Journal of Environmental Management Special Issue

Scientific Advances for Understanding, Predicting, and Managing Harmful Algal Blooms

The management of Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs) is a wicked environmental problem affecting freshwater and coastal waters globally. HABs management requires both deep knowledge of phytoplankton ecology, as well as broad understanding of the multifaceted physical, chemical, and biological drivers and impacts of blooms in the environment and society. This special issue seeks original contributions related to the understanding, prediction, and management of HABs in freshwater and coastal environments. In line with the journal’s scope, all papers submitted to the journal must show a specific link to environmental management applications.

Submission open date: June 01, 2024

Submission deadline: October 31, 2024

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-environmental-management/about/call-for-papers

Daniela successfully defends her thesis!

Congratulations to Daniela Vasquez for successfully defending her thesis “Hurricanes and Tropical Storms’ Impact on Water Quality in Lake Okeechobee, Florida”!

Jenna receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

Big congrats to Jenna Brooks for receiving the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Jenna has enrolled as a graduate student in Northeastern University, where she is continuing her research with microplastics.

Lab hosting the American Ecological Engineering Society Meeting in Tampa

It’s been a quite time in this website, which means we are all busy! The lab is hosting the AEES annual meeting on campus June 6-9, and we are all gearing up for it.

https://www.ecoeng.org/2023-annual-meeting

Bruno wins 1st place in national poster presentation competition!

Big congrats to Bruno Fulco Mancini! He won the first place in the poster competition at the American Ecological Engineering Society annual meeting in Baltimore. He competed against other 46 students, including MS and PhD. Bruno presented his independent research on the effects of water quality on pressure retarded osmosis for desalination energy recovery.

Two lab publications accepted in January!

Publications led by Josh Benjamin and Michelle Platz (both of whom defended their PhDs in Fall 2021) were accepted on the same day! Please check out our publication list for details.

Lab out to celebrate Michelle's and Josh's defenses!

We finally went out together as a group early December to celebrate the succesful defenses of Michelle’s and Josh’s dissertations. It was good to hang out with the team again!

Josh PhD Defense!

Congrats to Dr. Josh Benjamin who successfully defended his PhD Dissertation!

River plastics research published!

Please check out our publication list for our two recent publications looking at plastic pollution in the Hillsborough and Mekong rivers

Lillian and Samar defended their MS theses!

Congratulations to Lillian Mulligan and Samar Al Mashrafi, who successfully defended their MS theses in June. Best wishes to both in their future careers as environmental engineers!