Sarina Ergas
Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
Organization: University of South Florida
Education: Ph.D. Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA
Environmental biotechnology including wastewater treatment; biological nutrient removal from stormwater and wastewater from municipal, industrial and agricultural sources; anaerobic digestion of livestock waste, biosolids and municipal solid waste; recirculating aquaculture and aquaponic systems; algal wastewater treatment and biofuel production systems.
Subject Areas:
Aquatic Biology, Aquatic Chemistry, Water Treatment
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Tong, S., Stocks, J.L., Rodriguez-Gonzalez, L.C., Feng, C., &
Ergas, S. (2017). Effect of oyster shell medium and organic substrate on the performance of a particulate pyrite autotrophic denitrification (PPAD) process.
Bioresource Technology,
244, 296-303.
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Amini, A., Aponte-Morales, V.A., Wang, M., Dilbeck, M.P., Lahav, O., Zhang, Q.,
Cunningham J.A., &
Ergas, S. (2017). Cost-Effective Treatment of Swine Wastes through Recovery of Energy and Nutrients.
Waste Management,
69(2017), 508-517. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.08.041
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Lynn, T.J., Nachabe, M.H., &
Ergas, S.J. (2018). Nitrogen load model for a denitrifying stormwater biofiltration system using SWMM5.
Sustainable Water and the Built Environment,
4(1). doi: 10.1061/JSWBAY.0000844
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Sengupta, S., &
Ergas, S.J. (2017). Concept Inventory (CI) for Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering Courses: Findings from CI Development and Testing.
Environmental Engineering Science,
34(12), 895-907.
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Lopez-Ponnada, E.V., Lynn, T.J., Peterson, M.,
Ergas, S.J., &
Mihelcic, J.R. (2017). Application of denitrifying wood chip bioreactors for management of residential non-point sources of nitrogen.
Biological Engineering,
11(16). doi: 10.1186/s13036-017-0057-4
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Arashiro, L.T., Rada-Ariza, A.M., Wang, M., van der Steen, P., &
Ergas, S.J. (2017). Modelling shortcut nitrogen removal from wastewater using an algal-bacterial consortium.
Water Science & Technology,
75(4), 782-792.
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Tong, S., Rodriguez-Gonzalez, L.C., Feng, C., &
Ergas, S.J. (2017). Comparison of Particulate Pyrite Autotrophic Denitrification (PPAD) and Sulfur Oxidizing Denitrification (SOD) for Treatment of Nitrified Wastewater.
Water Science & Technology,
75(1), 239-246.
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Lynn, T.J., Nachabe, M., &
Ergas, S.J. (2017). Modeling Denitrifying Stormwater Biofilters Using SWMM-5.
Environmental Engineering,
143(7). doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001209