| Air & Water Quality Engineering | Environmental Biotechnology | Environmental Modeling | Environmental Process Engineering | Site Remediation | Water Resources Engineering |
Air & Water Quality Engineering
Air, water and soil pollution; processes controlling contaminant generation, transport among environmental compartments and ultimate fate; surface and groundwater quality; gas – and particle-phase air pollution; sorption reactions; surface and interfacial chemistry; reaction kinetics. (Abboud, Bagtzoglou, Li, MacKay, Robbins, Yang)
Environmental Biotechnology
Biological waste treatment; microbial physiology and genetics; bioremediation and biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds; novel measures of microbial activity; Bacterial Adhesion and Biofilm Formation; Molecular Ecology of Biofilms; bioremediation and green chemicals synthesis; engineering biofilms for corrosion inhibition and other applications. (Li, Shor)
Environmental Modeling
Particle transport; mass transfer mechanisms in bacterial biofilms; surface and groundwater flow and contaminant transport; modeling and optimization of novel catalytic materials and absorbents; PEM fuel cell transport process modeling; fluid mechanics and heat transfer of reacting single and multi-phase flows; forest micrometeorology/microclimatology. (Abboud, Bagtzoglou, Gebremichael, MacKay, Warner, Wang, Yang)
Environmental Process Engineering
Advanced fuels research; electrochemical energy systems, flow batteries, and fuel cells; immobilized cell bioreactors; well-mixed gradientless reactors; use of agriculture waste derived fuels; catalysts, electrode structures and polymer electrolytes; heavy metal recovery and recycling using electrochemical techniques; supercritical fluid processes; microemulsions. (Li, Srivastava, Shor)
Site Remediation
Remediation of sites contaminated by LNAPLs and heavy metals through application of three-dimensional sampling; environmental geophysics: development of field analytical methods for volatile organic contaminants; and appication of multimedia technology for improving contaminant investigations; air-sparging; remediation of soil and aquifer systems; colloid-facilitated transport. (Bagtzoglou, Li, Liu, MacKay, Robbins, Srivastava, Shor)
Water Resources Engineering
Hydrologic response of large catchments; ground-based weather radar; precipitation estimation and flood forecasting; distributed hydrologic modeling, sediment transport; hydraulics; hydrometeorological measurements; hydrologic predictions; error characteristics of precipitation estimates from space-based observing systems. (Anagnostou, Bagtzoglou, Gebremichael, Wang, Warner)