PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Microbial communities in distribution systems, wastewater-based epidemiology, environmental microbiology
Current Project: Accelerating the application of wastewater-based epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 for regional public health decision making
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
PhD Student
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
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
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
PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Inland desalination concentrate management
Sample projects: Reduced scaling potential and resource recovery via removal of sparingly soluble salts; Life-cycle assessment of conventional ZLD versus brine pipeline
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
PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Electrochemical drinking water treatment
Sample projects: Point-of-use nitrate reduction
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