Research Team Bios

David Alderete

Research Engineer
Ella Ban

Environmental Specialist
Christian Carleton

Research Engineer
Hydrologist
Brian Currier

Research Engineer
Tod Granicher

Environmental Chemist
John Heltzel

Research Engineer
John Johnston

Technical Advisor
Jonathan D. Kaplan

Faculty Affiliate
Dakota Keene

Environmental Specialist
Maureen Kerner

Research Engineer
Ken Kerri

Founder (1934-2014)
Carisa Lee

Communications Coordinator
Caitlyn Leo

Research Engineer
Khalil Lezzaik

Research Engineer
Hydrogeologist
Ramzi Mahmood

Director, Office of Water Programs
Randy Marx

Research Engineer
Scott Meyer

Geologist
GIS Specialist
Kevin Murphy

Associate Director of Research
Dipen Patel

Research Engineer
Cristina M. Poindexter

Faculty Affiliate
Danielle Salt

Research Engineer
Samuel Stone

Faculty Affiliate
Kirk Van Rooyan

Research Engineer


Student Staff

OWP has a long history of helping to train tomorrow's future engineers and leaders. Students who worked at OWP have gone on to work at the US Army Corps of Engineers, Brown and Caldwell, CH2M Hill, and with other industry leaders. You can see our current student staff at the student assistants page.