Funded Research

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