Environmental Engineering - Selected M.S. Thesis Titles

2000s

• Business Motivations for Implementing Sustainability-Focused Projects: P3 Program – Lessons Learned (2013) by Ayna Kekilova
• Soil organic carbon dynamics in agriculture: model development and application from daily to decadal timescales (2013) by Matthew Phillip Pelton
• Co-removal of atrazine and nitrate from groundwater using a mulch biofilm (2012) by Allison Cole
• Hydrologic evaluation of established rain gardens in Lincoln, Nebraska using a storm runoff simulator (2011) by Andrew R. Anderson
• A framework for evaluating sorbent usage rate of various sorption column configurations with and without bypass blending (2011) by Benjamin A. Stewart
• Economic and environmental sustainability of using bio-fuels for heating small Nebraska greenhouses (2010) by David Mabie
• Use of passive samplers to evaluate pharmaceutical fate in surface waters (2010) by Brown, DelShawn L
• Multi-criteria habitat assessment for the Missouri River pallid sturgeon (2009) by Jennifer Gitt
• Development of a storm runoff simulator: native sediment mixing device with a control system (2009) by William C. Alms
• Maximizing sorbent life with bypass blending (2009) by Christian W. New
• Implementing an integrated surface-groundwater model in multiple computational environments (2008) by Mahesh Pun
• The effects of waste handling practices on the fate of androgens and estrogens from concentrated animal feeding operations (2008) by Shannon DeVivo
• Ion exchange water softening: comparison of standard and reclaim systems at various salt application rates (2008) by Hunter R. Flodman
• Maximizing sorbent life: a comparison of columns in parallel, lead-lag series, and with bypass blending (2007) by Patrick C. Denning
• Laboratory and pilot-scale investigations of RDX treatment by permanganate (2008) by Chanat Chokejaroenrat
• Fate of Avian influenza virus after land disposal (2007) by David A. Graiver
• Dispersion modeling of odors from a swine facility (2006) by Manish Modi
• Optimization study of an existing GAC treatment system former Nebraska Ordnance Plant, Mead, NE (2004) by Yunsoon Hyun
• Storm water quality evaluation of livestock runoff from small transient facilities (2004) by Rabab Shamayleh
• Odor, H2S and NH3 emissions from phototrophic and non-phototrophic anaerobic swine lagoons (2004) by Jason Byler
• Long-term detention for the stabilization of wastewater biosolids from small communities(2003) by Amanda Fox
• Evaluating in-situ permanganate oxidation and biodegradation of RDX in a perched aquifer(2002) by Michael Adam
• Evaluation and modeling of selected small community's wells in Nebraska for pathogen contamination (2001) by Julie Fisher
• Modeling the atmospheric dispersion of odors from agricultural sources (2000) by Michael Rinkol
• GAC treatment study for the Lincoln water system: implications of GAC type, pretreatment and herbicides (2000) by Brian Hilts

1990s

• Solid waste pollution prevention opportunity assessment for a large metropolitan school district (1999) by Carla Rasmussen
• Effects of copper and zinc in swine diets on phototrophic anaerobic lagoons (1999) by Daniel Spare
• The use of fuzzy logic for quantifying uncertainty associated with the implementation of pollution prevention alternatives (1998) by Michael Behrens
• Evaluation of a subsurface flow constructed wetland system for small-community wastewater treatment in southeastern Nebraska (1997) by Scott Vanier
• Characteristics of purple and non-purple lagoons for swine waste (1997) by Tongtong Chen
• Evaluation of reversible static-bed bio-denitrification reactors (1996) by Bryan Woodbury
• Evaluation of sulfur-based autotrophic denitrification (1996) by David Lampe
• Waste minimization opportunities for the vehicle repair industry (1991) by Tim Gouger

1980s

• Metal removal from electroplating wastewater using chemical precipitation and vermiculite ion exchange (1988) by Barbara Richter Karr
• The chemical removal of nitrates from drinking water using ferrous sulfate and pickle liquor(1986) by Ronald Sova
• Corrections of Lincoln Nebraska's wastewater treatment plant process (1980) by Carroll Reynolds

1970s

• Study of mathematical models for simulating agricultural runoff (1977) by Steven J. Zuhlke
• Water quality and control of plant pathogens in irrigation reuse (1977) by Rick Bay
• Municipal water rates pricing concepts (1976) by Subhash D. Jha
• Field investigation of an oxidation ditch (1973) by Roger Helgoth
• A study of reverse osmosis systems and the Greenfield Iowa plant (1972) by Blair Knowles
• Water quality study: Grand Island, Nebraska (1970) by Gary Sindelar

1960s

• Solids balance in an anaerobic lagoon treating slaughterhouse wastes (1968) by Clinton Louis Weber