R. Wayne Wagner
Professor of Practice, River-Coastal Science and Engineering
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Education & Affiliations
Biography
I am a professor of practice in the Department of River and Coastal Science and Engineering. My educational interests focus on teaching new ways to think. Over two decades of teaching, I have taught numerous classes (and taken quite a few more) and the best all focus on the students' cognitive development. Students always ask how they'll use specific facts, and I believe that they often will not use them. However, within a given discipline, the best educators teach how to think, analyze, and synthesize. These skills are useful, regardless of the student's future.
Courses
Water Resources Engineering 2 (Hydraulics)
Water Resources Engineering 3 (Hydrology)
Gulf Coast in 2100
Research
My scientific interests center on physical processes in natural water and how they affect the biological and human systems on which they rely. I don't research any more, but I do enjoy thinking on it! After doing undergraduate work in civil engineering at Auburn University and getting a master's degree in secondary math education at the University of New Orleans, my curiosity drove me into academia. I studied California's complex Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta under Mark Stacey at Berkeley (for grad school) and Louisiana's beautiful Wax Lake Delta under David Mohrig at the the University of Texas at Austin (for a postdoc). My graduate training specifically focused on environmental fluid mechanics, but I branched out into statistics, geomorphology, and remote sensing, among other fields. I enjoy a good problem, great colleagues, and a better world.
Contributions
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