Our Director
Stanley Grant, Ph.D.
Stanley Grant is Director of the OWML and Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at VT. He is also an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and served as Chair of Hydrology and Water Resources in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne (Australia).
Stan's water quality research relies on field experiments, modeling studies, and stakeholder engagement. He has led several center-scale research programs, including a $5M National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnership for International Research and Education (PIRE) grant focused on water supply innovations implemented by Melbourne during the Millennium Drought in Australia and a $2M project funded by the University of California Office of the President to evaluate stormwater capture and use on the five southern University of California campuses.
Stan is currently heading a $3.6M transdisciplinary NSF-funded Growing Convergence Research project, focused on stakeholder-driven (bottom up) solutions to freshwater salinization, using the Occoquan Reservoir as a testbed.
Stan moved from University of California Irvine to Virginia Tech in 2018, and became Director of the Lab in 2022.