Affiliated Researchers: Water Science

Armen Kemanian

Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Maize, Grains, Cover Crop, Soil Organic Carbon, Cover Crops

Trevor Birkenholtz

Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: India, Rajasthan, Groundwater, Household, Water Supply

Elizabeth W. Boyer

Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: United States, Atmospherics, United States Of America, Dissolved Organic Carbon, Headwater

Tak-Sing Wong

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Surface (Surface Science), Carbon Nanotubes, Carbon Nanotube, Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs), Brochosomes

Peter Heaney

Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Silica, Birnessite, Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, X-ray Diffraction Study, Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction

Stephanie Buechler

Top research keywords: Mexico, Climate Change, Feminist Political Ecology, Environmental Degradation, Sonora

Estelle Couradeau

Assistant Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Cyanobacteria, Biological Soil Crust, Microorganism, Microbialites, Microbialite

Margaret C. Hoffman

Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Biodiversity, Mean Radiant Temperature, Water Storage, Natural Swimming Pool, Stormwater Bioretention

Gary Felton

Department Head and Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Caterpillar, Helicoverpa Zea, Plant Defense, Herbivore, Host Plant

Lisa Emili

Associate Professor, Division of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Peatland, Creek, British Columbia, Surface Water, National Memorial

Manzhu Yu

Assistant Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Dust Storm, Particular Matter 2.5, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Spatiotemporal

Miriam Freedman

Professor, Chemistry
Top research keywords: Aerosol Particles, Ammonium Sulfate, Liquid-liquid Phase Separation, Organic Aerosol, Humidity

Tieyuan Zhu

Associate Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Wave Equation, Viscoacoustic, Attenuation, Fractional Laplacian, Reaction Time

William Burgos

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Iron Oxide, Fe(II), Bioreduction, Low PH, U(VI)

Christelle Wauthier

Associate Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Magma, Volcano, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), Synthetic Aperture Radar, Rift Zone

Lauren Zarzar

Professor, Chemistry
Top research keywords: Surface Active Agent, Surfactant, Hydrogel, Microscale, Surface (Surface Science)

William Bahnfleth

Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation, Chilled Water, Storage Tank, Air Quality, Irradiation System

Jonathan Duncan

Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Nitrate, Urban Watershed, Storm, Denitrification, Base Flow

Vivek Srikrishnan

Assistant Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Top research keywords: Uncertainty, Sea Level Rise, Climate, Risk Management, Flood Hazard

Lauren Greenlee

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Nanoparticles, Iron, Struvite, Magnesium, Wastewater

Megan Schall

Top research keywords: Smallmouth Bass, Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, Micropterus Dolomieu, Fisheries

Anastasia Piliouras

Assistant Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Arctic Delta, Flood Plain, Permafrost, Vegetation, Channel Network

Tim White

Associate Research Professor, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS)
Top research keywords: Observatory, Paleosol, Critical Zone Observatory, Eocene, United States Of America

Meng Wang

Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Anaerobic Co-digestion, Wastewater Treatment, Wastewater, Microalgae, Anaerobic Digestion

Mohammad Rezaee

Associate Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Rare Earth Elements, Coal Mine, Acid Mine Drainage, Respirable Coal Mine Dust, Coal Preparation Plant

Shujie Wang

Assistant Professor in Geography, Geography
Top research keywords: Land Ice, Ice Shelves, Ice Sheet, Ice, Cloud And Land Elevation Satellite, Antarctic Region

Steven Greybush

Associate Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Data Assimilation, Atmospherics, Mars, Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF), Martian Atmosphere

Christopher Gorski

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Iron Oxide, Fe2+, Fe(II), Battery-type Electrode, Thermally Regenerative Ammonia-based Battery

Chingwen Cheng

Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Climate Justice, Environmental Impact Assessment, Ecosystem Service, Social-ecological-technological Systems

Rui Shi

Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Greenhouse Gas, Feedstock, Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Engineering, Jet Fuel

Shimin Liu

Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Methane, Shale, Coal Bed Methane, Porosity, Coalbed Methane Reservoir

Amanda Johnsen

Assistant Professor, Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering
Top research keywords: Reactor, Irradiation, Neutron Activation Analysis, Fast Neutron, Pennsylvania

Christine Costello

Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: United States, Missouri, Climate Change, Land Use, Waste Management

John (Jay) Regan

Professor of Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Microbial Fuel Cell, Biofilm, Reactor, Air-cathode Microbial Fuel Cell, Acetate

Catherine Nettles Cutter

Professor, Food Science
Top research keywords: Beef Carcass, Beef, Escherichia Coli, Listeria Monocytogenes, Escherichia Coli O157

Yunji Zhang

Assistant Research Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Thermodynamics, All-sky, Thunderstorm, China, Tropical Cyclone

Raymond Najjar

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Chesapeake Bay, Climate Change, Atmospherics, Carbon Dioxide, United States

Zuleima Karpyn

Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research; Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Relative Permeability, Well Flooding, Wettability, Oil Recovery, Multiphase Flow

Robert Mathers

Professor, Penn State New Kensington
Top research keywords: Polymerization, Hydrophobicity, Self Assembly, Copolymer, Monomer

Denice Wardrop

Research Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Wetlands, Pennsylvania, United States Of America, Wetland Condition, Headwater