UMass Environmental Engineering Research Site

Research in the UMass Environmental Engineering Program addresses critical issues in a wide range of engineered and natural systems with an emphasis on aquatic environments. Funding agencies include the National Science Foundation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Geological Survey, the American Water Works Association Research Foundation, the Water Environment Research Foundation, the Massachusetts Highway Department, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Aquarion Water Company, the Upper Blackstone Water Pollution Abatement District and many other agencies and companies. Information and links to projects and related faculty members are found within the Research Areas identified below:

 

Drinking Water

 

Surface & Groundwater Transport Processes & Management

Source waters, treatment processes, distribution systems

 

  Impacts of stormwater runoff, modeling, stream/aquifer interactions; Watershed management, river basin fate and transport, natural attenuation

Environmental Microbiology

 

Wastewater

Microbiology of engineered & natural systems

 

  Treatment of municipal and industrial wastewaters

Environmental Chemistry

   
Reaction kinetics, oxidation processes, surface chemistry    

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