Title: Professor
Group: Environmental Engineering
Office: ECOT 456
Phone: 303-492-7211
E-mail: silverst@colorado.edu
Website: http://civil.colorado.edu/~silverst/
Honors and Distinctions:
- Distinguished Engineering Educator, Society of Women Engineers, 2000
- NSF Faculty Award for Women Scientists and Engineers, 1992-1997
- Research Award, Dept. CEAE, 1985, 1992, 2000
- Teaching Award, Dept. CEAE, 1986, Multicultural Engineering Program (2000)
- Service, Assoc. Environ. Eng. & Science Professors, 1997, National Water Research Institute, 1999)
Professional Affiliations:
- National Research Council Committee to Study Use of Reclaimed Water and Sludge in Food Crop Production, 1993-1995
- Research Advisory Board, National Water Research Institute, 1994-present
- Board of Directors, Assoc. Environ. Eng. & Science Professors, 1994-1997.
- Women in Academia, Society of Women Engineers, 2000-present
- WEF, Biosolids Committee, 1997-present
Interests:
- Biological processes controlling water and wastewater quality in process reactors and in the environment
- Nitrification and denitrification in activated sludge and biofilm (for wastewater and drinking water treatment)
- Biological process modeling
- Control of microbial population interactions for acid mine drainage remediation: oxidation and reduction of iron species and denitrification by acidophilic bacteria.
- Effects of addition of inorganic ions (fe and mn) to wastewater on biological process operation
- Generation and identification of soluble microbial products in biologically treated wastewater