Adam S. Ward
Associate Professor
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University

418 MSB-II
702 N. Walnut Grove
Bloomington, IN 47405

email: adamward@indiana.edu 
twitter: @WardHydro
phone: 812-856-4820


Learn more about water science at Indiana University: https://water.indiana.edu/

Openings in our research group:
1 PhD Student on mercury Transport & Fate

Research Group Foci

We study how water, energy, nutrients, and pollutants move through landscapes, and the human and ecological consequences of these fluxes. Connections between streams, their landscapes, and their aquifers, and humans ultimately interact across space and time to control resultant biogeochemical processes and ecosystem functions, particularly environmental transport and fate.  We use a combination of field-based experiments, environmental observation, and numerical modeling to quantify couplings between physical, biological, and chemical systems, and apply this knowledge to predict water quantity, water quality, and ecosystem responses to changes in key drivers including land use change, land management activities, and climate change. (read more about our research here)

Research Group News

March 2020
  • Check out the newly added Teaching Resources page, where you can find materials for online instruction of courses including Water Quality Modeling, Fluid Mechanics, and a short course on stream solute tracers. These resources are intended to support the community as instructions transitions online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

February 2020
January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 August 2019
  • Welcome two new faces in the group, both jolining to work on M.S. degrees. Peter joins to study lampricide transport and fate, and Danila to work in our Environmental Sensing and Sampling Lab to design low-cost environmental sensors to deply in intermittent streams.
June 2019 May 2019
  • Molly Cain travels to Madagascar to study rice paddies and irrigation as a parallel to the intensively managed landscapes of the agricultural Midwestern U.S.  Thanks to IU Global for supporting this with a Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant.
  • Adam Ward received the first Burney & Barbara Fischer Fellowship, which supports an early-career tenure-track faculty member at the O'Neill School for a 3-yr period. The fellowship provides the time and resources to expand into a new area of research - in this case the intersection of water resources science and governance of common pool resources.

April 2019

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