The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University is an incubator for research efforts that engage faculty and students in seeking solutions to environmental problems in both both natural and engineered systems. These problems are inherently interdiscilinary, requiring a braod range of expertise and analytical approaches. Duke's Environmental Engineering faculty consists of engineers and scientists from many different backgrounds, with strong collaborations that extend around the world. Environmental Engineering at Duke bridges activities in technology development and application across the Pratt School of Engineering and the science governing natural and built environments, and environmental policy in the Nicholas School of the Environment.
Ecohydrology and Environmental Fluid Dynamics
- John Albertson, Associate Professor - Environmental fluid mechanics, scaling in hydrology and boundary layer meteorology, use of computational fluid dynamics and field experiments to address issues of mass and energy exchange between the land and the atmosphere.
- Roni Avissar, W. H. Gardner, Jr. Professor - All aspects of land-atmosphere and air-sea interactions (modeling and experiments) at all scales, including atmospheric dynamics, regional and global climate changes, hydroclimatology, soil-plant-atmosphere relationships, material dispersion and diffusion, and ecosystem modeling.
- Ana Barros, Professor - Investigating the dynamics of water presence and water pathways in the environment. Understanding the physics of the hydrological cycle at all spatial and temporal scales, and applying this new knowledge to research and developing technologies for environmental assessment, prediction and control.
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Gabriel Katul, Professor -Hydrology, micrometeorology , surface hydrology, carbon and water cycling, environmental fluid dynamics.
- Prasad S. Kasibhatla, Associate Professor - Atmospheric chemistry, regional and global modeling.
- Miguel A. Medina, Jr., Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies- Water resources, hydrologic and water quality mathematical modeling, integration of contaminant transport prediction models within a decision-analysis framework for risk assessment.
- Ram Oren, Professor - Forest hydrology, biogeochemistry, global change ecology, wetalnd ecology, terrestrial ecosystems.
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Amilcare Porporato, Professor - Ecohydrology and coupled dynamics of the soil-plant-atmosphere system; environmental fluid mechanics and turbulence dynamics; dynamical system approach and stochastic modeling of hydrological and biogeophysical processes; nonlinear time series analysis; flood forecasting.
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Curtis J. Richardson, Professor - Wetland ecology, phosphorus biogeochemistry, restoration of wetland function.
- Zbigniew J. Kabala, Associate Professor - Deterministic and stochastic modeling of water flow and contaminant transport in saturated and unsaturated heterogeneous porous media, theory of related measurements.
- Roger A. Pielke, Sr., Research Professor - Mesoscale meteorology through numerical modeling of the sea breeze and interaction among the mountains, oceans, boundary layer, and the free atmosphere
