Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Current Students
The EEES Department has many undergraduate and graduate students. To find a particular student's contact information, please check the Clemson University phone book. You'll find a listing of our current graduate students below.

Current Graduate Students
Name Degree Sought Advisor Research Topic
Jose Alfaro PhD Miller  Sustainability 
Christina Anderson MS Freedman New Student
Onur Apul PhD Karanfil New Student
Miles Atkinson MS Murdoch New Student
Alex Beebe MS Castle Constructed Wetland Treatment Systems for Produced Waters
Michael Bone MS TBD New Student
Scott Brame PhD Castle Geographical Information Systems as a Decision Support System
Arika Bridhikitti PhD Overcamp Applications of Moderate Resolution Satellite Imageries for Air Pollution Monitoring
Jesse Cannon MS Schlautman  Modeling Eroded Size Distributions and Phosphate Sorption of South Carolina Soils 
Ben Carlisle MS Freedman New Student
Jim Chamberlain PhD Miller Climate Change Effects of Growing Switchgrass
Geoffrey Chambers PhD Falta Numerical Simulation of Cavem Formation by Acid Dissolution
Fei Chen PhD Falta Contaminant Mass Transfer During Boiling in Fractured Geologic Media Fate and Transport.
James Cooper MS  Lee  New Student
Jordan Copeland MS Wagner Hydrogeology
Viet Dang Duc PhD Lee Chirality of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the food web of Twelve Mile Creek, South Carolina, US
Michael Eckstein MS Lee New Student
Vijai Elango PhD Freedman Biodegradation of Complex Mixtures: Chlorinated Ethenes, Hexachlorocyclohezane Isomers, Benzene and chlorinated Benzenes
Kirk Ellison MS Falta Hydrogeology
Thom Epps MS TBD New Student
Shanna Estes MS Carraway Biomimetic Hexavalent Uranium Reduction
Dylan Fowler MS Moysey Data Integration
Kirk Freeman MS DeVol Environmental Health Physics
Xiaojie (Jane) Gan MS Karanfil New Student
Curtis Gebhard MS Murdoch Ground Water Surface Water Interaction
Liz Glenn MS DeVol New Student
Kelly Grogan MS Fjeld Spatial Variability of Distribution Coefficients for Radionuclides at the Savannah River Site
April Hall PhD Lee Sorption of Current Use Pesticides and Chirality
Richard Hall PhD Murdoch Vadose Zone Remediation Techniques
Na Hao PhD Moysey New Student
Michael Hickey MS Freedman Comparison of Biostimulation and Bioaugmentation to Treat Tetrachloroethene in Saprolite and Fracture Rock
David Hisz PhD Murdoch Aquifer Characterization/Well Performance
Amy Hixon PhD Powell Investigation of Biogeochemical Controls on Neptunium and Plutonium Subsurface Mobility
Jennifer Horner MS Castle Pilot Constructed Wetland Treatment System for Produced Water from North Africa
Ashley Horton MS DeVol EE&S
Jia Hu PhD Karanfil Formation and Control of Halonitromethanes in Drinking Water
Tony Johnston MS TBD New Student
Kristen Jurinko MS TBD New Student
Amer Kanan PhD Karanfil Formation of Disinfection By-Products in Swimming Pools
Andrea Kirchoff MS TBD New Student
Joel Kohn MS Miller Sustainable Environment
Derick Kopp MS DeVol Environmental Health Physics
Selcen Kose MS Karanfil The Effects of Physical Factors on the Adsorption of Synthetic Organic Compounds by Different Adsorbents
John Kroon MS Castle Upper Devonian Gas Reservoirs of the Appalachian Basin
Hailian Liang PhD Falta Optimization of Chlorinated Solvent Source and Plume remediation Considering Uncertainty
Michael Lilley MS Powell Examination of the Thermodynamics of Actinide Sorption to Iron Oxide Minerals
Xiaoling Liu PhD Murdoch DNAPL Mass Transfer During Boiling in Fractured Rock
Zuolin Liu (Jeolin) MS Moysey Hydrogeophysics
Matthew Longshore MS Karanfil New Student
Peng Luo PhD DeVol Time-Interval Probability Analysis of Radiation Detector Pulses
Adam Mangel MS Castle Hydrogeology
Tara Matheny MS DeVol Polonium-210 Determination in Ground Water
Dan Matz MS Moysey Hydrogeophysics
Todd Miller MS Powell Effect of Redox Cycling on Neptunium Subsurface Transport
Dinora Monroy PhD Overcamp Ultrasonic Enhancement of Absorption
Jerrod Moore MS DeVol New Student
Will Nading MS TBD EE&S
Michael Pardue MS Castle Constructed Wetland Treatment Systems
Chris Patterson MS TBD Hydrogeology
Hari Peethambaram MS Freedman Bioremediation Research
Watcharapol (Pol) Pumkaew MS Miller Sustainable Environment
Braden Rambo MS Murdoch Aquifer Storage Recovery in the Piedmont
Michael Ramsey MS Miller Non-Thesis
Anthony Reid MS Freedman Developing Enrichment Cultures that Anaerobically Bio-Oxidize Vinyl Chloride
Christina Ritter MS TBD New Students
Francisco Rodriguez MS Karanfil Carbon Nanotubes: Aggregation and Adsorption
Catherine Ruprecht MS Falta New Student
Vijay Santikari PhD Murdoch Evaluating Effects of Land Use Change on Stream Hydrology and Water Quality in the Subwatersheds of the Reedy River Watershed
Andrew Scott PhD DeVol / Powell Sensitivity Analysis of Uranium Speciation Modeling in Groundwater Systems with a Focus on Mobility
Meric Selbes PhD Karanfil Leaching of Organics and Inorganic From Tire Chips Under Different Solution Chemistry
Seth Shantz MS Murdoch Evaluation of Mass Flux in a Chlorinated Solvent Plume
Ting Shao MS Karanfil Adsorption of Organic Contaminants by Carbon Nanotubes
Ben Sharp PhD Miller New Student
Flora (Yun) Song MS Castle Removal of Specific Constituents of Concern from Produced Water Using Constructed Wetland Treatment Systems
Shannon Thompson PhD Fjeld Plutonium Transport in Vegetation
Han Wang MS Freedman Bioremediation Research
Gavin Wiggins MS Miller Sustainable Systems
Xin Xu PhD Carraway The Environmental Behavior of Metal-based Nanomaterials
Bin Yang MS Freedman Microbial Effects on Lead Corrosion in Drinking Water Systems
Rong Yu MS Freedman Interactive Effects of 1,2-Dichloroethane and Ethylene Dibromide During Anaerobic Biodegradation in Dehalococcoides Enrichment
Rong (Gloria) Zhang MS Schlautman Biomimetic Hexavalent Chromium Reduction
Trevor Zimmerman MS Powell Investigation of Biogeochemical Controls of Neptunium and Plutonium Mobility in Nevada Test Site Tuff