Group Members

This page lists the current Faculty, Staff, Graduate students, Undergraduate students who are part of our research group, and affiliated faculty that help drive our research program forward. See our Lab Alumni page for a list of those that have been instrumental in shaping the course of our research in the past–and with whom we often still collaborate.

Faculty and Staff

	Name	Title	Research Interest
	David Hyndman	Professor and Chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Science	Dr. Hyndman’s research interests include developing novel methods to characterize the aquifers that store and transmit water supplies critical to human and ecological health, helping develop methods to clean contaminated aquifers using emerging technologies such as bioremediation, and quantifying the human impacts on changes in climate and land use on the water cycle. His research involves coupling novel models with high resolution field data to explore the physical, chemical, and ecological processes in natural and anthropogenically altered systems.
	Anthony Kendall	Research Assistant Professor	Relationships between climate/vegetation/biogeochemical cycles and the terrestrial hydrologic cycle
	Sherry Martin	Research Associate	Linking aquatic ecosystem services in a changing landscape through landscape ecology, biogeochemistry and systems modeling
	Leanne Hancock	Research Associate	Geochemistry of sediments and natural waters as tracers of biogeochemical processes past and present
	Lisi Pei	Research Associate	Regional climate modeling from convection-resolving weather event scale to decadal climate change scale, featuring the realization of anthropogenic influences such as land-use land-cover change, irrigation, deforestation, urbanization, etc., within the regional climate modeling framework to investigate the hydro-meteorological and climate feedbacks.
	Sam Arcand	Research Associate	Local- to regional-scale meteorology, climatology, and hydrology with a focus on modeling land-atmosphere interactions through the lens of a changing climate

Graduate Students

	Name	Degree	Advisor (Lab)	Research Interest
	Allyson Brady	PhD	Hyndman and Kendall	The effects of anthropogenic water use on overall environmental, economic, and energetic sustainability, specifically the impacts of agricultural irrigation on the energy footprint and water resources of the Central Valley in California
	Travis Dahl	PhD	Hyndman and Kendall	Impacts of global change on hydrology and sediment
	Chanse Ford	PhD	Hyndman and Kendall	Effects of warmer winter temperatures on snow melt hydrology in the Great Lakes, groundwater-surface water interactions, landscape hydrologic modeling, stable isotope geochemistry
	Quercus Hamlin	MS	Hyndman and Kendall	Modelling application and transport of nitrogen and phosphorus in the Great Lakes Basin
	Bailey Hannah	MS	Hyndman and Kendall	How human activity can affect water quality and play a role in watershed ecology
	Brent Heerspink	MS	Hyndman	The impacts humans have on water quality and water availability, with specific interest in contamination and remediation of water resources
	Alex Kuhl	PhD	Hyndman	Using geophysics to study plant-water interactions.
	Xiao Liu	MS	Hyndman and Kendall	I am interested in exploring groundwater and how to use groundwater best for human. I’m currently focused on coupling human and natural systems and improve water resources sustainability in metropolitan regions.
	Ben McCarthy	MS	Hyndman and Kendall	Quantifying the impact of shifting agricultural practices on large scale hydrology in terms of energy use and water use efficiency.
	Autumn Parish	MS	Hyndman and Kendall	The possible impacts of land use change and climate change on water quality and quantity in the Great Lakes region and how the production of biofuel crops will effect surface and groundwater nutrients and groundwater recharge
	Jeremy Rapp	MS	Hyndman and Kendall	Coupling remote sensing and deep learning to elucidate changes in cropland irrigation practices and extent within the continental United States
	Jacob Roush	MS	Hyndman and Kendall	Quantifying the hydrologic impacts of human development from hydropower installation, land use change, and climate change
	Luwen Wan	PhD	Hydman and Kendall	Relationship between climate change/landscape change and hydrological process/ water quality in watershed ecosystem

Undergraduate Researchers

Our Undergraduates are a core part of the team, and contribute to every part of the research process.

	Name	Degree Program	Research Projects/Interests
	Sabrina Curtis	Geological Sciences	I am looking at extreme water level changes in the Great Lakes and their relation to establishment of invasive plant species in coastal wetlands.
	Julia Michienzi	Geological Sciences	Using  geophysical data to study the relationship between water and plants
	Madison Witkowski	Geological Sciences & Geographic Information Science	Creating an algorithm to locate Photo-Voltaic arrays in agricultural regions to further study their energy contributions
	Joe Szkutnik	Environmental Geosciences & Geographic Information Science	Correlating zooplankton populations of inland lakes with the land uses of its watershed as well as assistance with various fieldwork projects.

Affiliated Faculty

We work very closely with other faculty in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, including:

	Name	Title (Lab)	Research Interests
	Dr. Bruno Basso	University Foundation Professor	Crop modeling, crop water use, carbon and nutrient cycling in agronomic systems
	Dr. Warren Wood	Visiting Professor	Hydrology of arid areas, groundwater recharge, sabkha hydrogeology
	Dr. Jay Zarnetske	Assistant Professor, (Hydroecology and Watershed Science)	Environmental hydrologist exploring the hydrogeomorphic template of catchment ecosystems and groundwater – surface water exchange environments