Siva Rama Satyam Bandaru
Postdoctoral researcher
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Research Areas: Arsenic Remediation, Applications of electrochemistry in water treatment
Sample Projects: Pilot Scale Field trials of Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR) in India
James Barazesh
PhD
Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Electrochemical Water Treatment
Sample Projects: Advanced Oxidation Processes enabled by cathodic hydrogen peroxide production and Mechanism of Electrochemical Organic Contaminant Degradation in the presence of halide and carbonate ions.
Samantha Bear
PhD
Environmental Engineering, Sedlak Lab
Research Areas: Areas of research/expertise: Water chemistry, trace organic contaminants, natural treatment systems
Sample Projects: Prado demonstration scale open-water wetlands for wastewater polishing, vegetated wetlands for wastewater polishing
Tom Bruton
PhDCivil and Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: My research involves environmental chemistry and groundwater remediation
Sample Projects: In situ chemical oxidation of organic groundwater contaminants: new insights for perfluoroalkyl acid and AFFF remediation and peroxide-activated persulfate.
Aidan Cecchetti
PhDCivil and Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Nutrient cycling in natural systems and environmental chemistry
Sample Projects: The Oro Loma Project/Subsurface flow wetlands.
Joe Charbonet
PhDCEE/Environmental Engineering/Water Quality
Research Areas: Stormwater Quality/Trance Organic Contaminants
Sample Projects: Reactive Geomedia for Passive Treatment of Organic Stormwater Contaminants
Karina A. Chavarria
PhDEnvironmental Engineering
Research Areas: Drinking water and sanitation in developing countries, Microbial ecology of built environments
Sample Projects: Microbial Ecology of Drinking Water Distribution Systems Under Intermittent Water Supply
Katya Cherukumilli
PhD
Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Drinking water provision in rural India, Development engineering, novel adsorbents
Sample Projects: An Ultra Low-Cost Approach to Remediate Groundwater Fluoride Contamination in India
Alasdair Cohen
Project Scientist and Environmental Health Researcher
Berkeley Water Center and the College of Natural Resources
Research Areas: Drinking water supply and treatment in rural areas; Water and development policy; Environmental Health; Indicator design and evaluation (and poverty metrics); China
Sample Projects: Recreational water quality & environmental health in the Philippines, Berkeley/China-CDC Program for Water & Health (multiple ongoing and planned projects), Evaluating Household Water Treatment in Rural China, The Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT) with the United Nation’s IFAD
Emily Cook
Civil and Environmental EngineeringPhD Student
Research areas: per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), chemical oxidation, bioremediation
Sample projects: In situ chemical oxidation of PFAS in a contaminated groundwater aquifer
Sharada Prasad CS
PhDEnergy and Resources Group
Research Areas: Water and Sanitation access in low income countries, Nutrient recovery from human waste, Sanitation work and Indian caste system
Sample Project: Opportunities and Barriers for reusing fecal sludge in Indian agriculture
Caroline Delaire
PhDEnvironmental Engineering
Research Areas: Arsenic and microbe removal from groundwater; behavior change and adoption of safe water options in low-income communities.
Sample Projects: Access to safe water in the Bengal Basin
Asavari Devadiga
PhD
City and Regional Planning
Areas of Research/Expertise: Water infrastructure planning & governance, environmental planning, hydrology, water/wastewater quality, stormwater, NPDES permits
Sample Projects: Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project, Richmond Advanced Recycled Water Project (with EBMUD), Urban water service delivery (India), Water and Sanitation Infrastructure in urban informal settlements (Kenya), Reforms in water governance in Latin America and Asia.
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Yanghua Duan
PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Electrochemistry, Advanced oxidation processes, and Trace organic contaminants removal
Sample projects: Electrochemical Advanced Oxidation for Urban Stormwater Treatment and Recharge
Erica Fuhrmeister
PhDCivil and Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Water and sanitation in low and middle income countries, environmental microbiology, pathogen transmission
Sample Projects: R01 Sanitation Impact Study
Sara Glade
PhD
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Drinking water treatment technologies for low-income regions in the US, iron electrocoagulation, environmental justice, inorganic contaminants, scaling up technologies
Sample projects: Field trial of ElectroChemical Arsenic Remediation in Allensworth, CA
Hannah Greenwald
PhD StudentCivil and Environmental Engineering Department
Research Areas: Environmental microbiology, Direct Potable Reuse, WASH, Wastewater reuse, Biofilms, Simulated distribution systems
Sample Projects: Impacts to distribution system microbiology after the transition to potable reuse, Nutrient recovery from source-separated urine.
Lukas Hackl
PhD studentCivil and Environmental Engineering
Researh Areas: Investigation of Electrically Regenerated Ion Exchange (ERI) electrodes for brackish water desalination
Sasha Harris-Lovett
PhD
Energy and Resources Group
Research Areas: Water recycling, decision-making about water infrastructure, science communication
Sample Projects: Beyond User Acceptance: A legitimacy framework for potable water reuse in California; Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Sustainable Nutrient Management
Dana Hernandez
PhD StudentCivil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Iron-electrocoagulation, virus removal and inactivation
Sample projects: Arsenic remediation technology for societal impact
Christopher Hyun
PhDEnergy & Resources Group
Research Areas: Water Governance, South Asia, Urban Water Utilities, Street-Level Bureaucracy, and Ganga River Basin
Sample Projects: Why Street Level Bureaucrats “Comply”: Insights from an ICT Intervention in India’s Urban Water Sector (Development Impact Lab/USAID) and Sustainable Indian Water Infrastructure Project: A Systems Approach (Institute for South Asia Studies/Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative)
Seigi Karasaki
PhD student
Energy and Resources Group
Research areas: drinking water access, environmental justice, collective action, machine learning
Sample projects: Predicting “hidden” vulnerabilities in California: system-level water quality violations
Olga Kavvada
PhD
Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate/Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Water/Wastewater infrastructure management, Decentralized water reuse assessment, Life-cycle assessment, Environmental and economic assessment, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Decision-making tools
Sample Projects: Feasibility assessment of the off-the-grid water/wastewater infrastructure
Lauren Kennedy
PhD Student
Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Wastewater reuse, microbial water quality, flow cytometry for drinking water systems, biofilms in distribution systems, and microbial communities in water treatment systems and impact of chlorination
Sample Projects: Surveying the Microbial Quality of US Drinking Water Systems Using Flow Cytometry and Microbiology in Direct Potable Reuse Systems
Mason King
Lab Manager for Lisa Alvarez-Cohen
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Biological nutrient removal, ANaerobic AMMonium OXidizing (ANAMMOX) Bacteria, life-cycle assessment
Sample Projects: Semi-continuous stirred tank reactors for high growth-rate anammox, life cycle assessment applied to side-stream anammox
Arkadeep Kumar
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Berkeley Lab Energy Technologies Area
ITRI-Rosenfeld Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Areas: Materials and manufacturing of electrodes for Electrochemical Water treatment, Iron-electrocoagulation, Electrically Regenerated Ion exchange with capacitive deionization
Sample Project: Reliable electrodes for capacitive deionization with sustainable materials, Removing silica from produced water to reduce fouling of membranes in desalination, Surfaces of electrodes in air-cathode assisted iron-electrocoagulation
Florybeth La Valle
Postdoctoral Researcher
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Research areas: Spatially and temporally explicit analyses pertaining to coastal communities and water quality parameters, effects of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) on benthic communities
Sample projects: Effects of SGD on community composition and productivity of coral reefs, SGD-derived nutrient uptake in coastal ecosystems, decadal and inter-island community assessments of Hawaii’s intertidal ecosystems, building undergraduate level marine- and field-based research curricula and programs
Beatriz Rodriguez-Labajos
Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow (Visiting researcher)
Energy and Resources Group /Institut of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Research areas: Ecological Economics, Water Justice, Water conflicts, Environmental activism, and Social movements
Sample Projects: CLAMOR (environmental Conflicts through the Lens of Artwork and Multimedia in waterscape transformations, 797444-CLAMOR- H2020-MSCA-IF-2017) analyses forms of creative activism in four case-studies of US and Colombia. The project also compiles similar data about transformative or restorative initiatives under violent conditions in water-related conflicts.
Gabriel Lobo
PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Lead electrochemistry, lead leaching prevention
Sample projects: An electrochemical method to prevent lead leaching into the drinking water supply
Emily Marron
PhD
Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Water reuse, environmental chemistry, photochemistry
Sample Projects: Low molecular weight compounds in direct potable water reuse
Scott Evan Miller
PhD
Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Wastewater reuse; environmental microbiology; biological stability of drinking water; flow cytometry
Sample Projects: Impact of wastewater advanced treatment processes on the microbiology of direct potable reuse systems
Mohit Nahata
Research and Development Engineer
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Iron-electrocoagulation for chromium and arsenic removal from water
Sample projects: Arsenic remediation technology implementation in the Philippines, Removal of heavy metals in ash-ponds from coal fired power plants
Daniel Ocasio
PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Electrochemical drinking water treatment
Sample projects: Point-of-use nitrate reduction
Kevin Orner
Postdoctoral Researcher
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Nutrient management, water, and sanitation in low and middle-income countries
Sample projects: NSF InFEWS project on recovery of nutrients from concentrated waste streams and production of fertilizer products
Angela Perantoni
PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Trace organic contaminant transformation, environmental chemistry, and natural treatment systems/constructed wetlands
Sample projects: The Oro Loma Horizontal Levee/subsurface treatment
Sidney Poon
PhD student
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Environmental applications of materials science
Current project: Heavy metal sensor development
Rachel Scholes
PhD Student
Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Treatment wetlands, water reuse, brine management, photochemistry
Sample projects: Treatment of reverse osmosis concentrate from potable water reuse
Marc Teixido Planes
Postdoctoral Researcher
Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Environmental chemistry; water quality; organic pollutant fate in underground and aquatic environments; transport and adsorption mechanisms; soil remediation
Sample Projects: Stormwater Capture and Reuse: Methodologies, models, and materials for predictable removal of chemicals from stormwater during distributed recharge
Minerva Teli
PhD Student
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Environmental chemistry, water treatment materials, applications of green chemistry in water treatment systems
Sample project: Integrating Heavy Metal Removal into Solar Desalination