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Environmental Engineering Professor passionate about safe and efficient water reuse & sustainable sanitation for improved environmental and human health

Davis, CA
Joined March 2010
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Homemade hand sanitizer! UC Davis Water Resources Grad student and SWEGS President Zoe preps for prospective student day. SWEGS Sanitizers coming soon to @ucdaviscee
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Replying to @ucdaviscee
@ucdaviscee Profs and students led by Ann Willis kept cool in Lake Tahoe -- and raised nearly $2000 for science communications and outreach. nice job team! ucdavis.edu/news/flag-elicit…
Check out UC Davis Environmental Engineering PhD student, Hannah Safford, competing on Jeopardy tonight!! @ucdaviscee @AEESProfs ucdavis.edu/news/phd-student…
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Check out my student's blog on public outreach and engagement in direct potable reuse! californiawaterblog.com/2019…
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Everything you wanted to know about flow cytometry for water quality characterization! (available free of charge until Feb 14 2019) doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.201…
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Innovating cities; super cheap & sanitary (plastic!?) slum housing; clean slate for fresh ideas in civil infrastructure — lots here to ponder. No mention of nature, local food production and green space, though. mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/2…
designer phage kill antibiotic resistant bacteria nature.com/news/modified-vir…
I'm swimming across Lake Tahoe this weekend with 5 amazing women! #womenforwaterresearch #ReflectionsOnWater #transtahoerelay
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Would you tell your first date you "may" pick them up, to be accurate? Scientists need appropriate vocabulary to communicate uncertainty. teapaw.org/petervikesland/status/…
'If one person pollutes the water, they pollute it for us all' @livingonearth Steve Curwood. #aeesp2017
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highly bioaccumulative F-53B, a chlorinated polyfluorinated ether sulfonate alternative to PFOS, long used in China pubs.acs.org/page/vi/fluorin…
tradeoffs of reduced salinity (good for health) vs reduced calcium and magnesium (bad for health) using rainwater pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
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monitoring microbial quality of all improved water sources in sub-Saharan Africa would cost $16M USD/yr - minimal pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
Hannah Safford (incoming student to our group!) pushing for Environmentally Sustainable Policies psmag.com/magazine/hannah-sa… via @pacificstand
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Activated carbon isn't enough to clean up poly- and perfluoroalkyl acids following fire fighting foam usage pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021…
Consumers underestimate the health risks of "eco" household cleaning products onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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