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David Quanrud’s research encompasses the fields of water reclamation and water conservation. Current projects focus on the presence and fate of emerging contaminants, including endocrine disrupting compounds, in wastewater and biosolids during treatment in engineered systems (conventional and advanced wastewater treatment) and in natural systems (constructed wetlands, soil aquifer treatment). A water conservation study of “smart” irrigation control technology is ongoing at municipal parks in Pima County.

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Courses
  • UMAL
    Use and Management of Arid Lands

  • NRMP
    Natural Resources Management Practices

  • SENRE
    Sustainable Earth: Natural Resources and the Environment

  • GSNR
    Global Sustainability and Natural Resources

  • WWQ
    Wildland Water Quality

  • PAAL
    Physical Aspects of Arid Lands

Grants
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    In-Stream Contaminant Attenuation by Sunlight: Benefits for Water Reuse

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2021

    $243.6K
    Active
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    Simulation of Singlet Oxygen Kinetics for Trace Organic Transformation in Wastewater Effluent

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2018

    $330.0K
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    Assessing Emerging Contaminants at Tumacacori National Historic Park

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2014

    $20.7K
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    FY 2015 Annual Application Under Section 104 of the Water Resources Act of 1984, as Amended

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2011

    $424.9K
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    White Paper on envrionmental Fate of Emerging Contaminates

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2009

    $11.7K
News
  • Prop. 301 to Fund Water Research at UA

    2003

Publications (38)
Recent
  • Climate change impacts on mining waste contamination of water resources, mitigation and remediation in Arizona

    2022

  • Phototransformation of trace organic compounds by singlet oxygen: kinetics and mechanism modeling

    2022

  • Photosensitizing activity of effluent organic matter and its effects on removal of trace organic compounds

    2022

  • Fate of endocrine disruptors and flame retardants during land application of biosolids

    2021

  • Impacts of baseflow and flooding on microplastic pollution in an effluent-dependent arid land river in the USA.

    2021

  • Seasonal and longitudinal water quality dynamics in three effluent-dependent rivers in Arizona

    2021

  • Framework of Urban Ecological Sustainability Indicators in Drylands

    2020

  • Fate of contaminants of emerging concern along the Upper Santa Cruz River, Arizona

    2020

  • Evaluation of Urban Ecological Sustainability in Arid Lands (Case Study: Yazd-Iran)

    2020

  • Seasonal variability of chemicals of emerging concern in the Upper Santa Cruz River Arizona

    2019

  • SCREENING FOR CONTAMINANTS OF EMERGING CONCERN AT TUMACACORI NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK, 2011-2015, PART II

    2019

  • SCREENING FOR CONTAMINANTS OF EMERGING CONCERN AT TUMACACORI NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK, 2011-2015, PART I

    2018

  • The Constructed Ecosystems Research Facility: a treatment wetland in Arizona

    2017

  • Effectiveness of engineered and natural wastewater treatment processes for the removal of trace organics in water reuse

    2017

  • Treatment of 1,4-dioxane using a constructed wetland

    2016

  • Proceedings of the U.S. Iran Symposium on Resilient Cities

    2015

  • Role of natural attenuation processes for organics during soil aquifer treatment

    2015

  • Resilience thinking for adaptation of cities to climate change

    2015

  • Fate of Trace Organics in a Wastewater Effluent Dependent Stream

    2014

  • Fate of estrogenic/androgenic activity and estrogen/androgen mimics during sludge digestion

    2012

  • Fate of Endocrine Disruptors Following Long-Term Land Application of Class B Biosolids and Risks to Public Health

    2011

  • Pharmaceuticals, hormones, anthropogenic waste indicators, and total estrogenicity in liquid and solid samples from municipal sludge stabilization

    2011

  • Transport of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in sandy soil: impact of length scale

    2011

  • The Estrogenicity of Biosolids in Four Full-Scale Wastewater Treatment Plants in the United States

    2010

  • Fate of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers, Nonylphenol, and Estrogenic Activity during Managed Infiltration of Wastewater Effluent

    2008

  • Fate of polybrominated diphenyl ethers during wastewater treatment/polishing and sludge stabilization/disposal.

    2008

  • Thyroid Receptor-Mediated Transcriptional Activity in Environmentally Relevant Wastewater

    2007

  • Changes in estrogen/anti-estrogen activities in ponded secondary effluent.

    2007

  • Character of organic matter in soil-aquifer treatment systems

    2006

  • Fate of wastewater effluent hER-agonists and hER-antagonists during soil aquifer treatment.

    2005

  • Estrogenic activity and volume fraction of waste water origin in monitoring wells along the Santa Cruz River, Arizona

    2004

  • Transformation of effluent organic matter during subsurface wetland treatment in the Sonoran Desert.

    2004

  • Fate of effluent organic matter during soil aquifer treatment: biodegradability, chlorine reactivity and genotoxicity.

    2003

  • Fate of organics during soil-aquifer treatment: sustainability of removals in the field.

    2003

  • Virus removal during simulated soil-aquifer treatment.

    2003

  • Behavior of organic carbon during subsurface wetland treatment in the Sonoran Desert

    2001

  • Effect of soil type on water quality improvement during soil aquifer treatment

    1996

  • Fate of organics during column studies of soil aquifer treatment

    1996

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