Grants per year
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Research Interests
Professor Wells’s research group works at the interface of environmental biotechnology and microbial ecology, with an emphasis on the study of microbial diversity, dynamics, interactions, and function in engineered and impacted natural aquatic systems. Their primary research interests are microbial nitrogen cycling and short-circuit biological nutrient removal processes, microbial ecology of engineered and natural settings, sustainable biological wastewater treatment, microbial greenhouse gas production, and resource and energy recovery from waste.
Education/Academic qualification
Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, Stanford University
… → 2011
Civil and Environmental Engineering, MS, Stanford University
… → 2006
Chemical Engineering, BS, Rice University
… → 2003
Environmental Engineering, BA, Rice University
… → 2003
Research interests
- Environmental biotechnology
- Microbial ecology of natural and engineered systems
- Nutrient pollution management and abatement
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Grants
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Approaches to Reduce Nutrient Loadings for Harmful Algal Blooms Management
Water Research Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency
9/1/20 → 8/31/23
Project: Research project
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Structural Health Monitoring of Biofilms for Sustainable Reactive Nitrogen Management
Balogun, O., Packman, A. & Wells, G.
5/15/20 → 4/30/23
Project: Research project
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CPS: Medium: Batteryless Sensors Enabling Smart Green Infrastructure
Hester, J. D., Miller, W. M., Packman, A., Wells, G. & Zhu, Q.
1/1/21 → 12/31/23
Project: Research project
Research Output
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Time to act–assessing variations in qPCR analyses in biological nitrogen removal with examples from partial nitritation/anammox systems
Agrawal, S., Weissbrodt, D. G., Annavajhala, M., Jensen, M. M., Arroyo, J. M. C., Wells, G., Chandran, K., Vlaeminck, S. E., Terada, A., Smets, B. F. & Lackner, S., Feb 15 2021, In: Water Research. 190, 116604.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Differential kinetics of nitrogen oxides reduction leads to elevated nitrous oxide production by a nitrite fed granular denitrifying EBPR bioreactor
Gao, H., Zhao, X., Zhou, L., Sabba, F. & Wells, G. F., Apr 2020, In: Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology. 6, 4, p. 1028-1043 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Scopus citations -
Erratum to “Biomass segregation between biofilm and flocs improves the control of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in mainstream partial nitritation and anammox processes” [Water Res. 154 (2019) 104–116](S0043135419300016)(10.1016/j.watres.2018.12.051)
Laureni, M., Weissbrodt, D. G., Villez, K., Robin, O., de Jonge, N., Rosenthal, A., Wells, G., Nielsen, J. L., Morgenroth, E. & Joss, A., Feb 1 2020, In: Water Research. 169, 115133.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Integrated shortcut nitrogen and biological phosphorus removal from mainstream wastewater: Process operation and modeling
Roots, P., Sabba, F., Rosenthal, A. F., Wang, Y., Yuan, Q., Rieger, L., Yang, F., Kozak, J. A., Zhang, H. & Wells, G. F., Mar 2020, In: Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology. 6, 3, p. 566-580 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
6 Scopus citations -
Microbial and Viral Communities and Their Antibiotic Resistance Genes Throughout a Hospital Wastewater Treatment System
Petrovich, M. L., Zilberman, A., Kaplan, A., Eliraz, G. R., Wang, Y., Langenfeld, K., Duhaime, M., Wigginton, K., Poretsky, R., Avisar, D. & Wells, G. F., Feb 19 2020, In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 11, 153.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access5 Scopus citations