Environmental Hydrology And Hydraulic Engineering Faculty
Associate Professor
Dr. Cai’s research interests include large-scale system optimization, river basin planning and management, drought management, water resources economics and policy, geographic information system and spatial statistics, and international water resources development.
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Eheart's research focuses on the use of mathematical models and engineering principles in the development of environmental policy. His research has been applied to problems of water and air pollution control, water quantity maintenance, groundwater remediation and monitoring, as well as assessment of and adaptation to global climate change.
Professor
Chester & Helen Siess Endowed Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Director, Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory
Dr. García is a leader in the field of river mechanics, sediment transport, sedimentation engineering and environmental hydraulics. He is best known for his research in sediment entrainment from riverbeds, flow and transport in vegetated channels, the mechanics of oceanic turbidity currents, and the dynamics of mudflows in mountain areas. His research has been funded at the Federal level by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. At the state level, Dr. García has received support from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC), the Illinois Water Resources Center, the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program and the Sanitary District of Decatur, Illinois.
Adjunct Professor
Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey
Dr. Holmes has research interests in the areas of geomorphology, surface-water hydrologic processes, river hydraulics, sediment transport, and stream restoration. He has authored or co-authored numerous papers and reports on these topics.
Professor
Dr. Kumar's research includes study of complexity in hydrologic processes including hydroclimatology, ecohydrology, geomorphology, and hydroinformatics. The overall goal of Dr. Kumar’s research is to improve our understanding of hydrologic processes over a range of space and time scales with particular emphasis on understanding and modeling multiple scale non-linear interactions among sub-processes.
Professor
Nauman Faculty Scholar
Dr. Minsker has research interests in environmental systems analysis, investigating improved methods for modeling complex environmental systems so that informed management-level decisions can be made under conditions of uncertainty. Using machine learning approaches such as genetic algorithms, decision trees, support vector machines, and artificial neural networks, innovative and cost-effective solutions to complex environmental problems are being investigated. Recent applications include long-term groundwater monitoring and remediation design.
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