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Research

Note:Some SWES Research Units/Programs maintain individual websites. Links to these sites are provided below.

Research and Outreach Units

Environmental Research Laboratory (ERL)

Water Quality Center

Water Quality Center Laboratory

SWES houses several research and outreach units closely associated with water quality research including the Environmental Research Laboratory (ERL) and the Water Quality Center Laboratory. ERL is also home of the National Science Foundation Water Quality Center

Research Programs

Aquaculture and Aquatic Ecology

Chemical and Pathogen Transport and Fate

Ecosystem Assessment and Restoration

Global Change

Soil and Crop Management

Soil and Groundwater Restoration

Pedology

Vadose Zone Hydrology

Water and Waste Management

The current research interests of the SWES faculty can be broadly organized into three areas:

  • soil, plant, atmosphere systems, with emphasis on remote sensing, soil-water-plant relations, and pedology
  • environmental science, with emphasis on contaminant transport and fate, waste management/reuse, and soil/groundwater remediation
  • subsurface science, with emphasis on physical, chemical, and microbiological processes.

The majority of SWES faculty work on interdisciplinary projects that are focused on or related to water quality. Thus, SWES plays a major role in water quality research and water management in the State of Arizona.

Current areas of research programs are presented in alphabetical order.

Websites (in alphabetical order)

Research Units

  • Environmental Research Laboratory (ERL)
    • Water Quality Center
  • Water Quality Center Laboratory

Research Programs

  • Arizona Meterorological Network (AZMET)
  • Arizona Crop Information Site (ACIS)
  • Climate Science Applications Program
  • Contaminant Transport Group
  • The Environmental Chemistry Lab
  • Rasmussen's Environmental Pedology Lab
  • Remote Sensing
  • Soil Fertility
  • Soil Science Society of America Soil Physics Division S-1
  • Water Resources Research Center

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