Research Areas

Environmental Engineering

Environmental engineering seeks to study and minimize the impact of anthropogenic processes on the environment. The focus of our department in this research area is:

Air Quality
& Climate

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Research includes:

  • Advancing aerosol science and technology that underlie the formation, growth, measurement and modeling of systems of small particles in gases
  • Air quality planning and management
  • Ambient air quality and health effects
  • Climate effects of aerosols
  • Development of advanced aerosol sensors and instruments, data retrieval algorithms, and measurement networks
  • Indoor air quality
  • Green engineering including life cycle assessments
  • Satellite remote sensing and global modeling of atmospheric composition

Advancing understanding of processes affecting air quality and climate with an emphasis on aerosols.

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Environmental Chemistry
& Microbiology

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Research includes:

  • Environmental genomics and metagenomics
  • Environmental transport and fate of agrochemicals
  • Contaminant fate and transport
  • Subsurface biogeochemical processes
  • Critical element geochemistry
  • Nucleation
  • Nanoscale interfacial chemistry
  • Environmental organic chemistry

Providing deeper understanding of natural and engineered environmental processes via frontier research in environmental chemistry and microbiology and developing novel technologies and solutions for sustainable environments.

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Water Quality
& Resource Recovery

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Research includes:

  • Drinking water treatment and supply
  • Corrosion control
  • Wastewater treatment
  • Managed aquifer recharge
  • Controlling harmful algal blooms
  • Membrane processes
  • Biotechnology
  • Nutrients and critical elements recovery
  • Fate and transport of natural and engineered nanomaterials

Address water-related social and economic challenges through developing advanced technologies and strategies, improving the efficiency of water and wastewater treatment, and recovering valuable resources from wastewater towards a circular economy.

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