Research in this specialty area focuses on both fundamental and applied studies of the physical processes that influence the occurrence, availability, transport and quality of water in the surface and subsurface environments.

Active areas of research include contaminant transport in heterogeneous media, the development of coupled physical, chemical and biological models, multiscale modeling of complex environmental systems, GIS-based modeling of watershed-scale processes, environmental and geophysical fluid dynamics, and advanced environmental visualization. Research in the group is multidisciplinary in nature and strives for appropriate balance between theory, computation, and experimental observation, including both laboratory and field-scale experiments.