Research
Current Projects
1. Water security: Evaluation of drinking water system challenges and cost implications to assess preparedness for wildfire in the Western US
Funding Agency: United States Forest Service (USFS)
2. Monitoring and managing microbial water quality for food safety: Characterization of wildfire ash runoff contamination potential of agricultural waters
Funding Agency: United State Department of Agriculture
3. Collaborative Research: Evaluating the Unique Composition, Environmental Stability, and Export of Dissolved Pyrogenic Organic Matter in Wildfire-Impacted Watersheds
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF), Environmental Engineering
4. Ensuring Water Security with Increasing Wildfire Threats in the Western US: Drinking Water Treatment and Ecosystem Services
Funding Agency: United States Forest Service (USFS)
5. Sustainable Transformation of Environmental engineering Education for Modern society (STREEM)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments
6. Aiding water managers through a predictive ecohydrological modeling tool for assessing disturbance-induced runoff and water quality challenges
Funding Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ROSES
7. Evaluation of Emerging Plastics Recycling Technologies and Management Strategies
Funding Agency: Washington State Department of Ecology Waste to Fuels Technology
Past Projects
1. Implementing SCAMQ method 25.3 to Measure VOC Emissions from Composting
Funding Agency: Washington State Department of Ecology Waste to Fuels Technology
2. Post-fire water quality effects of biopolymer and polymer stabilization of burnt Washington Hillslopes USGS
Funding Agency: USGS National Institute for Water Resources State of Washington
3. Living with Fire- creating a network for interdisciplinary collaboration to advance wildfire science and engineering excellence
Funding Agency: Office of Research, Washington State University
4. Demonstration of an Advanced Distillation and Nutrient Separation Processor for Dairy Wastewater
Funding Agency: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
5. Assessing the need for fire-related decision-support tools for water management in the Pacific Northwest, USA
Funding Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ROSES
6. Washington wildfires disrupt water quality: Are drinking water systems resilient
to climate change?
Funding Agency: USGS National Institute for Water Resources State of Washington
7. Demonstration of an Advanced Distillation and Nutrient Separation Processor for Dairy Wastewater
Funding Agency: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
8. Post-Fire Mulching Effects on Source Water Quality
Funding Agency: National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), USDA. Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
9. Evaluation of On-site and In-situ Treatment Alternatives for Contaminated Soils
Funding Agency: Illinois Center for Transportation
Analytical Expertise and Bench-scale Treatment Evaluations
Our lab characterizes water quality through routine and advanced methods. We perform bench-scale drinking water treatment studies to optimize conventional and advanced processes, and the effects on finished water quality, such as disinfection byproduct (DBP) formation