Research Facilities
The EWR research facilities are comprised of multiple laboratories that contain equipment for performing basic and advanced research in the fields of environmental and water resources engineering. The laboratories and offices are located in Patton Hall, Hancock Hall, Durham Hall, Kelly Hall, ICTAS II, and Femoyer Hall. The majority of faculty and graduate student offices are housed in Durham, Patton, and Femoyer Halls. The research facilities located in Patton Hall include computer laboratories, a groundwater engineering laboratory, and instructional hydraulics laboratories. The groundwater laboratory houses field testing equipment for soil and groundwater sampling at hazardous waste sites. The testing equipment includes soil augers, multi-level groundwater well installation components, and complete field-grade Hach water chemistry capabilities.
The laboratories located in Durham Hall include equipment for water and air quality analysis, such as a liquid chromatograph with mass spectrometer, refractive index, and UV detectors; multiple gas chromatographs with a range of detection systems including FID, ECD, H2, MS, and N/P; ion chromatographs; a high performance liquid chromatograph with diode array detection; a UV/visible spectrophotometer; gas analyzers for carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and ozone; a Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS); and a Scanning Electrical Mobility Spectrometer (SEMS) to determine size distributions of aerosol samples.
Our Environmental Biotechnology and Bioenergy Laboratory is housed in Hancock Hall. Research on sustainable wastewater treatment, resource recovery, and desalination and membrane technologies take place here. Hancock Hall has multiple bioreactors in the laboratory. Additionally, the unit operations teaching laboratory is on the 1st floor of Hancock Hall.
Kelly Hall houses a laboratory for research on environmental science and nanotechnology. It hosts state-of-the-art equipment including a dynamic light scattering instrument, scanning mobility particle sizer, optical particle counter, diffusion charger, photoemission aerosol sensor, and an atomic force microscope with Raman spectroscopy.
ICTAS II building houses a laboratory for research on sustainable water systems. It hosts a large-scale plumbing test rig and a full array of equipment for molecular microbial ecology characterization, including two real-time PCR machines, a capillary genetic analyzer, a gel doc imager, and an epifluorescent microscope. The labs in ICTAS II are also Biosafety Level-2 Laboratories where work with opportunistic pathogens takes place.
The Baker Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory (BEHL) is a state-of-the-art facility for performing experiments in environmental, fluvial and infrastructure hydraulics. The laboratory website contains more information about current research project, graduate students, and research opportunities and capabilities.”