Videos has made of all presentations at the 2017 Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts Summit are now available. Check out Dr. Miller’s video here:
Groundwater Sustainability
Smith defends dissertation
Congratulations to Dr. Ben Smith for successfully defending his dissertation, Improving Adoption of Aquifer Storage and Recovery in Texas. Dr. Smith starts in his new position at GSI Environmental in Houston.
Smith publishes article on feasibility of aquifer storage and recovery in two Texas aquifers
Read the article here. Thanks also to the Texas A&M Library OAKFund for allowing us to make this article open access, meaning anyone in the world can view it for free.
Dr. Miller interviewed for Conservation Matters
Read Dr. Miller’s interview in Conservation Matters, the official publication of the Texas Water Resources Institute. It discusses groundwater research needs following Hurricane Harvey.
Miller’s Drainage Reuse Initiative Project Featured on NPR’s Houston Matters
Harris County Comissioner Jack Cagle and Harris County Flood Control District Executive Director Russ Poppe were recently featured on the NPR show Houston Matters, discussing the Drainage Reuse Initiative, for which Dr. Miller is the lead Texas A&M researcher. Listen below:
Miller and Smith tour El Paso’s water infrastructure
Dr. Miller and Ph.D. student Ben Smith recently visited collaborator Dr. Zhuping Sheng at the AgriLife Research Center in El Paso, to discuss progress on our joint Managed Aquifer Recharge project. While there, we met his post-doctoral research associate Dr. Shalamu Abudu, his graduate students from Texas A&M and New Mexico Tech, and visiting scholar Dr. Lifei Chen. While in […]
Miller speaks at NAE symposium on groundwater
Dr. Miller was honored to speak as an invited panelist at a symposium on groundwater depletion, hosted by the Earth Resources Engineering Section of the National Academy of Engineering. Videos of all of the talks may be viewed here.
Juárez Santana visits, studies climate change in Mexico
The group was pleased to host visiting researcher Berenice Juárez Santana, from Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. She worked with us to create a hydrogeological model to investigate the effects of climate change on groundwater resources of the Yucatán peninsula. We look forward to future collaborations with her and her advisor, Dr. […]
Gou defends dissertation on plant-groundwater modeling
Congrats to Dr. Si Gou for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation, Study of Multi-Scale Plant-Groundwater Interactions, and for starting a faculty position at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China.
Miller awarded prestigious CAREER grant
Dr. Miller is thrilled to announce her NSF CAREER proposal has been funded. The grant is entitled "CAREER: Science for Sustainable and Resilient Groundwater Management" and is being funded by the NSF Environmental Sustinability program. This five-year award will allow the group to futher develop its models of groundwater dependent ecosystems and create improved metrics […]