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McDonald Hydrology 

Research Group Director

Dr. Walter McDonald is an assistant professor in the Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Department at Marquette University. Dr. McDonald obtained a PhD in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2016 and holds a MS in Civil Engineering (2012) from Texas A&M University and a BS in Civil Engineering (2010) from Texas Tech University. 


 

Graduate Students

Benjamin Bodus, PhD Student

Pollutant mitigation of green stormwater infrastructure

 

Kassidy O’Malley, PhD Student

Antibiotic resistance genes in stormwater systems

Co-advised with Dr. Patrick McNamara

 

Matthew Dupasquier, MS Student

Remote sensing of green infrastructure

 

Joe Branca, MS Student

Improving green infrastructure design

 

Omar Hegazy, MS Student

Estimating flow rates with dstributed temperature sensing

 
 

Post-docs

Abhiram Pamula

Remote sensing of stormwater


 
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Former Students

Joe Naughton. M.S. Student

Current: Program Analyst, NOAA OAR's International Activities Office

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Nathan Hay. M.S. Student

Current: Civil Engineer, U.S. Forest Service, San Diego, CA

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Elizabeth Regier, M.S. Student

Current: Engineer, HNTB

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Spencer Sebo, M.S. Student

Current: CEO, Water Intelligence, LLC

Catherine Sullivan, M.S. Student

Current: Engineer, RJN Group

Greg Dieter, M.S. Student

Current: Engineer, Confluency

Charitha Gunawardana, Ph.D. Student


 

Undergraduate Students

Current Students.

Nicole Rupar. Stormwater infrastructure monitoring

Jordan Gastos. Stormwater infrastructure monitoring

Former Students

Mia Ketelhohn. Stormwater infrastructure and temperature monitoring

Edwin Baiden. Monitoring stormwater land and runoff temperatures with drones

Cesar Aguirre. Modeling of tire wear particles in stormwater runoff

Matt Dupasquier. Temperature mitigation in green infrastructure

Veronika Folvarska. Monitoring green stormwater infrastructure.

Colin Barrington. Evaluation of nation-wide TMDL compliance

Rich Gonzini. Remote sensing of water quality

Denny Malec. Impact of residential hydrology on inflow and infiltration

Yuhan Dai. Thermal land use analysis using GIS and drone imagery

Adam Gottlieb. Assessing the impact of Hurricane Harvey on flood frequency equations

Julian Velazquez. Modeling the Ochomogo River watershed, Nicaragua

Mike Heinz. Synthesis of stormwater regulatory criteria across the U.S.

Kevin Hautzinger. Evaluation of MS4 compliance in southeastern Wisconson