Interim Director Institute of Northern Engineering - David Barnes
David Barnes
Interim Director
Institute of Northern Engineering
Website: ine.uaf.edu/
Barnes first joined the UAF faculty in August of 1999, serving as an assistant professor
within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering before becoming an associate
professor within the same department in July of 2004. Barnes is now a full-time professor
in the same department and also acts as the Environmental Graduate Program Manager.
His research interests include immiscible fluids in porous media, contaminants in
freezing and frozen ground, movement and fate of radionuclides and heavy metals in
the environment, contaminant hydrogeology, contaminated soil and groundwater restoration,
water quality and waste management and treatment.