Core Faculty Members
Affiliated Faculty Members
Overview
The water resources and environmental engineering group performs multidisciplinary research in the areas of surface and groundwater hydrology, land-atmosphere interactions, hydrometeorology, contaminant transport and remediation in aquatic and soil environments, watershed biogeochemistry, solar and microbial fuel cell energy production. The faculty interacts with a broader group of faculty members that are affiliated with the Environmental Engineering Program and also works closely with the Center for Environmental Science and Engineering.
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Prof. Agrios's research interests are:
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Prof. Agrios (right) and student Venkata Manthina assemble a pressure vessel for synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles. |
Zinc oxide nanorods coated with titanum dioxide nanoparticles for use in dye-sensitized solar cells. |
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Prof. Anagnostou's research interests are
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Prof. Bagtzoglou’s research interests are:
Dr. Batzoglou performing some interesting in situ testing |
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Numerical simulation of currents in the lower Hudson River around |
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Prof. Bushey’s research interests are:
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Graduate student Mykel Mendes collects a water sample from the Park River outlet in Hartford, CT, as part of a study investigating the impact of combined sewer overflows on nitrogen loading. |
MDC personnel inspect a combined sewer overflow (CSO) near the Hartford, CT, bus station. Dr. Bushey is working with the MDC to characterize nitrogen loading from CSOs. |
Undergraduate student David Payne prepares to collect stream sediment porewater samples to assess stream processing of nitrogen. |
Prof. Gebremichael’s research interests are:
- Watershed hydrologic modeling
- Remote sensing applications in hydrology and hydrometeorology
- Land-atmosphere interaction
- Water-energy-carbon fluxes coupling
- Stochastic methods
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Prof. Li’s research interests are:
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Prof. MacKay’s research interests are:
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Stream water sampling to measure degradation rates of pharmaceutical compounds from wastewater treatment plants. |
Extraction system for characterizing organic matter from wastewater and stormwater sources. |
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Prof. Vadas's research interests are:
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Examining changing environmental conditions on bioretention cell treatment efficiency |
Pore water and sediment core sampling at the UConn Dairy Barn treatment wetland |
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Prof. Wang’s research interests are:
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Infrastructure
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Hydraulics Lab The Hydraulics Laboratory is located in room 114 of the F.L. Castleman building. The lab facilities are complete with a 4.5 m long hydraulics flume used in conjunction with a 12,000 gallon water storage tank, flow weir, Venturi apparatus, and an acoustic Doppler velocity sensor (ADV) and a rotometer. The hydraulics flume may be used for stream channel flow or engineered channels studies, as well as investigating flow through a simulated piping network. |
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Environmental Engineering Lab The faculty members share a common space in Castleman 215 that houses major equipment, such as HPLC, GC/MS, AA/GF, IC, UV/VIS spectrophotometer, fluorescent microscope and others. Additionally, each faculty member has a variety of equipment in their own research space, such as ICP/MS, XRF, TOC analyzer and many others.
Research Sponsors The Water Resources and Environmental Engineering group conducts research with the support of various federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation, NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the (NOAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency. The faculty also works closely together with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and local authorities to address the environmental challenges facing the state. Finally, the faculty pursues close collaborations with industrial partners for technology development, such as the collaboration of Dr. Li with Fuss O' Neil in the field of microbial fuel cells.
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