Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Deliz Quiñones Lab
Led by Katherine Deliz Quiñones · Environmental Engineering Sciences
What we study
The lab studies how pollutants and pathogens move through ecosystems and how human activities affect them. They use field work, lab experiments, and technology like IoT to monitor and remediate contaminated sites.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Fieldwork
- Bacteria & microbes
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Project PFAS in Wastewater Treatment Plants: Understanding Aggregation and Its Effect on Removal Processes
The lab looks at how tiny chemical pollutants called PFAS stick together in water and how that helps remove them from wastewater. The student will study short‑chain PFAS and test ways to make them clump so they can be filtered out.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 525
From Stadium to Sewer: Assessing the Impact of College Football Games on PFAS Concentration in Local Wastewater
The lab studies how PFAS chemicals change during wastewater treatment and whether college football games affect PFAS levels. Students collect 24‑hour composite influent and effluent samples from the UF Water Reclamation Facility on regular days and game days, then measure 36 PFAS compounds with UHPLC‑MS/MS and analyze the data.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 247
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Recent papers, explained
- Predictive intelligence for future vibriosis risk in the eastern United States employing Bayesian spatial modeling
2026 · Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Government Ghosting in Puerto Rico: Impacts on Solid Waste Stakeholders From a Territorial Government Reorganization
2026 · Administration & Society
Studies how Puerto Rico's government changes hurt workers in the waste management industry, leading to absenteeism and poor work quality.
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- Assessing presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the Indian River Lagoon: A Bayesian approach to understanding the impact of environmental stressors
2025 · Chemosphere
- A Multi-Factor Analysis Linking Environmental Stressors with Presence of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in a Coastal Lagoon
2024 · ACS ES&T Water
- Tracking sinks of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in Florida soils: A community-informed study
2024 · Soil & Environmental Health
Examines PFAS contamination in Florida soils, focusing on residential and industrial areas, to understand where pollution comes from.
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