Category: News

This article was written by Karl Schneider and originally published on the Naples Daily News website. Myoseon Jang, Ph.D., an associate professor of environmental engineering sciences, and her team discovered that toxins in algal aerosol can be rapidly transformed in the air by using the Atmospheric Photochemical Outdoor Reactor (UF‐APHOR) developed at the University of Florida. […]

The Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) is excited to welcome four new faculty members. Sara Behdad, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences Dr. Behdad received her doctorate in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on sustainable design, e-waste management, process modeling, […]

This 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 […]

Sydney 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 […]

GAINESVILLE, 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 […]

Katherine 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 […]

The University of Florida and Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium, in concert with North Carolina State University, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University and UF’s Innovation Station-Sarasota, recently convened a five-session virtual summit on “Innovating Coastal Resilience.” Thought leaders and industry experts gathered online to help envision new technologies and applications, and converse about a workforce […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A recent study from the University of Florida found that sea level rise—combined with the burrowing and grazing activities of Sesarma, a native marsh crab—are causing salt marshes across the U.S. South Atlantic Coast to rapidly fracture and reorganize. These findings, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, […]