College of Science

The People of the Geomorphology Lab

The geomorphology lab group at Purdue University has been active for over 10 years and includes a large number of current members and loyal alumni. We are a hard working, highly productive and friendly group. Click on the links below to learn more about current members and what we do now, as well as our alumni and the jobs they have found since graduating from Purdue. If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with any of us!

Faculty & Post Doctoral Scholars

 

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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Ph.D. Student(s)

 
 

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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Undergraduate Student(s)

 
 

Sandra Simonis Undergraduate Student

 

E-mail: sksimoni@purdue.edu