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Welcome! We're glad you're here. Our research group improves human and environmental health locally and globally through the safe and sustainable recovery of resources from concentrated waste streams. The Sustainable Development Goals, the Engineering Grand Challenges, and the Environmental Engineering Grand Challenges highlight infrastructure issues related to water, sanitation, energy, and food that require transdisciplinary, innovative research from globally competent engineers. Our group provides integrated technological, experimental, social, and modeling solutions through technology development, resource recovery, water quality management, life cycle analysis, data science, and community engagement.

Our group recovers nutrients from concentrated waste streams such as urine and liquid digestate derived from organic waste streams such as animal manure and food waste. Our group partners with multiple disciplines such as public health and anthropology and with collaborators in countries such as Costa Rica and Kenya to meet social, environmental, economic, and technical standards of sustainability.

Together we can make a difference. Let's go!