Personnel
David Reckhow has been on the Faculty of the University of Massachusetts since 1985, and is currently professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering. From 2002 to 2005, he served as Director of The Environmental Institute on the Amherst Campus, as well as the Massachusetts Water Resources Research Center. Prior to coming to UMass, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Compagnie Générale des Eaux in Paris. Dave has degrees from Tufts University (BSCE), Stanford University (MSCE) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD). His current research interests include general aquatic chemistry, chemical oxidation of organic compounds in water, coagulation processes, removal of chemical pollutants in water, and aquatic organic matter in natural systems and drinking waters. He has special interests in trace organic compounds, disinfection byproducts and ozonation processes for drinking water treatment. Aside from his academic career, Dr. Reckhow served for 15 years as member and chair of the Northampton Board of Public Works, with responsibility for managing the city’s water system.
John Tobiason has been on the faculty at UMass Amherst for 28 years and has focused much of his research on physical/chemical treatment processes for drinking water treatment. He has extensive experience working directly with water utilities. Dr. Tobiason has extensive volunteer service for the American Water Works Association, the main national organization that represents the drinking water community.
Desmond Lawler holds the Nasser I. Al-Rashid Chair in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, where he joined the faculty in 1980. Lawler was named a University Distinguished Teaching Professor in 1997. In 1999, he received the A.P. Black Award for significant and sustained research contributions in drinking water from the American Water Works Association, the primary professional organization in North America devoted to improving drinking water quality and supply. Dr. Lawler's research includes both experimental and mathematical approaches in studying physical and chemical treatment processes for the treatment of drinking water, wastewater, and industrial process water. Much of his work focuses on the removal of particles through modern membrane processes as well as through conventional processes such as flocculation, settling, and granular media filtration. The current focus of his work is on pretreatment for membrane processes, including the improvement of water recovery in desalination by reverse osmosis. He recently published (with Mark Benjamin of the U. of Washington) an extensive textbook (Wiley, 2013) on physical/chemical treatment processes for water and wastewater.
Bruce Dvorak, Professor of Civil Engineering at UNL, has provided training and assistance to the Drinking Water Review Section of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services for over a decade. He has served as the Chair of the AWWA Small Systems Research Committee, and 15% of his FTE is developed to providing extension outreach in Nebraska to small systems and domestic well owners. He received the 2009 ASCE Samuel Arnold Greeley Award for research into improving sorption treatment operations in small systems.
Celina received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Florida A&M University (2007), an M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (2008), and her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (2016). Her doctoral work focused on the removal of pharmaceutically active compounds from drinking water and wastewater using advanced oxidation processes. In addition to serving as Administrative Coordinator for WINSSS, she is also a postdoctoral researcher at UMass Amherst.
Patrick holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Manhattan College (2011) and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2014). During his graduate studies Patrick worked as a research assistant on project studying innovative strategies for monitoring natural organic matter and disinfection byproduct precursors. Prior to joining UMass Patrick worked as Project Engineer for Cooperstown Environmental in Andover, Massachusetts, focusing on soil and groundwater remediation projects.
David Reckhow has been on the Faculty of the University of Massachusetts since 1985, and is currently professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering. From 2002 to 2005, he served as Director of The Environmental Institute on the Amherst Campus, as well as the Massachusetts Water Resources Research Center. Prior to coming to UMass, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Compagnie Générale des Eaux in Paris. Dave has degrees from Tufts University (BSCE), Stanford University (MSCE) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD). His current research interests include general aquatic chemistry, chemical oxidation of organic compounds in water, coagulation processes, removal of chemical pollutants in water, and aquatic organic matter in natural systems and drinking waters. He has special interests in trace organic compounds, disinfection byproducts and ozonation processes for drinking water treatment. Aside from his academic career, Dr. Reckhow served for 15 years as member and chair of the Northampton Board of Public Works, with responsibility for managing the city’s water system.
John Tobiason has been on the faculty at UMass Amherst for 28 years and has focused much of his research on physical/chemical treatment processes for drinking water treatment. He has extensive experience working directly with water utilities. Dr. Tobiason has extensive volunteer service for the American Water Works Association, the main national organization that represents the drinking water community.
WINSSS Projects:
Desmond Lawler holds the Nasser I. Al-Rashid Chair in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, where he joined the faculty in 1980. Lawler was named a University Distinguished Teaching Professor in 1997. In 1999, he received the A.P. Black Award for significant and sustained research contributions in drinking water from the American Water Works Association, the primary professional organization in North America devoted to improving drinking water quality and supply. Dr. Lawler's research includes both experimental and mathematical approaches in studying physical and chemical treatment processes for the treatment of drinking water, wastewater, and industrial process water. Much of his work focuses on the removal of particles through modern membrane processes as well as through conventional processes such as flocculation, settling, and granular media filtration. The current focus of his work is on pretreatment for membrane processes, including the improvement of water recovery in desalination by reverse osmosis. He recently published (with Mark Benjamin of the U. of Washington) an extensive textbook (Wiley, 2013) on physical/chemical treatment processes for water and wastewater.
Bruce Dvorak, Professor of Civil Engineering at UNL, has provided training and assistance to the Drinking Water Review Section of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services for over a decade. He has served as the Chair of the AWWA Small Systems Research Committee, and 15% of his FTE is developed to providing extension outreach in Nebraska to small systems and domestic well owners. He received the 2009 ASCE Samuel Arnold Greeley Award for research into improving sorption treatment operations in small systems.
Celina received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Florida A&M University (2007), an M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (2008), and her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (2016). Her doctoral work focused on the removal of pharmaceutically active compounds from drinking water and wastewater using advanced oxidation processes. In addition to serving as Administrative Coordinator for WINSSS, she is also a postdoctoral researcher at UMass Amherst.
WINSSS Projects:
No current projects.
Patrick holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Manhattan College (2011) and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2014). During his graduate studies Patrick worked as a research assistant on project studying innovative strategies for monitoring natural organic matter and disinfection byproduct precursors. Prior to joining UMass Patrick worked as Project Engineer for Cooperstown Environmental in Andover, Massachusetts, focusing on soil and groundwater remediation projects.
WINSSS Projects:
No current projects.
Prashant Shenoy is a Professor of Computer Science at UMass Amherst with interests in operating and distributed systems and sensor networks. He heads the Laboratory for Advanced Systems Software that builds systems and understands them through analysis and experimentation. Dr. Shenoy maintains the UMass Trace Repository and the UMass CS Weather Station and is part of the Center for Advanced RFID Research and Wireless sensor group.
Chul Park is an Associate Professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts. His areas of interest include activated sludge, anaerobic digestion, algal processes, and the effect of wastewater treatment effluent nitrogen on algal blooms in receiving estuaries. He is particularly interested in the fate of extracellular polymeric substances and SMP in aqueous environments.
Dr. Butler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on developing energy-efficient treatment strategies for both water and wastewater treatment. Her research group examines bioelectrochemcial systems where biofilms, capable of using either an anode as an electron acceptor or cathode as an electron donor, remediate environmental pollutants and concurrently produce electricity. She is interested in developing scalable process designs that could be easily integrated into existing treatment infrastructure, but is also interested in the ecology and function of the microorganisms that facilitate electricity production. Caitlyn is a recipient of a highly-prestigious and competitive NSF Career Award.
Lynn Katz is the Bettie Margaret Smith Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) at UT. She has been involved in the development of treatment processes for water treatment for over twenty years. Her research has included the development of treatment processes for drinking water, stormwater, produced water, frac water, and greywater. She holds several patents associated with these developments.
Mary Jo Kirisits is an associate professor at the University of Texas in the department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering (CAEE). She has studied aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation of inorganic (e.g., ammonia, nitrate, bromate, and perchlorate) and organic contaminants in drinking water for 18 years. Her research emphasizes the importance of applying conventional and molecular microbiological methods to better understand biological treatment processes. In addition to running many continuous bench-scale biofilm reactors, her group has collaborated with Carollo Engineers on several pilot- and full-scale assessments of biological drinking water processes. Her work has produced 26 peer-reviewed publications, including two that received American Water Works Association (AWWA) best paper awards.
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Kerry Kinney is the L.P. Gilvin Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas. Dr. Kinney has expertise in the investigation of microbial systems and the development of novel treatment technologies. Recently, she has used next-generation sequencing techniques to investigate the microbial community aerosolized from tap water during showering. Additionally, she is developing a novel enzymatic water treatment process to remove PPCPs.
Navid Saleh is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His research expertise is in the area of nanoparticles and membrane processes and he has published over 20 papers on this topic. His expertise includes nanomaterial synthesis, characterization, and functionalization; nanomaterial-polymer interaction; and enhancement of polymeric composites with novel nano-structured materials.
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Gerald Speitel is the John J. McKetta Energy Professor in Engineering in CAEE and the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Texas. Dr. Speitel has been active in drinking water research for over 25 years on treatment and control of hazardous organic chemicals and DBPs and their precursors. His work has focused primarily on the chemistry and treatment of DBPs formed during chloramination and chlorination of drinking water. Another area of research activity has been the role of haloamine chemistry and cometabolism in understanding nitrification episodes in drinking water distribution systems. Dr. Speitel’s research has included bench- and pilot-scale studies, as well as evaluations of full-scale facilities.
WINSSS Projects:
Michal Ziv-El, a postdoctoral fellow, is employed on program D at the University of Texas beginning in Summer 2014. Her research experience has focused on the microbial ecology of anaerobic bacteria and the optimization of biofilm reactors. She will lead the bench-scale nitrification and denitrification studies and the microbial community characterizations in the proposed work. Two graduate research assistants will be employed beginning in Fall 2014 – one from the University of Texas (who will assist with the bench-scale studies and operate the pilot-scale biofilter) and one from the University of Massachusetts (who will focus on N-DBPs).
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Chittaranjan Ray is professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and director of the Nebraska Water Center. He joined the leadership team of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute as permanent director of the Nebraska Water Center on Aug. 1, 2013. Previously, Ray was a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he also was interim director of the Water Resources Research Center at UH, which like the Nebraska Water Center is part of a network of more than 54 water resources research institutes that were established by Congressional mandate in 1964. Most of these centers are located at state Land Grant Universities. In Hawaii, Ray also was Director of the university’s Environmental Center and as Chief Environmental Engineer for the Applied Research Laboratory, a U.S. Navy sponsored facility at UH. Before joining the UH faculty in 1997, Ray held positions in industry and at the Illinois State Water Survey. The holder of a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Illinois, he has extensive experience in many facets of managing both water quantity and water quality issues.
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Rebecca Lai, Associate Professor of Chemistry at UNL, has extensive research experience in both fundamental electrochemistry and design of biosensors. She received her NSF Career Award in 2010 for the development of electrochemical peptide-based sensors. Her research focuses on the design and fabrication of folding- and/or dynamics-based electrochemical biosensors for real time detection of biomedical, environmental and defense-relevant targets.
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Treavor Boyer is an Associate Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University. He joined the faculty in 2008 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Boyer completed his M.S. in environmental engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his B.S. in chemical engineering at the University of Florida. The focus of Dr. Boyer¹s research is aquatic chemistry and water treatment. The long-term goals of his research program are (i) to understand the effect of DOM on physical, chemical, and biological processes and (ii) to apply the principles of ion exchange to natural and engineered systems.
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Qiong (Jane) Zhang is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida. Her current research interests include: green engineering, sustainability, life cycle assessment, water-energy nexus, coupled nature-human system modeling, environmental fate and transport modeling, water supply and treatment, and engineering education. She has contributed to chapters in two books, published over 30 journal articles, presented at a host of conferences, and is currently advising over a dozen USF undergraduate and graduate students towards obtaining their Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD Degrees. She is also the faculty advisor for American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and the USF Chinese Student Christian Fellowship. Jane recently received an NSF CAREER award for her work on “Envisioning Integrated Wastewater Management through the Lens of Reverse Logistics.”
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Steve Wilson, Manager of WaterOperator.org and past Director of Research for the Midwest Technology Assistance Center (UIUC), has provided training and technical assistance to small system water and wastewater operators throughout the country. Through WaterOperator.org, he works directly with small systems to help them solve problems, find information, and in some cases, provide direct technical assistance. He is a CUPSS user. He serves as a trustee on the Small Systems Division of AWWA and on the Small Systems Outreach Committee. He has also conducted research related to small systems issues, including a survey of water operator needs and system sustainability in Illinois and Michigan. He has 26 years of experience in outreach and support for private well owners and small community systems.
Jess Brown is Director of Carollo Engineers’ R&D Practice and leads Carollo's biological drinking water treatment initiative. He has 15 years of experience in drinking water processes, applied research, and water quality testing methods. His work has resulted in > 100 national and international presentations, 15 peer-reviewed publications, and 2 AWWA best paper awards. He is a Trustee for AWWA’s Water Science and Research Division and chair of the AWWA Biological Drinking Water Treatment Committee.
WINSSS Projects:
Julie
Bliss
Doctoral Candidate
UMass Amherst
Hamidreza
Lotfizadeh
Doctoral Candidate
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Alysse
Ness
Master's Student
University of Florida
Deanna
Ringenberg
Master's Student
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Soon-Mi
Kim
Doctoral Candidate
UMass Amherst
Soyoon
Kum
Doctoral Candidate
UT Austin
Joshua
Cunningham
Master's Student
UMass Amherst
Matteo
D'Alessio
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Trey
Stewart
Master's Student
UT Austin
Seulki
Yeo
Doctoral Student
UT Austin
Carolyn
Dykema
Massachusetts State Representative, Eighth Middlesex District
Gary
Hartz
Director, Office of Environmental Health and Engineering, Indian Health Service
H. Curtis
Spalding
Administrator, US EPA Region 1
Keith
Barnicle
District Representative, 2nd MA District
Malcolm
Coles
Corporation for National & Community Service, Atlantic Area Manager
Matthew
Beaton
Secretary, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Ned
Bartlett
Undersecretary, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Philip
Ashcroft
Chairman, New England Water Innovation Network
Marcus
Gay
Executive Director, New England Water Innovation Network
Ken
Moraff
Director, Office of Ecosystem Protection, US EPA Region 1
Jan
Sullivan
Director, Bureau of Environmental Health, Masachusetts
Marjorie
Aelion
PhD
Dean, UMass Amherst School of Public Health
Marlo
Berg
Engineer, TCEQ Public Drinking Water
Sarah
Clark
Senior Project Manager, HDR Inc.
John
McClellan
PhD
Vice President, Tighe & Bond, Inc.
Ken
Mercer
Senior Manager, AWWA Denver, Technical & Research Programs
Chris
Miller
Small Systems Consultant, Miller and Associates
Madjid
Mohseni
PhD
Professor; Director, RES'EAU
Orren
Schneider
PhD
Manager, American Water- Water Technology
Scott
Summers
PhD
Professor; Director, DeRISK
Pasky
Pascual
WINSSS EPA Project Manager