Nasrin Alamdari
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, FL·Earth & Environmental Science
Harmful algal blooms in freshwater lakes are driven largely by excess nutrients. These nutrients come from wastewater treatment plants and from runoff off farms and city streets.
- Fields
Earth & Environmental Science
Engineering
Computer Science
- Topics
harmful algal blooms
nutrient pollution
urban runoff
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2027
What they work on
- Identify the hydrological, meteorological, biological, physical and geochemical processes that control nutrient export from urban landscapes into freshwater lakes.
- Predict harmful algal bloom occurrences from nutrient fluxes and pollution in surrounding land, using physics-informed machine learning that combines physical models with data.
- Design a data-driven decision-making framework, using mathematical optimization, to evaluate which best management practices most cost-effectively reduce nutrient loads and control downstream blooms.
More about the research
Best management practices, sometimes called conservation practices or green infrastructure, can cut runoff and nutrient loads from urban watersheds. Still, it is unclear how much these measures reduce nutrient export from the land, or how often they prevent blooms downstream. This project links land, water and data to answer that question.
Why it matters
Harmful algal blooms threaten freshwater lakes and the communities that depend on them. A decision support tool showing which conservation practices most cheaply reduce nutrient runoff could help watershed managers and city planners spend limited budgets wisely. Better bloom predictions could also help protect water quality in downstream lakes.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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University at Buffalo, NY·Engineering·Early-career
Identify the environmental and operating factors that improve total nitrogen and phosphorus removal in algae-based wastewater treatment, using lab-scale systems that grow algae on wastewater.
Sarah States
Carnegie Mellon University, PA·Earth & Environmental Science
Develop a county-wide green infrastructure adoption and installation plan for Allegheny County that addresses stormwater runoff, water quality, urban heat, and carbon sequestration, convening stakeholders in hydrology, stormwater engineering, land management, community engagement, and education.
Cayelan Carey
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, VA·Ecology & Evolution
Test how far ahead physical, chemical and biological variables in two drinking-water reservoirs can be predicted, by iteratively evaluating real-time forecasts made by competing models against new monitoring data.
The school
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University: 5 labs on PI Pages, $69M a year on research, 41 research doctorates a year.
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