Research guides students to identify environmental issues, analyze their causes and impacts, and develop evidence-based solutions through independent inquiry. Projects are organized across key environmental domains below, helping students apply data, scientific reasoning, and engineering approaches to understand complex environmental systems and inform real-world solutions.
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Air
Project 1
ANOMALy: A Real-Time Globalized System for Effective Regional Mitigation of Agricultural Nitrous Oxide Emissions…More Info
Project 2
Using Dropsonde Descending Speed to Determine Vertical Air Velocity in a Hurricane…More Info
Project 3
Urban Ozone Forecasting and Policy Recommendations Through Photochemical Modeling and Machine Learning…More Info
Project 4
Mobile Weather Station and Databank…More Info
Project 5
A Comprehensive Spatiotemporal Model for Interpolation of Tropospheric Fine Particulate Matter Concentration…More Info
Water
Project 1
PFAS contamination data visualization and research tool project…More Info
Project 2
Improved Efficiency of Steam Generation Using Carbon Nanoparticlese…More Info
Project 3
Developing a Sustainable Water Filtration System for Use in Low Income Countries…More Info
Project 4
Passive Manipulation of Thermal Radiation: Dual Purpose Condensers to Provide Potable Water…More Info
Project 5
Year II: Domestic Wastewater Clarification and Power Generation – Increasing the Conductivity of Permeated Electrodes in a Single-Cell Microbial Fuel Cell…More Info
Climate
Project 1
A Novel Method for Accurately Modeling Past Atmospheric Conditions Using Ice Core Data from Law Dome and WAIS Divide: An Approach to Monitor Future Climate Sustainability…More Info
Project 2
Estimating CO₂ and CH₄ Emissions from Washington DC Using Low-Cost Sensors and Small Drone Technology…More Info
Project 3
ANOMALy: A Real-Time Globalized System for Effective Regional Mitigation of Agricultural Nitrous Oxide Emissions…More Info
Project 4
Measuring the Effects of Climate Change on Arctic Rivers…More Info
Project 5
Coupled Hydrodynamic Ocean and Atmospheric Simulation of El Niño…More Info
Chemicals and Toxics
Project 1
Acoustic Filtration: Harnessing Ultrasonic Technology for the Streamlined Removal of Microplastic Particles from Water Flow. Innovative Conservation of Wetland Resources with Rhizophora mucronata Nursery…More Info
Project 2
Global Microplastic Pollution – The Emerging Health Crisis: The Ecotoxicological Effects of Microplastics on Aquatic Organisms and Translating to Humans via AI, Machine Learning & a Novel Low-Cost Water Filtration System…More Info
Project 3
Development of a Zeolite Composite Material for the Simultaneous Removal of Pharmaceuticals, Personal Care…More Info
Project 4
Products (PPCPs), and Perfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS) in Water Treatment…More Info
Project 5
Can Ants Help Save the Bees? Developing a Better Model for Screening Pesticide Effects on Honeybee Social Behavior…More Info
Land and Soil
Project 1
Detection and Removal of Dinotefuran from the Environment: A Multi-Year HPLC-MS Analysis…More Info
Project 2
Biodegradation of Chlorpyrifos and Soil Remediation Using Native Soil Bacteria and Triton X: A Novel Approach…More Info
Project 3
The Heavy Metal Movement Phase II: A Field and Laboratory Study of Panicum virgatum L. and Its Ability to Phytoremediate Soil from the Tar Creek Superfund Site…More Info
Project 4
Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Industrial Wastewater Using Algal Polysaccharide Alginate…More Info
Project 5
Arsenic Contamination through Tsunami Wave Movement in Hawaii: Investigating the Concentration of Heavy Metals in the Soil from the 1960 Hilo, Hawaii Tsunami…More Info
Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Project 1
Climate Change on Crocodilians: Modeling the Effects of Phenological Shifts…More Info
Project 2
Tropicalization of Temperate Ecosystems: How Climate Change Can Influence…More Info
Project 3
Buffering the Bloom: The Effect of Nutrient Management Practices on Pond Eutrophication…More Info
Project 4
Innovative Conservation of Wetland Resources with Rhizophora mucronata Nursery…More Info
Project 5
The Effects of Ocean Acidification on Primary Consumers in a Marine Ecosystem…More Info
Energy
Project 1
Improved Efficiency of Steam Generation Using Carbon Nanoparticles…More Info
Project 2
Nature Derived Carbon Microsheets as Efficient Electrocatalyst for Energy Storage…More Info
Project 3
The Fabrication and Characterization of Short and Long Term Memory Proton Induced Thin Film Synaptic Transistors…More Info
Project 4
Optimization of Natural Gas Separation and the Haber-Bosch Process with Thermally Rearranged Polymers: Effects of Morphology and Chemical Structure on Free Volume and Transport Properties of HAB-6FDA Structures…More Info
Project 5
Optimization of Lithium-Sulfur Battery Cathode: Role of Sulfur-Carbon Interaction…More Info
Human Health and Environment
Project 1
Epigenetic and Biotransformation Effects of Hookah Smoke Extract on Human Oral Keratinocytes…More Info
Project 2
The Effect of Pollutant Bisphenol A on Cancer Cell Proliferation…More Info
Project 3
Discovery of Highly-Correlated Circadian Oscillations in Oral MicroRNA and Microbiome Levels Using Next Generation Sequencing for Human Health and Disease…More Info
Project 4
Serum Marker of Glyphosate Exposure Associated with Changes in Oral and Gut Microbiome Composition…More Info
Project 5
Effects of Known Endocrine Disruptor Pyriproxyfen Compared to Suspected Endocrine Disruptors Bisphenol A (BPA) and Bisphenol-S (BPS) on Blaptica dubia Roaches…More Info