Research and Inventive Emphases

  • Physical-chemical unit operations and processes for urban storm water, snow melt and CSOs.
  • Unit operations and processes models for storm water and snowmelt.
  • Environmental hydrology, in particular modification of rainfall-runoff infiltration processes.
  • Innovative treatment/reuse of wastewater and residuals including anaerobic digestion.
  • Multi-purpose ecological infrastructure, including permeable reactive pavements.
  • Fate of anthropogenic atmospheric dry deposition in rainfall-runoff.
  • Modification/reuse of earth or anthropogenic materials, geo-environmental engineering.
  • Settling and consolidation properties of marine and freshwater sediments.
  • Hydrologic measurements and representative sampling of for water chemistry and particles.
  • Hydrologic and anthropogenic sediment transport and deposition processes.