Participating Clemson Faculty

Faculty from a wide array of disciplines are participating on the various projects conducted by the Center for Watershed Excellence. These faculty represent the disciplines of civil engineering, planning and landscape architecture, agricultural and biological engineering, and computing as well as forestry and natural resources, and environmental toxicology.

A listing of notable faculty by their respective projects is as follows: 

Sand River Ecological Restoration Master Plan

• Nadim M. Aziz, Ph.D.: Dr. Aziz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering. His areas of interest include environmental fluid mechanics; sediment transport and scour; contaminated sediments; and hydrologic modeling and design. Dr. Aziz is widely published in scientific journals on issues related to stormwater management, environmental contaminants and hydrology. He is a member of both national as well as international societies. For more information, connect to his profile.

• Victoria Chanse, Ph.D.: Dr. Chanse is Assistant Professor within the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture. Her professional interests lie in the areas of landscape ecology, community participation, regional design, watershed planning, and ecological design. For more information, connect to her profile.

Remote Data Acquisition/Cyberinfrastructure

• Jill Gemmill, Ph.D., M.S., MSEE:  Dr. Gemmill is Executive Director of Cyberinfrastructure Technology Integration (CITI) at Clemson University and is Research Assistant Professor within the School of Computing. She also holds an appointment at the CU Genomics Institute. Dr. Gemmill has developed collaborative environments for virtual organizations in domains such as social sciences, health sciences, computational science, bioinformatics and ecology. For more information, connect to her profile.

•  Dan Hitchcock, Ph.D.: Dr. Hitchcock is Assistant Professor for Coastal Water Quality, Vegetative Treatment Systems within the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Clemson University. Dr. Hitchcock's research has focused on contaminated groundwater systems and is published in Environmental Geosciences and Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. For more information, connect to his profile.

• Steven J. Klaine, Ph.D.: Dr. Kaine is Professor of Aquatic Toxicology, Water Quality and Risk Assessment within the Department of Environmental Toxicology. His research addresses the link between land use patterns and water quality. His laboratory has successfully incorporated wetlands, riparian zones and vegetated filter strips into agricultural and urban watersheds to minimize impacts on aquatic systems. For more information, connect to his profile.

• Christopher J. Post, Ph.D.:  Dr. Post is Assistant Professor of Environmental Information Science within the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources. A graduate of Cornell University, his research areas include environmental sensor networks; geographic information systems; and remote sensing. Dr. Post is well published on soil analysis, GIS and predictive modeling. He received the 2005 Prince Award for Innovation in Teaching. For more information, connect to his profile.