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Lisa Alvarez-Cohen - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of synthetic chemicals used in various industrial and consumer products, including Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF), widely used since the 1960s for firefighting. Due to their persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic nature, PFAS pose significant environmental and health risks. Despite their widespread use...
Cesunica Ivey, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Healthy Martinez is a grassroots community group created to hold Martinez Refining Company (MRC), their parent company (PBF Energy) and other refineries in our area accountable for fires, flaring, and daily emissions that are polluting our air, water and soil. Apprentices will support personal measurements of speciated PM2.5 and time...
Environmental Issues Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesCesunica Ivey, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Marin City Climate Resilience is dedicated to safeguarding the environment and promoting sustainability. We focus on implementing strategies to enhance climate resilience and mitigate environmental risks in Marin City, CA. By engaging with the community and advocating for sustainable practices, we aim to create a more resilient and environmentally conscious...
Environmental Issues Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesLaurel Larsen - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Okavango Delta in Botswana is one of the world’s largest and most significant wetlands. Land-use changes in its headwaters and climate change are altering its patterns of inundation, with potential consequences for wildlife and human livelihoods. Due to the vastness and remoteness of the Okavango, however, its changing...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesLaurel Larsen - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
California supplies water to nearly 40 million people, sustains the most productive agricultural region in the US, and supports a rich diversity of freshwater species. However, persistent drought, extreme floods, and widespread environmental degradation are exposing significant vulnerabilities in the state’s water management system. Furthermore, decisions over how water is...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesLaurel Larsen - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
River flow forecasting is essential for planning reservoir operations, defense strategies against flooding, and fluvial ecosystems management plans. However, flow forecasting is a highly uncertain science. One of the biggest uncertainties lies in resolving the timescales over which water is stored in the subsurface and time lags between perturbations in...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesLaurel Larsen - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Environmental Systems Dynamics Laboratory (ESDL) focuses on the interplay between biological, physical, and human aspects of the environment using a combination of physically-based and data-driven models. This internship aims to expand on our current work exploring the use of deep learning for environmental predictions. The Environmental Systems...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Pickering Lab at UC Berkeley is currently conducting SOIL-SEQ, a hands-on education module for local high school classrooms designed to engage students in a crowdsourcing effort to provide data to better understand the spread of bacterial antibiotic resistance through the environment. We are using cutting-edge, portable...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) cause a neglected tropical disease inextricably linked to poverty, inadequate sanitation, and unhygienic conditions. STH account for over five million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and infect around 1.5 billion people, representing the most prevalent parasitic infections worldwide. Classical microscopy-based surveillance strategies are suboptimal and...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Pickering Lab is looking for a URAP student interested in working on an in-line chlorination project in Honduras. The project evaluates the Cova Circuit Rider model as an effective model for scaling up access to inline chlorinated water in Central America. Cova, a non-profit organization, has developed...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Contaminated water supplies in health facilities place patients at risk for antibiotic resistant infections, leading to poor health outcomes. Globally, more than 20% of health facilities lack even basic water services. To provide low-cost water treatment, the Pickering Lab has been developing a passive in-line chlorination technology, known...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDavid Sedlak - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Constructed wetlands can passively treat pollutants including nitrogen, pathogens, and trace organic chemicals. Given their low-maintenance and design flexibility, treatment wetlands are appropriate for rural, decentralized, and low-resource settings, and can provide effective, environmentally friendly water-treatment in urban areas. As part of our research, we are conducting...
David Sedlak - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
My project aims to determine the fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a subsurface wetland system receiving treated wastewater. I use geomedia sorbents, like activated carbon, to sequester PFAS below ground as water flows through our field site, which we call the Horizontal Levee. I am working to...
David Sedlak - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
My project aims to determine the fate of trace metals in a subsurface wetland system (the “Horizontal Levee”) receiving treated wastewater and municipal wastewater reuse concentrate. This system relies on redox gradients and geomedia sorbents, such as granular activated carbon, to immobilize trace metals below ground as water flows through...