The People of the Geomorphology Lab

Jon Harbor Professor & Department Head

Office: CIVL 2169A
Phone: 765 494-4753
E-mail: jharbor@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Hydrologic and Geomorphic Impacts of Land Use and Climate Change; Glacial Geomorphology; Environmental Education Research

Barbara Cooper Continuing Lecturer

Office: CIVL 3217
Phone: 765 494-8677
Email: bccooper@purdue.edu

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Dan Shepardson Professor

Office: CIVL 3233
Phone: 765 494-8181
E-mail: dshep@purdue.edu
Research Interests: geoenvironmental education, learners' conceptions, social interaction, science journals, alternative assessment

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Juli Bell Ph.D. Student

Office: CIVL 4173
Phone: 765 494-0678
E-mail: jhbell@purdue.edu
Major Professor: Harbor

Research Interests:

• Modeling impacts of urbanization on groundwater

• Modeling groundwater-surface water interaction

• Decision support tools for land-use change related issues

• Application of GIS and remote sensing in Environmental Hydrology
  

Carrie Davis Ph.D. Student

Office: CIVL 4173
Phone: 765 494-0678
E-mail: davis120@purdue.edu
Major Professor: Harbor

Research Interests:

• Fluvial geomorphology

• Frequency of extreme hydrologic events

• Effects of land use on sediment transport and flooding

• Stormwater management policies
  

Debjani Deb Ph.D. Student

Office: CIVL 4173
Phone: 765 494-0258
E-mail: ddeb@purdue.edu
Major Professor: Harbor

Research Interests:

Hydrogeology, Contaminant Transport and Water Quality modeling especially in the application and development of groundwater flow and contaminant-transport models to address questions and concerns related to environmental issues.

Alison Goss Ph.D. Student

Office: CIVL 4173
Phone: 765 494-0678
E-mail: agoss@purdue.edu
Website: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~agoss
Major Professor: Harbor

Research Interests:

• Impacts of land use change on surface water fluxes

• Recreating historical landscapes with proxy datasets

• Human-induced landscape transformation in the Great Lakes region
  

Vickie Poole Ph.D. Student

Office: CIVL 4163
Phone: 765 494-0653
E-mail: takaya@purdue.edu
Major Professor: Harbor

Research Interests:

Evaluating the water quality trap efficiency of constructed wetlands in agricultural and recreational settings

Dibyajyoti Tripathy Ph.D. Student

Office: CIVL 3237
Phone: 765 494-0280
E-mail: dtripath@purdue.edu
Major Professor: Harbor

Research Interests:

• Modeling impacts of urbanization on groundwater

• Modeling groundwater-surface water interaction

• Decision support tools for land-use change related issues

• Application of GIS and remote sensing in Environmental Hydrology
  

Angel R. Torres Valcárcel Ph.D. Student

Office: CIVL 4173
Phone: 765 494-0678
E-mail: atorresv@purdue.edu
Major Professor: Harbor

Research Interests:

• Environmental Sciences, Environmental Health, Public Health

• Environmental Planning, Sustainable Management, Conservation

• Ecotoxicology, Bioremediation, Phytoremediation

• Ecology, Marine Sciences, Oceanography, Climatology, Biogeography
  

Leon Walls Ph.D. Student

Office: CIVL 4163
Phone: 765 494-0653
E-mail: wallsl@purdue.edu
Major Professor: Harbor

Research Interests:

• Multicultural Learning in Environmental Education

• Environmental Sociology and the formation of Environmental Attitudes, Beliefs and Values

• Environmental Interpretation focused on Minority Groups
  

Bryan Wee Ph.D. Student

Office: BRNG 4154
Phone: 765 494-0803
E-mail: weeb@purdue.edu
Major Professor: Shepardson & Harbor

Research Interests:

• Multicultural Learning in Environmental Education

• Environmental Sociology and the formation of

• Environmental Attitudes, Beliefs and Values

• Environmental Interpretation focused on Minority Groups
  

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Sandra Simonis Undergraduate Student

E-mail: sksimoni@purdue.edu