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Name	Research Themes	Research Keywords	Research Topics	Research Overview	Researcher Department
Don McKay	Water and Land Stewardship	Glacial and fluvial sediments Loesses and paleosols of the Mississippi River Valley	Hydrology	Geological setting, characteristics, and history of major glacial-fluvial aquifer systems of the Quaternary of central North America; implications for resource and land-use decision making; Quaternary and glacial geology; Loesses and paleosols of the Mississippi River valley; Illinoian glacial landforms and sediments; Geologic mapping and three-dimensional modeling; Stratigraphy and sedimentology of continental glacial and fluvial sediments of the last 200,000 years.	Illinois State Geological Survey
Brian Miller	Water and Land Stewardship	water policies water programs	Systems	Focuses on how officials make decisions related to water and natural resources and develops engagement programs, products and decision support systems necessary to help communities use science to make informed water and resource decisions and policies.	Illinois Water Resources Center
Barbara Minsker	Water and Land Stewardship	Environmental informatics hydroinformatics water management and decision support real-time observation and anomaly detection	Environment & Ecology Technology Modeling Simulation & Prediction International Engagement	Environmental systems analysis, investigating improved methods for modeling complex environmental systems, uncertainty in environmental and water resources decision making, and optimization methods for engineering design. Recent applications: Real-time combined sewers overflow management and hypoxia observation and adaptive watershed monitoring and management.	Civil and Environmental Engineering
Helen Nguyen	Water and Land Stewardship	Water treatment systems waterborne pathogen removal for water wastewater treatment	Public Health	Research goal is to develop conceptual models that aid in assessing the human and ecological risks associated with biological contaminants in subsurface environments and water treatment systems. Specific areas of interest are waterborne pathogen removal for water and wastewater treatment, and fate and transport of antibiotic resistant bacteria in subsurface environment.	Civil and Environmental Engineering
Gary Parker	Water and Land Stewardship	River mechanics and morphology sediment transport two-phase solid fluid flow	Water Resources Transport Processes	River mechanics and morphology, sediment transport and two-phase solid fluid flow. Morphodynamics associated with rivers, debris flows and turbidity currents	Civil and Environmental Engineering
Brian Pianfetti	Water and Land Stewardship	learning and human computer intelligent interaction water purification clean water	Technology	Focus on using multimodal human computer intelligent interaction to observe and interact with people in real world learning situations. Has authored and co-authored articles and book chapters on learning in complex and computer mediated environments from cognitive anthropological perspectives. Most recently published a chapter in Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water (William Andrew/Elsevier, 2009).	Center of Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with Systems (WaterCAMPWS)
Michael Plewa	Water and Land Stewardship	disinfection byproduct disinfection processes genotoxicity insecticides	Public Health	Assessment of genotoxicity of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in drinking water generated from different disinfection processesIsolation of novel antimutagens and anticarcinogens from agricultural products and byproducts; analysis of the repression of growth rates of human tumor cell lines by agronomic processing waste fractions. Genotoxic synergy between organophosphorus ester insecticides and environmental and dietary aromatic amines;Isolation and characterization of plant-activated arylamines.	Crop Sciences
Malini Ranganathan	Water and Land Stewardship	Water related political economy Politics of flood vulnerability	Public Policy International Engagement	Urban political ecology: the political economy of infrastructure reforms, particularly water; collective action, the state, and the commons; and the politics of flood vulnerability.Has investigated the political ecology of water in peripheral Bangalore of India	Beckman Institute
Bruce Rhoads	Water and Land Stewardship	complexity of water water-related processes in environmental systems	Environment & Ecology Water Resources Transport Processes Systems	To facilitate original, interdisciplinary research on the complexity of water and water-related processes in environmental systems and on the interconnections between these processes and human society.	Geography and Geographic Information Science
George Roadcap	Water and Land Stewardship	Groundwater modeling	Hydrology Modeling Simuation & Prediction	Regional modeling of the Mahomet Aquifer across east-central Illinois; study of extremophile bacteria in the groundwaters of the Lake Calumet region (south Chicago).	Illinois State Water Survey

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