THE WATER INNOVATION & REUSE LAB
Department of Civil Construction & Environmental Engineering
San Diego State University
WIRLab trains and mentors undergraduate and graduate students from diverse groups to take on environmental challenges in water scarce environments by conducting research on sustainable water and sanitation technologies and biogeochemical processes in natural and engineered systems. Current projects investigate the transformation and persistence of emerging chemicals in anaerobic and aerobic decentralized water reuse systems, sources of anthropogenic contaminants in urban rivers, water quality response to stream restoration, the fate of microplastics in the environment, and rapid fluorescence-based tracking of organic contaminants in source waters, streams, and groundwater.
WIRLab is led by Dr. Natalie Mladenov, Associate Professor and William E. Leonhard Jr. Chair in the Department of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering at SDSU.
Please contact Dr. Mladenov (at nmladenov @ sdsu.edu) or stop by E404 for a tour (once we're back in person!).
WIRLab is led by Dr. Natalie Mladenov, Associate Professor and William E. Leonhard Jr. Chair in the Department of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering at SDSU.
Please contact Dr. Mladenov (at nmladenov @ sdsu.edu) or stop by E404 for a tour (once we're back in person!).
The WIRLAB team, Spring 2019.
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WIRLAB NEWS
October 2020
Congratulations!!! Kristen Snyder (MS 2019) was recognized at the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Awards Banquet for receiving the MS Thesis Award, one of only two awards for an outstanding Environmental Engineering/Science thesis. SDSU, ROCK THE VOTE!!! September 2020
Congratulations to these WIRLab members! - WIRLab alum, Cari Campbell is recognized in the CA-NV AWWA Spotlight - MS student Alma Rocha awarded the Leonard Endowment Scholarship. - JDP student Rachel Astete Vasquez awarded the Global Policy & Strategy Science Policy Fellowship at UCSD - MS students Alma Rocha and Fed Pinongcos received the McMahon Chi Epsilon Scholarship July 2020
- MS student Fed Pinongcos successfully defends his MS thesis on sources of microbial contamination in the San Diego - River during storm events. Congratulations Fed! - MS student Alma Rocha awarded the 2020 SDSU Master's Research Scholarship! WIRLab's San Diego River Contamination Study, conducted in collaboration with the Safe Water Lab, Disturbance Hydrology Lab, and Public Health at SDSU, reveals that leaky sewers have a major influence on stormwater quality in the San Diego River and that waste associated with homeless encampments is less of a contributor, but not negligible. For more information, please see the Executive Report, which summarizes our findings, and the Final Report, which includes detailed results. |