Marc Beutel
Assistant Professor

Research: Lake and Reservoir Managment; Natural Treatment Systems
Teaching: Mechanics of Fluids, Aquatic Chemistry and Microbiology, Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems
mbeutel@wsu.edu

Phillip Butterfield
Associate Research Professor

Research: Impacts of biofilm on the microbial quality of drinking water in airliner storage tanks, novel techniques to concentrate and detect pathogens in drinking water, capture and survival of pathogens in drinking water biofilm in home water systems and municipal distribution systems, biofilm’s role in modifying the microbial quality of reuse water in distribution systems
butterfield@wsu.edu

Serena Chung
Assistant Research Professor

Research: Secondary organic aerosol modeling, Air quality modeling, Aerosol radiative forcing and aerosol-climate interactions, and optical properties of soot particles
serena_chung@wsu.edu

Candis Claiborn
Professor & Dean, College of Engineering and Architecture

Research: Atmospheric aerosols; tropospheric hydrogen peroxide; atmosphere-biosphere interactions
Teaching:Industrial Waste Problems; Air Pollution Control; Introduction to Environmental Engineering; Principles of Environmental Engineering; Design for the Environment; Engineering Ethics and Professionalism claiborn@wsu.edu

Liv Haselbach
Associate Professor

Research : Sustainable Construction; Low Impact Development; Environmental Issues in the Concrete Industry (Pervious Concrete, Carbon Absorption, Urban Heat Island Impacts); Soil Contaminant Modeling/ Decision Support Systems
haselbach@wsu.edu

Tom Jobson
Associate Professor

Research: Measurement of trace organic gases in the atmosphere, trace gas instrumentation, tropospheric photochemistry, biogeochemical cycling, global climate change
Teaching: Environmental Measurements, introduction to environmental engineering, atmospheric chemistry and physical process, advanced instrumentation
tjobson@wsu.edu

Brian Lamb
Boeing Distinguished Professor

Research: Regional grid modeling of photochemical air quality and windblown dust, application of atmospheric tracer techniques, biogenic emissions, three-dimensional turbulence modeling, greenhouse gas emissions
Teaching: Introduction to Meteorology; Air Quality modeling; Environmental Measurements
blamb@wsu.edu

Fok-Yan Leung
Assistant Research Professor

Research:
Transport and chemistry of boreal forest fire emissions
using global chemical transport models (GEOS-CHEM) and satellite data (MISR).

fyl@wsu.edu

George Mount
Professor

Research: Radiative transfer, molecular physics, trace gas measurements in troposphere and stratosphere, atmospheric spectroscopy, spectroscopic instrumentation
Teaching: Environmental Measurements; Advanced Topics in Environmental Engineering gmount@wsu.edu

Shelley Pressley
Assistant Research Professor and Graduate Student Recruitment for Environmental Research

Research: Trace gas measurement, in particular between the biosphere-atmosphere interface, The impact of climate change and future land use changes on air quality, The physiological controls of biogenic hydrocarbon emissions, Micrometeorological measurement techniques, including eddy covariance
Teaching: Mentoring for students participating in the LAR undergraduate research opportunities program; Instructor, Introduction to Meteorology, CE 174 (Fall 2001) spressley@wsu.edu

Jeremy Rentz
Assistant Professor

Research: Environmental microbiology of aerobic and microaerobic processes, with a particular focus on PAH-degrading bacteria & iron-oxidizing bacteria
rentz@wsu.edu

Timothy VanReken
Assistant Professor

Research: Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation, Aerosol/Cloud Interactions, Instrument Development, Ice Nucleation Theory
vanreken@wsu.edu

Richard Watts
Professor

Research: Physiochemical treatment processes, particularly chemical oxidations applied to the treatment of contaminated soils and groundwater, hazardous and industrial wastes
Teaching: Hazardous Waste Treatment watts@wsu.edu

Tri Cities Faculty

David Yonge
Professor

Research: Treatment of industrial wastewaters, innovative treatment technologies, sorption phenomena, subsurface hazardous material contamination, water and wastewater treatment
Teaching: Introduction to Environmental Engineering; Water and Wastewater Treatment Design; Environmental Engineering Analysis; Integrated Civil Engineering Design yonge@wsu.edu

Akram Hossain
Professor

Research: Groundwater flow; Contaminant transport modeling
Teaching: Unit Operations in Environmental Engineering; Unit Processes in Environmental Engineering; Flow and Contaminant Transport Dynamics; Advanced Groundwater Hydrology; Environmental Geotechnology ahossain@tricity.wsu.edu