Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Thursday, 22/June/2023
7:30am
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5:00pm
Reg-R: Registration Desk Open
Location: Curry Student Center - Main Atrium
8:00am
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9:15am
Plenary 2: The Evolving Role of Environmental Engineers and Scientists in the context of Climate Change
Location: Ell Hall - Blackman Auditorium
Chair: Caitlyn Butler
9:30am
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10:30am
Networking Coffee Break 2: Networking Coffee Break
Location: Curry Student Center - Main Atrium
9:30am
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11:30am
Workshop - R1: Earth Systems to Anthropocene Systems: An Evolutionary, System-of-Systems, Convergence Paradigm for Interdependent Societal Challenges
Location: Egan Research Center - Raytheon
Workshop - R2: Chinese American Professors in Environmental Engineering and Science (CAPEES) Award Ceremony and Workshop on International Collaboration
Location: Richards Hall - Room 236
Workshop - R3: Enhancing Participatory Equity in the Classroom using Data Analytics and Self-reflection
Location: Curry Student Center - McLeod Suites (Room 318-320-322)
Workshop - R4: New NSF Funding Opportunities: Partnership for Innovation and Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)
Location: Shillman Hall - Room 305
Workshop - R5: Environmental Engineering Program Leaders (EEPL) Workshop
Location: Curry Student Center - Room 333
     
10:30am
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12:30pm
Posters - Thurs: Thursday Poster Session
Location: Curry Student Center - Main Atrium and Ballroom
Chair: Matthew Eckelman
 

Silica scaling control by greenly synthesized, affordable MOFs in brackish water desalination processes

Ni, Pan; Fox, John T.



Renewable biomass reinvigorates sustainable water-energy nexus

Chen, Hongxu; Xu, Jiatao; Lin, Hailong; Ren, Zhiyong Jason; Zhang, Leli; Wang, Zihan; Yip, Ngai Yin; Liu, Zhidan



No silver bullet: assessing the impacts of silver-containing showerheads on the drinking water microbiome

Pitell, Sarah; Huffman, Daniel; Moncure, Paige; Millstone, Jill; Stout, Janet; Gilbertson, Leanne; Haig, Sarah-Jane



A Critical Review of Data Science Applications in Resource Recovery and Carbon Capture from Organic Waste

Zaki, Mohammed Tamim; Rowles, Lewis Stetson; Orner, Kevin



Predicting nutrient recovery efficiency of struvite precipitation using digestate derived from multiple organic feedstocks

Aldaach, Haidar; Zaki, Mohammed Tamim; Orner, Kevin



Tuning the surface functionality of polyamide films via termination reaction in molecular layer-by-layer deposition

Stafford, Christopher M; Guan, Xun; Qi, Yarong; Zhang, Yue; Liu, Xitong



Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Hydrothermal Waste Sludge Valorization Systems

Feng, Jianan; Li, Yalin; Strathmann, Timothy J.; Guest, Jeremy S.



Chemical and Microbial Water Quality Impacts of a Wildland-Urban Interface Fire: Coastal Fire, Orange County, CA

Olivares, Christopher; Morgan, Lyssa



The Role of Free-living Amoeba in the Fate and Transport of Multi-drug Resistant Bacteria in Drinking Water Systems

Rao, Jennifer; Jellison, Kristen



Shedding light on the drinking water microbiome and their lifestyles

Sridhar Sudarshan, Ashwin; Dai, Zihan; Gabrielli, Marco; Pinto, Ameet



Validating Well Model Estimates in Wake County, NC

Tang, Tiffany; Jones, Nathan; Kane, Evan; Mize, Wilson; Beighley, Edward; Pieper, Kelsey



Assessing the Potential for Remotely Sensed Discharge to Estimate Carbon Fluxes for Ungauged Rivers

Gehring, Jaclyn; Beighley, Ed; Stubbins, Aron; Griffin, Claire; Spencer, Rob; Frey, Karen



Monitoring phytoplankton in the Great Lakes using a low-cost autonomous microscope: challenges and opportunity

Khan, Farhan; Gincley, Benjamin; Busch, Andrea; Tolofari, Dienye L; Norton Jr, John W; Varga, Emily; McKay, R Michael; Fuentes-Cabrera, Miguel; Slawecki, Tad; Verhamme, Edward M; Pinto, Ameet J



The role of phage communication genes in their life cycle: analysis of metagenomic sequencing data from aerobic and anaerobic membrane bioreactors

Al-Faliti, Mitham; Wang, Phillip; Smith, Adam; Delgado Vela, Jeseth



The Tidal DOMino Effect: Deciphering the Role of Tidal Outwelling in Dissolved Organic Matter Composition in a Salt Marsh Creek

Fiss, Mackenzie; Stubbins, Aron; Dittmar, Thorsten; Seidel, Michael



Do the products formed as plastics photodegrade in sunlight inhibit aquatic microbes?

Ramos, Karina; Stubbins, Aron



In situ activated carbon amendment to limit toxic equivalency measure of dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls congeners in contaminated sediment – a mesocosm study with three organisms 

Wang, Alice Peiying; Fernandez, Loretta Ana



Economic and Environmental Comparison of Emerging Plastic Waste Management Technologies

Liu, Xinyi Lily; Johnson, Jeremiah X.



Stability of Wildfire Ash Particle and Effects on Water Quality

Rodela, Mrittika Hasan; Chowdhury, Indranil; Hohner, Amanda Kay



Effect of Dissolved Pyrogenic Organic Matter on the Growth of Aquatic Microorganisms

Promi, Saraf Islam; Gardner, Courtney M.



The Contribution of Urban Trees to Dissolved Organic Matter Cycling in the Environment

Milne, Patrick; Stubbins, Aron



Analysis of Throughfall Dissolved Organic Matter

Boccuzzi, Haley; Milne, Patrick; Stubbins, Aron



Using consumer sales data to improve estimates of when and where plastic enters the environment

Vandale, Nicole; Zhu, Lixin; Stubbins, Aron; Welsh, Amanda



Evaluation of Physicochemical Treatment Technologies for Landfill Leachate Induced Dissolved Organic Nitrogen (DON)

Rashid, Md Redowan; Ahmed, Md Ashik; Rossignol, Karen; Sloup, Randy; Paerl, Hans; Zhao, Renzun



Review of Fungal Pathogens and Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment of Inhalation Exposure to Coccidioides Spp.

Kahn, David A; Chen, William; Linden, Yarrow; Corbeil, Karalee A.; Lowry, Sarah; Higham, Ciara; Mendez, Karla S.; Burch, Paige; DiFondi, Taylor; Verhougstraete, Marc; Galgiani, John; Haas, Charles N.; Gerba, Charles; Hamilton, Kerry A.



Sustainable boron and arsenic removal using nature-based wetland pretreatment in combination with nanofiltration

Wang, Weishi; Wilson, Colin; Peel, Henry; Gidley, Nicholas; Garza, Maximilian; Vanneste, Johan; Vanzin, Gary; Sharp, Jonathan



Destationarizing climate signatures in satellite-derived terrestrial water storage anomalies to enable streamflow modeling

Duvvuri, Bhavya; Beighley, Edward



Sustainable Sorbic Acid Production via Triacetic Acid Lactone from Lignocellulosic Biomass

Bhagwat, Sarang S.; Dell'Anna, Marco N.; Li, Yalin; Cortes-Pena, Yoel R.; Brace, Emma C.; Cao, Mingfeng; Huber, George W.; Zhao, Huimin; Guest, Jeremy S.



Development of Fluorescent Sensor using MoS2 Nanostructures for Lead Detection

Teli, Minerva; Mi, Baoxia



Methane Gas Driven Generation of Fixed Nitrogen Using Diazotrophic Methanotroph-Microbial Communities at Elevated Oxygen Concentrations

Jordache, Lydia Anne; Dawood, Ray; Smith, Christy; Hyman, Michael; Call, Douglas Franklin



Understanding effects of Peracetic acid (PAA) pre-oxidation on disinfection by-product formation

Kim, Soon-Mi; Reckhow, David A.



Impacts Physical And Biochemical Conditions On Acclimation Of Pilot-Scale Biological Manganese Filters

Mai, Xuyen; Tobiason, John



Utilizing Thermal Proteome Profiling (TPP) to detect contaminant degrading enzymes in microorganisms.

Chacha, Wambura; Tran, Huu-Tuan; Hutchison, Justin



Engineers Without Borders - Facing the Challenges of Remote Implementation

Tooker, Nick; Lane, Colby; Giaya, Andy; Dean, Devin



Low-Energy Inland Brackish Water Desalination in Arid Climates through Optimized Reverse Osmosis and Nanofiltration filtration system configurations

Tariqi, Arianna Quinn; Hickenbottom, Kerri; Karanikola, Vasiliki; Straub, Anthony; Cruzado, Luis



Effect of biochar on nutrient and contaminant removal processes in activated sludge

Dorner, Mariah; Nguyen, Allie; Rettler, Anna; Carlson, Jenae; Behrens, Sebastian



Polystyrene Nanoplastics Induce Manganese Oxidation under Sunlight

Gao, Zhenwei; Chou, Ping-I; Liu, Jing; Zhu, Yaguang; Jun, Young-Shin



Mapping PFAS Occurrence, Fate, and Transport in the Pittsburgh Region

Kulak, Meredith; Ng, Dr. Carla



Decreasing Toxicity of DBPs in Drinking Water Through Light Driven Reactions

Sun, Yue {Sophie}; Lopes, Mariana; Reckhow, David



Passive Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems for Coastal Communities using Seawater-Flushing Toilets

Delgado, Daniel A; Grant, Tione; Trotz, Maya A; Ergas, Sarina J



Impacts of Zooplankton Filter Feeding on Sunlight Disinfection

Wang, Jackie; Aryal, Ojaswi; Brownstein, Lucy; Shwwa, Hadeel; Rickard, Adeline; Stephens, Alexandra; Lanzarini-Lopes, Mariana; Ismail, Niveen



Virus log reduction values for secondary biological treatment: Toward regulatory crediting in potable reuse applications

Wang, Phillip; Hill, Tyler; Gerrity, Daniel



Responses of Various C/N Ratios to Nitrogen Metabolic Pathways in Aerobic Granular Sludge Reactor

Zou, Xin; Gao, Mengjiao; Mohammed, Abdul Nayeem; Liu, Yang



Cleaning Up the Nation’s Hazardous, Radioactive, and Toxic Waste (HRTW) Sites

Apell, Jennifer



Mechano-enzymatic hydrolysis of poly(ethylene terephthalate)

Kamal, Suprio; Rahman, Ehsanur; Xiong, Boya



Biocatalytic Depolymerization of Biopolymers

Mang, Ngun Za Luai; Hutchison, Justin M.; Sean, Najmi; Vlachos, Dionisios G.



Evaluation of adsorbable organic fluorine (AOF) and extractable organic fluorine (EOF) methods for the assessment of total PFASs in water

Pan, Yitong; Helbling, Damian



Towards Innovative and Green Wastewater Reclamation with Integrated Constructed Wetlands and Ferrate(VI) Treatment

Lin, Qiufeng; Abdel-Shafy, Hussein I.; Deng, Yang



Carbon Valorization Leveraged by a Dual-fiber System for Photocatalysis

Wang, Tzu-Heng; Lai, YenJung Sean; Doong, Ruey-an; Westerhoff, Paul; Rittmann, Bruce



Feedback Control of Denitrifying Woodchip Bioreactors: Impacts on Cumulative Nitrate Load Reductions

Zhang, Zihao; Sang, Yi; Echavarria, Sofia; Israel, Jenna; Reid, Matthew



Physical and chemical changes of activated carbon in response to oxidative chemical treatments and their influence on electron exchange behavior

Quinn, Ethan Samuel; Knappe, Detlef; Call, Douglas



Systematic Review and Meta-analysis on the Sunlight Inactivation of Enveloped and Nonenveloped viruses in Natural and Laboratory Environment

Wang, Yiding; He, Greyson; Quete, Fernando; Loeb, Stephanie



An in-situ soil screening methodology to inform sustainable urban agriculture and minimize human exposure to harmful pollutants

Clos, Hayley; Chrysochoou, Marisa; Bompoti, Nefeli



Exploring novel strategies for the transformation of sargassum biomass from the Caribbean Sea into high value-added products

Juarez-Luna, Gregorio; Maldonado Ruiz-Esparza, Karina; Zamudio-Cortés, Gustavo; Gutiérrez, César Arturo; Pedraza-Segura, Lorena; Martínez-Gómez, Juan; Quevedo, Ivan Rafael



Concentration and accumulation history of PFAS in Jordan Lake Sediments

Sheppard, Nadia; McKee, Brent; Knappe, Detlef



Producing Caproate from Cattle Manure using Co-Fermentation with Corn Silage

Wen, Qu; Yin, Qidong; Li, Xu



Manganese Peroxidase supported by metal-embedded silica sol-gel.

Jimenez Vizcarra, Maria Jose; Wang, Meng



How does removing extracellular and "non-viable" cell DNA impact environmental antimicrobial resistance gene host assignment and hazard assessment?

Deshpande, Aishwarya Santosh; Fahrenfeld, Nicole



Influence of species heterogeneity on overall observed decay rates of indigenous wastewater bacteria

Mwatondo, Mwanarusi



Microbial extracellular metabolites: biomethane booster for granular activated carbon amended anaerobic reactors

Zhang, Yingdi; Bais, Carlo; Lee, Korris; Yuan, Yiyang; Zhang, Lei; Wang, Meng; Liu, Yang



Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Animal Agriculture by Mitigating Methane Emission and Producing Bioproducts from Animal Manure

Li, Xu; He, Ting; Yin, Qidong; Wen, Qu; Tan, Li



Modelling of Hexavalent Chromium Adsorption in Complex Systems

Okeke, Ogochukwu Deborah; Chrysochoou, Maria; Bompoti, Nefeli



Concerning Mental Health Challenges Among Engineering Students and Their Help-Seeking

Lan, Mei-Fang; Eisenberg, Daniel; Wu, Chang-Yu



Imaging and quantifying the biological uptake and transport of nanoplastics using a dual functional model material

Liu, Mingjiu; Das, Anupam; Guo, Huiyuan



Sequestering PFAS in concrete made with modified coal fly ash

Sakib, Sk Sadman; Kabir, Mosarrat Samiha; Mirmotalebi, Seyedali; Hamoush, Sameer; Zhao, Renzun



Examining land to water transport of high solubility pesticides using POCIS passive sampling techniques

Sparagna, Alanna; Knapp, Michael; Fernandez, Loretta



Utilizing Fermentation HAP Air Emissions for Optimizing Ethanol Plant Air ‎Treatment and Operations

Mahdavi Hezaveh, Mahyar; Dvorak, Bruce; Aly Hassan, Ashraf



Photochemical Oxidation of Manganese by Nitrate Photolysis and Mineral Photocatalysis under Oxic and Anoxic Conditions

Ryberg, Eric Christian; Hansel, Colleen; Ward, Collin; Wankel, Scott



Network synchronization reveals the diffusion and dynamics of fine particulate matters in San Francisco

Bashan, Nail; Mueller, Amy; Wang, Qi



A Rapid Assessment of Drinking Water in the Indiana Uplands Region

Del Rio, Michelle; Valliant, Julia; Davis, Ginger; Alde, Alyson; Kwan, Lauren



Ecological factors and processes driving the biogeography of the soil microbiome of the United States

Hepp, Shannon lynn; Liao, Jingqiu



Estimating the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Flood Damages

Rowan, Sebastian; Yeates, Elissa; Mo, Weiwei



Selection of microbial communities and assessment of their potential for aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation of PFAS compounds

Saifur, Sumaiya; Antle, Jonathan; Aguilar, John Michael; Vyverberg, Nisa; Hanin, Danya; Aga, Diana S.; Bradley, Ian M.



Plastics and their photochemical fate in the Earth system

Stubbins, Aron; Zhu, Lixin



Assessing the applicability of satellite-derived event rainfall characteristics for Hurricane Florence to identify likely microbial contamination in North Carolina private drinking wells

Bartuska, Elizabeth; Jones, Nate; Hochard, Jacob; Mize, Wilson; Goforth, Chris; Pieper, Kelsey; Beighley, Edward



Microplastics and PFAS in yard waste compost: occurrence and degradation

Saha, Biraj; Iskander, Syeed Md



Application of Mycoremediation to Reduce Escherichia Coli in Runoff

Miller, Sarah; Portoghese, Annie; Ismail, Niveen



Mechanistic Investigations of Thermal Decomposition of Perfluoroalkyl Ether Carboxylic Acids and Short-chain Perfluoroalkyl Carboxylic Acids

Alinezhad, Ali; Shao, Heng; Litvanova, Katerina; Sun, Runze; Kubatova, Alena; Zhang, Wen; Li, Yang; Xiao, Feng



Chromium removal from concentrated ammonium nitrate solution: electrocoagulation with iron in a plug-flow reactor

Costigan, Eliza; Wu, Siqi; Eckelman, Matthew; Fernandez, Loretta; Mueller, Amy; Alshawabkeh, Akram; Larese-Casanova, Philip



Sorption of cytostatic compounds to soils and the implications for mobility in groundwater

Schellenger, Alexandra Eileen Penney; Hansen, Martin; Ellegaard-Jensen, Lea; de Jonge, Lis Wollesen; Norgaard, Trine



Coupled Geochemical-geomechanical Alteration of Sandstone in CO2 Sequestration Reservoirs

Shi, Zhuofan; Montgomery, Jack; Garing, Charlotte; Beckingham, Lauren



The Detection of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Central, South and South-Central Texas, USA

Hardiman, Brandon; Mendoza-Sanchez, Itza; Pérez-Valdespino, Abigail; Edafetanure-Ibeh, Marcel



Development of LCMS Methods for PFAS Source Identification Using High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data

Knapp, Michael Bruce



Evaluating Hydroxyl Radical Generation of Nanobubble Under Ambient Conditions

Chae, Seung Hee; Kim, Min-Sik; Kim, Jae-Hong; Fortner, John



Whole Facility Energy Balances for Anaerobic Treatment Configurations: Shifting Paradigm from Aerobic to Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment

Pfluger, Andrew; Butkus, Michael; Linvill, Chelsea



Data Driven Approach to Enhance Street Sweeping in Urban Areas

Sheerin, Andrew



Hydrophobic aerogels for the removal of emerging contaminants

Karatum, Osman; Redfern, Lauren



The effect of pH on anaerobic palmitic acid degradation and growth of Syntrophonomas sp.

Funk, Julia Ann; Solon, Thomas; Popat, Sudeep



Neonicotinoid Contamination in Hydrogeologic Systems: The Depth Distribution of Neonicotinoid Insecticides Within the Midwestern Region.

Goedjen, Grant Joseph; Berens, Matthew; Capel, Paul; Arnold, William



Understanding Recent Trends in Microplastics’ Separation and Degradation from Water and Wastewater: Role of Advanced Oxidation Processes

Karami, Shafieh; Arce, Pedro



Water Quality after the Marshall Fire at the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)

Korak, Julie; Magliozzi, Lauren; Mansfeldt, Cresten; Petersen, Stefan; McCutchan, James; Ferrer, Imma; Thurman, E. Michael; Rosario-Ortiz, Fernando; McKnight, Diane



Mechanisms of PFAS sorption to activated carbon at sorption equilibrium

Joseph, Sarangi; Knappe, Detlef



Unlocking Interactions Governing the Adsorption of Emergent Contaminants onto Microplastics: An Integrated Macro-scale Experimental Modeling and Micro-scale Computational Simulation.

Djebbari, ''Khaled axel''; Li, Baikun; Shor, Leslie; D'Alleba Bouchain, James



Treated wastewater reuse for non-direct food consumption crops in Nebraska: barriers and benefits of irrigation lagoons

Moussavi, Sussan; Dvorak, Bruce



Effects of Diverse Environmental Factors on Polychlorinated Biphenyl Biodegradation Potential and Functional Gene Diversity in Contaminated Sediments

Ramotowski, David; Martinez, Andres; Mattes, Timothy



Free-Living Amoebae Diversity in Drinking Water and Investigating the Role of Preferential Grazing

Dowdell, Katherine; Potgieter, Sarah; Lee, Soojung; Song, Alex; Gabrielli, Marco; Olsen, Kirk; Vedrin, Matthew; LiPuma, John J.; Cambronne, Eric; Pinto, Ameet; Delafont, Vincent; Raskin, Lutgarde; Kirisits, Mary Jo



Hydrologic assessment of the sensitivity of surface water surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in urban watersheds with low sanitation coverage: A case study of Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Medina, Amparo Magdalena; He, Haoji; Palomo, Monica; Verbyla, Matthew; Mota, Cesar



Sustainability evaluation of azelaic acid from techno-economic analysis and environmental life cycle assessment of sustainable Azelaic acid production

Kudli, Lavanya; Cortés-Peña, Yoel R.; Yun, Danim; Flaherty, David W.; Guest, Jeremy S.



Influence of age of gas wells and sampling procedure on detection of siloxane in landfill gas

Chowdhury, Raziya Sultana; Giles, Tavien; Touch, Akira; Hoque, Shamia



Evaluation of PFAS occurrence, transformation and leaching behavior from biosolid-amended soils

Doria-Manzur, Alonso Andres; Guelfo, Jennifer



Shifting Paradigm from Aerobic to Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment: Visualizing Tradeoffs at the Water-Energy Nexus

Elle, Bennett; Pytlar, Alex; Galaitsi, Stephanie; Wait, Marley; Black, Annesley; Linvill, Chelsea; Butkus, Michael; Linkov, Igor; Pfluger, Andrew



Methane Control to Address Climate Change

Yang, Qingrun; Bielicki, Jeffrey M.



Impacts of Azoles on Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) Process under Different Substrate Conditions

Chen, Xiaojue; Li, Guangbin



Microbiome of potable reuse treatment train through genome-resolved metagenomics

Kantor, Rose; Miller, Scott; Kennedy, Lauren; Nelson, Kara



Graphene Oxide (GO)-based 2D Sorbent Materials for the Treatment of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Phosphate

Amin, Nafisa; Harry, Darrell I.; Jones, Jacob; Knappe, Detlef; Gao, Wei



Evaluating Cooling System Selections and Potential Onsite Water Reuse for Data Centers

Shinh, Reema; Hickenbottom, Kerri; Karimi, Leila



Impact of geological and operational conditions on heterogeneous subsurface systems: a case study on CO2-driven geothermal utilization systems

Leveni, Martina; Bielicki, Jeffrey M.; Ellis, Brian R.



The Release and Fate of Macroalgal Dissolved and Particulate Organic Matter

Vongrej, Cassandra; Stubbins, Aron; Zhu, Lixin; Gould, Jessica; McIntyre, Katy; Tune, Alison



Ultrasound as a Source Water Reservoir Management Strategy to Control Cyanobacteria Blooms

Tischer, Mark Andrew; Weaver, C.R.; Crafton, Elizabeth; Cheng, Chin-Min; Vehar, Ricky; Gill, Sam; Belleville, Tess; Weavers, Linda K.



Ultrasonic degradation of PFAS in ion-exchange and membrane filtration waste residuals

Fernandez, Haleigh Ann; Fagan, William P.; Weavers, Linda K.



Use of a Modified Indigo Method to Characterize Nanobubble Ozone Technology

Kuhn, Haley E.; Fagan, William P.; Deptola, Jack R.; Fuchs, Josh D.; Weavers, Linda K.



Additive manufacturing for nano-enabled water treatment technologies: Opportunities and challenges

Aich, Nirupam; Zhou, Chi; Bannochie, Connor; Tanim, Ehsan Ul Hoque; Wodo, Olga; Sali, Nutan Deepak; Sadmani, Anwar



Ungrading in an introductory Environmental Engineering course to improve student learning and agency.

Vadas, Timothy



Assessing the Impact of Microplastics on the Bioaccumulation of Silver Nanoparticles in Daphnia magna

Kamanmalek, Sara; Hutton, Hannah; MacDonald, Piper; Baalousha, Mohammed; Ismail, Niveen



Using fluorescence spectroscopy for high-frequency and real-time water quality monitoring in urban water systems

Shipley, Kenisha Marie; Mladenov, Natalie; Kinoshita, Alicia



Examining the Effect of Environmental Systems Conditions on Plastic Degradation Pathway and Inorganic Contaminant Sorption Potential

Pincus, Lauren N.; Pattammattel, Ajith; Leschev, Denis; Stavitski, Eli; Myneni, Satish C. B.



Growth of a nitrogen fixing phototroph Rhodopseudomonas palustris on waste from a commercial compost facility

Tran, Gia-Uyen L; McKone-Sweet, Maya E; Codrington, Aaron A; Huang, Jean J



Assessing the impact of iron-based advanced oxidation on natural organic matter

Soares, Jacira; Murray, Caitlin; Cretella, Katherine; Ellis, Carrie; Goodwill, Joseph



Sunlight inactivation of MS2 coliphage in algal matrices

Chiyenge, Mwale; Silverman, Andrea I.



Using Life Cycle Assessment to Quantify the Opportunity for Recycling Multilayer Plastic Packaging Waste in New York State

Mousania, Zeinab; Ferger, Christian; Tsianou, Marina; Alexandridis, Paschalis; Atkinson, John D.



Sunlight Photolysis of the Extracellular Antibiotic Resistance Gene ampR in Effluent Organic Matter

Dunn, Fiona Brigid; Rocha, Alma Yadira; Silverman, Andrea Idette



A low-cost portable air quality monitoring platform for high-res mapping of urban areas

Song, Ruifeng; Jennings, Amelia; Wang, Qi; Mueller, Amy



The impact of semi-continuous and alternating microbial feeding patterns on methane yield from UASB reactors

Yuan, Yiyang; Zhang, Lei; Zhang, Yingdi; Liu, Yang



The NC PFAST Network: Assessing distribution and sources of PFAS compounds in raw drinking waters of North Carolina

Ferguson, P. Lee; Knappe, Detlef R.U.; Sun, Mei; Joyce, Abigail S.; DeStefano, Noelle J.; Faught, Patrick W.; Getzinger, Gordon J.



Plastic block production from the recycling of plastic waste: occupational health and environmental impacts assessment through a life cycle assessment

Neba Nforsoh, Sirri Akongnwi; Oyanedel-Craver, Vinka; Kurtz, Kayla



Life Cycle and Techno-Economic Analysis of Stormwater Bioretention Cell Media Compositions

Weaver, Leah; Johnson, Jeremiah; Aziz, Tarek



Effects of solid residence time (SRT) and nutrient availability on mixed community membrane photobioreactor performance for wastewater treatment

Hodaei, Mahdi; Alam, Md Mahbubul; Siwa, Justin; Bradley, Ian M



Determining sediment porewater concentrations at the Palos Verdes Shelf Superfund site using ex-situ equilibration with polyethylene passive samplers

Farran, Sandy S.; Fernandez, Loretta; Handel, Nicole



Towards customized design of plastic media in IFAS systems to meet specific wastewater treatment plant needs.

Ivey, Jack; Schuler, Andrew



Development of a Bionanoreactor Approach to Accelerate the Carbonation of Calcium Ions for CO2 Sequestration

Ma, Yifei; Wang, Meng



Insights into membrane biofilms and their potential role in enhancing micropollutant degradation during mainstream anaerobic wastewater treatment

Harb, Moustapha; Ramadan, Lama; Sawaya, Christelle; Deeb, Reem; El Khoury, Charbel



Kinetic and transcriptomic response of Geobacter lovleyi strain SZ during respiration of tetrachloroethene and uranium

Herzer, Kelsie R.; Berg, Riley; Delgado, Anca



Seasonal and Geographical Variations of Antimicrobial Resistance in Oregon Wastewater

Ste. Marie, John Paul; Khorshidi, Marjan; Radniecki, Tyler; Waite-Cusic, Joy; Yiu, Sue Yee; Nguyen, Jacquelin; Navab-Daneshmand, Tala



Detection of Statin Drugs in Fish Near Wastewater Effluent Along the Tygart Valley River

Kotchey, Gregg P; Kingsbury, Joseph; Sanchez, David V. P.



Advancing Anaerobic Biotechnologies for Platform Chemical Recovery from Acid Whey Dairy Waste

Kitt, Dianna; Song, Hang; Shrestha, Shilva; Raskin, Lutgarde



Modeling the Contributions of Major Source Sectors to Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition in the United States

Akter, Sharmin; Wagstrom, Kristina



An Investigation Into Floc Blanket Removal Mechanisms For the Design of Hydraulic Fluidized Bed Clarifiers

Pennock, Andrew Philip; Pennock, William Henry; Weber-Shirk, Monroe Lee



Assessing the relative sustainability of point-of-use water disinfection technologies

Elijah, Bright C.; Plazas-Tuttle, Jaime; Rowles, Lewis Stetson



Development of novel tube-in-tube Donnan dialysis reactors for sustainable and efficient nutrient recovery

Chen, Hui; Souizi, Sahar; Stewart, Kaylyn; Amurrio, Fabian; Blaney, Lee



Developing a Framework for Sustainable Processing of Food Waste with Existing Anaerobic Digestion Infrastructure

Uddin, Md. Nizam; Hartog, Cassidy; Murray, Emma; Roberson, Lukas; Aslan, Asli; Cubas, Francisco; Rowles, Lewis Stetson



Multi-objective optimization of an integrated water-energy microgrid system

Ghasemi, Roozbeh; Wosnik, Martin; Foster, Diane; Mo, Weiwei



Time series shotgun metagenomic evaluation of grab, composite, and passive sampling methods for sewage surveillance

Graham, Katherine E.; Cha, Gyuhyon; Zhu, Kevin J.; Hatt, Janet K.; Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T.



Assessing distributional effects of coal-fired power plant retirement on pollution and health in the PJM region

Campos Morales, Carla; Peng, Wei; Pakhtigian, Emily; Landry, Joel



Thermodynamic and Kinetic Modeling of Lime Stabilized Kaolinite

Ahmadullah, Tasneem; Chrysochoou, Maria



Land management and air pollution impacts from wildland fires in the Southeastern U.S. under a changing climate

Johnson, Megan M.; Garcia Menendez, Fernando



Multi-Year Simulation of O3 and PM2.5 Using WRF-Chem over the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo

Schuch, Daniel; Zhang, Yang; Ibarra-Espinosa, Sergio; Andrade, Maria de Fatima; Gavidia Calderón, Mario; Bell, Michelle



URBAN STORMWATER RUNOFF – TESTING ONSITE METHODS FOR PHOSPHORUS MANAGEMENT

Raisah, Siti; Butler, Caitlyn; Jewell, Charlie; Mueller, Amy



Continuous Network-level Monitoring of Lead in a Distribution System

Pennock, William H.; Talebidalouei, Maryam; Burns, Mark A.



Microbial growth and horizontal gene transfer in point-of-use water filtration systems

Ken-Opurum, Ejike; Li, Rui; Hui, Wanyue; Zhou, Zhi



Electrochemical defluorination from groundwater

Fan, Qianyu; Zhou, Zhi



Risk assessment of virus-laden aerosols in a classroom under various ventilation conditions using a CFD approach

Seong, Dahae; Jung, Yoonhee; Islam, Md Tariqul; Chen, Yijie; Wilson, Amanda; Son, Young-Jun; Verhougstraete, Marc



Structural characterization of soil organic compounds that control carbon preservation in soils

Nyarko, Laurinda Korang; Boiteau, Rene; Nason, Jeffrey



Improved PM2.5 estimates in urban areas using a hybrid modeling system

Russell, Britney; Wagstrom, Kristina



Closing the Gap: Using Machine Learning to Predict Corporate Water Efficiencies from Financial Metrics

Tian, Mingyan; Adriaens, Peter



Equity of Access to Living Shorelines in Pinellas County: a GIS analysis

Cheek, Linden; Dixon, Barnali



Transport of Micro- and Nanoscale Plastics Through Porous Media: Role of Secondary Energy Minima

Shams, Mehnaz; Chowdhury, Indranil



Can Electrodialysis Be a Cost Competitive Alternative to Reverse Osmosis in Brackish Water Desalination?

Patel, Sohum; Lee, Boreum; Elimelech, Menachem



Preparation of low-cost waste-based material for CO2 capture and conversion

Kothari, Manisha



Transport of Microplastic and Dispersed Oil Co-contaminants: Effect of Salinity and Mineral Concentration in the Ocean

Yang, Min; Zhang, Baiyu; Lee, Kenneth; Chen, Bing



Challenges and opportunities in ultra-high pressure reverse osmosis operation

Wu, Jishan; Hoek, Eric



Trends of Seasonal and Annual Rainfall in the South-Central Climatic Zone of Bangladesh Using Mann-Kendall Trend Test

Islam, Md Tanvirul; Hasan, Rakibul; Hassan Shakif, Shanjidul; Hossain Kobi, Shabab



Chitosan as a Coagulant for Multi-Barrier Point of Use Water Treatment to Reduce Pathogens

Bailey, Emily; Sobsey, Mark



Study on abundance of MPs in freshwater in and around Dhaka city

Islam, Md Tanvirul; Oishi, Humaira Tasnim; Tasnim, Zarin; Karim, Md. Rezaul



Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting: Impact of Emissions and Chemical Boundary Conditions

Yang, Yiyue; Zhang, Yang; Zhang, Libo



Superior Performance of Convolutional Neural Network for Predicting PM2.5 Concentrations and Exceedances under Sparse Data Availability

Do, Khanh; Gao, Ziqi; Ivey, Cesunica



Hydrothermal Liquefaction to Convert Organic Wet Wastes to Transportation Fuels

Fonoll Almansa, Xavier; Thorson, Michael; Norton. Jr., John

12:00pm
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12:30pm
Poster Awards: Student Poster Awards Ceremony
Location: Curry Student Center - Ballroom
Chair: Matthew Eckelman
12:30pm
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2:00pm
Lunch break (Thurs): Lunch break
Location: Dining Hall - International Village
12:45pm
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1:45pm
Mentor Lunch: Faculty Mentorship Lunch
Location: Curry Student Center - Mezzanine
Lunch will be provided at the venue - attendance required RSVP in registration.
2:00pm
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3:00pm
Thurs1-1: Microbiology: Wastewater-1
Location: Snell Engineering Center - Room 108
Chair: Juliet Johnston
 

Microbial encapsulation for enhanced biological nutrient removal

Wang, Zhiyue; Ishii, Satoshi; Novak, Paige



Tracking Horizontal Gene Transfer in Wastewater Microbiomes Using RNA Memory

Dysart, Matthew John; Staubus, August; Kalvapalle, Prashant; Gambill, Lauren; Lu, Li Chieh; Gamas, Kiara Reyes; Chappell, James; Silberg, Joff; Stadler, Lauren



Carbon/Nitrogen Ratios Influence Biofilm Formation and Characteristics in Model Wastewater Microbial Cultures

Ramos, Pia; Honda, Ryo; Hoek, Eric; Mahendra, Shaily



Impact of Biological Treatment on Chemical Composition of Wastewater and Associations with Microbial Communities

Hernandez, Analyssa Esperanza; Navab-Daneshmand, Tala; Jones, Gerrad



Microbial Competition in Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal: Kinetics or Energetics?

Belka, Derek; Ormsbee, Haley A.; Tapia, Savannah; Zinsmeyer, Jackson; Schuler, Andrew

Thurs1-2: Wastewater Anaerobic Digestion
Location: Robinson Hall - Room 109
Chair: Neha Sharma
 

To what extent can solids retention time be reduced without deteriorating the performance of the thermal hydrolysis pretreatment-enhanced mesophilic anaerobic digestion

Li, Yitao; Luo, Hao; Strawn, Mary; Racey, Lisa; Haile, Fasil; Balchunas, Brian; Moline, Christopher; Hentz, Lawrence; Wang, Zhiwu



Integrating high-fidelity real-time in situ electrochemical sensing with soft sensing for system visualization and precision process control of anaerobic digestors (AD).

Qadiri, Zubair; Wang, Xingyu; Xiang, Wenjun; Huang, Yuankai; Wazer, Edward; McCutcheon, Jeffrey; Li, Baikun



Model-derived insights in a two-phase anaerobic dynamic membrane bioreactor system for high-rate co-digestion

Zhu, Kuang; Fairley-Wax, Timothy; Puente, Pedro; Starostka, Renata; Karki, Renisha; Skerlos, Steven; Raskin, Lutgarde



Assessing anaerobic membrane bioreactor suitability for treatment of diverse influent types: A look into effluent antibiotic resistance gene and microbial community variability

Ramadan, Lama; Sawaya, Christelle; El Khoury, Charbel; Deeb, Reem; Wazne, Mahmoud; Harb, Moustapha



Stability prediction for co-digestion of sewage sludge and food waste using a modified biomethane potential test

Puente, Pedro David; Zhu, Kuang; Appleton, Ron; Fairley-Wax, Tim; Rauch-Williams, Tanja; Skerlos, Steven; Raskin, Lutgarde

Thurs1-3: PFAS: Treatment
Location: Mugar Life Sciences Building - Room 201
Chair: Onur Apul
 

Advanced oxidation/reduction processes for the degradation of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) using Vacuum UV irradiation

Zhang, Yi; Zhu, Qingzhi; Venkatesan, Arjun K.



Effect of inorganic anions on PFAS removal by granular activated carbon and implications for PFAS adsorption mechanisms

Meng, Pingping; Knappe, Detlef



The UVC/VUV Boron Nitride Photocatalytic Process for High Efficiency Degradation of Poly-/perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

Qanbarzadeh, Mojtaba; Bouteh, Ehsan; Digiacomo, Laura; Alhamdan, Eman; Wang, Bo; Mason, Marc M.; Wong, Michael S.; Cates, Ezra L.



Selective Electrocatalytic Destruction of PFAS using a Reactive Electrochemical Membrane System

King, Jack; Chaplin, Brian



Harnessing the power of life cycle assessment to comprehensively compare PFAS treatment technologies

Oden, Cameron; Cook, Sherri

Thurs1-4: Water: Reuse Technology
Location: Robinson Hall - Room 409
Chair: Joe Goodwill
 

Low Energy, Low Temperature, Low Scaling Brine Concentration through a Novel Evaporative Ion Exchange (EIX) Process

SenGupta, Arup K; Chen, Hao



Precision Separation of Lead Ions in Water through Computationally Assisted Capacitive Deionization with Complete Water Reclamation

Gao, Zhenwei; Wang, Luqing; Huang, Xingkang; Benmore, Chris; Pu, Haihui; Chan, Maria K. Y.; Chen, Junhong



Novel Brine Management to Aid Potable Water Reuse: A comparative Techno-Economic and Life Cycle Assessment.

Felix, Varinia; Hardikar, Mukta; Hickenbottom, Kerri



Minimizing N-nitrosodimethylamine Formation During Disinfection of a Wastewater-Seawater Blend for Potable Reuse

Plata, Sophia L; Childress, Amy E; McCurry, Daniel L



Understanding Flow Dynamics in Membrane Distillation: Effects of Reactor Design on Polarization

Yao, Yinuo {Noah}; Yu, Siqin; Battiato, Ilenia

Thurs1-5: Water: Forensic Analysis
Location: Shillman Hall - Room 420
Chair: Wesley Hayes
 

Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Imidacloprid in Drinking Water Supplies

Wei, Haoran; Cai, Shiqing; Cho, Seo Won



Fluorescent dissolved organic matter as a forensic tool to investigate the influences of land use and failing sewer infrastructure on water quality in urban streams

Batista-Andrade, Jahir A.; Iglesias Vega, Diego; McClain, Anna; Blaney, Lee



Tracking organochlorine pesticides pollution status from sedimentary records of Upper Great Lakes

Guo, Jiehong; Li, Zhuona; Ranasinghe, Prabha; Rockne, Karl J.; Sturchio, Neil C.; Giesy, John P.; Li, An



“Unearthing” evidence of sewer exfiltration from soil flushes at a suspect site

Mladenov, Natalie; Nathanson, Natalie; Mueller, Margot; Verbyla, Matthew; Kinoshita, Alicia; Miletic, Marta; Rocha, Alma



Reconstruction of sparse stream flow and concentration time-series through compressed sensing

Zhang, Kun; Bin Mamoon, Wasif; Parolari, Anthony

Thurs1-6: Wastewater Management
Location: Churchill Hall - Room 103
Chair: Yudi Wu
 

Defining the opportunity space for a novel modular system for distributed treatment of industrial wastewaters

Rai, Saumitra; Zhang, Xinyi; Song, Ian; Gutenberger, Gretchen; Ajayi, Olutooni; Wright, Natasha; Arnold, William A.; Novak, Paige J.; Guest, Jeremy S.



Burn After Reading: The Increasing Need for Uniting Surveillance with Treatment in Wastewater Management

Mansfeldt, Cresten; Ulanova, Anna



Adapting AI: Using Deep Neural Networks to Develop Chemical Anomaly Sensors for Wastewater Collection Networks

Navato, Alfred P; Mueller, Amy V



Resource recovery via cranberry syrup waste and carbon balance in a Sidestream Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (S2EBPR) demonstration facility: An experimental and modeling study

Sabba, Fabrizio; Farmer, McKenna; Dunlap, Patrick; Downing, Leon



Optimizing sample collection methodology and location for effective and equitable wastewater-based epidemiology in West Virginia

Garner, Emily; Anderson, Christopher; Driscoll, Timothy; Smith, Gordon; Groth, Caroline

Thurs1-7: Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage
Location: Hurtig Hall - Room 224
Chair: Tasneem Ahmadullah
 

Machine Learning-Assisted Sustainable Ionic Liquid Screening for High CO2 Absorption

Chen, Yushan; Saka, Yuji; Chen, Yongsheng



Electrifying CO2 Conversion to Valuable Chemicals and Fuels Using Plasma-Activated Reactions with Light Alkanes

Winter, Lea



Underground H2 Storage and the Geochemical Considerations for Safety and Reliability

Beckingham, Lauren; Shi, Zhuofan; Peters, Catherine



The value of mineralization as a permanent sink for carbon capture and removal

Menefee, Anne Holland; Kearns, Mychal P.; Schwartz, Brandon A.



Emerging Electrochemical Processes for Carbon Capture and Storage

Rahimi, Mim; Hassan, Ahmad; Fang, Yuanyuan

Thurs1-8: Education: Teaching
Location: Behrakis Center - Room 010
Chair: Nick Tooker
 

Sustainable Food Waste Generation and Management at Universities - Research and Education

E Powers, Susan



Contextualizing and connecting “Introduction to Environmental Engineering” concepts to everyday experiences

Boyer, Mackenzie



Evaluating the Effectiveness of Empathy Exercises on Student Engagement and Perspective Taking

Sharkus, Cielo Angelica; Tooker, Nick



Environmental Engineering Materials: A New Required Course for an Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Program

Qin, Mohan; Harrington, Gregory W.



Teaching Sustainability: A Study Abroad Perspective

Onnis-Hayden, Annalisa

3:15pm
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4:15pm
Thurs2-1: Microbiology: Wastewater-2
Location: Snell Engineering Center - Room 108
Chair: Juliet Johnston
 

Correlative analysis of wastewater trends with clinical cases and hospitalizations through five dominant variant waves of COVID-19

Zhan, Qingyu; Babler, Kristina; Solo-Gabriele, Helena; Sharkey, Mark; Grills, George; Mason, Christopher; Schurer, Stephan; Vidovic, Dusica



Wastewater surveillance of carbapenem-resistant bacteria and carbapenemase genes: comparison of culture- and ddPCR-based approaches

Zhou, Siyi; Lou, Esther; Stadler, Lauren



Virus genome degradation in untreated wastewater

Harrison, Katherine R.; Snead, Delaney; Kilts, Anna; Ammerman, Michelle L.; Wigginton, Krista R.



Subsewershed Surveillance in Rural Central Appalachia Reveals Enteropathogen Signal is Directly Influenced by Inflow and Infiltration Issues

Darling, Amanda; Deck, Madeline; Markham, Clayton; Maldonado, Gabriel; Davis, Benjamin; Pruden, Amy; Taniuchi, Mami; Cohen, Alasdair



Evaluating molecular-based methods for Cryptosporidium spp. wastewater surveillance

Hachimi, Oumaima; Bancroft, June E; Falender, Rebecca; Davis, Gabriel E; Kanalos, Casey; Lininger, Noah N; Sutton, Melissa; Kaya, Devrim; Kelly, Christine; Radniecki, Tyler S

Thurs2-2: Remediation-1
Location: Robinson Hall - Room 109
Chair: Vasiliki Karanikola
 

Distinct Microbial Communities Degrade Cellulose Diacetate Plastics in the Coastal Ocean

Sun, Yanchen; Mazzotta, Michael G.; Miller, Carolyn A; Apprill, Amy; Reddy, Christopher M.; Ward, Collin P.



Biotransformation and microbial community dynamics of 6:2 fluorotelomer sulfonate in water-saturated one-dimensional flow-through columns

Yan, Peng-Fei; Dong, Sheng; Woodcock, Matthew J.; Manz, Katherine E.; Abriola, Linda M.; Pennell, Kurt D.; Cápiro, Natalie L.



Toward a mechanistic framework linking pharmaceutical biotransformations with microbial methane oxidation and nitrate attenuation

Vega, Michael A. P.; Scholes, Rachel C.; Brady, Adam R.; Daly, Rebecca A.; Narrowe, Adrienne B.; Bosworth, Lily B.; Vanzin, Gary F.; Wrighton, Kelly C.; Sedlak, David L.; Sharp, Jonathan O.



Leveraging Plant Nanobionics to Engineer Next-Generation Phytoremediation Technologies

Ritt, Cody L.; Strano, Michael S.



Microbially-mediated nitrate-dependent iron oxidation for remediation of selenium and nickel in mining wastewater

Koepnick, Hannah; Lauchnor, Ellen; Peyton, Brent

Thurs2-3: PFAS: Occurrence and Exposure
Location: Mugar Life Sciences Building - Room 201
Chair: Wensi Chen
 

Characterizing community exposure to emerging, drinking water-associated perfluoroalkyl ether acids

Kotlarz, Nadine; Cuffney, Michael; Wilkie, Adrien A.; Knappe, Detlef; Hoppin, Jane



Multiscale approach to assessing the contribution of households to PFAS in raw wastewater

Adeleye, Adeyemi S.; Senehi, Naomi L.; Han, Ziwei



Action Strategy for Addressing Existing PFAS Sources and Industries with Multi-Media Impacts through Collaboration and Coordination

Bolyard, Stephanie; Masemore, Sushma



Occurrence and fate of per and polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in municipal solid waste disposal facilities

Guelfo, Jennifer; Khosravikia, Mohammad; Ma, Ci; Reible, Danny



Modified Clay for Adsorption of Multiple Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

Jiang, Tao; Liang, Yanna

Thurs2-4: Water: Treatment-1
Location: Robinson Hall - Room 409
Chair: Joe Goodwill
 

Optimizing microorganism inactivation, repair inhibition, and electrical efficiency of multi-wavelength and alternative-energy UV

Ma, Daniel; McDonald, David; Hull, Natalie M.



Effect of wavelength and power on photodegradation of Dibromoacetonitrile using UV C LEDs

Rajesh, Lohita; Fiorentino, Joshua; Roberts, Thomas; Lanzarini Lopes, Mariana



Anilines are Potent Precursors to Haloacetonitriles and Other Small-Molecule Disinfection Byproducts

Kralles, Zachary T.; Werner, Christian A.; Dai, Ning



Synthesis of Edge-Tailored Graphene Oxide for Removal of Organic Contaminants from Water and its Regeneration Through Microwave Heating

Choudhary, Manisha; Apul, Onur



Palladium Single Atom Catalysis for Selective Dehalogenation in Water Treatment

Chouinard, Claire; Meese, Aidan; Rigby, Kali; Kim, Jae-Hong

Thurs2-5: Water: Natural-1
Location: Shillman Hall - Room 420
Chair: Michael Benjamin Eck
 

Apparent Quantum Yield of dissolved black carbon in natural river and coastal water

Zhu, Lixin; Stubbins, Aron



Assessing the formation of disinfection by-products from pyrogenic dissolved organic matter (pyDOM): impact of wildfire on the water quality of forest watershed

Li, Zhao; Samonte, Pamela; Cao, Han; Miesel, Jessica; Xu, Wenqing



Quantification of Pyrogenic Organic Compounds in Surface Waters after Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface

Bowden, Mackenzie; Thurman, E. Michael; Ferrer, Imma; Rosario-Ortiz, Fernando; Mansfeldt, Cresten



Phosphorus cycling perturbation by wildfires: immediate changes to P pools and legacy impacts

Wu, Yudi



Geospatial distribution of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) precursors in different watersheds: Effect of anthropogenic activities and associations with organic matter fluorescence.

Li, Jiaqi; Hozalski, Raymond M.; Arnold, William A.

Thurs2-6: Disasters: Resilience
Location: Churchill Hall - Room 103
Chair: Tiffany Tang
 

FloodNet: academic-community-city government partnership for hyperlocal, street-level flood monitoring in New York City

Silverman, Andrea Idette



Comparing Uncertainties in Flood Delineation Methods and Baseline Data for Well Water Inundation and Contamination Estimates Following Hurricane Florence

Drewry, Kyla R.; Richardson, Colin A.; Summerfield, Andrew; Jones, C. Nathan; Hayes, Wesley; Hochard, Jacob; Mize, Wilson; Goforth, Chris; Beighley, R. Edward; Pieper, Kelsey J.



Post-Wildfire Drinking Water Contamination from Thermal Degradation of Plastics

Isaacson, Kristofer; Shah, Amisha; Whelton, Andrew



Flood extent uncertainty effects on the prevalence of acute gastrointestinal illness

Richardson, Colin A.; Drewry, Kyla R.; Mok, Kira; Pieper, Kelsey J.; Jones, C. Nathan; Beighley, R. Edward



AI-supported bridge system management against long-term deterioration and flooding risk: a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning framework

Taherkhani, Amir; Mo, Weiwei; Han, Fei

Thurs2-7: Energy
Location: Hurtig Hall - Room 224
Chair: John Durant
 

Prioritizing and Optimizing County-Level Responses for a Just Energy Transition

Hincapie-Ossa, Diego; Morris, Noah; Gingerich, Daniel B



Leveraging Water Distribution Storage for Energy Services to Decarbonize Water Supply

Musabandesu, Erin Nicole; Liu, Yang; Mauter, Meagan S.



The Impact of State and Federal Decarbonization Policies on Technological Pathways

Mouat, Gavin; Galik, Christopher; Venkatesh, Aranya; Jordan, Katie; Sinha, Aditya; Jaramillo, Paulina; Johnson, Jeremiah



Facilitating Local Electrified Energy and Transportation Services for All

Bielicki, Jeffrey M.; Gingerich, Daniel B.; Hood, Darryl B.; Jacquet, Jeffrey B.; Le, Huyen T.K.; Leveni, Martina; May, Andy; Abraham, Layla M.; Beck, Erin; Filiatraut, Brian; McAdams, Jennie; Stephens-Rich, Matthew



Decarbonizing Electric Vehicle Production

Heidari, Seyed Mohammadreza; Keoleian, Gregory A.; Cooper, Daniel R.

Thurs2-8: Education: Grand Challenges and Curriculum Design
Location: Behrakis Center - Room 010
Chair: Karl Rockne
Curricular Changes to the BS EnvE Degree to Address the National Academies Environmental Engineering Grand Challenges
4:30pm
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5:30pm
Thurs3-1: Microbiology: Water Distribution
Location: Snell Engineering Center - Room 108
Chair: John Durant
 

Comparing the fate and transport of E. coli in an intermittent piped water supply to a continuous piped water supply

Wharton, Hannah; Chavarria, Karina; Kumpel, Emily



Comparison of Bacterial and Eukaryotic Communities in Full-Scale Drinking Water Distribution Systems with Different Disinfectants

Hu, Yuxing; Wang, Hong; Zhang, Weixian



Orthophosphate Corrosion Control: The Unintended Consequences on Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in a Full-scale Drinking Water Distribution System

Spencer-Williams, Isaiah; Meyer, Mitchell; DePas, William; Elliott, Emily; Haig, Sarah-Jane



Persistence and Free Chlorine Disinfection of Human Coronaviruses and Their Surrogates in Drinking Water

Zhang, Mengyang; Mitch, William A.; Boehm, Alexandria; Blish, Catherine



Well Exposed: A Comparative Exploration of Chemical Contaminants and Microbial Communities in Municipal Water and Drinking Well Water

Ohwobete, Jemima; Hu, Ximin; Latta, Drew E.; Thompson, Darrin A.; Kolodziej, Edward P.; Cwiertny, David M.; Haig, Sarah

Thurs3-2: Remediation-2
Location: Robinson Hall - Room 109
Chair: Devrim Kaya
 

Nanosecond Bacteria Inactivation Realized by Locally Enhanced Electric Field Treatment

Wang, Ting; Xie, Xing



Pulsed electrochemical treatment enables long-term effective 1,4-Dioxane pollutant degradation

Chen, Wensi; Lim, Hyunjeong; Kim, David; Rigby, Kali; Kim, Jae-Hong



A stepwise potential fast chronoamperometry technique to degrade aminomethyl phosphonic acid (AMPA)

Zhao, Jiaxiang; Zou, Shiqiang



Effects of operating parameters and co-contaminant on the efficiency of 1,4-dioxane removal by biological activate filtration process

Tang, Yuyin; Wang, Mian; Venkatesan, Arjun; Mao, Xinwei



Photolysis of 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one: mechanisms and products

Schroer, Hunter; Londono, Esteban; Li, Xueshu; Lehmler, Hans-Joachim; Arnold, William; Just, Craig

Thurs3-3: PFAS: Transport
Location: Mugar Life Sciences Building - Room 201
Chair: Loretta Fernandez
 

Stabilization of PFAS in soil-plants systems using carbon-based sorbents

Zhang, Weilan; Liang, Yanna



Data Driven Machine Learning for Estimation of PFAS Partitioning on Various Surface Materials

Patel, Harsh V.; Park, Hyo Shin; Zhao, Renzun



Competitive Adsorption at the Air-Water Interface Influences PFAS Transport in Unsaturated Porous Media

Garza-Rubalcava, Uriel; Klevan, Craig; Xia, Shana; Greenley, Caroline; Pennell, Kurt D.; Abriola, Linda M.



Kinetics and mechanisms of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) uptake by ion exchange resins

Cheng, Lan; Knappe, Detlef



Adsorption of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) onto containers: Role of container polymer, solution type, and temperature

Han, Ziwei; Zenobio, Jenny E.; Salawu, Omobayo A.; Adeleye, Adeyemi S.

Thurs3-4: Water: Treatment-2
Location: Robinson Hall - Room 409
Chair: Weiyi Pan
 

Towards New Virus Log Reduction Frameworks for Sub-residual Ozone Treatment

Snead, Delaney; Bandy, Alexis; Gerrity, Daniel; Haas, Charles; Kilts, Anna; Olivieri, Adam; Pecson, Brian; Sanchez, Avery; Wigginton, Krista



Robust bio-sourced composite adsorptive membrane for heavy metal capture

Gan, Lan; Pei, Xiaopeng; Tong, Zhaohui; Gao, Haiping; Meng, Shanyu; Zhang, Wenlong; Wang, Pixin; Chen, Yongsheng



Superbridging cellulose fibers for coagulant recovery and contaminant removal in water treatment

Kuo-Dahab, Wenye Camilla; Lapointe, Mathieu; Hernandez Rodriguez, Laura; Kurusu, Rafael; Tufenkji, Nathalie



Nitrate Degradation Using Palladium, Platinum, and Copper Embedded in Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Under the Hydrogen Assisted Catalytic Reduction

Lee, Junseok; Lee, Seungsoo Steve; Maisto, Susanna; Fortner, John



Immobilization and in-situ biodegradation of microcystins using engineered biofiltration for drinking water production

Zhang, Lixun; Tang, Shengyin; Jiang, Sunny

Thurs3-5: Water: Natural-2
Location: Shillman Hall - Room 420
Chair: Jessica Gould
 

Tracing the Pathogenic Impacts of Outdoor Recreation on Second and Third Beaches, Olympic National Park

Jacobs, Lara A; D'Antonio, Ashley; Jacobs, Greg; Nguyen, Jacquelynn N; Nelson, Steven; Peralta, Juliana; Ponomarenko, Lydia; Abedin, Neevan; Kent, Mads; Greenawald, Zena; Hernandez, Analyssa; Gilgore, Sam; Porter, Jenna; Waite-Cusic, Joy G; Navab-Daneshmand, Tala



Addressing E. coli pollution in streams of Washington D.C. through Microbial Source Tracking

Sharifi, Amir; Diedrich, Adam; Willis, Jessica R.; Sivaganesan, Mano; Shanks, Orin C.



Microbial Community Interactions with Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Contamination in Aquatic Systems

Johnson, William James; Mansfeldt, Cresten



Microbiome-Scale Identification of Biomarkers in Streams Impacted by Urbanization

Cianciolo, Charles; Swanson, Clifford; He, Qiang



Lessons from the Fire: Science and Policy Needs for Water Systems Disaster Response and Recovery

Whelton, Andrew James

Thurs3-6: Equity: Water
Location: Churchill Hall - Room 103
Chair: Kyla Drewry
 

A Community-Engaged Mixed Methods Approach to Monitoring and Managing Drinking Water Quality in Homes

Schubert, Alyssa; Harrison, Jacob; Kent-Buchanan, Linda; Bonds, Victor; McElmurry, Shawn; Love, Nancy



Bridging communities upstream and downstream for nitrogen management: an inclusive, people-centered platform and capacity-building initiative

Prouty, Christine; Smith, Walter; Watkins, Seth; Moore, Tiarra; Cheek, Linden; Ellis, April; Davis, Brittany; Zarger, Rebecca; Burke, Maya; Cwiertny, David; Demir, Ibrahim; Muller-Karger, Frank; Meyers, Steven; Trotz, Maya



The Role of Race in Access to Public Water and Sewer in Halifax County, North Carolina

Grubbs, Banks; MacDonald Gibson, Jacqueline



Community engaged research and teaching: Are Union County’s waterways safe for recreation?

Sills, Deborah; Gamboa, Melanie; Gwin, Carley



Reconciling Pursuit of Truth with Social Justice: Experiences from the Flint Water Crisis

Edwards, Marc; Roy, Sid; Pruden, Amy; Faust, Kasey; Masten, Susan

Thurs3-7: Chemistry: Materials
Location: Hurtig Hall - Room 224
Chair: Huiyun Wu
 

Chemical functional groups determine pH and concentrations of toxic ions in the nanoporous system

Zhu, Yaguang; Gupta, Prashant; Singamaneni, Srikanth; Jun, Young-Shin



Integrating advanced x-ray scattering and in-silico analysis to advance molecular interactions in thermally-switchable solvents

Billinge, Ian H.; Barbosa, Gabriel D.; Tao, Songsheng; Turner, C. Heath; Billinge, Simon J.L.; Yip, Ngai Yin



Monovalent and Divalent Ions Impair Strength but Enhance Strain of Self-Healing Hydrogels

Parulski-Seager, Durnian C.; Suarez, Amanda; Getachew, Bezawit A.



Biodegradable silk nanotube arrays for anti-fouling and oil removal

Sun, Hui; Marelli, Benedetto



Structural classification and kinetic analysis of complex chemical systems transformational networks at a molecular level

Wasswa, Joseph; Plata, Desiree

Thurs3-8: Education: Equity
Location: Behrakis Center - Room 010
Chair: Mackenzie Morgan Fiss
 

Community Engaged Research Activity by Environmental Engineering and Science Faculty

Bielefeldt, Angela; Montoya, Lupita; Ferro, Andrea



An Educational Model to Transition Graduate Students into Faculty Positions

Mejia, Yajaira; Moshary, Fred; Velez-Reyes, Miguel; Barba, Joseph; Santiago, Ivonne; Torres Catanach, Irma; Hassebo, Yasser; Seo, Dugwon; SIlvis, Jeffrey



Engaging early-stage undergraduate students in research through a Science Communication Fellowship

Mulchandani, Anjali; Donohue, Sydney; Zachek, Kamryn; Schroeder, Tim



Engineering Justice: Integrating Environmental Justice into the Environmental Engineering Curriculum

Henderson, Michelle; Wells, Christian; Cobb-Roberts, Deirdre; Alfredo, Katherine; Carrasquillo, Maya; Sears, Ruthmae; Trotz, Maya

6:00pm
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8:00pm
Closing BBQ: Closing reception BBQ
Location: Centennial Commons
Come relax with all of the conference attendees for a closing bbq in the central greenspace of Northeastern campus.

 
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