BeRCH role

Dr. Ming Ye is a co-investigator (co-I) of the Bioecological Center for Rural Children’s Health (BeRCH), and contributes to investigation of the pathway of pesticides and fertilizers from farmlands to groundwater and surface water. With a separate grant funded by EPA, he will conduct dye tracing experiments to identify the pathways, and collect water samples to measure environmental parameters such as ion concentrations. He will also work with the BeRCH team on community engagement and environmental education to support the study's objectives.

Personal Bio

Dr. Ming Ye is a Professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Since, and the Department of Scientific Computing at the Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. His research interests are groundwater numerical modeling, uncertainty assessment, karst hydrogeology, and environmental data science. He received a B.S. degree in Geology from the Nanjing University, China, in 1997. In 2002, he earned his Ph.D. degree in Hydrology from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. After graduation, he worked as a post-doc research associate in 2002-2004 at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Portland, OR; in 2004-2006, he worked as an Assistant Research Professor of the Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV. He joined Florida State University in 2007 as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011 and to Full Professor in 2016. He was elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America in 2012, and received an Early Career Award in 2012 from the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2015, he received a Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers. He served as an Associate Editor for Water Resources Research and Journal of Hydrology, and is serving as an Associate Editor for Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and Groundwater.