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Faculty Advisor to:
-- JHU Chapters of
-- Engineers Without Borders (EWB-USA; EWB-JHU)
-- Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW)
-- Tau Beta Pi (Md-Alpha Chapter)
Participant in the following JHU Centers and Institutes:
-- Center for Contminant Transport, Fate and Remediation
-- Center for Hazardous Substances in Urban Environments
-- Center for Applied and Environmental Fluid Mechanics
-- Center for Water and Health
-- Institute for NanoBioTechnology
Biographical Sketch
William Ball is a professional environmental engineer with research and teaching interests primarily in the area of physical/chemical processes. He received his BS degree (1976) from the University of Virginia and his MS (1977) and PhD (1990) degrees from Stanford University. He has been at Johns Hopkins University since 1992. He was previously on the faculty at Duke University (1989-92). Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked for five years with James M. Montgomery Consulting Engineers in the planning, design, and evaluation of water and wastewater treatment facilities.
- Teaching: At the undergraduate level, Professor Ball teaches courses on fundamentals of environmental engineering and water and wastewater treatment, and at the graduate level he teaches courses in physical/chemical processes and mass transfer in environmental systems.
- Research: Professor Ball has research interests and on-going projects in various areas of environmental engineering, with emphasis on physical and chemical processes affecting water quality, in both natural environments and engineered processes of treatment. One current major interest is on the development and application of appropriate and sustainable technologies for developing nations, with focus on water resources, drinking water, and sanitation. Other on-going research addresses on-going and emerging water quality concerns in th eU.S. These include currently funded research projects that relate to the development of (1) better cyber-enabled approaches for interpolating water quality observations in the Chesapeake Bay (as part of a multi-investigator NSF project to develop a prototypical "Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory") and (2) better understanding of the potential environmental impact and fate of carbon-based nanomaterials in aquatic systems, with focus on multi-walled carbon nanotubes (currently funded through the NSF and the U.S EPA.
- Honors: Professor Ball was a 1991 recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award and has received awards from the ARCS Foundation and the American Water Works Association (AWWA). He was a co-recipient of the 1999 Rudolph Hering Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Research Interests
- Environmental engineering
- Water quality modeling (surface and subsurface waters)
- Physical and chemical processes in water and wastewater treatment
- Groundwater contamination
- Pollutant fate and transport
- Hazardous waste management
- Environmental sustainability
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