Water Science and Policy Center: List of Affiliated Faculty

Department of Environmental Sciences

NAME	TITLE	RESEARCH AREAS
Amrhein, Chris	Professor of Soil Chemistry	Soil and water chemistry of inorganic contaminants; redox processes
Anderson, Michael	Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry	Nutrient cycling in lakes and reservoirs; surface water quality modeling; chemistry of solid-water interfaces
Baerenklau, Kenneth	Associate Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy	Environmental and natural resource economics and policy
Chang, Andrew	Professor Emeritus	Land application of organic wastes; wastewater reuse; hydraulic and pollutant retention properties of soils
Crohn, David	Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences	Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment; biosolids management; composting
Crowley, David	Professor of Soil Microbiology	Bioremediation of PCBs and other organic pollutants, rhizosphere microbiology, and microbial ecology
Dinar, Ariel	Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy	Water policy, water and the environment, economic incentives, transboundary water management, water institutions, water and strategic behavior; climate change and water resource management
Fernandez, Linda	Associate Professor of Environmental Economics	Environmental and natural resource economics
Frankenberger, William	Professor of Soil Microbiology	Bioremediation of inorganic contaminants in soil and water; biochemistry of plant growth regulators in soils.
Gan, Jay	Professor of Environmental Chemistry	Fate, transport, and mitigation of pesticides in the environment; water pollution and prevention
Jury, William	Distinguished Professor Emeritus	Measurement and modeling of chemical movement in field soils; chemical screening models; volatilization processes; global water management
Knapp, Keith	Professor of Environmental Economics	Environmental, agricultural, and natural resource economics
Letey, John	Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Page, Albert	Professor Emeritus
Parker, David	Professor of Soil Science	Soil chemistry and plant nutrition; chemistry and bioavailability of trace elements
Sanchez-Rodriguez, Roberto	Professor of Environmental Sciences	Director of UC Mexus, human dimensions of global environmental change, urban issues in urban areas, and transboundary environmental problems
Schlenk, Daniel	Professor of Aquatic Ecotoxicology	Fate and effects of pesticides, pharmaceutical and emerging contaminants on fish and wildlife
Schwabe, Kurt	Associate Professor of Environmental Economics	Alternative strategies for pollution control; environmental and natural resource valuation
Sickman, James	Assistant Professor of Hydrology	Biogeochemistry of rivers, lakes and watershed. Limnology of high elevation and high latitude lakes.
Šimunek, Jiri	Professor of Soil Physics	Numerical modeling of vadose zone processes; vadose zone hydrology; soil physics
Vaux, Henry Jr.	Professor Emeritus
Wu, Laosheng	Professor of Soil Physics	Irrigation water management; soil physics
Yates, Marylynn	Professor of Environmental Microbiology	Water and wastewater microbiology; pathogens in groundwater and surfacewater

Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

NAME	TITLE	RESEARCH AREAS
Chen, Wilfred	Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering	Environmental biotechnology, microbial engineering
Cwiertny, David	Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering	Water treatment; fate and transport of pollutants in natural and engineered aquatic systems
Matsumoto, Mark	Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering	Environmental biotechnology, bioremediation, modeling
Mulchandani, Ashok	Professor of Chemical Engineering	Bioengineering biomaterials, biosensors, environmental biotechnology
Walker, Sharon	Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering	Bacterial adhesion and transport in natural and engineered systems, water quality engineering

Department of Earth Sciences

NAME	TITLE	RESEARCH AREAS
Lee, Tien-Chang	Professor of Earth Sciences	Geophysics, hydrogeology
McKibben, Michael	Associate Professor of Earth Sciences	Economic geology and geochemistry

Department of Economics

NAME	TITLE	RESEARCH AREAS
Deolalikar, Anil	Professor of Economics	Cost-effectiveness of different water quality interventions for improved food safety and public health
Umanskaya, Victoria	Assistant Professor of Economics	Environmental and natural resource economics applied game theory

Department of Botany and Plant Sciences

NAME	TITLE	RESEARCH AREAS
Allen, Edith	Professor of Plant Ecology and Natural Resources Extension Specialist	Invasive species ecology and restoration ecology; annual variability in plant production driven by precipitation and N deposition
Holt, Jodie	Professor of Plant Physiology	Invasive riparian weeds
Jenerette, Darrel	Assistant Professor of Functional Landscape Ecology	Urban water use, irrigation, ecohydrology, altered precipitation regimes, modeling of societal-biophysical interactions
Santiago, Louis	Assistant Professor of Plant Physiological Ecology	Plant water transport, transpiration, root water uptake, precipitation gradients, stable isotopes

Department of Plant Pathology

NAME	TITLE	RESEARCH AREAS
Allen, Michael	Professor of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, and Biology Water-soil-plant interactions	Global change issues for the southwest