NEWS LOG
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!
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.
February 2019
  • N. Mladenov invited speaker on San Diego River water quality, living-learning laboratories, and future decentralized water reuse at an Evening Celebrating Philanthropy at SDSU
January 2019
  • N. Mladenov, students, and the Blue Gold Team visit Ecoparque, a decentralized wastewater treatment plant and park in Tijuana, Mexico.
  • Blue Gold visits colleagues at SDSU's Imperial Valley Campus in Brawley and Calexico.
December 2018
  • Kristen Snyder and Fed Pinongcos present their research at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in Washington DC.
November 2018
  • Congratulations to Kristen Snyder who successfully defended her thesis on the persistence of dissolved compounds from oil spills and oil seeps!!
  • D. Garcia, S. Chao, and C. Graves present posters on urban creek water quality and decentralized MBRs for water reuse at SCCUR, the Southern California Conferences on Undergraduate Research in Pasadena, CA.
  • L. Mendoza and WIRLab receive Student Success Fee funds for SDSU to host a Global Water Sustainability Symposium in April 2019.
  • Wasswa et al. paper on "Assessing the potential of fluorescence spectroscopy to monitor contaminants in source waters and water reuse systems" just accepted in Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology.
October 2018
  • Kulkarni et al. paper on "Effects of acidification on the optical properties of dissolved organic matter from high and low arsenic groundwater and surface water" accepted for publication in STOTEN .
September 2018
Congratulations!!
  • Denise Garcia selected for the prestigious National Institute of Health-funded IMSD Program to conduct undergraduate research leading up to a PhD program .
August 2018
  • Lauren, Fed, Denise, Stephanie, Justin, Kristen, and Cheyenne lead outreach activities for a 60-girl visit by San Diego Girl Scout Troupes and SDSU's Junior MESA Program .
July 2018
June 2018
Congratulations!!!
  • Federick Pinongcos and Kristen Snyder selected for Carol Forrest, P.E. Memorial Watershed Management Scholarship!
  • Lorelay Mendoza selected for Sally Casanova Scholarship!
May 2018
  • Congratulations WIRLab graduates! Laura P. and Lauren S.
  • Lauren Steinberg selected for summer research in South Africa.
April 2018
  • WIRLab is in the news.
March 2018
  • Sanchez, Panduro, and Mendoza all present at SDSU's Student Research Symposium. Mendoza awarded Dean's Award for her presentation on fluorescence monitoring of sewage spills.
  • Sanchez and Mendoza selected as summer scholars in the ReNUWIt Program at UC Berkeley.
  • Wasswa et al. paper on temperature correction of in-situ fluorescence sensors accepted in Environmental Engineering Science.
January 2018
American Chemical Society abstracts for 2018 Annual Conference accepted:
  • B. Casad., N. Mladenov, M. Palomo "Undergraduate international research at the food-energy-water nexus: influence on research skills, research confidence, and cultural enrichment."
  • L. Mendoza et al. poster, "Fluorescence based monitoring of sewage inputs to urban rivers."
  • A. Sanchez et al. poster,  "Organic matter permeability in relation to ultrafiltration membrane fouling."
  • IRES and SDSU student poster, " Diurnal variability in organic matter constituents in an anaerobic baffled reactor treating domestic wastewater for agricultural water reuse applications."
November 2017
  • World Toilet Day is on Nov. 19
  • Mladenov et al. paper on Using submersible fluorescence sensors to track decentralized wastewater treatment system performance is in press in Water Science & Technology.
October 2017
  • 2017 NSF IRES Sustainable Sanitation cohort (Clack, Mackey, Orandle, and Steinberg) produce VIDEO on summer research experience.
September 2017
  • Kulkarni et al. paper on electron shuttling by humic substances from high arsenic groundwater accepted in STOTEN.
  • Oldani et al. paper on dry deposition in the Rocky Mountains accepted in JGR-Atmospheres.
  • Mladenov, Hoh, and Dodder awarded NSF grant on non-targeted analysis of CECs in anaerobic and aerobic membrane systems.
August 2017
  • Anita Sanchez receives prestigious MARC scholarship to support her undergraduate research.
  • Congratulations Daniel Parsons on successfully defending your MS thesis!
  • Wasswa and Mladenov present research on contaminant monitoring in water reuse systems at IWA International Conference on Water Reclamation and Reuse in Long Beach, CA.
  • Jose Paredez' paper, "A soil column study to evaluate treatment of trace elements from saline industrial wastewater" published  in WS&T!
July 2017.  Lorelay Mendoza presents research on bacteria in Alvarado Creek to San Diego River Conservancy.
June 2017.
  • Undergraduates on the IRES Sustainable Sanitation Project, Lauren Steinberg, Zoë Orandle, Kevin Clack, and Alexia Mackey (CPP) embark upon new water reuse and resource recovery projects at UKZN, Durban, South Africa.
  • Lorelay Mendoza receives prestigious MARC scholarship to support her undergraduate research on fluorescence-based sensors for river water quality.
May 2017. Lorelay Mendoza selected as an Honorable Mention in this year’s Best Student Presentation competition at the 2017 Southern California Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting for her poster, “Microbial Contributions to Organic Matter Optical Properties in Alvarado Creek During a Storm Event.”
March 2017. Undergrads Chelsi Pascua, Anita Sanchez, Lorelay Mendoza, and Teddy Mendoza and grad students Kristen Snyder, Joseph Wasswa, and Daniel Parsons present their research at the SDSU Student Research Symposium. Lorelay wins Provost's Award for best poster for her research on microorganism tracking in stormwater!!!
January 2017. Mladenov et al. paper "Evaluating organic carbon removal in a decentralized, anaerobic treatment system for  water reuse in South Africa" selected for the 11th IWA International Conference on Water Reclamation and Reuse.
December 2016. Xie et al. paper  "Water soluble organic aerosols in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA: composition, sources and optical properties" published in Scientific Reports.
October 2016. Oyawoya et al. paper "Using duckweed for nutrient recovery and as a polishing step for DEWATS effluents" accepted for Dresden Nexus Conference.
June 2016. Kulkarni et al. paper published on arsenic mobilization in Holocene and Pleistocene aquifers of West Bengal.
May 2016. Joseph Wasswa selected as the recipient of one of the ASCE YMF 2016  Student Scholarships for work on membranes for water reuse!! ($1000)
April 2016. Madeleine McConnell awarded SDSU's summer undergraduate research fellowship to conduct research on oil degradation.
April 2016. Estefania Palacios, Jesse Scolavino, and Daniel Parsons (SDSU) and Jaclyn O'Hara and Rianne Okamoto (CPP) selected for the NSF IRES 2016 research experience on Sustainable Sanitation in Durban, South Africa.
March 2016. Wasswa, Gregory, Nour, Bigelow and Campbell present research at SDSU Student Research Symposium. Gregory wins Women in Engineering Award for her presentation entitled, "Quantifying Plastic Debris Entering Wastewater Treatment Centers".
November 2015. Water Quality Research Lab students, Bigelow and Campbell, present research on fluorescent DOM leaching from microplastics at AWWA regional conference in Las Vegas.
September 2015. SDSU Area of Excellence in water, "Blue Gold" launches website!!!
August 2015. NSF IRES Sustainable Sanitation students just back from their 5+ week research experience in Durban. Check out this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s-gzabrGcM and  read more about the project here...
July 2015. ES&T paper "Dissolved Organic Matter Quality in a Shallow Aquifer of Bangladesh: Implications for Arsenic Mobility" published online July 2015!
Spring 2015. PhD student Harshad Kulkarni receives RISE Internship Program scholarship from the Indo-US S&T Forum (IUSSTF) to conduct research on arsenic mobilization in West Bengal, India.