Nathan Howell is an associate professor of environmental engineering and the Bell Helicopter professor of engineering at West Texas A&M University (WTAMU). He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (2004) and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Houston (2012). He worked as an environmental engineering consultant in 2004-2006. He was a post-doctoral researcher at University of Houston in 2012-2013, and he has been on the faculty at WTAMU since 2013. His research interests have or do include water quality monitoring and modeling, environmental statistics, micropollutants, water use and resilience, novel biochars, and engineering education. He is an active member in Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR).