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Researcher Profiles
| Name | Research Themes | Research Keywords | Research Topics | Research Overview | Researcher Department |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy Ando | Water and Land Stewardship |
Works on problems of species and habitat conservation, including the optimal reserve-site selection problem and understanding the relationship between private and public conservation activity. That work has produced publications in outlets such as Water Resources Research, Science, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Ecological Economics, and Resource and Energy Economics. |
Agricultural and Consumer Economics | ||
| Jim Angel | Water and Land Stewardship |
Interests include climate change and variability in the 19th and 20th centuries, extreme rainfall events, floods, droughts, heat waves and cold waves, Great Lakes storms, as well as climate services. Along with Floyd Huff, Dr. Angel co-authored the rainfall frequency study that is the standard for designing water-handling structures in Illinois. And has written several Water Survey publications and articles in scientific journals such as Monthly Weather Review, Journal of Climate, and Journal of Applied Meteorology. |
Illinois State Water Survey | ||
| Carl Bernacchi | Water and Land Stewardship |
Overall focus of research is to understand the impacts of atmospheric and climatic change on crop species important to the Midwestern U.S. Included in these analyses are global change scenarios as well as natural variations in growth conditions over a wide range of temporal scales. |
Plant Biology | ||
| Jim Best | Water and Land Stewardship |
Earth surface processes, and specifically process sedimentology. Research focuses on fluvial sediment transport mechanics, the structure and dynamics of modern sedimentary environments, the analysis of ancient alluvium, the understanding of controls on subsurface sedimentary architecture, fluid-sediment interactions in turbulent boundary layers, and the interaction between channel morphology and flow at river confluences. |
Geology | ||
| Craig Bethke | Water and Land Stewardship |
Studies groundwater hydrology, including groundwater flow, mass and heat transfer, chemical reaction analysis, and reactive transport modeling. Interested in fluid migration in sedimentary basins; environmental aspects of groundwater geochemistry and microbiology, including acid drainage from mine tailings, mobility of radioactive species near waste repositories; and the roles of microbes in controlling the chemical composition of groundwater. |
Geology | ||
| Nani Bhowmik | Water and Land Stewardship |
Hydrology and carrying capacity of floodplains, sediment control, suspended Sediment Concentration, Bed Load, and particle Size Sampling |
Illinois State Water Survey | ||
| John Braden | Water and Land Stewardship |
Environmental policies, management, and valuation with particular reference to water resources and agriculture. Social Science in a Water Observing System and Stormwater management |
Agricultural and Consumer Economics | ||
| Jeff Brawn | Water and Land Stewardship |
Fish and Wildlife, Ecology, Quantitative and Spatial Methods, Restoration Ecology. Effects of ecological disturbance on conservation of avian populations and communities; comparative demography of temperate and tropical birds; evolution of life history traits - especially dispersal; temporal variation and historical effects on community structure; demography and conservation of small populations; ecology of edges; ecology of urbanization, eco-epidemiology. |
Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences | ||
| Nicholas Brozovic | Water and Land Stewardship |
Improve economic analysis and understanding of spatial, dynamic natural resource systems, and of water resources in particular. Design spatially targeted policies for natural resource management that are cost-effective and maintain or improve environmental conditions. |
Agricultural and Consumer Economics | ||
| Ximing Cai | Water and Land Stewardship |
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. |
Civil and Environmental Engineering |