Current Research Projects
Environmental
Implications and Applications of Nanotechnology
- Characterizing silver nanoparticle
toxicity towards Nitrosomonas
europaea: Understanding the risk posed by nanotechnology to
nitrification in engineered and natural systems.
- Environmental applications of
photocatalytic nanotechnology for the treatment of stormwater, surface
water and concentrated waste streams.
Sustainable
Biological Wastewater Treatment Processes
- Enhancing methane production in
wastewater anaerobic digesters through the co-digestion of fats, oils
and grease (FOG).
- Investigating the development of
antibiotic resistance in environmental bacteria exposed to
environmental concentrations of pharmaceuticals.
- Development of immobilized anammox
technologies for wastewater treatment
Treatment of
Stormwater with Green Infrastructure
- Long-term characterization of
traditional rain gardens for the treatment of stormwater contaminants.
- Redesigning rain gardens for the
efficient removal of PAHs, PCBs, PFASs and heavy metals
Completed Research
Projects
- Creation of tropical plant-based
constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment in Nigeria.
- Simultaneous treatment of landfill
leachate and domestic wastewater.
- Determining the ecotoxicity of oil
dispersants and the resulting dispersed oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Creation of nitrification inhibition
biosensors: Identification of 'sentinel genes' to indicate the
presence of heavy metals and aromatic hydrocarbons.
- Probing the global gene expression
patterns of unsequenced microorganisms: The creation of a novel
shotgun DNA microarray.