Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa
OFFICE: POST 203E
PHONE: (808) 956-6024
E-MAIL: taoyan@hawaii.edu
RELATED WEB PAGE: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~taoyan/
EDUCATION:
- PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 2004
- MS, Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 2000
- BS, Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China 1997
FIELDS OF INTEREST:
- Water quality
- Fecal pollution
- Non-fecal human pathogens in water
- Water and wastewater infrastructures
- Bacterial antibiotic resistance
My research is at the interface of water quality and environmental health microbiology. The current research foci include survival of fecal bacteria in water environment, impact of stormwater runoff on coastal water, microbial ecology of non-fecal waterborne pathogens, wastewater infrastructures for infectious disease surveillance, and bacterial antibiotic resistance in natural and built environments.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
SPONSOR: National Institute for Water Resources, Water Resources Research Institute Program PROJECT PERIOD: 03/01/08 – 02/28/09 PROJECT PIs: Tao Yan, and Clark C.K. Liu ABSTRACT: Nutrient enrichment in rivers and lakes has been a changing phenomenon in the past three…
SPONSOR: National Institute for Water Resources, Water Resources Research Institute Program PROJECT PERIOD: 3/1/2010 – 2/28/2011 PROJECT PIs: Tao Yan, and Clark C.K. Liu ABSTRACT: Continuing work begun in the FY2008 budget cycle, Professor Clark Liu and Assistant Professor Tao…