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	Investigate ecosystem services in a changing landscape through landscape ecology, biogeochemistry and systems modeling
	Ryan Vannier	Research Associate
	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.

Graduate Students

	Name	Degree	Advisor (Lab)	Research Interest
	Travis Dahl	PhD	Hyndman and Kendall	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 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
	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.
	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
	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

Undergraduate Students

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

	Name	Degree Program	Research Interests
	Sabrina Curtis	Professorial Assistant
	Savannah Hiipakka	Environmental Geoscience
	Ben McCarthy	Geological Sciences
	Julia Michienzi	Geological Sciences
	Jeremy Rapp	Geological Sciences & Geographic Information Science
	Madison Witkowski	Geological Sciences & Geographic Information Science

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