Marìa Dragila

Professor, Unsaturated Flow
Phone: 
541-737-5739
Fax: 
541-737-5725
Office: 
Agricultural and Life Science 3135
Member of Graduate Faculty in: 
Water Resources Engineering
Water Resources Science
Willing to Advise Students for: 
MS
PhD
Willing to serve on Graduate Committees for: 
MS
PhD
Primary Areas of Research Interest: 
Groundwater
Detailed Research Interest : 
groundwater
contaminant movement
vadose zone
soils
Current Research Interests: 

Physical mechanisms involved in mass and energy transport in highly heterogeneous and fractured porous media.

Other Information: 

Specialties:

  • Aquifer salinization
  • Vadose zone fractures
  • Sudden oak death
  • High-resolution cesium magnetometer surveys to locate agricultural drain tiles
  • Hydrophobicity of Quincy soil
  • Investigation of non-Darcian transport mechanisms affecting movement of chemicals from agricultural operations