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	Maxwell E Agnew Hydraulic Engineer U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, New Orleans, LA M.S. University of Notre Dame 2011 I participated in the USACE long-term training program, earning a masters degree from the University of Notre Dame with a thesis paper on surge and wave hindcasting using ADCIRC+SWAN, with special emphasis on the role of wetlands in surge and wave attenuation and incorporating a nested mesh approach to surge modeling. At the USACE New Orleans District, I work on storm surge and wave modeling of synthetic design hurricanes using ADCIRC+SWAN 2D models, establishing stage-frequency and wave-frequency curves for design of New Orleans Hurricane Storm Damage Risk Reduction System (HSDRRS) (a $15 billion project), and calculating required 100-year design elevations for HSDRRS levees and floodwalls. Major projects are the Co-located Mississippi River (MRL/HSDRRS) levees, the IHNC surge barrier, the West Closure Complex, the Seabrook Floodgate Complex, and the Lake Pontchartrain Canal Closure structures. Email: Maxwell.E.Agnew@usace.army.mil Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Daniel Alessi Assistant Professor, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 2009 After earning my undergraduate degree in geology from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, I briefly worked as a mudlogger on oil and gas rigs in Colorado and Wyoming and as a staff geologist for an environmental remediation firm before enrolling in the geosciences master’s program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I finished my doctorate in Environmental Geochemistry at Notre Dame under the direction of Professor Jeremy Fein in 2009. I then worked as a Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. In 2013, I moved to the Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor and the Encana Chair in Water Resources. I study the products of microbial uranium and chromium reduction that form during bioremediation. Email: alessi@ualberta.ca Web link: http://easweb.eas.ualberta.ca/page/directory/?person=dania Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	David Ams Transuranic Waste Sciences Manager, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 2005 Email: dams@alumni.nd.edu Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Kyle Bibby Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh Yale University MS-2009 MPhil-2010 PhD-2012 , B.S. University of Notre Dame 2008 Dr. Bibby is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He graduated from Notre Dame with a degree in Civil Engineering in 2008 and received his PhD in Environmental Engineering from Yale University in 2012. Dr. Bibby’s interests center around understanding the presence, ecology, and diversity of microorganisms, such as viruses and bacteria, in an environmental engineering context. Microorganisms are by far the most abundant and genetically diverse biological entities on our planet and are at the core of many of society’s environmental challenges, including sustainable energy production, waste treatment, and environmentally transmitted disease. In the Bibby Lab, emerging molecular biology techniques such as proteomics, genomics, metagenomics and transcriptomics are integrated with fundamental, quantitative environmental engineering practice to develop new insights and solutions to these problems. E Mail: bibbykj@pitt.edu Web Link: bibbylab.blogspot.com Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	David Michael Borrok Professor and Director of the School of Geosciences, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 2005 Research Interests:low-temperature geochemistry, geomicrobiology, water quality and sustainability, and stable isotope geochemistry. Email: dborrok@louisiana.edu Web link: http://geos.louisiana.edu/ Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Cheryl Ann Blain Research Oceanographer, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS B.S. University of Notre Dame 1987 Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 1994 My expertise is in the application of unstructured grid models to a variety of coastal, estuarine, and river processes. Many of my developed software modeling tools, transitioned to support Navy warfighters, are aimed at handling data-deprived environments and non-expert users. Recent research efforts explore the merger of models and remotely sensed data for riverine applications, investigate coupled hydrologic, riverine and coastal ocean processes, design systematic error analyses to improve coastal forecasts, forecast surge and inundation under sea level rise conditions, and derive new coupled assimilation systems for coupled ocean-wave models. A 2012 winner of NRL's prestigious "Thomas Edison Patent Award", awarded to a patent that is perceived "to have the most potential benefit to the nation", I hold 5 patents and have I have authored more than 30 refereed journal articles, some of which are NRL Berman Award winners. I serve on the SWOT Discharge Algorithm Working Group, as associate editor for the Journal of Waterways, Ports, Coastal and Ocean Engineering and have acted in the capacity as science advisor to DARPA riverine programs and the Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command. I am founder of the ADCIRC Model Workshop, which has been held annually for the last 17 years, and now rotates among the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Naval Research Laboratory. I enjoy mentoring young scientists from postdocs to summer students, many whom have moved on to their own successful careers in oceanography. Email: cheryl.ann.blain@nrlssc.navy.mil Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	James R Breckler Project Manager, Engineering Resources Inc. B.S. University of Notre Dame 2009 Project manager at Engineering Resources, Inc. with a focus on municipal infrastructure and site development. Email: jrbreckler@yahoo.com Last Updated: 01/02/2013
	Caitlyn Shea Butler Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 2010 After finishing my Ph.D. at Notre Dame in 2010, I worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering in the College of Innovation and Technology at Arizona State University. There, I helped developed new, project-based curricula for a general engineering program that seeks to broadly educate engineers with adaptive expertise. In 2011, I began a position as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, where I am able to strike a good balance between my teaching interests and my research in bioelectrochemical systems. My research focuses on developing energy-efficient treatment strategies for both water and wastewater treatment. I examine bioelectrochemcial systems where biofilms, capable of using either an anode as an electron accpetor or cathode as an electron donor, remediate environmental pollutants and concurrently produce electricity. I am interested in developing scalable process designs that could be easily integrated into existing treatment infrastructure. In May 2012, in a project sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, my research group deployed a latrine in Ghana capable of generating electricity directly from human waste. Web link: http://cee.umass.edu/node/2592 Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Kyle Butler Engineer, AIR Worldwide PhD University of Notre Dame 2011 As an Engineer at AIR Worldwide, I work with a diverse group of engineers and scientists developing models which help insurance and reinsurance companies evaluate the impacts of natural catastrophes on their portfolios. I primarily work with the wind vulnerability team, creating structural vulnerability models for wind related perils (hurricanes, thunderstorms, tornadoes, etc.). While at AIR, I helped develop an updated vulnerability model for Tropical Cyclone impacts in Australia. Part of this development involved understanding the impact on the actual exposure, and I was deployed on a post event survey after Tropical Cyclone Yasi in 2011. In my current role, I maintain and enhance the wind vulnerability portion of AIR's US Hurricane model and am now extending this into the development of a model for hurricane impacts in Canada. You can read more about AIR's research through their AIR-Currents publications: http://www.air-worldwide.com/Publications/AIR-Currents/ Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Zach Cobell Water Resources Engineer, ARCADIS B.S. University of Notre Dame 2010 Zach is a water resources engineer specializing in both large scale coastal, riverine and hydrologic applications as well as small scale flow simulations. Zach has successfully developed and applied models designed to analyze hurricane storm surge, hydraulic scour analysis, sea level rise, coastal restoration impacts, levee design and feasibility studies, flow around buildings within cities, and flow inside water treatment facilities. Zach has served on many high profile projects, most notably the 2012 CPRA (Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority) State of Louisiana 2012 Master Plan for Surge and Waves, Simulations of Hurricane Sandy through Lower Manhattan, and West Shore of Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane Protection Project. E Mail: zachary.cobell@arcadis-us.com Web Link: http://www.arcadis-us.com Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Emily Dhingra Coastal Team Lead, URS Corporation, Germantown MD M.S.Univeristy of Notre Dame 2004 After graduating with a B.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Platteville, I earned a M.S. degree in Civil Engineering at Notre Dame. I worked in Joannes Westerink's lab creating a tidal database for the west coast of the United States. After completing my degree, I moved to the Washington, D.C. area to work for NOAA running the ADCIRC model for their VDatum project (vdatum.noaa.gov). I now work for URS Corporation in their Germantown, MD office. As the Coastal Team Lead at my office, I primarily oversee work that my team does for FEMA coastal flood studies using a variety of storm surge and overland wave analysis models. We create Flood Isurance Rate Maps for FEMA and work on other post-diasater projects such as high water mark collection after hurricane and riverine flood events. E Mail: emily.dhingra@urs.com Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Casey Dietrich Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 2011 I received three degrees from the University of Oklahoma before moving to Notre Dame for my Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, studying with Joannes Westerink. After leaving Notre Dame, I worked as a research associate for three years at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at the University of Texas at Austin. I joined the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University as an assistant professor in 2013. I have developed and validated high-resolution computational models of hurricane waves and storm surge along the Gulf coast, and these models have been used for levee design by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and for floodplain risk assessment by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. I have also applied these models in an operational framework to forecast storms including Hurricane Isaac (2012) as well as oil transport following the BP spill in 2010. Email: caseydietrich@gmail.com Web link: http://www.caseydietrich.com Last Updated: 5/13/2013
	Lindsay Seders Dietrich Visiting Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 2011 As a part of my Ph.D. research, I examined organic matter fate and transport in flow-through columns, proton binding of bacterial exudates, and adhesion of titanium dioxide nanoparticles onto silica and iron oxide-coated silica. My responsibilities at SMU are a hybrid of research and lab management. I work closely with graduate and undergraduate students on their research projects and train students on and maintain a range of analytical instruments and laboratory equipment. My research interests include the behavior of engineered nanoparticles in aqueous environmental systems, especially the size-dependent reactivity of iron nanoparticles and their interaction with and incorporation of trace metals. E Mail: Lasdietrich@gmail.com Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Tony Farina Project Manager Hazen and Sawyer (Cincinnati, OH) M.S. Purdue University 2000,B.S.University of Notre Dame 1999 I have worked primarily on wastewater treatment and conveyance planning and design projects, initially as a project engineer, and now as a project manager. The majority of the projects I've been involved with were design projects for wastewater facilities, ranging from 0.5 MGD to 100+ MGD. E Mail: tonyfarina@msn.com Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Jesse C. Feyen Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Silver Spring, Maryland Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 2005 I am a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Silver Spring, Maryland. As one of NOAA's lead storm surge experts, I manage NOAA's Storm Surge Roadmap, which lays out the agency's comprehensive plan for the development of storm surge products and services, including new models, tools, and products. NOAA has a mission to protect life and property from disastrous coastal flooding and promote resilient communities, and the Roadmap improves National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center forecasts of storm surge. I joined the National Ocean Services' Coast Survey Development Laboratory in 2004 to develop and evaluate high resolution coastal inundation predictions of sea level rise and storm surge studies for the U.S. East and Gulf coasts. Recently I have lead the implementation of the ADCIRC hydrodynamic model for prediction of storm surge and tide conditions during severe extratropical storms, called the Extratropical Surge and Tide Operational Forecast System (ESTOFS). The National Ocean Service is also testing application of ADCIRC to produce ensembles of high resolution storm surge prediction for tropical cyclones. I have also coordinated a series of social science studies that have guided the development of upcoming storm surge forecast products, including an inundation graphic and storm surge warning. E Mail: jesse.feyen@noaa.gov Web Link: stormsurge.noaa.gov Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	David A. Fowle Associate Professor, Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS M.S. University of Notre Dame 1999 Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 2000 I am a biogeochemist who studies how microorganisms influences the cycling of trace elements and global climate. Key projects included a multiple country initiative to study climate change and geobiology in an Ancient Lake in Indonesia; and helping energy and mining companies better understand the development, environmental cleanup and exploration of their resources using biogeochemical techniques. I also run my own consulting firm which specializes in helping individuals and businesses deal with multidisciplinary problems in these same areas. Email: fowle@ku.edu Web link: http://www.geo.ku.edu Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Drew Gorman-Lewis Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 2006 Research Interests: Natural and anthropogenic processes such as biogeochemical cycles, mineral dissolution, activities related to industry, mining, and nuclear energy introduce a variety chemical species into the environment. Many processes involving microorganisms, mineral surfaces, and aqueous complexation reactions influence the migration of these species through the environment. To have a better understanding how these processes affect water quality, contaminant migration, and remediation efforts I combine interdisciplinary techniques from microbiology, low temperature aqueous geochemistry, physical chemistry, and thermodynamic modeling to get a quantitative understanding of the processes affecting the movement of chemical species through the environment. Email: dgormanl@uw.edu Web link: http://faculty.washington.edu/dgormanl/ Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Scott C. Hagen Professor, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 1998 I earned my B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Iowa (1993) and my Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame (1998). I joined the University of Central Florida in 1998 as an assistant professor and was recently promoted to professor. I have a P.E. with the State of Florida, and am a Diplomate of both Coastal and Water Resources Engineering. I am a member of the Board of Governors for the ASCE/Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute and served as Chair of the Coastal & Estuarine Hydroscience committee. In 2012 I hosted the Tenth International Conference on Hydroscience & Engineering where I was honored with an Outstanding Achievement Award for Advancement of the State-of-the-Art At the University of Central Florida I have established a research program in coastal hydroscience focusing on massively parallel, high performance computational modeling of ocean, coastal, and inland astronomical and meteorological tides and flows. We are developing geospatial data fusion techniques that use high-resolution satellite imagery to assess and improve coastal and estuarine models. My more recent efforts expand into transport and biological modeling, particularly with respect to the coastal dynamics of sea level rise. My students and I are conducting scientific research that is applied through engineering to benefit society. For example, I led a team that includes UCF graduate students working in conjunction with industry and government counterparts to develop coastal inundation models in direct support of FEMA flood plain mapping for the Florida panhandle and the Alabama coastal areas. In addition we participate on the FEMA team covering the east Florida / Georgia coasts. Output from the models that our team has and are developing will ultimately determine FEMA digital flood insurance rate maps, which will play a substantial role in defining how Florida coastal regions will be developed. Our interdisciplinary research into the hydrodynamic and ecological effects of sea level rise is helping coastal planners in the northern Gulf of Mexico and throughout the State of Florida. Web link: http://champs.cecs.ucf.edu Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Kelly J. Johnson Geochemist, MWH Global, Steamboat Springs, CO Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 2006 My specialities include acid rock drainage, drilling oversite, pit lake modeling, mine closure and permitting. Email: kellyjjohnson@gmail.com Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Janice Kenney Research Engineer, Umeå Univeristy, Sweden Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 2010 I earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of Windsor with a minor in Chemistry. I then completed my Ph.D. in biogeochemistry with Professor Jeremy Fein in August 2010 as an Environmental Molecular Science Institute(EMSI) Graduate Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. I am currently working as a Research Engineer at Umeå University, in Sweden, having moved up from the position of Postdoc in September 2012. At the University of Windsor, I examined the magnetic susceptibility of beach and oil shale samples, extracted CO2 gas from carbonaceous rocks, studied the ecology of microbial mats from nickel mine run-off environments, examined the effects of bacteria on Fe and As-rich minerals, and studied the mineralogy of a sulphide and platinum group element deposit in Northern Canada. During my Ph.D. I specialized in the surface complexation modelling (SCM), of metal adsorption to bacteria and their exudates, based on thermodynamic theory. The projects I worked on involved investigating the binding of gold or cadmium onto common soil bacteria, and their exudates, and developing a thermodynamic model to describe the phenomena. The work from these studies was published in high quality geochemical journals. Overall, our work has answered important questions regarding how bacterial adsorption affects metal speciation and distribution in environmental systems. Currently, my post-doctoral researcher position at Umeå University has been focused on examining the mobility of organophosphates in the environment. Phosphates are essential nutrients with the seemingly paradoxical behaviour of limiting production and growth in some systems but leading to eutrophication in others. It is important to understand the mobility of these molecules in the presence of minerals and bacteria (and their exudates). Email: janicekenney@gmail.com Last Updated: 5/13/2013
	Randall Lee Kolar Professor, University of Oklahoma Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 1992 I received a B.S. in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Idaho in 1983, after which I practiced as a consulting engineer in Idaho and Washington until 1987, working on small infrastructure and industrial projects. In Fall 1987, after a national search and multiple campus visits, I chose the University of Notre Dame for my Ph.D. studies, primarily because of the quality of their computational water resources faculty, my chosen area of expertise. Professor William Gray, then chair of the department (and subsequently my Ph.D. advisor), and Professor David Kirkner, then chair of the graduate studies committee, were instrumental in recruiting me to Notre Dame. The small size of the department at ND, while maintaining high quality, allows for more personal interactions and connections, which are so important toward building lasting and productive professional relationships. And for me, these personal and professional relationships have continued to this day, including strong research collaborations with my Notre Dame post-doc advisor, Professor Joannes Westerink. After receiving my Ph.D. from ND in 1992, I took a visiting faculty position, which turned into a tenure-track position, at the University of New Haven, while my wife, Maria (Rhomberg) Kolar (ND grad, 1991) attended Yale Law School. While Maria was in law school, a chance meeting between my Professor Gray and the Chair of Civil Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, who happened to be one of my favorite professors at the University of Idaho, alerted me to a faculty opening at OU. I subsequently applied, interviewed, and accepted the position, starting in 1995. In 2007, I was promoted to full professor, and in 2008, I received the Austin Presidential Professorship. Most recently, I was elected to be chair of the department, starting in Fall 2013. In addition, my wife and I stay quite busy with the activities of our five children. My research interests center around computational hydrology and hydraulics, as applied primarily to flood-related studies. My research work over the years has been supported by NSF, DoD, DHS, NOAA, and DoEd, with projects ranging from coupled hydrology/hydraulic modeling of the "total water level" (tides + surge + waves + rainfall-runoff) in a psuedo-operational setting to 3D baroclinic simulations of near-coastal areas. I am also co-founder and Associate Director of the OU WaTER (Water Technologies for Emerging Regions) Center, aimed at comprehensive water and sanitation solutions for small, poor, rural communities. Finally, I have pursued a number of engineering educational initiatives, ranging from alternative instructional methods to curriculum reform that threads a common design theme (civil infrastructure) across multiple courses. E Mail: kolar@ou.edu Web link: www.cees.ou.edu Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Jeff Kroon Bridge Product Engineer, Bentley Systems Inc. B.S. University of Notre Dame 2010 I am Bridge Product Engineer at Bentley Systems, a company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. I train engineering professionals in the use of long span bridge design and engineering software and help them to streamline their workflows from project conceptualization to design, construction, and maintenance and operations through the use of Bentley technology. Most recently I have been working with the lead design consultant on the nation's largest bridge project, the new Tappan Zee bridge in New York. Email: jkroon2@gmail.com Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Ethan J Kubatko Assistant Professor Ohio State University PhD University of Notre Dame 2006 I hold a BS in Civil Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University (1997) and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame (2006), where I studied under the direction of Joannes Westerink. Following my time at Notre Dame, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at the University of Texas at Austin, working with Clint Dawson, before I joined the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering at The Ohio State University as an assistant professor in 2008. My primary research interests are in the development, implementation, analysis, and application of computational models for fluid flow and transport processes. More specifically, my main research goal is the development and application of "next generation" high performance computing tools, which utilize state–of–the–art methods and algorithms, that can be used to guide improvements in coastal management practices and hazard mitigation strategies. The research is highly interdisciplinary in nature, involving aspects of not only engineering but also applied mathematics, physical oceanography and computer science. E Mail: kubatko.3@osu.edu Web Link: http://ceg.osu.edu/people/kubatko.3 Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Lisa Vidergar Lucas Research Engineer, United States Geological Survey Ph.D. Stanford University 1997, B.S. University of Notre Dame 1989 I am a Research Engineer with the United States Geological Survey in their Water discipline. We are an earth science agency charged with doing high quality, objective, and relevant science that can help inform management of our planet's resources and ecosystems. I love my job at the U.S.G.S. Inhabiting the interface between physics and biology in aquatic ecosystems, I study how hydrodynamics, mixing, and turbulence interact with other physical and biological processes to influence the base of the aquatic food web (namely, phytoplankton). I primarily work in tidal systems like San Francisco Bay, employing numerical modeling and field measurements (ideally, together) to help improve our understanding of how these ecosystems work. My research is highly interdisciplinary, so I get to constantly learn and incorporate knowledge from scientific disciplines other than my native field of study (civil engineering). I also get to work with a variety of scientists from a broad range of fields including climatology, fish biology, and ecotoxicology, to name a few. One project in which I'm heavily implicated is "CASCaDE" (Computational Assessments of Scenarios of Change for the Delta Ecosystem). This is a hyper-disciplinary modeling project involving more than 30 scientists at multiple institutions. We are developing and linking several numerical models of the San Francisco Bay-Delta-Watershed-Atmosphere system to assess plausible scenarios of future change for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the tidal freshwater system at the head of San Francisco Bay. The hub of California's water delivery system and a large ecosystem in severe decline, our "Delta" is expected to be subject to several forces of intended and unintended change over the coming century: climate, earthquake, ecosystem restoration, and large-scale changes in water diversion infrastructure. Multi-billion dollar plans are being developed to co-equally manage the Delta for ecosystem health and water supply into the next several decades, and scientific guidance is needed. CASCaDE strives to illuminate how the Delta ecosystem might respond to these various forces of change and to help provide some scientific basis for decision making. Check out our project website: http://cascade.wr.usgs.gov/. Web Link: http://sfbay.wr.usgs.gov/access/wqdata/overview/people/lisacv.html Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Rosanne C Martyr Post-Doctoral fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center of UC San Diego Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 2013 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Geneva College in Pennsylvania (2006) and a Ph.D. from Notre Dame in 2013. At Notre Dame, I worked with Joannes Westerink and the Computational Hydraulics Lab studying riverine, tidal and hurricane flows in the Gulf of Mexico, and utilizing high-performacne computing environments for numerical modeling. Currently, I am a post-doctoral fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center of UC San Diego, and stationed at the USGS Western Division Office in Menlo Park, CA. My work with the USGS focuses on the use of unstructured-grid numerical models for long-term hydrodynamic flows and sediment transport in the San Francisco Estuary. Professional Projects (Please summarize your professional expertise and highlight key projects/experiences) My work at Notre Dame involved the validation and application of high-reolsuton, unstructured grid models of the Gulf of Mexico that were used extensively by the US Army Corps of Engineers for levee design along the Gulf Coast. My current work at the USGS is part of the USGS-led Cascade II Project which aims to understand the impact of climate change and large changes in the physical environment on hydrology, hydrodynamics, geomorphology, and key biological species in the San Francisco estuary. This multi-displinary project spans US government agencies, universities, and countries. E Mail: rmartyr@usgs.gov Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Holly Michael Assistant Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, University of Delaware Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2005, B.S. University of Notre Dame 1998 I developed an interest in water resources as an undergraduate at Notre Dame. After finishing my BS in Civil Engineering in 1998, I pursued a PhD in Hydrology at MIT. I did research at the USGS and Stanford before joining the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Delaware as an Assistant Professor in 2008. As a hydrogeologist, I study groundwater flow and solute transport as they relate to water resources, coastal zone management, and human and ecosystem health. My students and I work to understand how physical processes link to biogeochemical, ecological, and human environments. Some of our recent projects include potential effects of climate change on salinization of coastal groundwater resources, the sustainability of water supply in arsenic-contaminated regions of India and Bangladesh, and excess nutrient transport to estuarine ecosystems. Web Link: http://www.geosci.udel.edu/geosci/hydrogeology Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Elizabeth Mink Environmental, Health, and Safety Leader, GE Aviation, Long Island, NY B.S. University of Notre Dame 2010 After graduating in 2010 with a civil engineering degree focusing on environmental engineering, I began GE Aviation's Operations Management Leadership Program (OMLP). OMLP is a two-year program consisting of six-month rotations at four different aircraft engine and aircraft systems component facilities. I held roles in environmental compliance, industrial hygiene, and workplace safety, as well as a shop floor supervisor role, while moving to Florida, New Hampshire, Maryland, and New York. In my current role, I manage environmental, industrial hygiene, and safety compliance of a GE Aviation Systems shop in Long Island, New York. E Mail: eamink8@gmail.com Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Ann Mukai Miyasato Senior Engineer, R.M. Towill Corporation, Honolulu, HI M.S. University of Notre Dame 2001 Waste Water Engineering - collection systems, pump stations, Sewer Basin Facility Planning Civil Engineering - site, drainage, flood, roadways, utilities, subdivision, slope stabilization Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Dennis F. Murphy Retired President, Kiewit Engineering Company B.S. University of Notre Dame, 1971 I graduated from Notre Dame with a BS in Civil Engineering in 1971. Within the CE curriculum in use at that time, I concentrated on Structures and Environmental Engineering. During summers at home on Long Island, New York, I interned with a local road/bridge contractor, first as a surveyor and then as a junior estimator. After graduation I went to work for Peter Kiewit Sons' on the 63rd St Tube and Tunnel in NYC as a Marine Field engineer. My career with the Kiewit group of Companies spanned 34 plus years. Along the way I had a variety of titles including field engineer, project engineer, superintendent, quality control manager, project manager, estimate sponsor, area manager,senior engineer/estimator, estimate manager, and for the last 10 years of active employment with Kiewit served as President of Kiewit Engineering Co. KECO as it was called then, was an in house consulting engineering firm providing estimating, engineering and qualityrelated services to all divisions of Kiewit. I continued to consult for Kiewit for 6 years after official retirement, so 40 years would best delineate my total time with Kiewit Significant projects I was associated with include: Hibernia and White Rose offshore platforms in Newfoundland, Second Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington, Benicia and Skyway Bridges in the Bay Area, Great Belt Tunnel and bridge crossing in Denmark, Deer Island Tunnel and many of the "Big Dig" projects in Boston, Hutchinson Island Nuclear plant in Florida, numerous port structures, bridges, roads, dams, tunnels, powerhouses, and related infrastructure work. Email: damurf53@aol.com Last Updated: 5/04/2013
	Patrick Murren Structures, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP, San Francisco, CA M.S. University of Notre Dame 2012, B.S. University of Notre Dame 2007 After graduating in 2007, I worked as a middle school teacher in the Recovery School District of New Orleans, LA, as part of the Teach For America program. I returned to ND for my Master's in 2009 and defended my research on steel frame design optimization in Fall 2011. I have been with SOM since 2011, where I have worked on the design, analysis, and detailing of various components of several high-rise building projects. E Mail: pmurren@gmail.com Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Daniel E Reimer Jr. Project Engineer, Aker Solutions B.S. University of Notre Dame 2009 M.Ed. University of Notre Dame 2011 I joined the A.C.E. program after undergraduate, and taught Chemistry and Physics at the high school level. My civil engineering degree provided excellent training, especially when I was asked to teach AP Chemistry and Physics my second year. After completing the A.C.E. program, I worked as a Structural Design Engineer with Thompson Engineering. I used RISA-3D to model structures and was involved in construction management and producing structural analyses/reports in addition to design. In May 2013 I started as a Project Engineer with Aker Solutions. I am now involved with the design, procurement, testing, and installation of umbilical cables for Oil and Gas clients such as Exxon, Chevron, B.P, and Shell. Email: danielreimerjr@gmail.com Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Brittani Russell Engineer in Residence, Building Tomorrow, Uganda M.S. University of Notre Dame 2013, B.S. University of Notre Dame 2011 I like to think of myself as an atypical engineering student (although perhaps not as unusual coming from the ranks of ND grads) who will apply her technical knowledge towards projects in the developing world. I think I can blame ND Seed, a program for undergraduate students at Notre Dame where the students design, raise all funds for, and construct a footbridge for a community in need, for this aspiration. During my senior year I, along with six of my classmates, constructed a 125 meter footbridge in Nicaragua. For my masters project under Dr. Ashley Thrall I worked with the U.S. Army to re-conceptualize and optimize a floating causeway and bridging system which will be used for military and disaster relief purposes. After surviving six consecutive South Bend winters I will be moving to warmer climates as I work for Building Tomorrow in Uganda. I am serving as the Engineer in Residence to help streamline and improve the process of design and constructing schools in the rural parts of the country. Email: brussel2@alumni.nd.edu Last Updated: 5/13/2013
	Karen Saavedra Project Engineer, Utility Infrastructure Group, Indianapolis, IN M.S. University of Notre Dame 2011 Project Engineer, Utility Infrastructure Group, American Structurepoint, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana Email: Kcsaavedra@gmail.com Last Updated: 5/07/2013
	Michael Schubert HDR Engineering, Des Moines, IA B.S. University of Notre Dame 2008 I studied Civil and Environmental engineering and competed as a member of the varsity track and field team at Notre Dame from August 2004- May 2008. While at Notre Dame, I worked as an undergraduate research assistant for Joannes Westerink and held an internship at Christopher Burke Engineering in South Bend. In my classes, research, and internship, I developed a keen interest in hydraulics and fluid mechanics. After graduating from Notre Dame, I went onto study environmental hydraulics at the University of Iowa's IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering laboratory, from which I received my Master's degree in December 2009. In January 2010, I joined HDR Engineering in Des Moines, IA. At HDR, I specialize in performing computational hydraulic analyses (multi-dimensional, steady and unsteady, hydrodynamic and sediment transport) as part of project teams completing flood mitigation, ecosystem restoration, transportation, fish passage, and other riverine projects nationwide. Additionally, I serve as a high school track and field coach at Dowling Catholic High School in Des Moines. Email: michael.schubert@hdrinc.com Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Patricia Drummey Stiegel Project Manager, Hazen and Sawyer, Raleigh, NC B.S. University of Notre Dame 2003 I knew during my undergraduate days that I wanted a career that would impact the world in a positive way. I worked in Dr. Westerink's lab and spent a semester in Mexico studying engineering and working on my Spanish skills. After graduation, I served as a Water and Sanitation Volunteer with the US Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic, where I designed and led the community construction of a gravity-flow water system as well as VIP latrines. I realized that I needed a Master’s Degree in order to pursue the kind of career that I wanted, and I went to UNC Chapel Hill where I did research on microbial transport in stormwater BMPs. For the past 6 years, I have worked in Raleigh, NC for Hazen and Sawyer, an environmental engineering consulting firm with a strong focus on clean water. I focus mainly on wastewater treatment plant design, water recycling, and ultraviolet disinfection. I am currently serving as Hazen and Sawyer’s Project Manager for the upgrade and expansion of the T.Z. Osborne WRF to 56 mgd. Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Belinda McSwain Sturm Associate Professor, University of Kansas PhD University of Notre Dame 2005 I am an Associate Professor at the University of Kansas. I performed research at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and the University of California, Davis before joining the faculty at KU in 2006. My research centers in biological processes of wastewater treatment and the application of molecular methods in water quality analysis. My basic research is the formation of biofilms and aerobic granular sludge. I also participate in multi-disciplinary initiatives. In the Feedstock to Tailpipe Initiative, I have developed a process to remove nutrients from wastewater while growing algal biomass, which is processed into biocrude oil. In 2012, the American Academy of Environmental Engineers awarded me an Excellence in Environmental Engineering honor award for this work. I also perform multidisciplinary research with anthropologists and film studies in an indigenous community in Guatemala, which is a site for our Engineers Without Borders (EWB) chapter. Our goal is to improve the success of EWB engineering projects by establishing a cultural understanding and community engagement. Email: bmcswain@ku.edu Web Link: http://www.people.ku.edu/~bmcswain/ Last Updated: 5/31/2013
	Nathan Yee Associate Professor, Rutgers University Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 2001 My expertise is in the field of environmental geomicrobiology. In my research, I seek to understand the impact of subsurface microorganisms on the geochemistry of inorganic elements. The principal area of my current work is focused on elucidating the basic mechanisms of microbial-mediated redox transformations. On-going research projects in my laboratory aim to bridge the fields of molecular microbiology and geochemistry to elucidate microbial processes in natural and contaminated environments. Email: nyee@envsci.rutgers.edu Web Link: http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~nyee/ Last Updated: 5/31/2013