E-mail:daene_mckinney@mail.utexas.edu

B.S., Humboldt State University, Environmental Resources Engineering, 1983
M.S., Cornell University, Environmental Engineering, 1986
Ph.D., Cornell University, Environmental Engineering, 1990

Dr. McKinney's research interests include planning and management of water resources, especially integrated management considering engineering, economic, environmental and political considerations in transboundary basins, developing and applying numerical methods for simulation, optimization, and uncertainty analysis of water resources planning and management problems, and the development of laboratory and field experimental techniques for the characterization and remediation of aquifer and groundwater contamination.

He is currently engaged in research on: (1) regional planning of water resources; (2) optimizing the design and operation of remediation systems to cleanup aquifers contaminated by single- or multiphase constituents; (3) development of parallel algorithms for flow in porous media; (4) the use of tracers to characterize and surfactants to remediate contamination in aquifers; and (5) development of hydrologic models for large scale water resources assessments and planning.   For more information, see Dr. McKinney's home page.

Representative Publications

Patiño-Gomez, C., D.C. McKinney, and D.R. Maidment, Sharing Water Resources Data in the Bi-National Rio Grande/Bravo Basin , J. Water Resour. Planning and Management, accepted, 2006

Timothy L. Whiteaker, David R. Maidment, Hema Gopalan Carlos Patiño-Gomez, and Daene C. McKinney, Raster-Network Regionalization for Watershed Data Processing, International Journal of GIS, in press, 2006.

McKinney , D. C., D. R. Kracman, D. W. Watkins, Jr., and L. S. Lasdon, Stochastic Optimization of the Highland Lakes System in Texas, J. Water Resour. Planning and Management, 132(2):62-70, 2006.

Schluter, M., A. Savitsky, D. McKinney and H. Lieth, Optimizing long-term water allocation in the Amudarya river delta – A water management model for ecological impact assessment, Environmental Modeling and Software, 20(5): 529-545, 2005.

Cai, X., D.C. McKinney, and L. Lasdon, An Integrated Hydrologic-Agronomic-Economic Model for River Basin Management, J. Water Resour. Planning and Management, 129(1):4-17, 2003.

Antipova, E., A. Zyryanov, D.C. McKinney, and A.G. Savitsky , Optimization of Syr Darya Water and Energy Uses, Water International, 27(4): 504-516, 2002.