OU Faculty and Affiliates
Jadwiga (Jad) R. Ziolkowska, PhD
Assistant Professor and Environmental Economist
Dept. of Geography and Environmental Sustainability
Expertise: Water, renewable energy, food, environmental/ natural resource/ agricultural economics, sustainability, decision-support models.
David Sabatini
David Ross Boyd Professor
Sun Oil Company Chair
Director, WaTER Center
Associate Director, Institute for Applied Surfactant Research
School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science
Expertise: Civil engineering, environmental engineering, groundwater quality, water and wastewater treatment, sustainability, water-energy nexus.
Robert W. Nairn
David L. Boren Professor
Viersen Presidential Professor
School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science
OU The Center for Restoration of Ecosystems and Watersheds(CREW)
Expertise: Watershed biogeochemistry, ecological engineering, ecosystem restoration, wetland science, natural infrastructure/ environmental biology and ecology, hazardous and solid waste management, ecological engineering science, wetland science and management, environmental science and engineering capstone experience.
Christopher A. Fiebrich
Executive Director, Oklahoma Mesonet
Associate Director, Oklahoma Climatological Survey
Adjunct Faculty, School of Meteorology
Expertise: Oklahoma Mesonet, laboratory calibrations, site maintenance to Mesonet websites, outreach to teachers and emergency managers; improving climate data through the use of automated weather stations, data quality assurance, history of weather observations, and meteorological instrumentation.
Reuben Reyes
Manager of Software Development
Oklahoma Climatological Survey
Oklahoma Mesonet
Expertise: Computer visualization, high-performance computing, digital signal/image processing, 3D scientific modeling, and geospatial predictive modeling.
Bradley G. Illston
Senior Research Scientist
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climatological Survey
Expertise: Surface and subterranean observational and climate data, urban/atmospheric interactions, boundary layer processes, and land surface interactions, soil moisture climatology of Oklahoma, impacts of drought on soil moisture, Long Term Averages of Oklahoma Mesonet.
Jason Vogel
Director, Oklahoma Water Survey
School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science
Expertise: Biosystems engineering, agricultural engineering, biological systems engineering, stormwater and stream management, low impact development (LID) stormwater management systems, hydrology
Jim F. Chamberlain, PhD, P.E., BCEE
Co-Director for Education and Outreach
Water Technologies for Emerging Regions (WaTER) Center
The University of Oklahoma
Gallogly College of Engineering Water Center
Expertise: Environmental engineering, water-energy nexus, sustainability, life cycle assessment, water and wastewater treatment.
Ying Wang
Assistant Professor
The University of Oklahoma
Department of Mathematics
Expertise: Applied mathematics, numerical analysis and scientific computing, mathematical modeling, ecological applications.
Drew L. Kershen
Earl Sneed Centennial Professor of Law Emeritus
College of Law
Expertise: Environmental engineering, water-energy nexus, sustainability, life cycle assessment, water and wastewater treatment.
Collaborators
Tracy A. Boyer
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics
Oklahoma State University
Expertise: Environmental economics, natural resource economics, conservation, climate change, water policy, valuation.
Jeff Peterson
Director Water Resources Center
Professor at Department of Applied Economics
University of Minnesota
Expertise: Environmental policy analysis, agricultural land use and water resources, externalities in common pool groundwater use, water use and water quality impacts from agriculture.
Guy Sewell
Robert S. Kerr Endowed Chair and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Director of Research for The Oka’ Institute at ECU
East Central University
Expertise: Water resources, groundwater and the subsurface environment, contaminant fate and transport, treatment of hazardous waste.
Levan Elbakidze
Assistant Professor
Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design
Division of Resource Management, School of Natural Resources
West Virginia University
Expertise: Natural resource economics, water resource economics, management of invasive species, pests and infectious animal diseases, and energy, applications of experimental economics, interdisciplinary modeling of human and biophysical systems.
Justus Wesseler
Professor and Chair
Wageningen University
Department of Social Sciences, Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy
Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group
Expertise: Biosafety, agricultural economics, biodiversity, biotechnology, environmental economics and policy, forest management and economics, risk analysis, cost benefit analysis, technology assessment, integrated pest management.
Ani Melkonyan
Associate Professor
University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Executive Board Member of the Centre for Logistics and Traffic
Senior lecturer for the International Master Studies in Sustainable Urban Systems
Expertise: Sustainability in food supply chains, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, food security, climate change impacts in agricultural sector, developing economies, urban systems.
Ros Cornforth
Professor and Director of the Walker Institute
University of Reading, UK
http://www.walker.ac.uk
Follow on twitter: @WalkerInst
The Walker Institute exists to build climate resilience in Africa & South Asia by developing interdisciplinary research which is applicable, adaptable and adopted.
Expertise: Climate modelling and climate data products, climate change impact and resilience, forecasting, climate justice, climate ethics, water management, disaster management, early warning systems, policy-making, agri-environmental policy, social wellbeing, energy.
Christian Schleyer
Senior researcher
University of Kassel (Germany)
Institute of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance
Expertise: Water management, water policies, irrigation and drainage systems, agri-environmental policy, social-ecological systems, ecosystem services, institutional and ecological economics.
Diana Bogueva
Director at Sydney Focus Groups
Curtin University (Australia)
diana.bogueva@postgrad.curtin.edu.au
Expertise: Sustainability, social marketing, health and climate change, co-benefits of dietary change, demarketing the myths around meat consumption.
Manuel Pulido Velázquez
Professor
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)
Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Development
Expertise: Water-energy-food nexus, climate change impact and adaptation, economic instruments for water management, drought management, hydroeconomic modelling, decision support systems for water resources planning and management.
Leonie Reins
Assistant Professor
Tilburg Law School (The Netherlands)
Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT)
l.s.reins@tilburguniversity.edu
Expertise: Climate change mitigation, (renewable) energy and environmental law, innovation, legal principles and risk regulation, regulation of new technologies, sustainable development, environmental labelling.
Sabrina Kirschke
Research assistant
United Nations University (Germany)
Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES)
Expertise: Public policy analysis, political sciences, water/ water quality management, resource nexus (water, soil, waste).
Bozydar Ziolkowski
Assistant Professor
Rzeszow University of Technology (Poland)
Department of Enterprise, Management and Ecoinnovation
Expertise: Innovations and ecoinnovations, effectitions, entrepreneurial and environmental management, foresight, public policy, regional development, information and communication technology, sustainable development, waste management, renewable energy.
Sergio Villamayor Tomas
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA)
Expertise: Irrigation and energy management, common pool resources, climate change adaptation, environmental justice movements, polycentricity.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Jianhong Mu
Willingness-To-Pay for Ecosystem Services in the US Rio Grande Basin.
Ecological Footprint Analysis for the Rio Grande Basin.
PhD Students
Dorothy Na-Yemeh
Value and Importance of OK Mesonet Information for Emergency Management in Oklahoma.
Monica Mattox
Value and Importance of OK Mesonet Information for Wildfire Management in Oklahoma.
Caroline Pavlowsky
Physical Hydrologic Processes of Groundwater and Institutional Regulations in the Ogallala Aquifer.
Virginia Silvis
Market Analysis of Tornado Shelter Installations in Oklahoma.
Constant Yaiy
Bilateral Investment Treaties and Institutional Quality.
Ling Jin
Numerical Methods for Convection Dominated Equations.
Kandace Steele
Wiebke Jander
Indicators for Sustainable Bioeconomy Assessment
(Humboldt University of Berlin)
MSc Students
Nicholas Hardersen
Behavioral Analysis of Food Waste in Oklahoma.
Sreenath Umagandhi
Environmental and Socio-Economic Analysis of Water Resources in the Rio Grande Basin.
Ashley Ciarlante
Wind Energy and Wildlife Management with a Focus on Prairie Chickens.
Undergraduate Students
Kalila Clemente
Sustainability of Renewable and Conventional Energy Sources in Oklahoma and the US.
Walter Chandler
Economic Aspects of Water Footprint of Meat Production in Selected Countries Around the World.
Lisa Van Biber
Spatial Differences Between Traditional and Soilless Agriculture in California.
Alumni - Graduate Students
Madeline Hinchliffe
Socio-Economic Analysis of Water Management in the Rio Grande Basin.
Jesus Zubillaga
Importance of Weather Monitoring Information for Decision Making in Agricultural Production – A Case Study of Oklahoma.
Brandon Holzbauer-Schweitzer
Evaluating Low Impact Development Best Management Practices as an Alternative to Urban Stormwater Management.
Brandi Dittrich
Development of Environmental Guidelines for Habitable Structures on Grand Lake O' the Cherokees.
Erika Marrs
Economic and Environmental Costs of Agricultural Food Losses and Waste.
Wiebke Jander
Economic Considerations Regarding Lignocellulosic Biofuels (Humboldt University of Berlin).
Lisa Conrads
Grid-connected Biomass and Biogas Power Investment in Indonesia: Implementation Barriers and Policy Options (Humboldt University of Berlin).
Enrique Ali Fernandez Flori
Intra-Industry Ethanol Trade between Brazil and the U.S. (Humboldt University of Berlin).
Alumni - Undergraduate Students
Lisa Fiedler
Misguiding Nature of Expiration Dates and Their Influence on Consumer Food Waste Behavior
Tornado Shelters in Oklahoma: Sources, Certifications, and Statistics.
Reagan Metz
Tornado Shelters in Oklahoma: A Regional Economic Analysis.
Morgan Ederer
Impact of Drought on Agricultural Production in Oklahoma.
Alejandro Herrera
Measuring Land-Impacts of Major Electricity Generation Sources in Oklahoma: The Ecological Footprint of Production.
Hannah Thurman
A Comparative Analysis of Urban Sustainability in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
Spencer White
Perspectives on Water Management in Clark County, Nevada.
Michael Schulke
Impacts of Weather Variability on Wheat Yields in Oklahoma.
Shequon Caruthers
The Real Food Calculator Research and Genetically Modified Organisms.