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Current Research Group 2019-2020

PhD Students

  1. Mariana Lopes – expected May 2020
  2. Anjali Mulchandani – expected May 2020
  3. Emmy Pruit – expected 2020
  4. Justin Kidd – expected May 2020
  5. Omar Alrehaili – expected 2020
  6. Naushita Sharma – expected 2021
  7. Juliana Levi – expected 2022
  8. Xiangxing Long – expected 2022
  9. Alec Nienhauser – expected 2023
  10. Rishabh Bansal – expected 2024
  11. Mario Esparza (Ph.D.) “Organic Carbon in Wastewater Treatment Plants” (2001) – Chairman
  12. Peng-Fei Chao (Ph.D.) “ Role of hydroxyl radicals and hypobromous reactions on bromation formation during ozonation” (2002) – Chairman
  13. Wen Chen (Ph.D.) “Fluorescence properties of effluent organic matter and role of mineral adsorption in soil aquifer treatment” (2002) – Chairman
  14. MyLinh Nyugen (PhD) “Sources and Characteristics of dissolved organic carbon in arid region water supplies” April 2002
  15. Anke Sollner (PhD) “SAT vs membranes for DOC removal in Wastewater” (2002)- co-Chairman
  16. Baiyang Chen (PhD-expected 2006) “Organic nitrogen in wastewater and wastewater impacted waters”
  17. Wontae Lee (PhD 2005) “Occurrence, molecular weight and treatability of dissolved organic nitrogen”
  18. Mohammad Baddaruzmann (PhD 2005) Mass transport scaling and the role of silica on arsenic adsorption onto porous iron oxide (hydroxide)
  19. Kiril Hristovski “Applications of nanotechnology in environmental engineering: Arsenic Removal” (PhD 2007)
  20. Aaron Dotson (PhD) . Structure and treatability of organic nitrogen-enriched drinking water (2008)
  21. Hyunyoung (Grace) Jang (PhD). Organic chloramines formation and its disinfection efficacy (2009)
  22. Troy Benn (2009) The release of engineered nanomaterials from commercial products
  23. Ayla Kiser (2011) Fate of Engineered Nanomaterials in Wastewater Treatment Plants
  24. Chao-An Chiu (2012) Organic Matter Occurrence in Arizona and Innovative Treatment by Granular Activated Carbon
  25. Kyle Doudrick (2013) Environmentally Responsible Use of Nanomaterials for the Photocatalytic Reduction of Nitrate in Water 
  26. Fariya Sharif – (2013) Use of Ozonation and Constructed Wetlands to Remove Contaminants of Emerging Concern from Wastewater Effluent
  27. Michelle Barry – (2014) Overcoming the Impacts of Extreme Weather and Dissolved Organic Matter on the Treatability of Water using Ozone
  28. Jacelyn Rice – (2014) Modeling Occurrence and Assessing Public Perceptions of De Facto Wastewater Reuse across the USA
  29. David Hannigan –Identification of N-Nitrosodimethylamine Precursors to Improve Their Control 2015
  30. James Gifford –Sustainable Drinking Water Treatment: Using Weak Base Anion Exchange Sorbents Embedded With Metal Oxide Nanoparticles to Simultaneously Remove Multiple Oxoanions 2015
  31. Heather Stancl (2017) Photocatalysis for Reductive Transformation of Nitrate and Chromate in Drinking Water
  32. Natalia Fisher (2017) Novel operation of granular activated carbon contactors for removal of disinfection by-product precursors.
  33. Heuidae Lee (2018) Improving activated carbon performance in point-of-use and municipal processes
  34. Jared Schoepf (2018) Tiered Approach to Detect Nanomaterials in Food and Environmental Matrices
  35. Natalia Hoogesteijn von Reitzenstein (2018) Electrospun Polymeric Nanocomposites for Aqueous Inorganic & Organic Pollutant Removal
  36. Xiangyu Bi (2018) Detection and surface reactivity of engineered nanoparticles in water

MS Students

  1. Krishishvar Venkatesh – expected 2020
  2. Naushita Sharma (2019) Historical and Future Needs for Geospatial Iodide Occurrence and Sources in Surface and Ground Waters of the United States of America
  3. Duong Nguyen (2019) Removal of Hexavalent Chromium from Groundwater Using Stannous Chloride Reductive Treatment 
  4. Ted Flatebo (2018) Water Quality and Thermal Stratification of Cragin Reservoir: Current and Future Impact of Forest Fires
  5. Madelyn Pandorf (2018) Impacts of carbon nanoparticles on nutrient uptake, leaching and yield of lettuce (Lactuca sativa)
  6. Sean Zimmerman (2017) Flux Performance and Silver Leaching From In-Situ Synthesized Silver Nanoparticle Treated Reverse Osmosis Point of Use Membranes
  7. Harsh Ashani (MS) Use of Granular Activated Carbon and Carbon Block Filters at Municipal and Point of Use Drinking Water Treatment for Removal of Organics (2017)
  8. Dylan Lesan (MS) Comparative Analysis of Adsorptive Media Treatment for Arsenic at SRP Groundwater Wells 2015
  9. Alexandra Bowen (MS) Occurrence and Treatment of Hexavalent Chromium and Arsenic in Arizona Municipal and Industrial Waters 2014
  10. James Gifford (MS) December 2012 “Phosphorus Recovery from Microbial Biofuel Residual Using Microwave Peroxide Digestion and Anion Exchange “
  11. Yifei Wang (MS) May 2012 – Fate of nanomaterials during wastewater treatment
  12. Jacelyn Rice (MS) August 2011 “Water Quality and Energy Balance on Salt River Project Reservoirs”
  13. Alex Wier (MS) July 2011 – TiO2 Nanomaterials: Human Exposure and Environmental Release
  14. Jun Wang (MS) June 2010 – Transformation in Organic Matter and Nitrogenous DBP Precursors
    across the Urban Water System
  15. Chi Chi Choi (MS) May 2009 – Comprehensive water, salt and energy flux modeling
  16. HanhPhuc Nguyen (MS) May 2008 – Iron & titanium impregnated granular active carbon for arsenic removal
  17. Hye Moon (MSE) December 2007
  18. KC Kruger (MS) December 2007 – Formation and novel sensing of trihalomethanes in drinking water
  19. Troy Benn (MS) “Assessment of adsorptive media capacity to remove arsenic and co-occurring metals from natural water matrices through rapid small-scale column tests (RSSCTs) – 2006
  20. Bo Song (MS) Characterization of soluble microbial products produced by cyanobacteria and wastewater bacteria – 2006
  21. Jorge Navarro Aragon (MS) “Drinking water quality in northern Mexico and arsenic treatment with iron impregnated GAC” – 2005
  22. Andrew Baumgardner (MS) “Arsenic removal using titanium dioxide aggregated nanoparticle adsorbents” 2005
  23. Alby Aguilar (MS) “Inactivation of Streptomyces Griseus By Common Water Treatment Disinfectants” 2004-Chairman
  24. Darla Gill (MS) “Impacts of Forest Fires on Drinking Water Quality“ 2004 – Chairman
  25. Edward Cole (MS) “Salinity Management for Evaporation Ponds at Palo Verde Nuclear Power Project” 2004 -Chairman
  26. Peng Pei (MS) “Methylisoborneol (MIB) and Geosmin removal during ozone-biofiltration treatment” (2003)
  27. Brijesh Nair Nalinakumari (MS) “MIB and Geosmin Oxidation During Ozonation” (2003)
  28. Michelle Cummings (MS) “Evaluation of microcystin enzyme-based analytic techniques and microcystin occurrence in the metro-phoenix, Arizona water supply system” 2002 – chairman
  29. Mari Rodriquez (MS) “Factors influencing the occurrence of MIB in three water supply reservoirs” 2002 – chairman
  30. David Highfield (MS) “Arsenic occurrence in metro-phoenix groundwater and treatment by granular ferric hydroxide” 2002 – chairman
  31. Mohammad Baddaruzmann “Scaling laboratory arsenic removal data for porous adsorbents to the pilot scale” –2002 – chairman
  32. Dawson Samanth “The control of periphytic algae growth with fixed surface biocidal products” (2002) – chairman
  33. Li Jixia “Arizona surface water quality monitoring and disinfection by-product formation study: kinetics and modeling” (2002) – chairman.
  34. Alice Brawley-Chesworth “Fate of 2-Methylisoborneol and Geosmin in Surface Water Treatment Plants” (Fall 2000).
  35. Lennie Okano (M.S.) “Carbon dioxide sequestration by photosynthetic algae” (2000) – Chairman
  36. He Qun (MS) “Comparison of Empirical and Mechanistic DBP modeling” (2001)-chairman
  37. MS Thesis, Sara Jixia, “Arizona Surface Water Disinfection By-products Formation Kinetics, Modeling and Water Quality Monitoring” April 2002
  38. MS Thesis, Madhu Reddy, “Application of algal culture technology for carbon dioxide and flue gas emission control”, May 2002
  39. Jennifer James (MS) “Nitrate removal by zero valent iron in a packed bed”(2001)-chairman
  40. Paul Dahlen (M.S.) “Water quality benefits from recharging in ephemeral channels” (2001) – Chairman
  41. Tsatsu Kwame Fiadjoe (MS in Mechanical Engineering) Evaluation of high-voltage, capacitancebased, water treatment technology – committee member
  42. Scott Lee (M.S.) “Ozone and bromate formation” (Expected 1999) – Chairman
  43. Mike Pinney (M.S.) “Fate and reactivity of organic carbon during water reuse” (December 1998)-Chairman
  44. Peng-Fei Chao (M.S.) “Novel approaches for improving lime-softening processes” (December 1998) – Chairman
  45. Hari Anandh (M.S.) “Organic Carbon Characterization and Reactivity Towards Halide Oxidation” (January 1997)- Chairman
  46. Sheba Hafiz (M.S.) “Impacts of Groundwater Pumping on Water Quality” (December 1997)-Chairman

 

Post-doctoral researchers

Chung-Seop Lee (2019-)

Ana Sofia DOS SANTOS FAJARDO (2019-)

Ariel Atkinson (2017-2019)

Yuqiang Bi (2016-2018)

David Hanigan (2015-2017)

Onur Apul (2015-2018)

Robert Reed (2013-2015)

Yu Yang (2012-2015)

Ting Lie (2014-2015)

Sungyun Lee (2010-2013)

Kiril Hristovski (2008-2010)

Guixie Song (2008-2010)

Seong-Nam Nams (2007- 2008)

Zhuo Chen (2006-2007)

Naeem Kahn (2005-2006)

YoungIl Kim (2003-2005)

Heath Mash (2000-2001)

Mario Esparza (2001-2005)

Darlene Bruce (1999-2001)

Yeomin Yoon (2002-2003)

Research Faculty Supervised

Sergi Garcia-Segura (2018-

Yuqiang Bi (2018-

Shahnawaz Sinha (2016-

Technicians Employed and co-supervised

Marisa Masles (2003-2018)

Darlene Bruce (2001-2003)

David Lowry (1999-2001)