Mission
To enhance environmental quality through experimental investigation of subsurface environmental processes and remediation techniques leading to improved and cost effective cleanup methodology and decision-making.
Vision
Summarized in terms of three broad goals:
1. Utilize the knowledge from diverse disciplines to provide a broad and thorough understanding of environmental processes in complex subsurface systems.
2. Integrate both fundamental and applied sciences to include efforts to join academic research to current industrial questions.
3. Produce researchers and students with a greater appreciation and understanding of the multi-disciplinary nature of subsurface remediation.
News
Dr. Tissa Illangasekare, Director of CESEP has been chosen by the faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University in Sweden, to receive an honorary doctorate in the area of "Natural Science and Technology."
Dr. Tissa Illangasekare was cited as being “a world leading researcher and experimentalist in the water resource area.” He is known for his unique ability to combine innovative scientific theory with precise measurement techniques and innovative experiments. These methods have led to significant progress on a number of different areas of groundwater hydrology. His research has developed theories and models to apply our knowledge of small-scale processes on real, large-scale problems. This is necessary for example to understand the spread of environmental pollution and to rehabilitate them effectively.
Dr. Tissa Illangasekare was selected in October 2009, to serve on the National Research Council's Committee on Future Options for Management in the Nation’s Subsurface Remediation.
Dr. Tissa Illangasekare selected as Editor of Water Resources Research for a 4 year term starting 2009.
Ph.D student Kathleen Smits received the best paper award at the 2008 AGU Fall Meeting. She accepted this honor at the AGU Spring meeting held in May 2009 in Toronto, Canada.
Ph.D. Student Megan Smith, National Ground Water Research and Educational Foundation scholarship for best student presentation at the 2009 annual meeting of the National Ground Water Association
