Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE)
- risk-based decision-making
- renewable energy (solar, wind and geothermal)
- bio-based fuels and water desalination
- carbon management and sequestration
- energy efficiency
- and pollution prevention, multiphase flow and process control
- Food-Energy-Water Systems (FEWS)
- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA)
- Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) in developing communities
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Integration of Anthropology and Engineering
- Science Policy
Aquatic ecosystems under threat from competing pressures to meet societal needs for water and food security while sustaining biodiversity and other ecosystem services; expertise in geospatial analytics, hyperspectral and satellite remote sensing, and sensor networks in inland and coastal waters and wetlands
Professor Viers is a watershed scientist with expertise in resource management and environmental decision making. His areas of watershed science research include:
- Agroecology and Conservation Agriculture Planning and Implementation
- Climatic and Hydrological Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Strategies
- Ecosystem Service and Biodiversity Inventory, Assessment, and Restoration
- Geospatial Technologies (Geographic Information Systems / Remote Sensing);
- Informatics; Database Design and Data Mining
- Water and Watershed Management; Water Footprinting
- Large scale hydro-economic modeling for water management and policy analysis
- Water management for agricultural, environmental and urban uses
- Agricultural production adaptation to drought and climate change
- Sustainable agroecosystems for water and food security
- Water informatics, consumptive water use in agriculture using remote sensing
- Impact analysis using partial and general equilibrium models
- Surface Water Quality
- Lake and Reservoir Management
- Mercury Cycling in Aquatic Ecosystems
- Natural Treatment Systems
- Life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology development
- Energy systems modeling Increasing geographic specificity in LCA
- Climate change mitigation strategies
- Renewable energy systems
- Water and wastewater treatment, especially land-based treatment systems
- Hazardous waste site remediation
- Biogeochemistry
- Metal cycling
- Surface water/shallow groundwater interactions
- Organic chemical distribution in soil and groundwater
- Chemical processes in snow K-12 environmental education
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