Edward P Kolodziej

Biography

Ed Kolodziej began his academic studies with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University (1998), after which he focused on environmental issues and went to the University of California at Berkeley where he received his M.S. (1999) and a Ph.D (2004) in Environmental Engineering. He came to CEE in 2014 as part of the UW Freshwater Science Initiative  where he also holds a joint appointment with Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UW Tacoma and is affiliated with local and regional water quality efforts through The Center for Urban Waters.

Ed’s interests include water quality and contaminant fate in natural and engineered systems, especially focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to complex environmental issues affecting water and ecosystem health. His research group works to characterize and control roadway runoff and chemical pollution derived from tire rubbers while understanding attenuation mechanisms in natural systems and optimize engineered systems for trace contaminant removal. His research has been published in Science and featured in news media such as Nature, Scientific American, The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, U.S. News and World Report, Scientific American, and many others.

Education

• Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, U. of California, Berkeley
• M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, U. of California, Berkeley
• B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Previous appointments

• Associate Professor; Civil and Environmental Engineering, U. Of Nevada, Reno

Honors & awards

• U.S. National Champion, 2023 Frontier Planet Prize
• 2022 Seattle Aquarium Conservation Research Award (awarded to Dr. Zhenyu Tian and all Co-authors of Tian et al. 2021, Science)
• California Stormwater Quality Association-2021 Outstanding Research Award (EPK and JKM)
• Distinguished Research Award (2020), University of Washington-Tacoma

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