Principal Investigator

Richard G Luthy

Research Associate

Yeo-Myoung Cho

Postdoctoral Researchers

Gregory H. LeFevre

Visiting Scholar

Martin Hansen

Angela Yu-Chen Lin

Graduate Students

Jon Bradshaw

Patricia Gonzales

Brian Halaburka

Niveen S. Ismail

Diana Lin

Jay Thompson

Jordyn Wolfand

Yanwen Wu

Former Group Members

Sungwoo Ahn, PhD, PostDoc

Heather Bischel, PhD, PostDoc

YongJu Choi, PhD, PostDoc

Upal Ghosh, PostDoc, Research Associate

Chris Higgins, PhD

Lei Hong, PhD

Ching-Hong Hsieh, PostDoc

Fatima Aysha Hussain, MS

Elisabeth(Lilli) Janssen, PhD, PostDoc

Jerry Marshall Kemper III, PostDoc

Eunah Kim, PhD

Laura MacManus-Spencer, PostDoc

Pam McLeod, PhD, PostDoc

Claudia Mueller, PostDoc

Amy Oen, PostDoc

Sarah Rubinfeld, PhD

Dennis Smithenry, PostDoc

Jeanne Tomaszewski, PhD

Chaojie Zhang, Visiting Scholar

Jinzhong Zhang, Visiting Scholar

Chang Zhang, Visiting Scholar

Yuan Zhuang, PhD

John Zimmerman, PhD

YeoMyoung is a research associate with an emphasis on the study of environmental transport and fate of organic contaminants, with experience in natural sediment systems and estuary processes. Her background in chemistry, geochemistry and environmental engineering is a combination of research in the area of water quality, geochemical processes, and natural systems. In her PhD work, she managed and executed the first ever field demonstration showing that in-place sediment treatments may beneficially sequester polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), thereby reducing ecological and human health risk. As a postdoctoral researcher, she continued to study in-situ sediment remediation, while expanding her research scope through various projects.

E-mail: daybreak at stanford.edu   |CV

Greg is a postdoc under the ReNUWIt ERC examining natural-systems based technologies, such as bioretention and vegetative treatment, for beneficial use of stormwater and mitigation of non-point source pollutants. Greg¡¯s graduate work focused on the fate and biodegradation of stormwater petroleum hydrocarbons within bioretention systems. His research focus is use of low-energy ecologically based treatment approaches to address diffuse pollutants in the environment.

Email: glefevre at stanford.edu   |CV

Jon is interested in understanding and improving urban water management systems to help cities increase their water resilience. Jon¡¯s current research examines how recycled water can be added to stormwater spreading grounds to supplement groundwater recharge. In prior work, Jon has developed and implemented methods for analyzing, visualizing, and modeling energy and water systems.

E-mail: jbrad at stanford.edu   

Patricia's research focuses on new approaches to integrated water management in the San Francisco Bay Area in order to enhance the reliability of water supplies. Specifically, Patricia is evaluating the possibility of a Regional Independent System Operator as a means of structuring effective coordination of water supply management at a regional level. The goal is to develop a dynamic system tool to evaluate potential economic impacts of introducing alternative water sources, water trading in the region, and assess the value of system reliability on various scales. This is an interdisciplinary project under the Urban Systems Integration and Institutions thrust of NSF ERC ReNUWIt.

E-mail: patgonza at stanford.edu   

Brian is working under the Managed Water Reuse for Ecosystem Benefit(N2.1) project in the RENUWiT ERC. Specifically, he is trying to quantifying the non-monetized value of ecosystem services created by augmenting flow in urban streams.

E-mail: bhalabur at stanford.edu   

Niveen is interested in the improvement of water quality using natural treatment systems. Her research is part of the Natural Systems thrust of NSF ERC ReNUWIt. She is currently studying the efficiency of bivalves as natural biological filters to remove pathogens and trace organics (personal care products and pharmaceuticals) from freshwater.

E-mail: niveen at stanford.edu   

Diana¡¯s research involves measuring the level of DDT contamination in Pallanza Bay, Lake Magiorre, Italy, and assessing how natural processes of slow deposition of clean sediment may help cover DDT contamination and restore Pallanza Bay. She will also evaluate whether sediment amendment using activated carbon would be effective in reducing bioavailability of DDT.

E-mail: di.lin at stanford.edu   

E-mail: jayt at stanford.edu   

E-mail: jwolfand at stanford.edu   

E-mail: yanwenw at stanford.edu   

Martin is working on environmental endocrine disruptors, especially persistent organic pollutants, with an emphasis on assessing the effects on marine mammal and amphibian thyroid and steroid hormone systems. A special focus is on establishing analytical methodologies to quantify minute amounts of hormones in biological and environmental samples. Martin is working across laboratories here at Luthy¡¯s lab, at Hayes¡¯ lab (UC Berkeley) using amphibian models to investigate endocrine disruption, at Sedlak¡¯s lab (UC Berkeley) using sophisticated analytical chemical technologies, at Copenhagen University Hospital and University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.

E-mail: martin.hansen at stanford.edu   

Angela Lin is a Full Professor in the Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering at National Taiwan University. She is an environmental chemist focusing on natural waters and the fate and transformation of trace organic compounds in natural systems. Her research and teaching interests are in the area of environmental photochemistry, analytical chemistry, natural attenuation and transport of contaminants in aqueous environments, water recycling and water/wastewater treatment technology. She has more than fourteen years of research experience on the occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products, endocrine disruptors and perfluorinated chemicals.
Angela is currently doing a visiting professorship here and involved in the ReNUWIt projects dealing with stormwater capture, treatment and use at Dr. Luthy's group.

E-mail: yuchenlin at ntu.edu.tw
Website: http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~yuchenlin/