The Center of Excellence in Healthy Water Solutions’ research focus is comprehensive, spanning multiple areas within water science from the management of water resources in terms of quality (including traditional and emerging contaminants) and quantity (including built and natural environments), to addressing the associated societal issues.
Areas of Research
Year Funded | Title | Clarkson University PI/Co-PI | SUNY ESF PI/Co-PI |
2021 | Assessing the ecotoxicity of mixtures of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances | Sujan Fernando | Roxanne Razavi |
2021 | Development of Energy-efficient Wastewater Treatment for Removal of Pharmaceutical contaminants | Yang Yang | Gyu Leem |
2021 | High-Capacity Sustainable Sorbents for Treatment of Per-Fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Contaminated Waters | Mario Wriedt | Deepak Kumar |
2021 | Forecasting Shoreline Erosion Using Deep Learning to Restore Coastal Ecosystem Services | Abul Baki | Sharon Moran |
2021 | Wetland and Sediment Plume Monitoring using Advanced Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Techniques | Sean Banerjee | Bahram Salehi |
2021 | Developing Museum Content for Indigenous Values and Water Resources: Internships at the Skä Noñh Center for the Great Law of Peace | Sharon Moran | |
2021 | Cost Reduction and System Improvement of the Clarkson HAB Terminator to Accelerate Commercialization in New York State* | Yang Yang/Stefan Grimberg | |
2022 | High Capacity Sorbents for Rapid and Efficient Removal of Phosphorous from Nonpoint Sources of Runoff | Silvana Andreescu | Doug Daley |
2022 | Non-targeted screening of drinking water disinfection byproducts and their degradation and detoxification using a continuous flow photoelectrochemical cell | Jingyun Ye | Leanne Powers |
2022 | Development of Sustainable and Renewable Photovoltaic System for Perfluorooctanoic Acids Removal in Aqueous Environment | Yang Yang | Chang Geun Yoo |
2022 | Advanced Sequencing to Assess Risks Associated with Antibiotic Resistance as An Emerging Contaminant in Great Lakes Sediment and Fish | Susan Bailey | Yaqi You |
2022 | Expanding Project WHIRL (Protectors of the Watershed Habitat in the Indian River Lakes) | Diana Terese White | |
2022 | Rapid Classification of HABs using Digital Field Microscopes and Artificial Intelligence* | Roxanne Razavi/ Gregory Boyer, Stephen Shaw | |
2022 | Pilot Testing of Ammonia Vacuum Stripping and Absorption on Multiple Waste Streams* | Wendong Tao | |
2022 | Cost Reduction and System Improvement of the Clarkson HAB Terminator to Accelerate Commercialization in New York State* | Yang Yang/ Stefan Grimberg | |
2023 | Development of an AI-Vision Enabled Environmental Monitoring Sensor System for the Real-time Detection of Microplastics in a Waterbody* | Abul Baki/ Masudul Imtiaz, Thomas Holsen | |
2023 | Struvite Recovery for Organic Production* | Wendong Tao | |
2023 | Development of a chemoselective electrochemical sensor for perfluorooctanoic acid in real aqua environments | Ian McCrum | Gyu Leem/ Chang Geun Yoo* |
2023 | PFAS Removal and Destruction from Semiconductor Manufacturing Wastewater* | Thomas M. Holsen/ Selma Mededovic, Diana Aranzales | |
2023 | Identification of Nitrification Inhibitors within Semiconductor Manufacturing Wastewaters* | Stefan Grimberg/ Thomas Holsen | |
2023 | The Abundance and Distribution of Microplastics Pollution in a Riverine System at a Temporal and Spatial Scale | Abul BM Baki/ Thomas Holsen | Leeanne C. Powers |
2023 | Biochar-based materials for electrochemical removal of scaling ions and heavy metals | Taeyoung Kim/ Sitaraman Krishnan | Chang Geun Yoon |
2023 | Common loons as sentinel species for environmental health, PFAS and mercury exposure in New York’s waters | Sujan Fernando | Stacy McNulty/ Roxanne Razavi |
2023 | Meeting drinking water needs in New York State: Improvements in desalination technology and degradation of disinfection byproducts using visible-light induced photoelectrochemical cells | Taeyoung Kim/ Sitaraman Krishnan | Leanne C. Powers/ Gyu Leem |
2023 | Early Warning of Harmful Algal Blooms Enabled by a Novel CRISPR-based Biosensor | Siwen Wang | Yaqi You |
* indicates commercialization project