This page lists the Faculty, Staff, Graduate students, and Undergraduate students who are part of our research group, and those that have been instrumental in shaping the course of our research in the past.

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 Associate	Relationship between vegetation/biogeochemical cycles and the terrestrial hydrologic cycle
	Sherry Martin	Research Associate	Investigate ecosystem services in a changing landscape through landscape ecology, biogeochemistry and systems modeling
	Tianfang Xu	Research Associate	Numerical simulation and uncertainty quantification of groundwater flow and solute transport, Water resources sustainability, Coupled climate, hydrologic and social-economic systems, Model-data fusion, and Machine learning
	Blaze Budd	Research Technician

Affiliated Faculty

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

Photo	Name	Title (Lab)	Research Interests
	Dr. Bruno Basso	Associate 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

Graduate Students

These are the graduate students that we work with every day.

	Name	Degree	Advisor (Lab)	Research Interest
	Lon Cooper	PhD	Hyndman	Interactions between groundwater and surface water
	Kayla Cotterman	MS	Hyndman	Studying the High Plains Aquifer, including the effects of climate change on water and economic resources.
	Travis Dahl	PhD	Hyndman	Impacts of global change on hydrology and sediment
	Jill Deines	PhD	Hyndman	Interactive effects of human land use, climate, and socioeconomic drivers on regional hydrology and water sustainability
	Chanse Ford	PhD	Hyndman
	Erin Haacker	PhD	Hyndman	Interdisciplinary work on water and climate change
	Alex Kuhl	PhD	Hyndman	Using geophysics to study plant-water interactions.
	Xiao Liu	MS	Hyndman	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.
	Autumn Parish	MS	Hyndman	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
	Sam Smidt	PhD	Hyndman	Environmental sensing of surface and near-surface transport

Undergraduate Students

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

	Name	Degree Program
	Sabrina Curtis	Professorial Placement Student
	Quercus Hamlin	Geographic Information Science
	Jeremy Rapp	Geological Sciences & Geographic Information Science
	Jake Roush	Environmental Geoscience

Former Postdoctoral Researchers and Visiting Professors

These former postdoctoral researchers and visiting professors have been central to our research over the years.

Former Graduate Students and Affiliated Graduate Students

This list includes Graduate students who got their degrees from the Hydrogeology Lab, and those that while getting degrees elsewhere at MSU found themselves closely affiliated with our research–and us with theirs.

Former Undergraduate Students