Department Chair
David Noyce
Professor and Department Chair
Contact: danoyce@wisc.edu, (608) 265-1882
Also: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research interests: Advanced Traffic Operations, Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication Technology, Transportation and Construction Safety, Pedestrian and Bicycle Operations and Safety, Driver Behavior and ...
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory
Faculty
Teresa M. Adams
Professor,Chair, Transportation Management and Policy Program Director, National Center for Freight
Contact: adams@engr.wisc.edu
Research interests: Infrastructure asset management, geographic information systems in transportation, location referencing systems, spatial/temporal data modeling for transportation, bridge management
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Other affiliations: Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Spatial Information and Analysis Consortium, Transportation Engineering and City Planning Program, Transportation Management and Policy Program, Wisconsin Highway Research Program, Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory, Wisconsin Transportation Center
Soyoung Ahn
Associate Professor
Contact: ahn37@wisc.edu, (608) 265-9067
Research interests: Traffic Flow Analysis and Modeling Courses: Click to see my courses
Traffic Control
Effects of Traffic Flow on Environment
Hussain Bahia
Vilas Distinguished Professor
Contact: bahia@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-4481
Research interests: To view a list of publications and current research, please see UWMARC.org.
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Other affiliations: Modified Asphalt Research Center
Paul Block
Assistant Professor
Contact: pblock@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-8792
Research interests: - Methods, models, and tools for managing climate variability and change- Hydrologic forecasting and integration into decision models- Addressing water quality and quantity extremes- Hydro-economics and policy ...
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Hannah Blum
Assistant Professor and Alain H. Peyrot Fellow in Structural Engineering
Contact: hannah.blum@wisc.edu
Research interests:
- Steel Structures, Cold-formed Steel Structures, Structural Stability, Structural Reliability
Steven Cramer
Vice-Provost for Teaching and Learning and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact: steven.cramer@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5246
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Structural engineering, wood structures, concrete materials
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Dante Fratta
Associate Professor
Contact: fratta@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5644
Research interests: Fundamental physical behavior of soils and rocks, Assessment of the near-surface underground using non-invasive tomographic studies (geotomography), On-shore and off-shore near surface geophysics, Non-destructi...
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Greeshma Gadikota
Assistant Professor
Contact: gadikota@wisc.edu, (608) 262-0365
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Geological Engineering
Research interests: Our research focuses on developing an advanced understanding of chemo-morphological coupling in materials at gas-solid, gas-liquid-solid, and liquid-solid interfaces for applications related to the earth, energ...
Matthew Ginder-Vogel
Assistant Professor
Contact: mgindervogel@wisc.edu, (608) 262-0768
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Geological Engineering, Freshwater and Marine Sciences
Research interests: Our research focuses on connecting macro-scale environmental problems with the causative micro- and molecular-scale mechanisms. A large portion of this research has been devoted to determining reactions c...
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Other affiliations: Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center
Awad Hanna
Boldt Company Professor in Construction and Engineering Management
Contact: hanna@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-8903
Also: College of Engineering
Research interests: Construction productivity measurement and management of human resources, Intergrated Project Delivery and Lean Construction, Change Mangement and Cumulative Impact of Change Orders, Risk Management and Pr...
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Other affiliations: Construction Engineering and Management Program
Gregory Harrington
Professor
Contact: gwharrin@wisc.edu, (608) 695-3380
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology
Research interests: Environmental engineering, aquatic chemistry in treatment and distribution of drinking water, removal and inactivation of waterborne pathogens and other microbes during drinking water treatment and distribution...
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Consortium for Applied Water Quality Research
Andrea Hicks
Assistant Professor
Contact: hicks5@wisc.edu
Research interests: -Sustainability-Environmental systems analysis and optimization-Life cycle assessment-Agent-based modeling-Rebound effect-Environmental implications of technology
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James Hurley
Professor and Director, Aquatic Sciences Center
Contact: jphurley@wisc.edu, (608) 262-0905
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Freshwater and Marine Sciences
Research interests: Chemical limnology, mercury in the environment, natural organic matter, nutrient cycling in lakes and rivers, Great Lakes research, bioaccumulation of toxic contaminants, chemical interactions at the sediment-w...
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
William J Likos
Gary Wendt Professor, Director of Geological Engineering Program
Contact: likos@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2662
Also: Geological Engineering
Research interests: Unsaturated soil mechanics, Expansive clay behavior and applications, Laboratory characterization of soil mechanical, hydraulic, and thermal behavior, Pore-scale imaging and analysis, Field monitoring and instr...
Steven Loheide
Professor
Contact: loheide@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5277
Also: Geological Engineering, Freshwater and Marine Sciences
Research interests: Hydroecology/ ecohydrology, hydrogeology, river restoration, remote sensing, hydrologic consequences of climate change, vegetative water use / vegetation patterning, sustainable land-use practices, stream-aquif...
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Other affiliations: Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Katherine (Trina) Mcmahon
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Contact: trina.mcmahon@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2836
Also: College of Engineering, Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Freshwater and Marine Sciences
Research interests: Water quality, freshwater sciences, wastewater treatment, microbiology, nutrient removal, water quality modeling, limnology.
...
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Daniel R. Noguera
Wisconsin Distinguished Professor
Contact: noguera@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-7783
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology
Research interests: Environmental engineering, bioenergy, biotechnology, microbial ecology, biological nutrient removal, bioinformatics, lignin biodegradation pathways, anaerobic digestion.
Other affiliations: Wisconsin Consortium for Applied Water Quality Research
Jae Park
Professor
Contact: jkpark@wisc.edu, (608) 262-7247
Research interests: Biological wastewater treatment, biological nutrient removal, drinking water treatment plant design and optimization, fate of contaminants in environment, hazardous and industrial waste treatment, river restora...
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Consortium for Applied Water Quality Research
Gustavo Parra-Montesinos
C.K. Wang Professor of Structural Engineering
Contact: gparra@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 890-4960
Research interests: Behavior and design of reinforced concrete and composite steel-concrete structures, Fiber reinforced concrete, Earthquake engineering
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Jose Pincheira
Associate Professor
Contact: jpin@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-7239
Research interests: Professor Pincheira's primary research interests lie in the behavior of reinforced concrete buildings subjected to earthquakes. His research experience includes field and laboratory testing, as well...
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Structures and Materials Testing Laboratory
Pavana Prabhakar
Assistant Professor, Charles G. Salmon Fellow of Structural Engineering
Contact: pprabhakar4@wisc.edu
Also: Engineering Physics
Research interests:
Advanced manufacturing of materials - additive manufacturing of hybrid materials, Process modeling - additive manufacturing and composite fabrication, Multiscale material modeling of hierarchical m...
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Other affiliations: Polymer Engineering Center, Wisconsin Structures and Materials Testing Laboratory
Nimish Pujara
Assistant Professor
Contact: npujara@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8735
Research interests: Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Nearshore Hydrodynamics, Turbulent and Multiphase Flows, Flow-Biota interactions, Water Wave Mechanics, Coastal Processes, Experimental Methods.
Bin Ran
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Contact: bran@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0052
Research interests: Connected and Automated Vehicle & Highway (CAVH):New Generations of Traffic Models & Highway Capacity Manual for CAVH Level 1-4, New Generations of Highway Design and Operations Guide for CAVH Level 1-4...
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory
Christy Remucal
Associate Professor
Contact: remucal@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1820
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Freshwater and Marine Sciences
Research interests:
Dr. Remucal’s Aquatic Chemistry research group focuses on the formation and fate of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in water. We are particularly interested in ROS generated...
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Other affiliations: Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center
Jeffrey Russell
Professor
Contact: russell@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-5821
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Other affiliations: Construction Engineering and Management Program
James Jay Schauer
Professor
Contact: jjschauer@wisc.edu, (608) 262-4495
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research interests: I am interested in developing measurement and chemical characterization tools to quantitatively understand the origin and impacts of air pollution. These tools are desgined to address the impacts of air p...
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
Hiroki Sone
Assistant Professor
Contact: hsone@wisc.edu, (608) 890-0531
Research interests: Experimental rock mechanics, geomechanics of petroleum and geothermal reservoirs, fault and earthquake mechanics, long-term deformation of shales and fault rocks, in-situ stress and heterogenity, rock physics
Bu Wang
Assistant Professor, Grainger Institute for Engineering Fellow
Contact: bu.wang@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8698
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: CO2 capture and utilization; Computation-guided material engineering
Daniel Wright
Assistant Professor
Contact: danielb.wright@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1978
Research interests: Floods and other hydroclimate extremes; Flood risk estimation and management; Measurement and modeling of extreme rainfall using ground-based and satellite-based sensors; The role of rainfall variability as a d...
Other affiliations: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Center for Climatic Research, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Chin H Wu
Professor
Contact: chinwu@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-3078
Also: Geological Engineering, Freshwater and Marine Sciences
Research interests: Coastal processes, engineering, resilience, and sustainability, Environmental & ecological fluid mechanics/hydraulics, Restoration and rehabilitation of aquatic systems (river/stream, lake, and wetland...
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Other affiliations: Center for Climatic Research
Adjunct or Faculty Affiliates
Craig H. Benson
Wisconsin Distinguished Professor
Contact: chbenson@wisc.edu, (608) 263-9490
Also: Geological Engineering
Research interests: geoenvironmental engineering, sustainable infrastructure, engineering for sustainability & life cycle analysis, beneficial use of industr...
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John Corbin
Adjunct Professor
Contact: jmcorbin@wisc.edu, (414) 801-2186
Also: College of Engineering
Research interests: Traffic Engineering & Traffic Operations, Traffic Management & Intelligent Transportation Systems, Highway & Traffic Safety, Connected & Automated Vehicles, Smart Cities & Global Connectivit...
Jack Cox
Adjunct Professor
Contact: jack.cox@wisc.edu
Research interests: Wave mechanics and wave-structure interaction; shoreline erosion and sediment transport; breakwater design, harbor tranquility; marina engineering; ice and arctic processes; navigation structures and engineerin...
Other affiliations: Engineering Professional Development
Rahel Desalegne
Adjunct Professor
Contact: desalegne@wisc.edu
Research interests: Transportation planning and Engineering, Traffic Engineering, Traffic Safety, Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Norman Doll
Adjunct Professor
Contact: normdoll@gmail.com, (414) 405-8292
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology
Research interests: Research focuses on the behavior of organic toxicants in aquatic, soil and sediment systems with a particular emphasis on understanding the role played by natural organic matter in controlling their bioav...
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Michael Doran
Adjunct Professor
Contact: mddoran@wisc.edu, (608) 334-4810
Research interests: Water and Wastewater Engineering, Unit Processes, Process Modeling and Plant Engineering, Biological Wastewater and Wastewater Residuals Treatment and Stabilization, Water Quality Management and Policy Developm...
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Patrick Eagan, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Contact: peagan@wisc.edu
Research interests: Professor Eagan's research interests lie in exploring frameworks that can move public and private institutions toward "sustainable development." A primary interest is how both public and private institutions wi...
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Luis Fargier-Gabaldon
Visiting Professor
Contact: luis.fargier@wisc.edu
Research interests: Bridge Engineering, Bridge History and Aesthetics, Prestressed and Reinforced Concrete, Earthquake Engineering
Tom Foltz
Adjunct Professor
Contact: tfoltz2@wisc.edu, (608) 833-6642
Research interests: Early in career significant involvement in applied research for activated sludge systems employing powdered activated carbon for advanced wastewater treatment. Throughout career, significant involvement i...
John L. Hetland
Adjunct Professor
Contact: jhetland@wisc.edu, (608) 410-8207
Research interests: Expertise is in the Construction Management of complex projects., Expertise in Design Build delivery of projects, Interest and knowledge in Lean techniques for deliverying projects, Process development, lessons...
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Tracey Holloway
Professor
Contact: taholloway@wisc.edu
Also: Mechanical Engineering
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Other affiliations: Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Kathryn Huibregtse
Adjunct Professor
Contact: khuibregtse@wisc.edu
Research interests: Wastewater treatment, landfill cover design, site and groundwater assessments, Brownfield site clean-ups, and sediment assessment and remidiation.
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Derek J. Hungness
Adjunct Professor
Contact: djhungness@wisc.edu, (608) 630-0667
Research interests: Transportation Corridor Studies, Traffic Impact Assessment, Travel Demand Forecasting, Project Management.
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Tom Jenkins
Adjunct Professor
Contact: tom.jenkins.pe@gmail.com, (414) 352-5713
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K. G. Karthikeyan
Associate Professor
Contact: kkarthikeyan@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 262-9367
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology
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Fred A Klancnik
Adjunct Professor
Contact: fklancnik@tds.net, (608) 445-2999
Also: College of Engineering
Research interests: Instructor for the Waterfront Planning and Engineering course; guest lecturer for the Coastal Engineering course; mentor for the Senior Capstone Design Course teams of civil engineering students designing water...
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Jan C. Kucher
Adjunct Professor
Contact: jckucher@wisc.edu
Research interests: Municipal solid waste and source separated organics, anaerobic digestion, sustainability, renewable energy, surface and groundwater supplies, and conservation of natural resources.
Thomas P. Kunes
Adjunct Professor
Contact: kunes@wisc.edu
Research interests: Industrial environmental and safety risk management and process improvement; compliance assurance, quality and EHS management systems; and sustainability.
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Sharon C. Long
Associate Professor
Contact: longsc@mail.slh.wisc.edu, (608) 224-3803
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John S. Nelson
Adjunct Professor
Contact: jsnelson4@wisc.edu, (608) 843-5976
Research interests: Energy/Fuels: Production, Conversion, & Consumption, Lean Facility Delivery: Fundamentals and Practices, Sustainable System Analysis & Deployment: Economic and Physical, Organizational Value Clarity:Leadership ...
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Other affiliations: Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Master of Engineering in Engineering Management, Wisconsin Energy Institute, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Ned Paschke
Program Director, Professor of Engineering Practice
Contact: ned.paschke@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4705
Also: College of Engineering
Research interests: Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems, Hydraulic Analysis and Design, Pumping Facilities and Lift Stations, Energy Use in Water and Wastewater Systems, Water Reuse and Recycling, Infrastructure Asset Managemen...
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Joel A Pedersen
Professor
Contact: joelpedersen@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4971
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology
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Other affiliations: Chemistry, Soil Science
Sarah Pfatteicher
Research Professor & Associate Dean
Contact: spfatt@cals.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3003
Other affiliations: College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, Womens Studies Program
Charles Quagliana
Professor of Practice
Contact: quagliana@wisc.edu
Also: College of Engineering
Research interests:
Interdisciplinary & cross-curricular teamsI am interested in advancing the collaboration of Civil Engineering Capstone student teams with student teams (and their...
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Gary F. Rylander
Adjunct Professor
Contact: rylander@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 772-4936
Research interests: Transportation Engineering, Traffic Engineering, Traffic Operations, Safety and Management, Intelligent Transportation Systems
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James Tinjum
Associate Professor
Contact: jmtinjum@wisc.edu, (608) 262-0785
Also: Geological Engineering
Research interests: Subgrade/subbase improvement and design, wind energy civil and geotechnical design, geothermal heating and cooling, unsaturated soil testing and research, rail ballast testing and research, stabilization and re...
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Jo Tucker
Adjunct Professor
Contact: jo.tucker@wisc.edu
Research interests: Geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering: deep foundations, dams and levees, soil modification techniques, wind energy foundations, geotechnical instrumentation and load testing, environmental assessment ...
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Richard Weiland
Adjunct Professor
Contact: rcweiland@wisc.edu
Research interests: Construction management, AEC business organization, and performance metrics.
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Lucas Zoet
Assistant Professor
Contact: lzoet@wisc.edu
Also: Geological Engineering
Research interests: Glacial SeismicityLaboratory investigation of glacier sliding and ice deformationThe use of ground penetrating radar on glacial deposits and on glaciersGeospatial trends in glacial landformsThe history of the l...
Emeritus Faculty
Anders Andren
Professor Emeritus
Contact: awandren@aqua.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0905
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Freshwater and Marine Sciences
Research interests: Structure-activity relationships and environmental fate, air-water transfer of chemicals, industrial waste treatment technology, sediment remediation technology, behavior and fate of chemicals in the environmen...
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David E. Armstrong
Professor Emeritus
Contact: armstron@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0768
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology
Research interests: Aquatic chemistry, biogeochemistry, chemical limnology, Cycling of nutrient elements in lakes and watersheds, Trace metal chemistry, speciation, and bioavailability, Behavior and fate of organic chemicals in th...
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William D. Berg
Professor Emeritus
Contact: wdberg@charter.net, H6082734664B6082730640
Research interests: Traffic safety, traffic engineering, transportation systems analysis, highway engineering, cost-effective safety improvements
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William C. Boyle
Professor Emeritus
Contact: boyle@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-1777
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Tuncer Edil
Professor Emeritus
Contact: edil@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3225
Also: Geological Engineering
Research interests: Behavior of soils and wastes, behavior of peats and organic soils, geotechnics of soft ground and wastes, geotechnics of industrial by-products, filtration and interface friction of geosynthetics, friction pile...
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Other affiliations: Consortium for Fly Ash Use in Geotechnical Applications
Erhard F. Joeres
Professor Emeritus
Contact: joeres@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 770-1458
Research interests: Environmental systems modeling, water resources management, air quality management, markets in pollution control, urban hydrology, pollution prevention, environmental policy, industrial ecology
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John E. Johnson
Professor Emeritus
Contact: jejohns1@wisc.edu
Research interests: Structural engineering specializing in steel structures roofting technology
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Thomas M. Lillesand
Emeritus
Contact: tmlilles@wisc.edu
Research interests: Environmental monitoring, remote sensing, natural resource management, high resolution satellite image processing, geographic information systems, large area land use mapping from space, transportation applicat...
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Other affiliations: College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Peter L. Monkmeyer
Professor Emeritus
Contact: monkmeyer@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 238-7383
Research interests: Fluid mechanics, water waves, coastal engineering, flood routing, groundwater/seepage
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Michael G. Oliva
Professor
Contact: oliva@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-7241
Research interests: Timber bridges, earthquake resistance, compressive membrane action, arching action, structural engr., reinforced-precast-prestressed concrete design, structural testing, highway bridge design, development of st...
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Other affiliations: Construction and Materials Support Center, Structural Engineering Program, Wisconsin Highway Research Program, Wisconsin Structures and Materials Testing Laboratory, Wisconsin Transportation Center
Alain Peyrot
Professor Emeritus
Contact: ahpeyrot@wisc.edu
Research interests: Structural analysis and design. Probabilistic methods and structural dynamics. Computerized structural design. All aspects of high voltage transmission line design, construction and reliabilit...
Kenneth W. Potter
Professor
Contact: kwpotter@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0040
Also: Geological Engineering, Freshwater and Marine Sciences
Research interests: Hydrological modeling and design, stormwater modeling, management and design, estimation of hydrologic risk, estimation of hydrological budgets, restoration of aquatic systems
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Frank L. Scarpace
Professor Emeritus
Contact: scarpace@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 263-3973
Research interests: Image processing, remote sensing
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James P. Scherz
Professor Emeritus
Contact: scherz@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-7901
Research interests: developing basic GIS, archeoastronomy and mapping prehistoric sites, surveying, photogrammetry
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William C. Sonzogni
Professor Emeritus
Contact: sonzogni@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 224-6200
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology
Research interests: Environmental toxicology, water resources management, chemical limnology, analytical chemistry of pollutants, fate and transport of toxic contaminants
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Alan P. Vonderohe
Professor Emeritus
Contact: vonderoh@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-9854
Research interests: Spatial/temporal reference frameworks, spatial/temporal modeling, geographic information systems for transportation, digital photogrammetry, spatial data quality, cadastral systems
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