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Dr. Ramesh Goel

Associate Professor Graduate Director Email 213 CME P: (801) 581 - 6110 F: (801) 585 - 5477

The Goel lab studies applied as well as fundamental processes in engineered and natural systems to accomplish environmental sustainability. The research has laboratory as well as a significant field component. Towards environmental sustainability, we are studying nutrients dynamics in streams and wetlands and in wastewater treatment plants. In the lab, we run reactors to study phosphorus removal, innovative nitrogen transformations (including anammox and anoxic methane oxidation), estrogen degradation, microbial ecology. At the field scale, we are studying nutrient, especially nitrogen dynamics in stream and wetland sediments, organic carbon in sediments and green house gas fluxes from lakes and wetlands. We are also studying climate change affected by green house gas emissions from green infrastructures such as bio-retention ponds, constructed wetlands and waste-water treatment plants. To study the taxonomy, ecophysiology and phylogenetic of mixed community in different reactors and natural systems, we are using "omics" approach which includes metagenomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics. Instead of using 16S rRNA gene based taxonomic classification, we are using functional gene approach to study different taxa present in reactors and natural ecosystems.

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