Dr. Kristina Gutchess

Potable water is an essential global resource. Understanding controls on the fate and transport of environmental pollutants is critically important to assuring the sustainability of future water resources.

I am broadly interested in understanding processes that impact water quality in surface water and groundwater. The primary focus of my research thus far has been to characterize sources of contamination in surface water and groundwater and to elucidate controls on the fate and transport of solutes in freshwater systems.

My research has a strong computational component coupled with field and laboratory work. My interests encompass the use of chemical tracers, mathematics, and modeling, in the associated fields of energy and potable water studies. I am particularly interested in the intersection of humans and the hydrosphere.

Please refer to my research projects page for more information regarding these topics.