Category: Environmental Engineering Sciences

New Faculty Hires The Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) is excited to welcome four new faculty members. Eric Jing Du Lecturer Associate Professor Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering Joined UF: January 2019 Website: https://faculty.eng.ufl.edu/ericdu Before coming to the University of Florida, Dr. Eric Jing Du served as a faculty member at Texas […]

The Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment (ESSIE) is proud to announce that the graduate rankings of the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering and the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences have risen. According to the 2020 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools, the Civil Engineering graduate program is now ranked No. […]

Jones Edmunds Professor of Environmental Engineering Timothy Townsend has been selected as a Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Awardee. This honor recognizes Dr. Townsend’s brilliance, innovation, and efficiency in doctoral student advising and mentoring. Dr. Townsend will be acknowledged at the Spring Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Awards Luncheon.

Environmental Engineering Sciences student Quinn Zacharias won third place in the Water Resources Student Research Poster Contest at the 28th Annual Southwest Florida Water Resources Conference on Friday, January 25. Zacharias’ poster titled “Re-Examining a Decade and Half Long Standard: A Case Study on the Florida Everglades 10 Parts-Per-Billion Phosphorous Water Quality Standard,” focused on progression toward […]

Congratulations to Mr. Trey Crouch, Environmental Engineering Sciences Water Institute Fellow, for receiving funding from the Research Abroad for Doctoral Students (RAD) Program. Trey was one out of 10 doctoral candidates to receive the award. This esteemed program provides travel funding to doctoral candidates in the STEM disciplines to conduct research at a laboratory or […]

Federal, state and local governments have been investing millions to restore coastal wetlands and oyster reefs degraded by centuries of pollution, development and resource extraction. Their goal is to regain the benefits communities once derived from these vital, living ecosystems, such as clean water, productive fisheries and protection from storms and flooding. A recent study […]

KELLY NAPOLI: UF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING A marathon-runner, novelist and now – an environmental engineer at Next Era Energy, Inc. – Kelly Napoli (B.S., Environmental Engineering) is helping shape the future of energy. Fueled by perseverance and determination, traits she embodied as a cross country runner in her high school days, Napoli knew she wanted to […]

More than 40% of the world’s population lives in a coastal community. Are we adequately protecting and restoring our coastlines? ESSIE environmental engineer, Dr. Christine Angelini, helped us answer this question. Angelini and her team of fellow researchers conducted a study on oyster reef restoration efforts. Because oyster reefs have the ability to clean water, […]

ESSIE environmental engineer Dr. Chang-Yu Wu was featured on FOX 13 Tampa Bay News this week for the development of an innovative flu-detection device. Wu and his team of researchers at the University of Florida have developed a first-of-its-kind air sampler to detect the tiny influenza virus particles in the air in public spaces. This […]

Congratulations to Ms. Julie Wildschut, ESSIE environmental engineering master’s student, for being selected as one of five candidates university-wide to receive the 2018 University of Florida Women’s Club graduate scholarship. Established in 1922 by UF President Murphree for women faculty, staff and spouses, the University Women’s Club (UWC) seeks to offer social and service opportunities […]