Category: Environmental Engineering Sciences

Gator100 Recognizes 17 Engineering Alumni in 2021
May 4, 2021Alumni from the University of Florida have created and guided some of the most innovative and profitable businesses in the nation and the world. Each year, the UF Alumni Association, in partnership with the UF Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center recognizes these amazing entrepreneurs with the Gator100 Awards. Congratulations to our talented Herbert Wertheim College of […]
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History in the Making: Darina Castillo
March 19, 2021Darina Castillo, Ph.D., earned her doctorate in environmental engineering sciences in 2013. After graduating, she accepted a position at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management. She gives a brief overview of her journey to her position as site manager and what she is doing to inspire those who come after her. What […]
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Efficiently Disassembling End-of-Use Products
December 8, 2020Sara Behdad, Ph.D., an associate professor of environmental engineering sciences within the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE), received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create human-robot collaboration (HRC) and improve the disassembly of end-of-use products. Remanufacturing is an industrial process that takes an old or used product and […]
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Major grant launches new project to advance global soil science
October 23, 2020This article was written by Miles Grant and originally published on the Woodwell Climate Research Center website. Kathe Todd-Brown, Ph.D., an assistant professor of environmental engineering sciences, and her team will try to increase the availability of high quality data and analysis tools to help farmers optimize their soil management strategies. Farmers around the world could […]
Read more »Improving coastal restoration by temporarily imitating nature
September 1, 2020This article was written by Radboud University and originally published on the ru.nl website. Christine Angelini, Ph.D., an associate professor of environmental engineering sciences, worked with a talented, international team to boost marsh and seagrass restoration success by mimicking emergent traits of coastal plants. Coastal ecosystems are in rapid decline around the world. Restoring them is […]
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Doctoral Student Named Margaret A. Davidson Fellow
August 27, 2020Sydney Williams, an environmental engineering sciences doctoral student, was accepted to the Margaret A. Davidson Graduate Fellowship Program and received funding by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office for Coastal Management to research the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve’s (SINERR) water quality changes over the years and provide recommendations. SINERR knows that it […]
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UF Researchers Find Viable Viruses in Aerosols that Cause COVID-19
August 27, 2020GAINESVILLE, Fla. — New research from the University of Florida provides strong evidence that aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may be possible. Prior to these findings, which are in pre-print and have not undergone peer review, the virus had been detected in aerosols, but there was a lack of direct evidence […]
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Deliz Receives EPA Grant to Build Community Resilience Against PFAS Exposure Due to Flooding
August 24, 2020Katherine Deliz Quiñones, Ph.D., a lecturer in environmental engineering sciences in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) within the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, received support from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program to help build resilience in vulnerable communities. As lead principal investigator, Dr. Deliz will […]
Read more »ESSIE Welcomes Dr. Annable as Department Head
June 25, 2020The Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering is proud to announce the appointment of Michael Annable, Ph.D., as head of Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences. Dr. Annable has been a faculty member within the department since 1992, beginning as an assistant professor. His appointment as department […]
Read more »Something’s in the Water
June 22, 2020David Kaplan, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) within the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, along with a team of scientists, wrote an amicus curiae brief for the U.S. Supreme Court about a case regarding the Clean Water Act (CWA) that will have a […]
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