Sri Lanka Tsunami Project - Impacts on groundwater, soils and vegetation in coastal regions

Member

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Affiliation         

Role and or Expertise

Prof. Tissa Illangasekare

http://www.mines.edu/fs_home/tillanga/

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Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado

Principal Investigator

 

Dr. Jayantha Obeysekera

http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/pld/hsm/hsm.html

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South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, Florida

Co-principal Investigator

 

Prof. Prabhakar Clement

http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/clemept/

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Auburn University,
Auburn,  Alabama

Transport Modeling

Prof. Rien van Genuchten

http://www.ussl.ars.usda.gov/BIO/RVANG.HTM

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USDA-ARS George E. Brown, Jr. Salinity Lab Riverside, California

Vadose Zone and Salinity

Dr. Kevin Cunnigham

http://sofia.er.usgs.gov/people/cunningham.html

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United States Geological Survey, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Field hydrogeology and geophysics

Prof. Scott Tyler

http://www.ag.unr.edu/nres/Directory/Tyler.htm

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University of Reno, Nevada

Geochemistry and Exchange Programs

Prof.  Robert Twilley

http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~rrt4630/

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Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Lousiana

Mangrove systems

Prof. Jagath Kaluarachchi

http://www.engineering.usu.edu/uwrl/kaluarachchi/Index.htm

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Utah State University, Logan, Utah

Risk based decision making, Water Resources Management

Prof. William Yeh

http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/yeh.htm

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University of California, Los Angeles, California

Optimization, groundwater modeling, inverse modeling

    Prof. Karsten Jensen (joining from Denmark)

http://giweb.geol.ku.dk/personvisning.asp?person=44604

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University  of  Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Groundwater flow and transport, catchment hydrology
   Prof. David Hyndman

http://www.geology.msu.edu/hyndman_d.html

 

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Michigan State University Geophysics, Geochemistry, Paleobiology, Natural Hazards