Alma Bartholow
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
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
Yoshika Crider
PhD StudentEnergy and Resources Group
Research Areas: safe drinking water access, South Asia, WASH, epidemiology and trial design, low-cost drinking water treatment
Sample Projects: Taste detection and acceptability thresholds for chlorine residual in drinking water in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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
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
Dana Hernandez
PhD StudentCivil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Iron-electrocoagulation, virus removal and inactivation
Sample projects: Arsenic remediation technology for societal impact
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
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
Scarlet-Marie Kilpatrick
PhD student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Brackish Water Desalination & Reverse Osmosis Concentrate Management
Current project: Membrane scaling reduction for improved brine management and water recovery via silica precipitation
Emily Kraemer
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
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
Daniel Ocasio
PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Electrochemical drinking water treatment
Sample projects: Point-of-use nitrate reduction
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
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