Neal E. Armstrong
Professor and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Zarrow Centennial Professorship in Engineering
Phone: (512) 232-3305
Fax: (512) 475-7385
Email: neal_armstrong@mail.utexas.edu
Dr. Neal E. Armstrong earned his Ph.D. in engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1968. He joined the faculty of the College of Engineering in 1971.
In January 2004, Dr. Armstrong became the University’s first vice provost for faculty affairs. He enhances academic excellence and finds ways to make the University a more welcoming, supportive, and informative place for faculty. Armstrong oversees the Faculty Initiative Program, aimed at hiring 300 new faculty members over a 10-year period. Over the years, Armstrong researched water quality management in coastal and inland waters. He is best known for work on managing estuaries, especially determining freshwater inflows to estuaries, and the analysis of inland and coastal water eutrophication, or the enrichment of aquatic systems with chemical nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. Within the past two decades, Armstrong has studied the impacts of City of Austin wastewater discharges on the Colorado River, and researched water quality issues in Texas’s Galveston Bay, Corpus Christi Bay, and the Trinity River Basin. He has also studied eutrophication in northwestern U.S. waters.
Research Interests:
- Water quality management
- Water quality analysis and modeling
- Analysis of water quality legislation and regulations
- Water pollution ecology