Faculty Research Interests/Publications
Environmental Engineering
Ernest R. Blatchley
Physico/chemical processes of environmental engineering. Current research foci include disinfection processes for water and wastewater, UV-based advanced oxidation/reduction processes, swimming pool chemistry, UV disinfection of air and surfaces, water supply in developing countries.
Inez Hua
Water treatment, fate and transport of chemical contaminants, inorganic and organic environmental chemistry, groundwater and soil remediation, sustainability, and industrial ecology.
Robert B. Jacko
Air pollution management and control, transportation noise problems, environmental occupational safety and health.
Loring F. Nies
Aerobic and anaerobic biotransformation for organic pollutants, microbially-mediated reductive dehalogenation, in-situ bioremediation, molecular techniques for assessing bioremediation.
Amisha Shah
Evaluating chemical reaction kinetics and byproduct formation during disinfection (e.g. chlorination, ozonation, and UV treatment) and evaluating mass transport mechanisms and contaminant rejection during membrane filtration.
Andrew J. Whelton
Dr. Whelton and his team investigates and solves problems that affect our natural and built environments. His expertise focusses on environmental chemistry and engineering, disasters, polymer science and engineering, water quality, infrastructure, and public health.
Plumbing Safety website
Cured-in-Place-Pipe (CIPP) Safety website
David J. Yu
David's research centers on the resilience of complex coupled systems (e.g., engineered-social, socio-hydrological, social-ecological, or coupled natural and human systems) to unexpected, emergent shocks, and how biophysical and institutional factors interact to shape the dynamics of such coupled systems. He examines these interactions to understand the conditions for building sustainable communities from local to global scales in the face of global change. David brings diverse knowledge sets together to engage in this research: systems thinking and modeling, collective action and the commons, and human behavior, among others. His research methods include mathematical and computational modeling, case study analysis, and behavioral experiments.
George (Zhi) Zhou
Environmental microbiology and the application of biotechnologies in engineering systems
Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory