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
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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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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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