Purdue Water Quality Specialists


This list is in alphabetical order. To find a specialist in a particular area, please search using the search function in your browser (Ctrl-F).

Sylvie Brouder
Associate Professor, Agronomy
Phone: 765-496-1489
E-mail: sbrouder@purdue.edu
Expertise: Plant nutrition, soil fertility, ecology. 

Natalie Carroll
Associate Professor, Youth Development and Agricultural Education
Phone: 765-494-8433
E-mail: ncarroll@purdue.edu
Expertise: Youth environmental education, soil and water engineering.    

Otto C. Doering, III
Professor, Agricultural Economics
Phone: 765-494-4226
E-mail: doering@agecon.purdue.edu
Expertise: Public policy, resource agriculture.

Jane Frankenberger
Associate Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Phone: 765-494-1194
E-mail: frankenb@purdue.edu
Expertise: Watershed management, wellhead protection, drinking water, agricultural drainage, land use, and water quality.

Lyn Crighton
Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring and Education
Hoosier Riverwatch
Phone: 317-541-0617
E-mail: riverwatch@dnr.in.gov
URL: http://www.state.in.us/dnr/soilcons/riverwatch
Expertise: aquatic and water quality monitoring, stream habitat assessment

William Hoover
Professor, Forestry and Natural Resources
Purdue University
Phone: 765-494-3580
Expertise: Environmental and natural resources economics, wetlands, water quality.

Jan Hosier
Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring and Education
Hoosier Riverwatch
Phone: 317-541-0617
E-mail: riverinfo@dnr.in.gov
URL: http://www.state.in.us/dnr/soilcons/riverwatch
Expertise: aquatic and water quality monitoring, stream habitat assessment

Brad Joern
Professor, Agronomy
Purdue University
Phone: 765-494-9767
E-mail: bjoern@purdue.edu
Expertise: Animal manure management, nutrient management plan development, soil fertility, phosphorus and potassium soil testing, nutrient management impacts on water resources.

Don Jones
Professor and Extension Engineer, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Purdue University
Phone: 765-494-1178
E-mail: jonesd@ecn.purdue.edu
Expertise: Animal waste management and impact on water resources, onsite wastewater treatment, constructed wetlands, resource management software.

Eileen Kladivko
Professor, Agronomy
Phone: 765-494-6372
E-mail: kladivko@purdue.edu
URL: http://www.agry.purdue.edu/staffbio/ejkbio.htm
Expertise: Pesticide and nitrate movement to tile drains, tile drainage, conservation tillage, earthworms, and agricultural management.

Brent Ladd
Water Quality Specialist, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Phone: 765-496-6331
E-mail: laddb@purdue.edu
URL: http://www.ces.purdue.edu/waterquality
Expertise: Indiana Watershed Leadership Program, pollution prevention, farm, field, and home environmental assessment, drinking water. 

Brad Lee
Assistant Professor, Agronomy
Phone: 765-496-6884
E-mail: bdlee@purdue.edu
Expertise: Soils and land use, watershed processes, land use impacts on natural resources.

Steve Lovejoy
Professor, Agricultural Economics
Phone: 765-494-4245
E-mail: lovejoy@agecon.purdue.edu
URL: http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/staff/lovejoy/
Expertise: Environmental policy, water quality, environmental decision-making, policy analysis.

Bob McCormick
Extension Educator, Forestry and Natural Resources (Planning with POWER)
Phone: 765-494-3627
E-mail: robert.mccormick@ces.purdue.edu
URL: http://www.planningwithpower.org
Expertise: Land use, Planning with POWER.

Brian Miller
Associate Director for Outreach, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
Phone: 765-494-3586
E-mail: bmiller@fnr.purdue.edu
Expertise: Wetlands, land use, Planning with POWER.

Gary Steinhardt
Professor, Agronomy
Phone: 765-494-8063
E-mail: gsteinhardt@purdue.edu
Expertise: Soil erosion, conservation, conservation tillage, crop residue, land use, and 4-H programs.

Fred Whitford
Coordinator, Purdue Pesticide Programs
Phone: 765-494-1284
E-mail: whitford@btny.purdue.edu
URL: http://www.btny.purdue.edu/PPP/
Expertise: Pesticides, regulations, environment, risk assessment, safety.

Please send changes to Brent Ladd, laddb@purdue.edu.