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The WIRLAB team, Spring 2019
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Stephanie and Lauren install outside-in hollow fiber membrane for NSF project on transformation of chemicals of emerging concern in water reuse systems

The Water Innovation 
and Reuse Lab (WIRLAB)
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, and rapid fluorescence-based tracking of organic contaminants in source waters, streams, and groundwater.

WHAT'S IN THE NEWS?

WIRLAB NEWS
March 2020
February 2020
  • Mendoza et al. paper on fluorescence tracking of sewage inputs to rivers accepted in Science of the Total Environment!
  • Denise Garcia awarded Women In Engineering Award at the SDSU Student Research Symposium (SRS) for her poster presentation, "Performance Evaluation of a Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Plant in Tijuana, B.C."
  • Garcia, Pinongcos, Rocha, Gil, and Aponte all presented their research at SRS. Great job everyone!
January 2020
  • Sanchez et al. paper on fluorescent compounds retained by ultrafiltration membranes accepted by Journal of Membrane Science!
  • Gearing up for storm sampling and intense experimental work with lab-scale membrane bioreactors in 2020!
  • WIRLab has been renovated... well, repainted at least! Check out our new look!
November 2019
  • Mladenov serves as Commentator and Fed Pinongcos, Alma Rocha, and Lauren Steinberg present research at the Re-Border Binational Conference: El Agua Que Compartimos in San Diego, and Tijuana.
  • Elizabeth Winterton, Jeremy Monroe, Mia Gil, and Alex Kinney present their research at the Southern California Conferences on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR 2019) at Cal State San Marcos
October 2019
  • Applications now being accepted for US-Brazil Water and Sustainability Summer Research Program. Conduct undergraduate and graduate research in Brazil in summer 2020 on water and sanitation systems. Application deadline Dec 2, 2019.
  • Fed Pinongcos awarded the AEP Scholarship. Congratulations Fed!
  • Dr. Kinoshita's and Dr. Mladenov's Alvarado Creek research featured on sdsu.edu homepage
  • Volunteers Wanted! Field and lab research on post-fire water quality of urban streams. Contact margot.SDSU @ gmail.com for more information.
September 2019
  • WIRLab is recruiting MS students for new research projects
  • Fed Pinongcos awarded the Carrol Forrest Memorial Watershed Management Scholarship. Congratulations Fed!
  • Clack et al. paper on bacteria transferred to duckweed in wastewater polishing ponds is published in Bioresource Technology Reports
  • Steinberg presents poster on CECs in US and South Africa wastewater at the WateReuse Conference, San Diego  
August 2019
  • Mladenov presents to the CHEM Business division on decentralized water reuse at ACS San Diego
  • Steinberg presents about non-targeted analysis collaboration and Pinongcos presents poster on anthropogenic contaminants in the San Diego River at ACS, San Diego
June/July 2019
Congratulations WIRLab Grad Students!
  • Fed Pinongcos receives ASCE Pipeline Environmental Scholarship!
  • JDP student Rachel Astete Vasquez receives SDSU University Graduate Fellowship!
  • JDP student Rachel Astete Vasquez receives American Water Works Association Woodard & Curran Scholarship!
  • JDP student Rachel Astete Vasquez receives Society of American Military Engineers Jackie Price Dunn scholarship!
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