Environmental Sciences Faculty Profiles

The Environmental Science Program is hosted with the Department of Geological Sciences, but is a multi-disciplinary program with involvement of faculty from , Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Geological Sciences, and Physics.

Faculty from Biological Sciences

Dr. Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi

Assistant Professor

ajdarrouzetnardi@utep.edu

Research: biogeochemistry, global change, plant-soil interactions, plant physiological ecology.

Dr. Michael Moody

Assistant Professor

mlmoody@utep.edu

Research: plant evolution.

Dr. Vanessa Lougheed

Associate Professor

vlougheed@utep.edu

Research: aquatic ecosystem ecology.

Dr. Craig Tweedie

Associate Professor

ctweedie@utep.edu

Research: terrestrial systems ecology and cyberinfrastructure.

Dr. Jennie McLaren

Assistant Professor

jrmclaren@utep.edu

Research: plant community ecology and ecosystem ecology.

Dr. Elizabeth Walsh

Professor

ewalsh@utep.edu

Research: aquatic molecular ecology and toxicology.

Faculty from Chemistry

Dr. Russel Chianelli

Professor

chianell@utep.edu

Research: biofuels and material science.

Dr. Jorge Gardea-Torresday

Professor

jgardea@utep.edu

Research: Environmental Chemistry, bioremediation, phytoremediation and environmental nontechnology.

Dr. Skye Fortier

Assistant Professor

asfortier@utep.edu

Research: Synthetic inorganic chemistry, uranyl photochemistry.

Dr. Wen-Yee Lee

Associate Professor

wylee@utep.edu

Research: Organic pollutants and environmental endocrine disrupting compounds -- occurrence, concentration, fate and transport.

Faculty from Geological Sciences


	Dr. Benjamin Brunner Assistant Professor bbrunner@utep.edu Research: Stable isotope biogeochemistry, Geomicrobiology, Sulfur cycle, Isotope fractionation, Authigenic minerals.			Dr. Lixin Jin Associate Professor ljin2@utep.edu Research: Continental weathering and global elemental cycles; interaction of water, air, biota and rocks in the Critical Zone (soils).
	Dr. Richard Langford Professor langford@utep.edu Research: Studies of modern and ancient desert surface processes and sediments surface and subsurface studies of sandstone oil reservoirs.			Dr. Thomas Gill Associate Professor tegill@utep.edu Research: Aeolian processes, atmospheric science, environmental geology and geochemistry. The interaction of the atmosphere with the other parts of the earth system: the generation and transport of dust and sand by the wind, and the effects of these materials on the environment and humans.
	Dr. Hugo Gutierrez Assistant Professor hagutierrez@utep.edu Research: Surface and groundwater hydrology, ecohydrology, GIS and remote sensing applications for water resources studies, hydrometeorology, hydrogeophysics, geomorphology, and field experiments for predicting and quantifying climatic-vegetation effects on the water cycle and their impacts on ecosystems.			Dr. Lin Ma Associate Professor lma@utep.edu Research: Low temperature geochemistry and hydrogeology, applications of isotopes (e.g., U-series and noble gases) to hydrological and environmental problems.
	Dr. Jose Hurtado Associate Professor jhurtado@utep.edu Research: Tectonics and geomorphology in the Nepal and Bhutan Himalaya; Remote sensing, digital image processing, and visualization; Earthquake hazards and geomorphology in the El Paso region; planetary geology and geophysics of the Moon; planetary field exploration science and human space flight; computing and data collection technologies for field geologic applications.			Dr. Deana Pennington Associate Professor, Associate Director Cyber-Share Center of Excellence ddpennington@utep.edu Research: Earth and environmental informatics, knowledge representation, geospatial modeling and analysis, land cover change, surface processes, socio-environmental systems.