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George Wells

  • 2368 Citations
20032020

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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

Structural Health Monitoring of Biofilms for Sustainable Reactive Nitrogen Management

Balogun, O., Packman, A. & Wells, G.

National Science Foundation

5/15/20 → 4/30/23

Project: Research project

    • Developing approaches for achieving biological phosphorous removal and improved settleability in high-rate activated sludge systems

    Wells, G.

    District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority

    1/1/20 → 12/31/23

    Project: Research project

    • Application of Molecular Methods to Determine Abundance, Population Structure, and Functions of Polyphosphate Accumulating Organisms and the Impact

    Wells, G.

    Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

    11/14/18 → 12/31/19

    Project: Research project

    • EAGER: Optical Coherence Elastography (OCE): A novel tool for rapid, non-destructive, spatially resolved quantification of mesoscale biofilm mechanical properties

    Balogun, O., Packman, A. & Wells, G.

    National Science Foundation

    3/15/17 → 2/28/18

    Project: Research project

    • Understanding the Impacts of Low-Energy and Low-Carbon Removal Technologies on Bio-P and Nutrient Recovery Processes

    Wells, G.

    Water Research Foundation

    9/1/16 → 12/31/19

    Project: Research project

    • Research Output

    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

    • 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

    Open Access

    • 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

    • 4 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

    Open Access
    • 1 Scopus citations

    Soil hydrology drives ecological niche differentiation in a native prairie microbiome

    Griffin, J. S., Haug, L. A., Rivera, V. A., Hernandez Gonzalez, L. M., Kelly, J. J., Miller, W. M., Wells, G. F. & Packman, A. I., Feb 1 2020, In : FEMS microbiology ecology. 96, 1, fiz163.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • 1 Scopus citations