Keeping the environment and you healthy
Faculty are sought out for their expertise in water quality issues, drinking water treatment, water reuse, biological treatment, salinity/brine disposal, public health engineering, sustainable cities, urban water cycle, green chemistry and engineering, urban metabolism and exposure assessment, risk assessment, decision analysis, environmental microbiology, modeling and data analysis, bio-degradation of toxic compounds, intestinal microbial ecology-obesity, intestinal microbial ecology-autism, bio-energy and bio-prospecting/microbial metabolic exploration and analytical chemistry in environmental engineering.
Researchers are known for their work in environmental geochemistry, the food, water and energy nexus, biochemical pathway discovery, large-scale algae cultivation, algae-based wastewater treatment systems, algal strain characterization, environmental biotechnology, biofilms, resource recovery, modeling, microbial ecology, electrochemical water treatment, adsorption and in-situ electro-regeneration; statistical modeling, nanotechnology, impacts to groundwater resources from leaking underground storage tanks, oxygen injection technologies for in-situ permeable reactive barriers, antibiotic and metal resistance in bacteria, environmental endocrine disruption, wastewater epidemiology, and solid waste management.
Research specialties include soil and groundwater microbial processes, microbial chain elongation, bioremediation of halogenated compounds, petroleum hydrocarbons and heavy metals, conversion of biomass to biochemicals, microbial kinetics and bioreactors for environmental biotechnology.