyotsna Sharma, Ph. D.
Research Professor.
Ph. D.
Invertebrate Ecology
Valerie Sponsel, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Ph. D.
Regulation of plant growth and development by plant hormones
Professor
Ph.D., University of Utah, Physiology, 1969
Ecology to include Species Interactions, especially Plant-Plant
Interactions, Endangered Species and Community Structure
College of Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Alberto Arroyo, Ph. D.
Professor
Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 1982
Structures, forensic, air quality, geotechnical engineering, tubular freight systems
Sazzad Bin-Shafique, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Ph. D., University of Wisconsin, 2002
Waste geotechnics, remediation geotechnics, leachability testing, groundwater & contaminant transport modeling
Alberto C. Passos, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, 1991, University of Texas at Austin
Concentration in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Manuel Diaz, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1984
Geotechnical and structural engineering
Richard French, Ph. D.
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, 1975
Hydrologic and hydraulic engineering in semi- and arid environments
Daniel Hogenauer, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Applications of systems analysis in civil engineering, engineering education, engineering ethics, water resources
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2000
Environmental engineering; specifically water and waste treatment technologies, biological treatment process (remediation)
Chia-Shun Shih, Ph. D.
Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1967
Civil engineering, air quality, environmental engineering, systems engineering and executive management
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, May 1990
Transportation engineering, infrastructure management
College of Business
Department of Management Science and Statistics
Professor
Ph. D. University of Texas at Arlington, 1980
Statistics
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