Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Research opportunities including biological and chemical aspects of water quality and remediation; water resources engineering including surface and groundwater hydrology, hydroclimatology and adaptive environmental management; and coastal engineering, river and estuarine mixing and transport processes.
Faculty:
- Onur G Apul– Assistant Professor
- Kimberly Huguenard – Associate Professor
- Shaleen Jain – Department Chair and Professor, PE
- Jean D. MacRae – Associate Professor
- Lauren Ross – Associate Professor
Sample Projects:
- “What’s salt got to do with it? Linking exchange flow to mixing in estuaries”
- Faculty Advisor: Lauren Ross
- PhD Students: Elias Pinilla & Cristian Rojas
- “Linking hydrodynamics to coastal hazards in morphologically complex coastal areas”
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lauren Ross
- PhD student: Taylor Bailey
- “Seasonal changes in the lateral variability of subtidal flows”
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lauren Ross
- MS student: Rachel Chambers
- “Sensing storm surge: A Maine citizen science effort”
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kim Huguenard
- MS student: Preston Spicer
- ” Front-wave interaction at the mouth of a low-inflow estuary”
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kimberly Huguenard
- MsStudent: Nicolas Cyr
- “Investigating the Influence of Tidal Distortion on Material Transport and Contaminated Sediment for Diadromous Fish Habitat in a Tidal River System”
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kimberly Huguenard
- PhD Student: Vanessa Quintana
- “Digital Twin Modeling of Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Incorporating Wave Prediction-Reconstruction Capabilities”
- Faculty Advisors: Dr. Kimberly Huguenard & Dr. Richard Kimball
- PhD Student: Yuksel Rudy Alkarem
- “Storm Modifications on Tidal Hydrodynamics in an Engineered Macrotidal Estuary.”
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kim Huguenard
- PhD student : Engiliyage Nalika Lakmali
- “Mixing of river water into the coastal ocean and the role and structure of the outer edge of the discharge”
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kim Huguenard & Dr. Kelly Cole (Oceanography)
- PhD Student: Preston Spicer
- “The Emergent Risks of Food Waste Recovery: Characterizing the Contaminants in MSW Organics from Different Sources”
- Faculty Advisors: Dr. Jean MacRae, Dr. Balu Nayak (Food & Agriculture) , Dr. Cindy Isenhour (Anthropology & Envir. Policy) , Dr. Travis Blackmer (Economics), Dr.Linda Silka (Sustainability)
- MS students: Usha Humagain & Astha Thakali
- BS student: Peter Larson
- “Making Maine’s Local Food System Sustainable: Opportunities to Address Hunger and Reduce Waste”
- Faculty Advisors: Deborah Saber (Nursing) , Dr. Jean MacRae, Dr. Balu Nayak (Food & Agriculture) , Dr. Cindy Isenhour (Anthropology & Envir. Policy) , Dr. Travis Blackmer (Economics), Dr. Linda Silka (Sustainability)
- MS student: Andrew Flynn
- “Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Release from Spent Granular Activated Carbons in Solid Waste Management Facilities”
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Onur Apul
- Msc Student: Paulina Alulema
- “Thermal Regeneration of PFAS-laden Granular Activated Carbon presents an Opportunity to Break the Forever PFAS Cycle”
- Faculty advisor: Dr. Onur Apul
- PhD Student: Dilara Hatinoglu
- ” Integrated assessment of alternative management strategies for PFAS-contaminated wastewater residuals”
- Faculty advisor: Dr. Onur Apul
- PhD Student: Sonia Moavenzade
- “Metastable Nanobubbles for Advanced Oxidation Processes in Water Treatment Systems”
- Faculty advisor: Dr. Onur Apul
- PhD Student: Kenneth Mensah