The Water-Energy Nexus: Researchers
Senior Research Scientist
Email: jp.nicot@beg.utexas.edu
Telephone: 512-471-6246
- Numerical modeling of multiphase flow and contaminant transport in both the unsaturated and saturated zones
- Geochemical modeling and reactive transport
- Water resources management
- Risk assessment and risk analysis
Senior Research Scientist
Email: bridget.scanlon@beg.utexas.edu
Telephone: 512-471-8241
- Evaluation of the impact of climate variability and land use change on groundwater resources
- Application of numerical models for simulating variably saturated flow and transport
- Assessment of natural and anthropogenic contamination of aquifers, including arsenic and nitrate
Program Director
Email: ian.duncan@beg.utexas.edu
Telephone: 512-471-5117
- Environmental geology
- Remote sensing (geologic applications of multispectral, radar, and lidar data sets)
- Carbon sequestration
- Geoinformatics
Associate Director - Environmental Systems
Email: michael.young@beg.utexas.edu
Telephone: 512-475-8830
- Water/energy nexus
- Soil/water/plant interactions and solute transport in arid vadose zones
- Groundwater recharge
- Connections between water resources, landscape development, and human interactions
Hydrogeologist
Email: bob.reedy@beg.utexas.edu
Telephone: 512-471-7244
- Hydrologic data analysis, field instrumentation systems design, and installation
- Computer applications and programming-databases, CAD, GIS, Fortran, Visual Basic, data-acquisition systems.
Senior Research Scientist
Email: jeff.paine@beg.utexas.edu
Telephone: 512-471-1260
- Near-surface geophysics
- Quaternary geology and geomorphology
- Coastal geology
- Computer applications in the geological sciences
Research Scientist
Email: alex.sun@beg.utexas.edu
Telephone: 512-475-6190
- Sustainable water resources management and decision support systems
- Multiphase flow and multicomponent transport in porous media
- Contaminant source identification
- Modeling and management of karst aquifer systems
- Performance assessment for geologic CO2 storage
