Research Keyword Environmental engineering

Dr. Grant studies the sources, fate, and transport of pathogens and indicator organisms in drinking water, urban runoff, and the coastal ocean. He is a member of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board (Drinking Water Panel), and is the lead on several multidisciplinary research projects, including one on the influence of tidal wetlands on coastal pollution (joint with researchers from UC Irvine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and UCLA, funded by the University of California Marine Council); another on the association of pathogens and particles in storm runoff (joint with researchers from UCI and UCSB, funded by the US Geological Survey and the National Water Research Institute); and a third on the contribution of marinas to fecal indicator bacteria impairment in tidal embayments (in support of the Newport Bay Fecal Coliform TMDL, funded by the California State Water Quality Control Board).

Dr. Stanley B. Grant is Professor of Environmental Engineering, and Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He received a B.S. (with distinction) in Geology from Stanford University (1985) and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and Science from the California Institute of Technology (1990 and 1992, respectively). Dr. Grant is recipient of the prestigious Career Award from the National Science Foundation (1985-2000), and a number of local awards including Conservator of the Year (2002) from the Bolsa Chica Wetlands Conservancy, and the Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Teaching from the UCI Academic Senate (1999).