Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost
George Hornberger
George M. Hornberger is the Ernest H. Ern Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and a former Associate Dean for the Sciences (2002-2006). He is the current President of the Hydrology Section of the American Geophysical Union and the chair of the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources of the National Research Council. He has served on several advisory boards, including chair of the NRC Committee on the Review of EarthScope, NRC Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, and a member of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. He was the editor of Water Resources Research from 1993-1997. His honors include membership of the National Academy of Engineering (1996), ISI Highly Cited Researcher (2000), Biennial Medal for Natural Systems, Australia (1999), the USGS John Welsey Powell Award for Citizen’s Achievement (1995), elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America and Association of Women in Science, AGU Excellence in Geophysical Education award (1999), and Virginia’s Outstanding Scientist (2007), among others.
Hornberger’s research aims to understand the hydrological processes that affect transport of dissolved and suspended constituents through catchments and aquifers. His current projects include studies of how colloids are mobilized and transported through the vadose zone, how weathering products such as silica are transported through forested catchments and how the riparian zone in a coastal plain stream affects nitrogen fate and transport.
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