William Ball, professor emeritus, is an environmental engineer and scientist with expertise in water quality, water treatment, and natural processes of pollutant loading and remediation. As a professor, Ball oversaw research and taught courses at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels on aspects of water quality, contaminant fate and transport, and engineered processes of pollution prevention, environmental remediation, and treatment. From January 2016 through December 2019, he served as director of the multi-institutional Chesapeake Research Consortium while maintaining reduced teaching and research activities within the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering.
He continues to conduct a limited amount of outside consulting and volunteer service work in all of the above areas while also maintaining interest and involvement in issues of international development, primarily through continued service as a professional partner for the Johns Hopkins University student chapter of Engineers Without Borders – USA.
Ball received both an MS and PhD from Stanford University.