3:00PM - 4:00PM, ABE 1164

At this next in-person Water Community meeting, each of the below presenters will share a 5-8 minute lightning talk about their research interests and current projects. This will leave ample time for discussion about future avenues for exploration and development of new collaborations.

Antoine Aubeneau is an Assistant Professor of Hydraulic and Hydrologic Engineering in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering. His research interests lie at the boundaries of natural systems and academic disciplines, combining hydraulics and hydrology with biogeochemistry, geomorphology and applied mathematics to study and understand how "anomalous" environmental transport conditions water quality

Caitlin Proctor is an Assistant Professor in Agricultural & Biological Engineering and Environmental & Ecological Engineering. Her research focuses on water quality within plumbing buildings. As a microbiologist, she investigates the ecology of microbial communities. Her current work focuses on microbial biofilms that form in building plumbing and the impacts of volatile organic compounds in drinking water distribution systems. 

Halis Simsek is an Assistant Professor in Agricultural & Biological Engineering. His research interests mainly pertain to water and wastewater treatment, water quality, agricultural structures and livestock housing environment, and agricultural waste management. Specific area of interests include: a) Fate and transport of nutrients in the agricultural systems and in water resource recovery facilities, b) mathematical/numerical modeling of agricultural and environmental systems, c) evaluation of impacts of agricultural production on surface and groundwater quality, d) algal blooms in surface waters, e) biological wastewater treatment, environmental biochemistry, microbial processes for bioremediation of organic and inorganic substances, and f) photochemical and electrochemical application on water and wastewater treatment.