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Kyle Strom

Associate Professor
Email: strom@vt.edu
Office: Patton Hall 221D
BS CEE Washington State University
MS CEE Washington State University
PhD CEE University of Iowa
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Kristin Chilton

NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: kchilton@vt.edu
Office: Hancock Hall 111
BS, Geology, University of Florida;
MS, Geosciences, Virginia Tech;
PhD, Geosciences, Virginia Tech
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Brandon Dillon

PhD Student
Email: bdillon@vt.edu
BS Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
MS Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
Research Topic: Synthetic Turbulence and Initiation of Particle Motion

Lailee Bottom

MS Student
Email: lailee@vt.edu
BS Civil Engineering, University of Central Florida
Research Topic: Seasonality in the transport characteristics of mud in Appalachian streams

Brayden Schiller

MS Student
Email: braydens19@vt.edu
BS Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
Research Topic: Fine sediment in gravel-bed rivers

Sam Kraus

MS Student
Email: samakraus@vt.edu
BS Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
Research Topic: Hydraulic stability of mounded chub nests

Torrey Schwab

MS Student
Email: torreyschwab@vt.edu
BS Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
Research Topic: Vertical profile of floc sizes through the Mississippi River saltwedge

Ted Balabanski

Undergraduate Student
Email: lbalabanski3@vt.edu
Research Topic: Particle velocity in the viscous sublayer

Mikey Zedan

MS Student
Email: zedan3@vt.edu
BS Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ohio State University
Research Topic: Bedding plane orientation controls on plucking of bedrock.

Ehsan Abolfazli

PhD Student
Email: abolfazli@vt.edu
BS Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
MS Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology
MS Oceanography, Louisiana State University
Research Topic: Flocculation in the Fluvial to Marine Transition

Tom Ashley

Postdoctoral Research Associate 2020-2022
Email: tcashley@vt.edu
Office: Hancock Hall 111
BA, Geology, Colorado College,
PhD, Geology, University of Wyoming
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Maureen Fuller

MS 2022
Email: MaureenFuller@vt.edu
BS Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
Research Topic: Sediment Dynamics Associated with Mounded Bluehead Chub Nests

Ryan Osborn

MS 2021
Email: rtosbor2@vt.edu
MS Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech
BS Engineering Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thesis: The Development of an In-situ Mud Floc Microscope Imaging Device and In-situ Floc Observations from the Lowermost Mississippi River

Annie Tkacik

MS 2021
MS Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech
BS Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
Research Topic: Analysis of By-Size Class Bedload Transport Data Collected with PressureDifference Sediment Samplers

Jeff Culp

MS 2019
Email: jeffculp@vt.edu
Thesis: Sorting of silt and clay in boundary flows

Shantanu Bhide

MS 2019
Email: bhidesv@vt.edu
Thesis: Hyperpycnal river plunging

Melissa Joye

BS 2019
Email: mellj97@vt.edu
Research Topic: Temporal dynamics of mud accumulation and release in Stroubles Creek

Rachel Kuprenas

MS 2018
Email: kuprenas@vt.edu
Thesis: Improvements to the Modeling of Average Floc Size in Turbulent Suspensions of Mud

Duc Tran

PhD 2018
Email: datran6@vt.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/ductran/home
Dissertation: Experiments on the Transformation of Mud Flocs in Turbulent Suspensions

B. Nilay İşcen

MS 2018
Email: niscen@vt.edu
Research Topic: Morphodynamic And Hydraulic Co-Evolution Of Cohesive Alluvial Fans

Elizabeth Angel

MS 2018
Email: eangel@vt.edu
BS Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
Research Topic: Wave Drag

Christian Mooneyham

MS 2016
Email: cdmooney@vt.edu
Thesis: Large Interaction of Clay Wash Load with Gravel Beds

Mohamad Rouhnia

PhD 2016
Email: mohamadr@vt.edu
Dissertation: Vertical Transport of Sediment from Muddy Buoyant River Plumes in the Presence of Different Modes of Interfacial Instabilities

Hossein Hosseiny

MS 2015
Thesis: Methodological Considerations in the Calculation of Effective Discharge: Application for the Trinity and Brazos Rivers

Paul Hamilton

PhD 2015
Dissertation: Autogenic Processes on Supercritical Submarine Fans

MS 2012
Thesis: Hydraulics of Autogenic Cycles in Alluvial Fan Development

Ali Keyvani

PhD 2013
Dissertation: Flocculation Processes in Fluvial to Marine Transitions

Mehrdad Salehi

PhD 2012
Dissertation: Mud Transport in the Microtidal San Jacinto Estuary

Ruosen Qian

MS 2011
Thesis: 1D Morphodynamic River Modeling with a Contraction Structure

Remya Kumar

MS 2009
Thesis: Settling Velocity and Floc Properties of Houston Ship Channel Sediment

Sunmin Choi

Visiting PhD Student 2/2022 – 7/2022
Inha University, South Korea
Department of Ocean Sciences
Advisor: Ho Kyung Ha

Oral Yagci

Visiting Scholar 2018-2019
Associate Professor
Istanbul Technical University
Civil Engineering Department
Division of Hydraulics
Email: yagciora@itu.edu.tr
website http://web.itu.edu.tr/~yagciora/

Mohammad Sofiyan

Visiting PhD Student Summer 2010
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.
Water Resources Engineering and Management Research Centre (WAREM)
Advisor: Dr. Shanker Kumar Sinnakaudan

Carlos Guerrero

BS Student

BS Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
Research Topic: Underwater imaging of sediment

Colton Keene

BS Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech