Kathleen Trauth
Associate Professor
Hydraulics on the landscape and as impacting biological systems; Landscape-based wetlands analysis; Regulatory compliance and public policy; Stormwater management
Kathleen Trauth is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and is an associate with the School of Natural Resources’ Center for Watershed Management and Water Quality. She is also serves as one of the College of Engineering’s Faculty Fellows for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity. Dr. Trauth received the Watershed Management Achievement Award from the Missouri Water Environment Association in 2021.Her research area is the modeling of stormwater runoff, particularly on the landscape, where the treatment of flow hydraulics has traditionally been ignored. This modeling is accomplished with GIS and can be used to inform decision making for wetland management—both wetland preservation and the establishment of mitigation wetlands. Her research is also intended to inform regulatory and policy discussions.
Trauth came to the University of Missouri with more than a decade of experience at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the New Mexico Environment Department. She has received funding from NASA, Raytheon, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Missouri Department of Transportation and the Missouri Department of Conservation, through which she collaborates with colleagues across campus. She is the Founder and President of Infiltronics Environmental LLC, a company she started to commercialize a stormwater management device. She is a licensed professional engineer in Missouri and New Mexico.
