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The Water Innovation 
and Reuse Lab (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, and rapid fluorescence-based tracking of organic contaminants in source waters, streams, and groundwater.
IN THE NEWS
Upcoming events
  • Catch our presentations at ACS, San Diego (August 2019) and at the WateReuse Conference, San Diego (September 2019)
  • WIRLab is recruiting MS students for new research projects , starting summer/fall 2019
June 2019
Congratulations WIRLab Grad Students!
  • Fed Pinongcos receives ASCE Pipeline Environmental Scholarship!
  • PhD candidate Rachel Astete Vasquez receives SDSU University Graduate Fellowship!
  • PhD candidate Rachel Astete Vasquez receives American Water Works Association Woodard & Curran Scholarship!
  • PhD candidate Rachel Astete Vasquez receives Society of American Military Engineers Jackie Price Dunn scholarship!
May 2019
Congratulations WIRLab Graduates!
  • Anita Sanchez, BS in ENVE: going on to PhD Program at Cornell!
  • Lorelay Mendoza, BS in ENVE: going on to PhD Program at Stanford!
  • Kristen Snyder, MS in ENVE: starting new position at Langan Engineering & Environmental Services!
April 2019
March 2019
  • Mayor Serge Dedina presented to our ENVE 320 class and the SDSU campus community on Sea Level Rise Impacts in Imperial Beach
  • Lorelay Mendoza awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Congratulations Lorelay!
SDSU Student Research Symposium Highlights:
  • Congratulations to Lauren Steinberg for winning the Provost's Award for her poster on Chemicals of Emerging Concern in Wastewater!
  • Fed Pinongcos gave an oral presentation on Anthropogenic Pollution of the San Diego River during Storm Events.
  • Denise Garcia presented on Properties of Organic Matter in an Urban Creek after Fire.
  • Anita Sanchez presented on Fluorescent Compounds Retained by Ultrafiltration Membranes.
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