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Sanjay K. Mohanty, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scholar Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania 240 South 33rd Street, Hayden Hall 369, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Website: https://waterclimate.wordpress.com/

Phone: 509-768-9485 msanjay@sas.upenn.edu sanjay.mohanty@colorado.edu

Education 2011 Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder

Dissertation: Colloid-facilitated transport of cations in an unsaturated fractured soil under transient condition.

2006 M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Hawaii, Manoa M.S. Thesis: Fate and Transport of selected endocrine disrupting chemicals in recycled water through a tropical soil.

2002 M.Sc. Physics, Utkal University, India 2000 B.Sc. Physics, Utkal University, India

Employment History 11/2014 – Present Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Earth & Environmental Science,

University of Pennsylvania. 01/2012 – 10/2014 Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,

Stanford University.

Research Interest • Effect of climate change on water quality

and quantity • Sustainable urban development at the

water-energy nexus • Transport of contaminants and colloids in

the subsurface and groundwater • Stormwater capture, treatment, and reuse • Bioremediation

Awards and Honors • AWRA Scholarship, Colorado Division, Fall 2008. • Beverly Sears Graduate Grant Award (Best Proposal), U. Colorado at Boulder, Spring 2008. • 2007 ASCE/Walter Lum Scholarship, Hawaii Division, Spring 2007. • RCUH Recruiting Fellowship, U. Hawaii at Manoa, Fall 2006. • Everett E. Black Scholarship, U. Hawaii at Manoa, Fall 2006. • Stephen Lau Water Research Endowed Scholarship (Best Student Grant Proposal), Water

Resource Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Fall 2005. • Travel grants award at American Chemical Society meeting in Washington DC, Fall 2005. • National scholarship by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India,

for 3rd rank in the state merit list in graduate level examination in Physics, 2002.

Grants (*Awarded) • *Bacteria reduction using biochar- and iron-enhanced sand filters. (Co-PI) Wenck

Associates Inc., MN. Shingle Creek Watershed Management Commission 2013 Clean Water Fund Grant by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (total amount $362,500).

• Efficacy of biochar for cooling water treatment. (PI via ReNUWIt, Stanford University). The grant was submitted to Google Inc., CA.

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Research Experience† 11/2014 – Present Postdoctoral Fellow; Earth & Environmental Science, University of

Pennsylvania. (Advisor: Jane K. Willenbring) • Studying bioremediation of asbestos fibers at the NIEHS-funded Superfund

Research and Training Program (SRP) Center. • Examining geochemical and biological methods to reduce the mobility and

toxicity of asbestos fibers in the waste pile. • Quantifying soil erosion due to extreme weather events during climate change

by using beryllium (a cosmogenic nuclide).

01/2012 – 10/2014 Postdoctoral Fellow; Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford

University. (Advisor: Alexandria B. Boehm) • Examined the removal of pathogens from stormwater at NSF-funded

Engineering Research Center for Re-Inventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt).

• Developed and tested strategies to improve the removal of bacteria in natural stormwater treatment systems.

08/2007 – 12/2011 Graduate Research Assistant; Civil, Environmental and Architectural

Engineering, University of Colorado - Boulder. (Advisor: Joseph N Ryan) • Conducted laboratory and field experiments to examine the transport and

mobilization of colloids, organic carbon, cesium, and strontium in soil subjected dry-wet and freeze-thaw cycles (a DOE-funded project).

• Examined the release of metals from the smelter slags deposited at the bottom of Columbia River near Colville Confederated Tribes.

09/2006 – 12/2006 Visiting Research Scholar; Environmental Science and Engineering,

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea. • Studied the transport of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in sand and sediment

columns.

08/2003 – 07/2006 Graduate Research Assistant; Civil and Environmental Engineering,

University of Hawaii - Manoa. (Advisor: Chittaranjan Ray) • Evaluated the transport and degradation of endocrine disrupting chemicals in

soil during application of treated wastewater • Analyzed water samples using analytical tools including liquid and gas

chromatography (UV/fluorescent/MS), and ion chromatography.

† For more details about the outcome of the research studies, visit my website: https://waterclimate.wordpress.com/

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Publications Manuscripts Published

1. Mohanty, S.K., Saiers, J.E. and Ryan, J.N. (2016) Colloid mobilization in a fractured soil: Effect of pore water exchange between preferential flow paths and soil matrix. Environmental Science & Technology. 50(5), 2310-2317.

2. De Sieyes, N. R., Russell, T. L., Brown, K. I., Mohanty, S.K., Boehm. A. B. (2016) Transport of enterococci and F+ coliphage through the saturated zone of the beach aquifer. Journal of Water and Health. 14 (1) 26-38.

3. Mohanty, S.K. and Boehm, A.B. (2015) Effect of weathering on mobilization of biochar particles and bacterial removal in a stormwater biofilter. Water Research. 85, 208-215.

4. Mohanty, S.K., Saiers, J.E. and Ryan, J.N. (2015) Colloid mobilization from a fractured soil during dry-wet cycles: Effect of drying duration and flow path permeability. Environmental Science & Technology. 49(15), 9100-9106.

5. Mohanty, S.K., Bulicek, M.C.D., Metge, D.W., Harvey, R.W., Boehm, A.B. and Ryan, J.N. (2015) Mobilization of microspheres from a fractured soil during intermittent infiltration events. Vadose Zone Journal. 14(1), doi: 10.2136/vzj2014.05.0058. The article is featured on the cover.

6. Mohanty, S.K. and Boehm, A.B. (2014) Escherichia coli removal in biochar-augmented biofilter: effect of infiltration rate, initial bacterial concentration, biochar particle size and presence of compost. Environmental Science & Technology. 48(19), 11535-11542.

7. D’Alessio, M., Vasudevan, D., Lichwa, J., Mohanty, S.K., and Ray, C. (2014) Fate and transport of selected estrogen compounds in Hawaii soils: Effect of soil type and macropores. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 166, 1-10.

8. Mohanty, S.K., Cantrell, K.B., Nelson, K.L. and Boehm, A.B. (2014) Efficacy of biochar to remove Escherichia coli from stormwater under steady and intermittent flow. Water Research. 61, 288-296.

9. Mohanty, S.K., Saiers, J.E. and Ryan, J.N. (2014) Colloid-facilitated mobilization of metals by freeze-thaw cycles. Environmental Science & Technology, 48(02), 977-984.

10. Grebel, J.E., Mohanty, S.K., Torkelson, A.A., Boehm, A.B., Higgins, C.P., Maxwell, R.M., Nelson, K.L. and Sedlak, D.L. (2013) Engineering infiltration systems for urban stormwater reclamation. Environmental Engineering Science, 30(8), 437-454.

11. Mohanty, S.K., Torkelson, A.A., Dodd, H., Nelson, K.L. and Boehm, A.B. (2013) Engineering solutions to improve the removal of fecal indicator bacteria by bioinfiltration systems during intermittent flow of stormwater. Environmental Science & Technology, 47(19), 10791-10798.

12. Chen, J., Lichwa, J., Snehota, M., Mohanty, S.K., and Ray, C. (2006) Determination of hormones and non-ionic surfactant degradation products in small-volume aqueous samples from soil columns using LC-ESI-MS-MS and GC-MS. Chromatographia, 64, 413-418.

Manuscripts Submitted

13. Mohanty, S.K., Dittrich, T.M., Saiers, J.E. and Ryan, J.N. Release of cesium and strontium from subsurface soil at Oak Ridge Reservation: Relative contribution of colloids, organic matter, and major cations. Environmental Science & Technology.

14. Salamatipour, A. Mohanty, S.K. Pietrofesa, R.A. Vann, D. Christofidou-Solomidou, M. Willenbring, J.K. Effect of grinding conditions on toxicity and mineralogical properties of chrysotile. Particle and Fibre Toxicology.

Manuscripts in Preparation

1. Mohanty, S.K., Salamatipour, A., Jerolmack, J.J. and Willenbring, J.K. Geochemical triggers of asbestos fiber mobility in groundwater.

2. Mohanty, S.K., Gonneau, C., Casper, B. and Willenbring, J.K. Iron dissolution kinetics from chrysotile: Effect of siderophores and organic acids.

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3. Mohanty, S.K., Boschi, V., Brocard, G., and Willenbring, J.K. Colloid-facilitated transport of beryllium: Implication on soil erosion quantification.

Conference Proceedings

1. Mohanty, S.K., and Ray, C. (2007) Role of dissolved organics and colloids on the transport of selected EDCs in tropical soils. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007. ASCE EWRI Congress in Tampa, Florida, May 15-19, 2007.

2. Mohanty, S.K., and Ray, C. (2006) Transport of selected contaminants in recycled water through a Hawaii soil. 4th Annual Groundwater Hydrology, Quality, and Management Symposium. ASCE EWRI Congress in Omaha, NE, May 21-25, 2006.

Technical Reports

1. Ryan, J. and Mohanty, S.K. (2011) Release of major and trace elements from smelter slag separated from the upper Columbia River in batch and fluidized bed reactors. A report to the !State of Washington Attorney General Office Colville Confederated Tribes.

2. Snehota, M., Chen, J., Mohanty, S.K., Lichwa, J., Ray, C. (2005) Column study of the transport of selected contaminants in a Hawaii soil treated with recycled water. Honolulu (HI): Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa. WRRC-2005-02.

Conference Presentation (*invited)

1. Dittrich, T. M., Mohanty, S.K., and Bogle, R. J. (2016) Ligand-associated Activated Carbon System for the Treatment of Hazardous Waste from Research Laboratories. 251st ACS National Meeting, San Diego, March 13 – 17, 2016.

2. Mohanty, S.K., Gonneau, C., Casper, B., and Willenbring, J.K. (2015) Effect of weathering on toxicity and mobility of asbestos fibers in soil. NIEHS SRP Annual Meeting 2015, San Juan, PR. November 18-20, 2015.

3. Gonneau, C., Mohanty, S.K., Willenbring, J.K. and Casper, B. (2015) Plant-assisted remediation of asbestos contaminated soils. NIEHS SRP Annual Meeting 2015, San Juan, PR. November 18-20, 2015.

4. *Mohanty, S.K. (2015) Plenty of room for carbon on the ground: Bacterial removal from stormwater using biochar. ASA, CSSA and SSSA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, November 15-18, 2015.

5. Mohanty, S.K., Gonneau, C., Casper, B., and Willenbring, J.K. (2015) Iron dissolution from asbestos: Implications for asbestos toxicity and mobility. AEESP Conference, New Haven, CT. June 13-16, 2015.

6. Mohanty, S.K., and Boehm, A.B. (2013) Biofilters for removal of fecal bacteria in stormwater. AEESP Conference, New Haven, CT. June 13-16, 2015.

7. Mohanty, S.K., Torkelson, A.A., Nelson, K.L. and Boehm, A.B. (2014) Removal of bacteria from stormwater by geomedia engineered from waste materials. Ninth International Symposium on Subsurface Microbiology, Pacific Groove, CA, October 5-10, 2014.

8. Mohanty, S.K., Cantrell, K.B., Nelson, K.L. and Boehm, A.B. (2014) Bacteria removal by biochar: recent results and unexplored opportunity. Ninth International Symposium on Subsurface Microbiology, Pacific Groove, CA, October 5-10, 2014.

9. Torkelson, A.A., Mohanty, S.K., Boehm, A.B., Nelson, K.L. (2014) Long-term removal of indicator bacteria and viruses in intermittently-fed stormwater columns. Ninth International Symposium on Subsurface Microbiology, Pacific Groove, CA, October 5-10, 2014.

10. Bulicek, M.C.D., Metge, D.W., Mohanty, S.K., Harvey, R.W. and Ryan, J.N. (2013) Subsurface transport and mobilization of pathogenic microbes and microspheres: Effect of microbe size, soil physical heterogeneity, and intermittent flow. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9 - 13, 2013.

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11. Mohanty, S.K., Torkelson, A.A., Nelson, K.L. and Boehm, A.B. (2013) Passive systems for treatment of urban runoff: Sustainable removal of bacteria using iron filings. AEESP 50th Anniversary Conference, Golden, CO. July 14-16, 2013.

12. Mohanty, S.K., Torkelson, A.A., Nelson, K.L. and Boehm, A.B. (2012) Mobilization of bacteria in a bioinfilitration system during intermittent infiltration of stormwater. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 3 - 7, 2012.

13. Mohanty, S. K., Bulicek, M, Metge, D. W., Harvey, R. W, Boehm, A. B, Ryan, J. N (2012) Microsphere transport in a fractured soil during intermittent flow: effect of microsphere sizes and soil physical heterogeneity. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 3 - 7, 2012.

14. Mohanty, S.K., Ryan, J., Saiers, J. (2011) Mobilization of colloids and metals from intact cores of a fractured soil: Role of pore water exchange between soil matrix and macropores. ASA, CSSA and SSSA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, October 16-19, 2011.

15. Mohanty, S.K., Ryan, J., Saiers, J. (2011) Mobilization of cesium and strontium in a vadose zone by cation exchange, organic matter, and colloids: A laboratory and field study. ACS National Meeting, Denver, CO, August 28 – September 1, 2011.

16. Mohanty, S.K., Ryan, J., Saiers, J. (2010) Hysteresis in the amount of colloids mobilized from intact cores of a fractured soil as a result of changes in the ionic strength of simulated rainfall. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 13-17, 2010.

17. Mohanty, S.K., and Ray, C. (2006) Fate of selected endocrine disrupting chemicals in recycled water through a Hawaii soil. 5th International conference on pharmaceuticals and Endocrine disrupting chemicals in Water. Costa Mesa, CA, March 13-15, 2006.

Invited Seminar 1. Mohanty, S.K. (2016) Contaminant Removal in Natural Systems: Implications for Water

Sustainability during Climate Change. Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA. March 11, 2016.

2. Mohanty, S.K. (2016) Contaminant Removal in the Subsurface Soil: Implications for Water Sustainability. Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA. March 03, 2016.

3. Mohanty, S.K. (2016) Colloids and Contaminant Transport in Soil: Implications for Water Sustainability. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. February 25, 2016.

4. Mohanty, S.K. (2016) Contaminant Removal in Natural Systems: Implications for Water Sustainability. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. February 19, 2016.

5. Mohanty, S.K. (2015) Building sustainable cities during climate change: Biochar for stormwater treatment and carbon sequestration. Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. November 2, 2015.

6. Mohanty, S.K. (2014) Stormwater capture and reuse in urban area: Use of natural and engineered systems. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. February 18, 2014.

Teaching Experience Instructor

• Currently teaching “GEO 380 – Geochemistry” at Drexel University (Winter Quarter 2016). Course description: A course with a topics-based approach to the field of Geochemistry with emphasis on aqueous systems, both marine and freshwater. Topics include: composition of the earth and oceans, chemical equilibrium, solubility, thermodynamics, oxidation-reduction reactions, reactions at solid-water interface, biogeochemistry, isotope geochemistry, contaminant geochemistry, and climate change impact on biogeochemical processes on the Earth’s surface. The students learn how to apply chemical concepts to predict the outcome of geochemical processes and solve real-world problems. (Detail syllabus at: https://waterclimate.wordpress.com/teaching-outreach/).

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• Served as an instructor in two semesters for Aquatic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

• Served as an instructor for the College Physics Lab II in two semesters at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Teaching Assistant

• Served as a teaching assistant and delivered guest lectures in Aquatic Chemistry course at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Mentorship in Research

• Mentoring a pre-med student (Ashkan Salamatipour) at University of Pennsylvania, who is examining toxicity of asbestos fibers in the presence of wine and stomach acids. His experiments (to date) resulted in one manuscript (Salamatipour et al. in preparation).

• Mentored undergraduate and graduate researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University.

• Mentored a graduate student (Hanna Dodd) at Stanford University, and guided her towards a successful NSF Graduate Fellowship application.

• Mentored REU students from under-represented communities: Elise Bingham (Summer 2010) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Herby Jeans (Summer 2013) and Hanna Dodd (Summer 2012) at Stanford University.

• Mentored Mark C. D. Bulicek (2011-2012) for his M.S thesis work at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Outreach Activities and Leadership • Working with “Weavers Way Co-op”, a Philadelphia-based food market, to learn and develop

urban garden/farming methods. • Participated in “Soil Kitchen” at the University of Pennsylvania on April 18-19, 2015 to

measure heavy metal concentration in soils collected by local residences in Philadelphia (https://www.sas.upenn.edu/earth/news/soil-kitchen-2015).

• Worked with a science teacher (Monique Debrito) from Berkeley High School in Summer 2014 to develop curriculum for Water Science and Technology, and participated in developing informational video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t46c9OfiyrQ) for students.

• Served as a member of the Diversity Advisory Board at the Center for Re-Inventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt) at Stanford University. Part of my responsibility included communicating concerns from diverse and under-represented student community to the board, and organizing activities and plans to meet the diversity goal.

• Volunteered to teach students at the Jamestown Elementary School, Colorado about water and science in April 2008.

• Participated in the East-West Center Student Affiliate Program (University of Hawaii), which is focused on creating an Asia Pacific community through research, dialogue, educational and cultural activities, and public outreach.

• Served as a department representative (2005-2006) at the Graduate Student Organization at the University of Hawaii, where I was responsible for selecting and allocating funds to support student travels.

• Served as the election committee chair (2005) for the Graduate Student Organization at the University of Hawaii.

Consulting Experience • Assisted engineers at Wenck Associates Inc., MN, in writing a grant proposal (funded, co-

PI) to reduce bacteria from stormwater using biochar- and iron-enhanced sand filter. I am currently serving as a research consultant for the company.

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• Wrote a proposal as an independent research consultant to Google Inc. to design a natural treatment system to manage cooling-tower water (2013).

• Served as a research consultant (via University of Colorado at Boulder) to State of Washington Attorney General Office, Colville Confederated Tribes in Summer 2009 and 2010, and conducted laboratory experiments to examine the release of major and trace elements from smelter slag separated from the upper Columbia River sediments.

Reviewer • Environmental Science & Technology • Water Research • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology • Journal of Environmental Quality • Water Resource Research • Science of the Total Environment • Chemosphere • Water Science & Technology • Ecological Engineering • Agricultural Water Management • Environmental Management • Journal of Soil and Sediments • Chemical Geology • Chemical Engineering Journal • Journal of Bioprocessing & Biotechniques • Environmental Protection Engineering

Professional Affiliations • Member, American Geophysics Union, 2008-Present • Member, American Chemical Society, 2010-Present • Member, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, 2015-Present.