Faculty and Staff
Academic Faculty
Christopher Bellona
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Membrane processes/Fate of organic contaminants in water and wastewater treatment; Potable water reuse. Advanced oxidation for the destruction of organic contaminants. Remediation of contaminated sites.
cbellona@mines.edu
Tzahi Cath
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Brackish water and seawater desalination; water and wastewater treatment engineering; potable water reuse; energy recovery in water treatment.
tcath@mines.edu
Joe Crocker
Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Structural materials and design; geotechnical and structural engineering; curriculum development.
jcrocker@mines.edu
Linda Figueroa
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Microbially mediated radionuclide and metals removal; biotransformation of nitrogen; application of molecular tools; water and waste treatment.
lfiguero@mines.edu
D.V. Griffiths
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Finite element modeling of geotechnical problems across a spectrum ranging from traditional areas of foundations engineering, to oil recovery geomechanics and probabilistic methods.
vgriffit@mines.edu
Andres Guerra
Teaching Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Innovative approaches to educate CSM students about civil engineering applications in geotechnical and structural engineering, land development, construction practices, risk assessment,
and optimization.
aguerra@mines.edu
Marte Gutierrez
James R. Paden Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Geomechanics; coupled multiphase fluid flow, thermal and geomechanical processes in porous and fractured media; experimental studies and computational modeling.
mgutierr@mines.edu
Reza Hedayat
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering; Rock and Fracture Mechanics; Underground Construction and Tunneling; Applied Geophysics; Hydraulic Fracturing.
hedayat@mines.edu
Christopher Higgins
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental organic chemistry;
inorganic and organic contaminant fate and transport; contaminant bioaccumulation; perfluorochemicals; nanoparticles.
chiggins@mines.edu
Terri Hogue
Interim Dean, Earth Resources and Environmental Programs, and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Surface hydrology; catchment response to wildfire, urbanization and climate variability; watershed modeling, parameter estimation, remote sensing, and field studies.
thogue@mines.edu
Jeffrey A. Holley
Teaching Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Engineering mechanics; environmental studies; civil infrastructure design; storm water management; storm water quality enhancement.
jholley@mines.edu
Tissa Illangasekare
Professor, AMAX Distinguished Chair
Director, Center for Experimental Study of Environmental Processes (CESEP), Civil and Environmental Engineering
Subsurface flow; transport and fate of chemicals in porous media;
groundwater hydrology; numerical modeling; fracture flow; flow in snow; NAPLs.
tillanga@mines.edu
Paul C. Johnson
President, Colorado School of Mines, and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Chemical fate and transport in the environment with emphasis on contaminated soil and groundwater monitoring, remediation, and risk assessment and subsurface vapor migration to indoor air.
presoffice@mines.edu
Kristoph Kinzli
Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
River mechanics; stream rehabilitation; water resources; agricultural water use; fisheries biology; engineering teaching pedagogy;
and active learning.
kkinzli@mines.edu
Amy Landis
Professor, Mines Presidential Fellow for Diversity, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Quantitative sustainability of renewable fuels; biobased products and plastics and healthcare. Developing new sustainability tools in Life Cycle Assessment, industrial ecology, & systems analysis.
amylandis@mines.edu
Hongyan Liu
Teaching Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching interests are engineering mechanics, structural analysis and design, and engineering materials.
Research interests are structural engineering and earthquake engineering.
hyliu@mines.edu
Ning Lu
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Soil physical phenomena including fluid flow, chemical transport, heat transfer, stress, and deformation; unifying atomic-scale potentials,
inter-particle forces, and engineering-scale stresses in soils; groundwater hydrology, unsaturated soil mechanics, expansive soils, environmental geotechnics.
ninglu@mines.edu
John McCray
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contaminant hydrology; subsurface remediation;
vadose-zone hydrology; subsurface vapor-transport; watershed hydrology; mathematical modeling;
soil-based wastewater treatment.
jmccray@mines.edu
Michael Mooney
Professor, Grewcock University Endowed Chair, Director, Center for Underground Construction & Tunneling and SmartGeo, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tunnel design and construction in soil and soil/rock conditions; earth dams and levees; data-driven risk reduction in geotechnical problems; instrumentation and monitoring; geoconstruction.
mmooney@mines.edu
Junko Munakata Marr
Interim Department Head and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biological degradation of organic compounds; microbial communities in groundwater and water
treatment systems; application of molecular biology techniques to environmental systems.
jmmarr@mines.edu
Chelsea L. Panos
Teaching Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Teaching interests are Urban hydrology; stormwater modeling; urbanization; stormwater management; engineering learning; effective teaching practices.
cpanos@mines.edu
Shiling Pei
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Extreme hazard mitigation; structural reliability; modern timber structural systems; structural dynamics and earthquake engineering.
spei@mines.edu
Susan Reynolds
Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Structural analysis and design;
historic preservation technology; sustainable / integrated design
approaches for buildings.
sreynold@mines.edu
Jonathan Sharp
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental microbiology and biogeochemistry; biotechnological applications toward groundwater remediation and water reuse; bacterial cytochrome-mediated degradation of emerging organic contaminants with a focus on micropollutants such as nitrosamines; bioattenuation of metals and radionuclides.
jsharp@mines.edu
Kamini Singha
Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering
Fluid flow and contaminant transport in porous media and fractured rock as well as groundwater-surface-water interactions.
ksingha@mines.edu
John Spear
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental microbiology; metalbioremediation; environmental policy and impact analysis.
jspear@mines.edu
Timothy Strathmann
Interim Associate Department Head and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Catalysts and advanced materials for water
and energy applications; hydrothermal biomass conversion technologies; wastewater and waste solid valorization; aquatic fate and treatment of contaminants of emerging concern; life cycle analysis-directed design of environmental technologies.
strthmnn@mines.edu
Lori Tunstall
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental
Cementitious materials; concrete durability; frost damage; mechanisms of air entrainment.
ltunstall@mines.edu
Alexandra Wayllace
Teaching Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Areas of focus include designing and conducting experiments to measure different soil properties for saturated and unsaturated soils.
awayllac@mines.edu
Department Staff
Justin Kyle Bush
Program Assistant
Kimberly Brock
Department Manager
Kate Spangler
Laboratory Coordinator
Stephen Green
Academic Advising Coordinator