Recent news
06/04/2024
Congratulations to Dana for her paper being accepted by the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
08/31/2023
Congratulations to Dana for her successful defense of her dissertation!
02/09/2023
Congratulations to Stephen for his paper being accepted for publication by the Journal of Cleaner Production
05/20/2022
Congratulations to Stephen for defending his dissertation!
02/22/2022
Congratulations to Rubayat for publishing another paper on temporal variability in streams and the influence on risk assessment.
12/30/2021
Congratulations to Katrina for successfully defending her thesis!
12/30/2020
Congratulations to Dani and Rubayat for successfully defending their thesis and dissertation!
05.15.2020
Had fun working with Jim Vanderslice to discuss our work on wastewater epidemiology in Utah on the Silicon Slopes live.
04.17.2020
Working with the Utah Division of Water Quality on tracking SARS-CoV-2 virus in wastewater as mechanism to track covid-19 infections. See the story in the Salt Lake City Tribune.
11.05.19
Having fun exploring engineering concepts with 5th graders in Salt Lake City school district and viewing the Dream Big Movie.
11.05.19
Congratulations to Saru on a new publication! Adsorption kinetics of the herbicide safeners
08.19.19
Congratulations to Mac for passing his thesis defense!
06.18.19
Enjoyed presenting our USDA water reuse work at the International Water Association, Water Reuse conference in Berlin.
06.12.19
Enjoyed the UCOWR/NWIR Annual Water Resources Conference in Snowbird. Great science in a wonderful location.
03.05.19
Good job Dana for presenting to Utah Legislators at the Undergraduate Research on Capitol Hill Event.
11.21.18
Congratulations to Rubayat for passing his proposal defense!
08.17.18
Congratulations to Saru for passing her dissertation defense!
05.10.18
Another interesting trip to Pakistan. Images of Rubayat training Pakistani students and technicians in field sampling are shown below.
03.08.18
Had a fun day demonstrating Civil and Environmental Engineering concepts to middle and high school students at the U!
10.30.17
Congratulations to Rubayat for passing his preliminary exam!
10.26.17
Had fun demonstrating groundwater contamination issues to the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) club at the Salt Lake Center for Science Education (SLCSE). Thank you to Saru, Umama and Shaista for sharing their experiences as females in engineering.
09.27.17
Good day for field work on our USDA project evaluating human health risks from reclaimed water use.
09.24.17
Good conference at BYU for American Society of Engineering Education, Rocky Mountain Section meeting. Very happy to accept the award for Best Paper at the conference.
08.05.17
Another interesting trip to Jamshoro, Pakistan to participate in workshops at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology through the USAID program (USPCAS-W). The images below are of the harbor at Karachi and a textile dying facility in Karachi.
Karachi harbor near fish processing industrial plant. The processing plant is struggling with water quantity and quality issues.
05.18.17
Great meeting at UNC-Chapel Hill for the Water Microbiology and IWA conference.
04.22.17
New article published in Science of the Total Environment.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717308483
04.18.17
Congratulations to Saru for passing her qualifying exam and proposal defense!
03.14.17
Happy Pi-day! We enjoyed showing demonstrations of Civil and Environmental Engineering concepts at Central Valley Junior High today.
01.04.17
Our work has been featured on the agronomy.org, crops.org and soils.org websites!
https://www.soils.org/discover-soils/story/when-mysterious-chemical-leaks
https://www.agronomy.org/science-news/when-mysterious-chemical-leaks
https://www.crops.org/science-news/when-mysterious-chemical-leaks
https://www.certifiedcropadviser.org/science-news/when-mysterious-chemical-leaks
12.20.16
Interesting trip to Jamshoro, Pakistan to participate in workshops at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology through the USAID program (USPCAS-W). The images below are a water truck used for irrigation at MUET and the water treatment plant in Hyderabad, Pakistan.
08.15.2016
Excited to be moving into our new lab at the University of Utah
08.10.16
New manuscript accepted in Science of the Total Environment "A case study for orphaned chemicals: 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol (MCHM) and propylene glycol phenyl ether (PPH) in riverine sediment and water treatment processes"
07.27.2016
Presenting at the Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology meeting in New Orleans
07.15.2016
Leaving the WVU lab and looking forward to moving to University of Utah
07.08.2016
New manuscript accepted in Journal of Environmental Quality "Enabling science support for better decision making when responding to chemical spills."
03.2016
Read more about our work in the ASEE PRISM "Off campus crusaders" feature.