Ben Christensen has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. While at Cal Poly, Ben aided in a bench scale forward osmosis desalination study and made contributions to an algae biofuel project. Before returning for the master’s degree, he spent time as a lab technician for…

Tim Dinh has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. His master’s thesis investigated the impact of nanoparticle incorporation on reverse osmosis membrane structure and performance. Mr. Dinh’s prior work experience includes three years assisting with wastewater discharge permitting at the Central Coast Regional Water Quality…

David Aponte has B.S. in Environmental Engineering from San Diego State University. During his time at SDSU, he was part of the Water Innovation and Reuse Lab. He assisted in the research of EOC degradation rates in sludge from two lab scale parallel anaerobic and aerobic bioreactors, as well as helped to operate, monitor, and maintain the bioreactors. His current…

Kaitlyn Chin has a B.S. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan. While at U of M, she assisted two PhD students on investigating virus fate in water matrices and predictive modeling of virus inactivation by UV disinfection. Her previous research involved exploring methods and analysis of detecting SARS-CoV-2 in daily wastewater samples to predict trends using…

Nicholas Babcock has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Northern Arizona University and a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Mr. Babcock’s previous work includes firsthand experience with conventional and advanced wastewater treatment processes including ozone-biofiltration and reverse osmosis piloting. He currently assists with multiple water reuse projects at Trussell Tech including the…