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Photo taken in Feb 2024. Left to right: Abbie, Caden, Tuba, Michael, Shelby, Mahadi, and Liangcheng.
Abbie Gorsage
Abbie joined the group in spring 2024. She works on air quality monitoring in environmental justice areas.
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Mahadi Hasan (co-advised)
Mahadi joined the group in the spring of 2024. He works on cover crop and nutrient conservation.
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Caden Miller
Caden joined the group in the fall of 2023. He works on cover crop AD.
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Tuba Yasmin (co-advised)
Tuba Yasmin joined the group in the fall of 2023. She works on soil health and anaerobic digestion.
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Shelby Stoner
Shelby joined the group in the fall of 2023. She works on nutrient cycling.
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Michael Moklak
Michael joined the group in the summer of 2023. He works on pennycress anaerobic digestion.
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Lucas Lamont
Lucas joined the group in 2021. He works on the anaerobic digestion of cover crops.
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Gabriela Ornelas
Gabriela joined the group in 2020. She works on N95 respirator filtration.
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Rowan Carroll
Rowan joined the group in 2020. She works on nutrient recovery from wastewater.
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Trevar Moran
Trevar joined the research group in 2019. He works on anaerobic digestion and nutrient recovery.
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Kelsey Fiddes
Kelsey joined the group in 2019. She works on the environmental impacts of cannabis cultivation.
Summer Corsolini
Summer joined the research group in 2017. She works on a new anaerobic digester design and biogas cleaning.
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Rico Guevaro
Rico joined the group in 2017. He works on biomass analysis.
Alisha Kottke
Alisha joined the research group in 2015. She works on the development of a novel cartridge-style anaerobic digestion system to reduce H2S emission and improve biogas production.
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Matt Johnson
Matt Joined the group in 2016. He works on biogas cleaning and upgrading.
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Alec Dietrich
Alec joined the research group in 2015. He works on developing an affordable technology to recover failed anaerobic digestion units.
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Zhonghua Zheng (co-advised)
Zhonghua was a Master’s student at Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He works on impedance-based moisture sensor development for gas-phase biofilters.
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