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Abel Wolman
Abel Wolman (1892–1989) was an American sanitary engineer who, with Linn H. Enslow, developed controlled chlorination of drinking water and chaired sanitary engineering at Johns Hopkins.
Adam P. Eisele
Adam P. Eisele is an American air quality engineer who measured VOC emissions from oil and gas well pads and received a 2011 PECASE award at the EPA.
Amy Pruden
Amy Pruden is an environmental engineer and University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech whose 2006 work established antibiotic resistance genes as emerging contaminants in water systems.
Andrea Clements
Andrea Clements is a physical scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who researches low-cost air sensor data quality and won a 2025 PECASE award.
April Z. Gu
April Z. Gu, also known as April Gu, is an environmental engineer and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University known for sustainable phosphorus removal from wastewater.
Arturo A. Keller
Arturo A. Keller is an American environmental scientist and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara who studies how pollutants and nanoparticles move through water and soil.
Bernard B. Berger
Bernard B. Berger (1912–2000) was an American sanitary and water resources engineer who spent 25 years in the Public Health Service and directed the Water Resources Research Center at UMass Amherst.
Bernd Nowack
Bernd Nowack is an environmental scientist who leads the Environmental Risk Assessment and Management Group at Empa in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and models engineered nanomaterials in the environment.
Bing‐Jie Ni
Bing-Jie (Bruce) Ni is an environmental engineer and ARC Future Fellow at UNSW Sydney known for modeling greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment and for microplastics research.
Blanca Elena Jimenez Cisneros
Blanca Elena Jiménez Cisneros is a Mexican environmental engineer and UNAM researcher specializing in wastewater treatment and safe water reuse, serving as Ambassador of Mexico to France since 2021.
Bruce E. Logan
Bruce E. Logan is an American environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University whose laboratory developed microbial fuel cells that convert wastewater into electricity and hydrogen.
Bruce E. Rittmann
Bruce E. Rittmann is an environmental engineer at Arizona State University known for pioneering biofilm fundamentals and inventing the membrane biofilm reactor, which removes contaminants from drinking water.
Charles R. O'Melia
Charles R. O'Melia (1934–2010) was an American environmental engineer and Abel Wolman Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for the first theoretical model of particle removal in water filters.
Chris G. Whipple
Chris G. Whipple is an American engineer and risk analyst specializing in radioactive waste, hazardous air pollutants, and mercury, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
Cindy L. Wallis-Lage
Cindy L. Wallis-Lage is an American civil and environmental engineer who led Black & Veatch's global water business and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Craig S. Criddle
Craig S. Criddle is an environmental engineer and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, known for the CANDO nitrogen-removal process and for making protein from stranded methane.
Daniel A. Nolasco
Daniel A. Nolasco is a water and sanitation engineer who cofounded Nolasco & Associates and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Daniel A. Okun
Daniel A. Okun (1917–2007) was an American environmental engineer and Kenan Professor at the University of North Carolina, known for dual water systems and reclaimed water.
Daniel Alexander Okun
Daniel Alexander Okun (1917–2007) was an American environmental engineer and Kenan Professor at UNC Chapel Hill who pioneered water reclamation and dual water systems, working in 89 countries.
David A Dzombak
David A. Dzombak is an American environmental and civil engineer, Hamerschlag University Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for models of chemical behavior in water quality engineering.
David Jenkins (environmental engineer)
David Jenkins (1935–2021) was a British-born environmental engineer and UC Berkeley professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for his research on biological wastewater treatment.
David L. Sedlak
David L. Sedlak is an environmental chemist and Plato Malozemoff Distinguished Professor of civil engineering at UC Berkeley, known for research on water reuse, PFAS, and treatment wetlands.
David Thomas Allen
David Thomas Allen is an American chemical and environmental engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Dionysios D. Dionysiou
Dionysios D. Dionysiou (Greek: Διονύσιος Δ. Διονυσίου; 1966–2023) was a Cypriot-born environmental engineer and University of Cincinnati professor known for pioneering sulfate-radical advanced oxidation processes for water treatment.
Dominic M. Di Toro
Dominic M. Di Toro is an American environmental engineer at the University of Delaware, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for his water-quality models.
Dwight F. Metzler
Dwight F. Metzler was an American sanitary engineer and Kansas health administrator who led New York's Clean Waters Program and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1973.
Earnest Gloyna
Earnest Gloyna (1921–2019) was an American environmental engineer and dean of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Edgar G. Hertwich
Edgar G. Hertwich is an Austrian-born environmental engineer and industrial ecologist, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology known for his 2009 trade-linked national carbon footprint analysis.
Emily A. Grubert
Emily A. Grubert is an American civil engineer and environmental sociologist who studies justice-centered decarbonization of the US energy system, known for her 2020 Science paper on fossil plant retirements.
Emma Nehrenheim
Emma Nehrenheim is an environmental engineer who led battery recycling at Northvolt and, since May 2025, has been managing director of the European Battery Alliance (EBA250).