Dr. Tom Sale
Associate Professor
Phone: (970) 491-8413
Email: tsale -at- engr.colostate.edu
Research interests:
Research and consulting activities are focused on anthropogenic releases of contaminants to subsurface environments and their subsequent transport, fate, and management. Specific areas of interest are pragmatic expectations for Nonaqueous Phase Liquid (NAPL) remedies and passive strategies for management of NAPL releases.
Maria Irianni Renno
Research Associate II
Phone: (970) 491-8647
Email: maria.irianni_renno -at- colostate.edu
Research interests:
Maria is fascinated by the complexity associated with metabolic processes at a molecular level. Microorganisms are of particular interest to her because of the diversity of metabolic processes that exist in that kingdom and the potential technological applications that can be derived from such complex beings. Her research focuses in furthering the understanding about microbial processes occurring in the subsurface of hydrocarbon impacted sites. Her goal is to discover and optimize biochemical systems that can be successfully implemented as remediation technologies.
Andrea Hanson
Research Scientist I
Phone: 970-491-8430
Email: andrea.hanson -at- colostate.edu
Research interests:
Coupling laboratory- and field-scale experiments to assess contaminant biodegradation pathways in natural and engineered systems
- Microbial community proteomics
Deep subsurface microbial physiology and ecology
Advanced molecular biomarker development
High-resolution mass spectrometry-based analytical techniques
Oil and gas produced water geochemistry and
management
Kayvan Karimi Askarani
Research Scientist
Phone: 970-213-7419
Email: kayvan.karimi_askarani@colostate.edu
Research Interests:
- Sensor-based groundwater monitoring
- AI/ML application in environmental management
- Natural source zone depletion monitoring
- Cloud computing
- Advanced computational method for NSZD estimation
Joe Scalia
Assistant Professor
Phone: 970-491-3774
Email: joseph.scalia@colostate.edu
Research Interests:
- Environmental Geotechnics
- Geoenvironmental Engineering
- Flow and Contaminant Transport in Saturated & Unsaturated Soils
- Geosynthetic Clay Liners
- Clay-Polymer Composites
- Mine wastes
Associated Faculty
- Thomas Borch
- Susan De Long
- Patrick Haas
- Jay Ham
- Mike Ronayne
Affiliates
- Tom Simpkin
Former Faculty & Staff
- Hamid Sharifan
- Ray Buzeta
- Nasim Pica
- Helen Dungan
- Robert Young
- Mitchell Olson
- Gary Dick
- Dave Gilbert (2002-2008)
- Fred Marinelli (2004-2005)
- Jack Martin (2012-2013)
- Gary Amato (2005-2007)
- Ellen Daugherty (2011-2012)