Research

Funded Research Projects as PI

  • Hinkley Center for Hazardous and Solid Waste Management, Biodegradability Enhancement of Bioreactor Landfill Leachate with Fenton Processes, $40,000, September 1, 2011 to August 31, 2012.
  • Opa-Locka City, Peak Flow Management for the City of Opa-Locka, $20,000, from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2012.
  • South Florida Water Management District, Automated Quality Analysis of Time Series Stage Data, $24,000, from August 18, 2009 to September 30, 2009.
  • Opa-Locka City, Application to State Revolving Fund for Water Facility to Build Wastewater Treatment Plant for Opa-Locka City, $30,000, from June 30, 2009 to May 31, 2010.
  • South Florida Water Management District, Regional Simulation Model Development, 6/2/2008 to 8/22/08, (Li-Kai Lin as Summer Intern) $10,000.
  • South Florida Water Management District, Evaluate and Assess Flow Rating Equations at Water Control Structures, 6/2/2008 to 8/22/08, (Fang Wang as a Summer Intern), $10,000.
  • South Florida Water Management District, Monte Carlo Simulation of Uncertainty in Computed Discharges for Submerged Orifice Flow at Gated Spillways, $30,000, from June 30, 2007 to July 1, 2008.
  • South Florida Water Management District, Implementation of UA analysis in District’s ADCP post-processing tool, $8,500, from June 30, 2007 to September 1, 2007.
  • South Florida Water Management District, Technical and Economical Evaluation of Geosynthetic Products for Mitigation of Damaged Canal Banks, $32,342, from May 30, 2007 to April 30, 2008.
  • Opa-Locka City, Feasibility Study of Water Treatment Plant for Opa-Locka City, $14,200, from June 30, 2006 to May 31, 2008.
  • College of Engineering and Computing, Dean’s Infrastructure Award, $20,000, September 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007.
  • Environmental Protection Agency Minority Fellowship Program for Jeffrey Robert Czajkowski, Title: Applying Cutting Edge Environmental Economics to Establish an Optimal Level of Ecosystem Restoration and Economic Development in the Everglades National Park; $75,000, November 2001 to November 2004.
  • The Institute of Telecommunication at FIU “Development of Automatic Wireless Water Meters”, $25,000,
  • from May 2002 to August 2002.
  • The International Hurricane Center at FIU, “Public Hurricane Loss Model,” $50,000.00, from May 2001-May 2003
  • The International Hurricane Center at FIU “Hurricane Damage Assessment of Residential Houses Using Aerial Photographs”, $52,600.00 from May 2000-May 2001
  • Environmental Protection Agency, “Hydroxylation, Hole Oxidation, and Electron Reduction of Substituted Phenols by TiO2/UV,” $75,000.00 from August 1997-August 2000.
  • National Institute of Health, “QSAR Studies on Microtox Toxicity of Disinfection By-products and Inter-species Toxicity Correlations,” $99,354.00 fromAugust 1, 1997toJuly 31, 2000.
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Cooperative Research and Teaching with Tsinghua University – Two Bases Model Project,” ¥150,000.00 from May 1998 to July 2000.
  • FIU International Hurricane Research Center, “Quantitative Damage Assessment of Residential Houses by Hurricane Andrew Using Aerial Photograph,” $1,200.00 fromOctober 12, 1996toFebruary 28, 1997.
  • Pam American Survey, “Film Negative of Aerial Photograph of South Dade County after Hurricane Andrew,” $20,000.00 Donation of the Aerial Photograph Negatives,February 28, 1997.
  • Environmental Protection Agency, “Hammett Studies on Oxidation Kinetics of Substituted Phenols by Advanced Oxidation Processes — H2O2/Fe2+, H2O2/Fe Powder, and TiO2/UV,” $50,000.00 from August 1996-August 1998.
  • Rockefeller Foundation/Chinese National Science Foundation, a research fellow in “The China-Cornell /China Science Foundation Fellowship Program”.  Each year, the Rockefeller Foundation supports $5,000.00 for all the expenses of travel and supplies to conduct research inChinaand the China National Science Foundation supports $5,000.00 for food, hotel and local travel for one month forMay 18, 1994toJanuary 20, 1998.
  • Environmental Protection Agency, “Color Destruction of Textile Wastewater by High Energy Electron Beam and Fenton’s Reagent,” (Co-principal Investigators: O’Shea, K., and Cooper, W.), $225,129.00 from October, 1993-September, 1996.
  • National Science Foundation:, “Photocatalytic Oxidation Kinetics of Priority Organic Pollutants by TiO2 — A Molecular Structure and Reactivity Study,”  (Co-principal investigators: O’Shea, K., and Cooper, W.) $50,073.00 from September 1993-August 1995.
  • FIU Research Foundation/FIU Provost’s Office, “Molecular Structure and Activity Relationship in Photocatalytic Oxidation Kinetics of Substituted Phenols by TiO2/UV,” $12,849.00 from June 1993 – August 1993.

Funded Research Projects as Co-PI

  • FIU NSF Industry/University Cooperation Research center proposed research for SFMWD on automatic data quality control, SFWMD, $24,000, from August 2009 to August 2010. (P.I. Dr. Naphtali Rishe)
  • China Ministry of Education, “Industrial Wastewater Treatment by Electrical/Photocatalytic Membranes,” ¥25,000.00 from May 1999 to July 2000, (P.I.: Zhidong Wei and Bin Feng, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China)
  • China Ministry of Education, “Membrane Separation of Heavy Metals for Metallurgy Industrial Wastewater,” ¥28,000.00 from May 1999 to July 2000, (P.I.: Jiu Du, Chongqing University Chongqing, China)
  • China Ministry of Education, “Site Investigation of Health Impact of Disinfection By-Products,” ¥29,000.00 from May 1999 to July 2000, (P.I.: Jianpin Liu, The Third Medical University of Chinese Military, Chongqing, China)
  • China Ministry of Education, “Oil Seal Technology for Navigation Cargos,” ¥22,000.00 from May 1999 to July 2000, (P.I.: Jiaxiu Wang, Yi Zhou, Jianbo Cai, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China)
  • China Ministry of Education, “Water Ecological Development of Three Gorge Dam Using Finite Element Simulation,” ¥20,000.00 from May 1999 to July 2000, (P.I.: Xinan Liu, Wei Ye, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China)
  • China Ministry of Education, “Molecular Structure and Activity Relationship in Predicting Toxicities of Toxic Pollutants in Chongqing City,” ¥30,000.00 from May 1999 to July 2000, (P.I.: Xinan Liu, Wei Ye, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China)
  • Environmental Protection Agency, “Priority Pollutant Fate, Control, and Prevention: An FIU Educational and Research Program,” (Dr. H. R. Fuentes as the P. I., Other Co-P.I.s: Dr. Vassilios A. Tsihrintzis and Dr. Shonali Laha), $75,000.00 from August 1996-August 1998.
  • Environmental Protection Agency, “Graduate Education of Environmental Engineers and Scientists at FIU,” (P.I.: Dr. Hector R. Fuentes, Other Co-P.I.s: Dr. Berrin Tansel and Dr. Vassilios A. Tsihrintzis), $100,000.00 from August 1993-August 1995.