Nicholson, Jeffrey

Jeff began his research career as an undergraduate looking at the effect of monochloramines on lead release in drinking water with Marc Edwards at Virginia Tech. However, after serving in Paraguay with the Peace Corps working with a rural community improving public health issues, he returned to the dark side of water treatment. With HRSD he's had the opportunity to experience many aspects of wastewater treatment. He worked on a project fermenting primary biosolids with grease trap waste, exposing him to a wonderful bouquet of odors and making him an unofficial sludge sommelier. He continues his work focusing on the dewatering of biosolids with Matt Higgins at Bucknell University identifying the mechanisms that affect dewatering with respect to Bio-P and thermal hydrolysis pretreatment.