Category: Environmental Engineering Sciences

Fabiola Y. Rodríguez, a first-year Ph.D. student at UF’s Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and the Environment, is already making waves in sustainable waste management.

Members of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) elected Elliot Douglas, Ph.D., a professor and department head of environmental engineering sciences and professor of engineering education, as vice president of finance. He’ll serve a two-year term beginning in June 2025, during which he will lead the finance committee and work with ASEE finance staff […]

When famed scientist Tracy Fanara – the triple Gator known as Inspector Planet – heard about the horror movie “Cocaine Bear,” her reaction was simple: Oh, please. You think bears and cocaine are scary?

She studies sharks ingesting cocaine, and the “scary” part, Fanara said, is not stoned sharks “but rather the chemicals that are impacting us. That is scarier than a random bear in the forest finding a package of cocaine.”

The University of Florida Research Foundation has recently named 34 of the university’s most productive and promising faculty members as UFRF Professors for 2024. Two professors Lily Elefteriadou, Ph.D., the Barbara Goldsby Professor in the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, and Timothy Townsend, Ph.D., the Jones, Edmunds & Associates, Inc. Professor in the Department of […]

Scientists in the University of Florida’s Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences are investigating Florida’s waste management system to quantify the amount of garbage and recycling produced in Florida and evaluate the capacity of existing infrastructure to manage the state’s various waste streams.  Hannah Sackles, a doctoral student in environmental engineering sciences, is a part of […]

The University of Florida’s American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter achieved back-to-back first place finishes in the regionals for Concrete Canoe, Steel Bridge, and overall competitions, marking the second time in almost a decade they have achieved this, echoing their similar success in 2014 and 2015. Concrete Canoe The UF’s ASCE Concrete Canoe (UFCC) […]

Water is essential for life. And life on Earth as we know it hinges on our collective ability and commitment to safeguard and preserve the purity of water – a vital resource that unites us all.   This Earth Day, we spotlight three researchers from the University of Florida’s Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment […]

Komalpreet Singh, a doctoral student in the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, was selected as a National Science Foundation’s (NSF) GeoHealth INTERN to work with public health professionals to monitor human pathogens and bacteria in bodies of water.  To be a GeoHealth INTERN, a graduate student must have at least a full academic year completed […]

This article, written by Karen Dooley, was original published on UF News. In a groundbreaking study published today in Nature, scientists reveal that the return of sea otters to their former habitat in a Central California estuary has slowed erosion of the area’s creekbanks and marsh edges on average by 69%.

Antarpreet S. Jutla, Ph.D., an associate professor, has received the Charles S. Falkenberg Award sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). He was nominated for his groundbreaking interdisciplinary research on understanding transmission dynamics of infectious pathogens in humans and environmental systems.    This award was named after the computer […]