Faculty & Staff
Stephen H. Schoenholtz
Director of the Water Center and Professor of Forest Hydrology and Soils, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
210 Cheatham Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: (540) 231 0711 | Fax: (540) 231 6673
Email: stephen.schoenholtz@vt.edu.
Stephen H. Schoenholtz,
Director
Stephen H. Schoenholtz is the director of the Virginia Water Resources Research Center and professor of forest hydrology and soils in the College of Natural Resources at Virginia Tech. He has also served on faculties in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University and the College of Forest Resources at Mississippi State University.
His teaching and research interests involve interactions between land management and water and soil resources. He has Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in forest soil science from Virginia Tech and B.S. degrees in forest science and biology from the Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Schoenholtz is a member of the Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, American Water Resources Association, Society of American Foresters, Society of Wetland Scientists, and Universities Council on Water Resources.
Kevin J. McGuire
Associate Director of the Water Center and Assistant Professor of Forest Hydrology, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
210-B Cheatham Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: (540) 231 6017 | Fax: (540) 231 6673
Email: kevin.mcguire@vt.edu
Research Website
Kevin J. McGuire,
Associate Director
Kevin J. McGuire is the Virginia Water Resources Research Center's associate director and research assistant professor of forest hydrology. He holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservationin the College of Natural Resources and Environment.
His research interests focus on watershed management and forest hydrology, runoff generation processes, tracer and isotope applications in hydrology, and land use and climate change effects on water resources. He has a PhD degree in Forest Engineering from Oregon State, a M.S. degree in Forest Resources from Penn State, and a B.S. degree in Environmental Science from Susquehanna University.
Dr. McGuire has taught graduate courses at Plymouth State, Oregon State, and Penn State in the areas of hydrology and watershed management. He is a member of the American Water Resources Association, American Geophysical Union, International Association for Hydrological Sciences, and Hubbard Brook LTER Committee of Scientists.
Tony Timpano
Research Associate
210 Cheatham Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: (276) 393 7748| Fax: (540) 231 6673
Email: atimpano@vt.edu
Tony Timpano is a Research Associate at Virginia Tech in the Virginia Water Resources Research Center. He earned his M.S. in Environmental Science from Virginia Tech in May 2011. His thesis explored the relationship between Total Dissolved Solids and macroinvertebrate communities. He is currently studying the variability of TDS in streams affected by coal mining in Virginia and West Virginia, with support from the Departmentment of Interior Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation.
Alan Raflo
Research Associate
210 Cheatham Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: (540) 231 5463 | Fax: (540) 231 6673
Email: araflo@vt.edu
Alan Raflo,
Research Associate
Alan Raflo is a research associate with the Water Center. He edits Virginia Water Central, a newsletter on water issues in Virginia, and hosts Virginia Water Radio, a weekly water news and information radio show.
Mr. Raflo received a B.S. degree in Economic Biology from Clemson University in 1979 and a M.S. degree in Water Resources (limnology concentration) from Iowa State University in 1988. He also attended Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va., to become certified to teach high school biology.
Prior to joining the Virginia Water Center in 1997, Mr. Raflo had previously worked as an educator for a natural history museum, an editor of agricultural economics publications, a water-resource planner, an aquatic biologist, and a science teacher for grades K-8.
Jane Walker
Research Associate
210 Cheatham Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: (540) 231 4159 | Fax: (540) 231 6673
Email: janewalk@vt.edu
Ms. Walker is a research associate with the Water Center. She is currently working with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation to develop the Virginia Stormwater Best Management Practices Clearinghouse, a publicly accessible website that will serve as the Commonwealth of Virginia’s reference site for stormwater best management practices (BMPs).
She also serves as the administrative assistant to the Virginia Water Monitoring Council, an organization that promotes collaboration and information sharing among water monitors and water-monitoring data users in the state.
Ms. Walker holds a B.S. degree in biology with a minor in biochemistry from James Madison University and has a M.S. degree in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia.
Inga Solberg
Fiscal Officer
210 Cheatham Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: (540) 231 8031 | Fax: (540) 231 6673
Email: ingasol@vt.edu
Ms. Solberg is the center's fiscal manager and primary contact for all matters of a fiscal nature. She handles the Water Center's day-to-day fiscal operation and grant administration. Ms. Solberg has been with the center since 1983.
2012-2013 Undergraduate Researchers, Interns, and Employees
Kyle Dost, Environmental Policy and Planning major
Emily Gorman, Environmental Science major
James Linton, Environmental Science major
Lindsay Nolan, Environmental Resource Management major
Alexandra Thompson, Masters in Urban and Regional Planning Candidate