William Shuster, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact
- 313-577-0228
- wshuster@wayne.edu
- College of Engineering
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7688-0110
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Z6Rcu5UAAAAJ&hl=en
- Curriculum Vitae
William Shuster, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
Ph.D., Environmental Science, 2000. The Ohio State University, Columbus.
B.S., Physics, 1987. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Courses Taught
CE 2000: How Cities Work (General education, social inquiry), offered each Winter semester.
Research Interests
- Urban hydrology with an emphasis on stormwater, wastewater management
- Hydraulics of urbanized soils and regulation of contaminant fate and transport processes
- Rendering of ecosystem services from urbanized landscapes
- Issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in services from civil-environmental infrastructure
- Demolition science
Publications
Selected publications (70+ peer-review journal publications)
Predicting near-saturated hydraulic conductivity in urban soils. Jinshi Jian, Alexey Shiklomanov, William D. Shuster, Ryan D. Stewart*. Accepted for publication, J. Hydrology, Jan. 2021.
Urban sponges: vacant lands impart hydrological benefits across city landscapes. 2020. Christa Kelleher*, Heather E. Golden, Sean Burkholder, and William Shuster. Nature Communications. https://rdcu.be/b3ftG
Full Water-Cycle Monitoring in an Urban Catchment Reveals Unexpected Water Transfers (Detroit MI, USA). 2019. Hoard, C., Haefner, R.*, Shuster, W., Pieschek, R., and Beeler, S., Journal of American Water Resources Association
Black carbon in urban soils: implications for water quality management with green infrastructure. 2018. Schifman, L.A., A. Prues, K. Gilkey, Shuster, WD*. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.396
Widespread loss of intermediate soil horizons in urban landscapes. 2018. Herrmann, D.L., L.A. Schifman, W.D. Shuster*. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. http://www.pnas.org/content/115/26/6751.short
Street-level emissions of methane and nitrous oxide from the wastewater collection system in Cincinnati, Ohio. 2018. Fries, A.E., L.A. Schifman, W.D. Shuster, and A. Townsend-Small*. Environmental Pollution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.01.076
Professional Affiliations
American Geophysical Union
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sigma Xi