Applied & Environmental Microbiology Lab
Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Research
interests in our group fall in two main areas:
1) Water/environmental
biotechnology, and
2)
Aquatic/marine microbial ecology.
Sustainable water supply through seawater
desalination and wastewater reuse is the future to meet water demand both
locally and internationally. Our group studies technologies to reduce energy
consumption for seawater desalination by prevention of membrane biofouling. To protect public health from wastewater reuse,
our group is developing online monitoring system to detect microbial pathogens
in wastewater and reuse water. Risk assessment models are applied to risk
analysis and policy decision.
The second area of our research focuses
on microbial quality in the coastal water. Our team has investigated pathogens
in coastal water and human health risk. We helped the cities and counties to
identify the source and causes of water pollution using microbial source
tracking tools. More recently, control of harmful algal blooms and toxigenesis of diatom species Pseudo-nitzschia
has been an active area of investigation in our group.
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