Brian Waldron, Ph.D., is an associate professor of civil engineering in the University of Memphis Herff College of Engineering, as well as the director of the Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering (CAESER). He had been the associate director for the Ground Water Institute (GWI) from 2007 to early 2011 and has been a faculty member of the university since 1999. The primary focus of Waldron’s research pertains to groundwater migration and contaminant transport through field investigations and numerical modeling. All of his research is multidisciplinary crossing many departments and academic institutions. Numerous students are involved in his research, allowing them to exercise what they have learned in the classroom in an applied field environment. Waldron holds three degrees in civil engineering — a B.S. and an M.S. from the University of Memphis, and a Ph.D. from Colorado State University.