
People
Trent Biggs
Institute Director
Geography
Interests: Land use and watershed processes
Email: tbiggs@sdsu.edu
Andrew Bohonak
Biology
Interests: Freshwater invertebrates, ecology, evolutionary genetics
Email: abohonak@sdsu.edu
Christy M. Dykstra
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Interests: Energy and nutrient recovery from wastewater
Email: cdykstra@sdsu.edu
Paul Ganster
Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias
Interests: Tijuana River watershed
Email: pganster@sdsu.edu
Temesgen Garoma
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Interests: Resource recovery from waste, Sustainable water and wastewater treatment
Email: tgaroma@sdsu.edu
Rick Gersberg
Public Health
Interests: Water quality, toxicology
Email: rgersber@sdsu.edu
Eunha Hoh
Public Health
Interests: Water quality, toxicology
Email: ehoh@sdsu.edu
Piotr Jankowski
Geography
Interests: GIS, decision support methods
Email: pjankows@sdsu.edu
Alicia Kinoshita
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Interests: Hydrologic response to fire
Email: akinoshita@sdsu.edu
Chun-Ta Lai
Biology
Interests: ecosystem ecologogy, terrestrial ecosystem response and feedback to climate
change
Email: chun-ta.lai@sdsu.edu
Rebecca Lewison
Biology
Interests: Conservation science and ecology, marine toxicology
Email: rlewison@sdsu.edu
Hilary McMillan
Geography
Interests: Hydrological processes and modeling
Email: hmcmillan@sdsu.edu
Natalie Mladenov
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Interests: Water quality, organic matter
Email: nmladenov@sdsu.edu
Walt Oechel
Biology
Interests: Terrestrial carbon cycle
Email: woechel@sdsu.edu
Amy Quandt
Geography
Interests:
Email: aquandt@sdsu.edu
Kari Sant
Environmental Health Division, Public Health
Interests: Toxicology of common drinking water
Email: ksant@sdsu.edu
Sam Shen
Mathematics and Statistics
Interests: Climate change, uncertainty
Email: sam.shen@sdsu.edu
Doug Stow
Geography
Interests: Remote sensing, chaparral ecosystems
Email: stow@sdsu.edu
Kim Stringfellow
School of Art + Design
Interests: transmedia projects of cultural geography and environmental concerns
Email: kstringf@sdsu.edu
Hassan Tavakol-Davani
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Interests: Water resources and hydraulic simulation
Email: htavakol@sdsu.edu
Kathryn Thorbjarnarson
Geological Sciences
Interests: Water resources evaluation, organic contaminant
Email: kthorbjarnarson@sdsu.edu
Matthew E. Verbyla
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Interests: Water and wastewater treatment
Email: mverbyla@sdsu.edu
Matthew Weingarten
Geological Sciences
Interests: Hydrogeology
Email: mweingarten@sdsu.edu
Andrew Wiese
History
Interests: Urban history, environmental politics and community planning
Email: awiese@sdsu.edu
Tom Zink
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Interests: Soil ecology and restoration
Email: tzink@sunstroke.sdsu.edu