Alma Bartholow
PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Microbial communities in distribution systems, wastewater-based epidemiology, environmental microbiology
Projects: Accelerating the application of wastewater-based epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 for regional public health decision making
Camille Brule
PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
camille_brule@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Closing the sanitation equity gap in developing contexts, Nutrient recovery from human waste.
Projects: Ammonium extraction from urine for fertilizer production
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
Projects: Taste detection and acceptability thresholds for chlorine residual in drinking water in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Anthony DeSalvo
PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
anthony_desalvo@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: PFAS, Nature-Based Water Treatment
Projects: PFAS Removal from Wastewater and Wastewater Reuse Concentrate using a Subsurface Wetland (The Horizontal Levee)
Scarlet-Marie Kilpatrick
PhD student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
scarlet_kilpatrick@berkeley.edu
Research areas: Nature-based water treatment systems, constructed wetlands, diatom mediated processes
Projects: Assessing the Potential for Nutrient Removal and Recovery from Varied Water Sources with Unit-process Wetlands, Treatment of Reverse Osmosis Concentrate Produced During Brackish Groundwater Desalination with a Nature-Based Treatment System
Emily Kraemer
PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Inland desalination concentrate management
Projects: Reduced scaling potential and resource recovery via removal of sparingly soluble salts; Life-cycle assessment of conventional ZLD versus brine pipeline
Jeremy Lowe
PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
j_lowe@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Global water, sanitation, and hygiene In-line chlorination
Projects: Understanding environmental pathogen transmission pathways in low-resource settings Developing and scaling in-line chlorination technologies in India and Kenya
Allie Nguyen
PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
allienguyen@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Wastewater-based Surveillance
Projects: Pandemic Readiness and Equity through Virus Epidemiology of Wastewater (PREViEW)
Li-Wen (Audrey) Wang
PhD Student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
liwen.wang@berkeley.edu
Research Areas:Environmental microbiology; Virus evolution; Wastewater surveillance of human pathogens.
Projects: Designing a bioinformatic tool for detecting influenza in wastewater for pandemic preparedness