
CALVIN CLARY
Soil and Crop Sciences/Water Management and Hydrological Science
Demonstrating grazing land BMPs

ANN CONRAD
Agricultural Economics
Examining least-cost methods of producing and providing a bioenergy refinery with high energy sorghum and/or switch grass in the Rio Grande Valley

ISHAN DESAI
Civil Engineering
Removing alklyphenols from effluents used in wastewater reuse by oxidation

JIM FLOREY
Soil and Crop Sciences
Removing viruses from water/wastewater with organo-clay nanocomposites

NATANYA HAYDEN
Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Testing and developing an ecologically benign and sustainable management plan for Golden Algae

DEREK H. HUSMOEN
Soil and Crop Sciences
Recycling and incorporating biochar from pyrolysis of biomass feedstocks and evaluating resulting soil and water quality

JASJEET KAUR
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Removing of waterborne pathogens using advanced photocatalytic processes

PARVATHY T. KOCHUNARAYANAN
Civil Engineering
Examining the biodegradation potential of two perfluorinated compounds under anaerobic conditions

JOHN MIELES
Geology
Examining the analytical modeling of permeable reactive barriers (PRBs) constructed in the saturated zone

MARK MUSUMBA
Agricultural Economics
Developing and applying a model of groundwater depletion in the context of total Texas water allocation to analyze climate change implications

MICHAEL NEISCH
Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Studying the effectiveness of grass carp as a control mechanism for giant salvinia

BRANDI REESE
Oceanography
Characterizing sulfate-reducing bacteria using sediment sulfate reduction rates and insitu community analysis on the Texas Coast

MIN-CHENG TU
Ecosystem Science and Management/ Water Management and Hydrological Science
Modeling soil erosion and sediment transport in Cowhouse Creek Watershed

DIRAC TWIDWELL
Ecosystem Science and Management
Examining the effects of prescribed fire and mechanical brush removal on plant community dynamics and distributed recharge over the Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer in Wintergarden

GEORGE UMPHRES
Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Using a chemical approach to control the initiation of a Golden Algae bloom

CRYSTAL WATKINS
Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Evaluating evidence of reproductive abnormalities of western mosquito fish in associations with wastewater treatment plant effluents in Harris County, Texas