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Environmental Engineering Dissertations

Explore our collection of dissertations from the Environmental Engineering program at Michigan Technological University below.

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2024 2024

Sustainable Materials for Environment − Multifunctional Material Made from Dead Leaves and Nanostructured Materials for Antibiotic Degradation, Siyuan Fang

SEA LEVEL RISE DRIVEN GROUNDWATER INUNDATION: EFFECTS OF ISLAND HYDROGEOLOGY ON FRESHWATER LENS DYNAMICS, Lauren K. Mancewicz

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2023 2023

PREDICTING THE REACTIVITIES AND REACTION MECHANISMS OF PHOTOCHEMICALLY PRODUCED REACTIVE INTERMEDIATES, Benjamin Barrios Cerda

TREATING CONTAMINATED WATER: PREDICTING REACTIVITIES OF AQUEOUS ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS WITH HYDRATED ELECTRONS, AND DEVELOPMENT OF A BIOGARDEN TO MANAGE GREYWATER DISCHARGE IN MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA, Rose C. Daily

CARBONATE-SUPERSTRUCTURED SOLID FUEL CELLS WITH HYDROCARBON FUELS, Hanrui Su

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2022 2022

Rebuilding fish-human relationships by quantifying combined toxicity and evaluating policy related to legacy contamination, Emily Shaw

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2021 2021

IMPACTS OF CROSS-SCALE HYDRODYNAMICS ON THE GREAT LAKES COASTAL SYSTEM, Chenfu Huang

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2020 2020

Mechanisms of Pathogen Inactivation in Wastewater and Pharmaceutical Applications, Christa L. Meingast

SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF ALGAL BIOFUEL PRODUCTION, Hossein Tavakoli

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2019 2019

CHARACTERIZATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER (DOM) IN ENGINEERED ULTRAVIOLET (UV) PHOTOLYSIS AND UV-BASED ADVANCED OXIDATION PROCESSES, Padmalathika Varanasi

THE GREAT LAKES CLIMATE ANALYSIS USING A TWO-WAY COUPLED 3-D GREAT LAKES -ATMOSPHERE REGIONAL MODEL WITH DATA ASSIMILATION METHODOLOGY, Xinyu Ye

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2018 2018

STAGNATION REDUCTION IN DRINKING WATER STORAGE TANKS THROUGH INTERNAL PIPING, Mohammad Alizadeh Fard

EVALUATION, IMPROVEMENT, AND APPLICATION OF MODELS OF ENVIRONMENTAL FATE AND TRANSPORT OF ATMOSPHERE-SURFACE EXCHANGEABLE POLLUTANTS (ASEPs), Tanvir Khan

WILDFIRE EMISSIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CHANGE AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR MERCURY POLLUTION, Aditya Kumar

Molecular Biogeochemistry of a Poor Fen, Zhimin Song

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2017 2017

TOWARD A NEW MODELING APPROACH FOR MANAGEMENT OF NUISANCE CLADOPHORA GROWTH IN THE GREAT LAKES, Anika Kuczynski

HIGHLY EFFICIENT ELECTRODE MATERIALS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN SOLAR CELLS, Wei Wei

Plating Wastewater Treatment, Yuzhe Zhang

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2016 2016

Impacts of global change on tropospheric ozone and mercury, Huanxin Zhang

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2015 2015

Materials for Energy, Drug, and Information Storage, Peifu Cheng

CLIMATE ANOMALIES AND PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN LAKE SUPERIOR, Marcel L. Dijkstra

APPLICATION OF HYDRODYNAMIC MODELS IN SIMULATING THE THERMAL REGIME OF LAKE SUPERIOR, Rasika K. Gawde

Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

GLOBAL MODELING OF ATMOSPHERIC OZONE AND AEROSOLS: MODEL IMPROVEMENTS AND APPLICATIONS, Yaoxian Huang

Synthesis and Photochemical Study of N-doped Mixed Oxide Solid Solution Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Production under Visible Light Irradiation, Taile Y. Leswifi

MODELING DYNAMICS OF OZONE AND NITROGEN OXIDES AT SUMMIT, GREENLAND WITH A 1-D PROCESS-SCALE MODEL, Keenan Anton Murray

MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF ATMOSPHERIC ORGANIC MATTER IN BIOGENIC SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL, AMBIENT AEROSOL AND CLOUDS, Yunzhu Zhao

Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

TERPENE AND TERPENOID EMISSIONS AND SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL PRODUCTION, Rosa M. Flores

Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

THE QUANTIFICATION OF THE FLY ASH ADSORPTION CAPACITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF CHARACTERIZATION AND USE IN CONCRETE, Zeyad Tareq Ahmed

INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF ANTHROPOGENIC, CLIMATE, AND POLICY INDUCED CHANGES OF PHOSPHORUS EXPORT IN THE UNITED STATES LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES WATERSHEDS, Meredith Ballard LaBeau

Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Modeling and classifying variable width riparian zones utilizing digital elevation models, flood height data, digital soil data and national wetlands inventory : a new approach for riparian zone delineation, Sinan A. Abood

Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

WATER RESOURCES, HEALTH, AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF INTERVENTIONS TO ACHIEVE WATER AND SANITATION TARGETS OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN A CHANGING WORLD, Lauren M. Fry

IMPROVING THE RELIABILITY OF AQUATIC BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELS: INTEGRATING INFORMATION AND OPTIMIZING COMPLEXITY, Cory P. McDonald

Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Nitrogen removal and sustainability of vertical flow constructed wetlands for small scale wastewater treatment, Valerie J. Fuchs

Boreal forest fire impacts on lower troposphere carbon monoxide and ozone levels at the regional to hemispheric scales, Kateryna Lapina

Long-Range Pollution Transport: Trans-Atlantic Mechanisms and Lagrangian Modeling Methods, Robert Christopher Owen

Development of measurement and modeling techniques to quantify atmospheric deposition of persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals in the Great Lakes, Mark D. Rowe

Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Planning and adaptation measures for urban slum communities in West Africa : stochastic rainfall modeling applied to domestic rainwater harvesting and climate change adaptation, Joshua R. Cowden

The effect of demand, tank parameters, and pumping stations on energy use in municipal drinking water distribution systems, Santosh Raj Ghimire

Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Regulation issues and prediction of natural estrogen loads for wastewater treatment plants, Michelle E. Jarvie

Nitrogen Oxides in the North Atlantic Troposphere: Impacts of Boreal Wildfire and Anthropogenic Emissions, Maria Val Martin

Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

Study of particle movement in the nearshore region of Lake Superior with radioisotope tracers, Yingtao Chai

COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST SCOUR AT BRIDGE ABUTMENTS, Hua Li

Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004

Optimal design of pump and treat remediation systems : treatment modeling, source modeling and time as a decision variable, Karen L. Endres

DEVELOPMENT OF ION EXCHANGE MODELS FOR WATER TREATMENT AND APPLICATION TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION WATER PROCESSOR, David Robert Hokanson

Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

SELECTED CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT: LOW TEMPERATURE NITRIFICATION INHIBITION BY AN AZO DYE AND BIOFILTRATION FOR ODOR CONTROL OF HYDROGEN SULFIDE, Ronald W. Martin Jr.