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Overview

Michael K. Stenstrom is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of environmental science and engineering, with a focus on civil and structural engineering, environmental engineering, water science and technology, pollution, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

Their work covers various main topics including urban stormwater management solutions, water systems and optimization, soil and unsaturated flow, flood risk assessment and management, geotechnical engineering and soil stabilization, landfill environmental impact studies, and fecal contamination and water quality.

Michael K. Stenstrom's recent papers include the following:

  • Compaction conditions affect the capacity of biochar-amended sand filters to treat road runoff (2020) - The Science of The Total Environment
  • Size-dependent biochar breaking under compaction: Implications on clogging and pathogen removal in biofilters (2020) - Environmental Pollution
  • Biochar Selection for Escherichia coli Removal in Stormwater Biofilters (2020) - Journal of Environmental Engineering
  • A review of compaction effect on subsurface processes in soil: Implications on stormwater treatment in roadside compacted soil (2022) - The Science of The Total Environment
  • Iron amendments minimize the first-flush release of pathogens from stormwater biofilters (2021) - Environmental Pollution

Frequent coauthors of Stenstrom include:

  • Sanjay K. Mohanty
  • Annesh Borthakur
  • Renan Valenca
  • Joo-Hyon Kang
  • Diego Rosso

The scientist's work has been published often in key venues such as the Journal of Environmental Engineering, The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, Environmental Pollution, and the Journal of Cleaner Production.

Michael K. Stenstrom has contributed to book publications, notably with the Water Environment Federation, where they authored "Recent Study of The Fate of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Four Wastewater Treatment Plants" in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Sediment characteristics, phosphorus types and phosphorus release rates between river and lake sediments.

    Lee-Hyung Kim;Euiso Choi;Michael K Stenstrom

  • GREENHOUSE GAS PRODUCTION: A COMPARISON BETWEEN AEROBIC AND ANAEROBIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY

    F. Y. Cakir;M. K. Stenstrom

  • Aeration of large-scale municipal wastewater treatment plants: state of the art

    Diego Rosso;Diego Rosso;Lory E. Larson;Michael K. Stenstrom

  • The effect of dissolved oxygen concentration on nitrification

    Michael K. Stenstrom;Richard A. Poduska

  • Seasonal first flush phenomenon of urban stormwater discharges.

    Haejin Lee;Sim-Lin Lau;Masoud Kayhanian;Michael K. Stenstrom

  • Automatic Calibration of the U.S. EPA SWMM Model for a Large Urban Catchment

    Janet Barco;Kenneth M. Wong;Michael K. Stenstrom

  • Metals and PAHs adsorbed to street particles

    Sim-Lin Lau;Michael K. Stenstrom

  • Effects of alpha, beta and theta factor upon the design, specification and operation of aeration systems

    Michael K. Stenstrom;R.Gary Gilbert

  • Toxicity of urban highway runoff with respect to storm duration.

    M. Kayhanian;C. Stransky;S. Bay;S.-L. Lau

  • Particle Size Distribution in Highway Runoff

    Yingxia Li;Sim-Lin Lau;Masoud Kayhanian;Michael K. Stenstrom

  • Modeling of highway stormwater runoff

    Lee-Hyung Kim;Masoud Kayhanian;Kyung-Duk Zoh;Michael K. Stenstrom

  • Kinetics of the Alkaline Hydrolysis of High Explosives RDX and HMX in Aqueous Solution and Adsorbed to Activated Carbon

    Harro M. Heilmann;Udo Wiesmann;Michael K. Stenstrom

  • First flush in a combined sewer system.

    Janet Barco;Sergio Papiri;Michael K. Stenstrom

  • Surfactant effects on α-factors in aeration systems

    Diego Rosso;Michael K. Stenstrom

  • Correlation analysis among highway stormwater pollutants and characteristics

    Y.H. Han;S.L. Lau;M. Kayhanian;M.K. Stenstrom

  • Fenton oxidation of hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) and octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (HMX).

    Kyung-Duk Zoh;Michael K. Stenstrom

  • Characteristics of highway stormwater runoff.

    Younghan Han;Sim-Lin Lau;Masoud Kayhanian;Michael K. Stenstrom

  • Dynamic Characteristics of Particle Size Distribution in Highway Runoff: Implications for Settling Tank Design

    Yingxia Li;Sim-Lin Lau;Masoud Kayhanian;Michael K. Stenstrom

  • Design of stormwater monitoring programs

    Haejin Lee;Xavier Swamikannu;Dan Radulescu;Seung-jai Kim

  • The carbon-sequestration potential of municipal wastewater treatment.

    Diego Rosso;Michael K. Stenstrom

  • Anaerobic Digestion of Municipal Solid Waste

    Michael K. Stenstrom;Adam S. Ng;Prasanta K. Bhunia;Seth D. Abramson

Frequent Co-Authors

Masoud Kayhanian
Masoud Kayhanian University of California, Davis
Irwin H. Suffet
Irwin H. Suffet University of California, Los Angeles
Kyung-Duk Zoh
Kyung-Duk Zoh Seoul National University
Eakalak Khan
Eakalak Khan University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Sudhir Murthy
Sudhir Murthy Columbia University
Birgitte Kiær Ahring
Birgitte Kiær Ahring Washington State University
Yoram Cohen
Yoram Cohen University of California, Los Angeles
Kyoung S. Ro
Kyoung S. Ro United States Department of Agriculture
Stephanie Pincetl
Stephanie Pincetl University of California, Los Angeles
George Tchobanoglous
George Tchobanoglous University of California, Davis

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