URAP

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...

Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Fog has ecological, economic, and cultural relevance worldwide, but is threatened by global warming. Understanding the fate of fog remains challenging, as researchers in the fog literature report differences in fog frequency trends depending on the site, region, method, and pollution level. To understand the future of fog, the Water...

Cesunica 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...

Cesunica Ivey, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Kara Nelson - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Direct potable reuse is a form of wastewater reuse where advanced-treated wastewater is introduced directly to the drinking water distribution system. Bench-scale reactors will be used to simulate drinking water distribution system pipes before and during the transition to direct potable reuse conditions. Microbial water quality parameters will...

Kara Nelson - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Recovering nutrients from wastewater can solve two problems: reducing eutrophication by eliminating nutrient discharges to the environment, and producing a local fertilizer that has lower embedded energy than industrial fertilizer. Our research aims to produce fertilizer by concentrating ammonium from wastewater and urine using struvite precipitation (for phosphorus) and ion...

Kara Nelson - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Despite being less than 1% of the total volume of liquid treated in wastewater treatment plants, urine is responsible for over 80% of the nitrogen in a treatment plants' influent stream. Commonly, this influx of nitrogen is only partially treated, leading to the release of excess nitrogen into the environment...

Amy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

The Pickering Lab at UC Berkeley is currently developing 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...

Amy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Status: Full- no new appr needed     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...

Amy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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. We will evaluate this model through an...

Amy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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...

David Sedlak - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     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...