Dr. Maya A. Trotz, PhD
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Faculty Fellow, Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Av ENB118
Tampa FL 33620
Ph (813) 974-3172
Fax: (813) 974-2957
E-mail: matrotz@usf.edu

 

Education
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Stanford University
M.S. Civil Engineering, Stanford University
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Areas of Interest: sustainability, water quality, ecotourism and small scale mining impacts on sustainable livelihoods, climate change, environmental/environmental engineering education in formal and informal settings in the US and in developing countries.

 

Biosketch
Dr. Maya A. Trotz’ research, teaching and service are at the nexus of geochemistry/water quality and global/community sustainability.  She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including Aquatic Chemistry, Environmental Engineering Laboratory, and developed an interdisciplinary project based two course sequence, Sustainability Concepts: Mercury in Tampa Bay and Mercury in Guyana.  She is the PI on an EPA Phase II People Prosperity Planet (P3) award, a NSFResearch Experience for Undergraduates site, and is also the PI on a Department of Education GAANN award entitled, “Multi-disciplinary doctoral graduate fellowship program at the water-energy-materials-human-nexus.” She is the faculty advisor for USF’s Chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World, and is the departmental coordinator and co-PI for USF’s SLOAN Minority PhDs program. She is the co-chair of the 2011 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors conference and the Youth Committee of the Caribbean Diaspora for Science, Technology and Innovation. 

 

Selected Publications

• Howard, J. H.; Trotz, M. A.; Halfide, T.; Thomas, K.D.; Omisca, E.; Chiu, H.T.; Michael, R.; Stuart, A.; Akiwumi, F. Total mercury loadings in sediment from gold mining and conservation areas in Guyana. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, in press, 2011.
• Dalyrmple, O. K.; Stefanakos, E.; Trotz, M. A.; Goswami, D. Y. (2010) Review on the mechanisms and modeling of photocatalytic disinfection.  Applied Catalysis B: Environmental Journal, 98(1), p.27-38.
• Mihelcic, J.R.; Trotz, M. A. (2010) Sustainability and the Environmental Engineer: Implications for Education, Research, and Practice.  Environmental Engineer: Applied Research and Practice, Vol. 10, Winter, 2010, in Environmental Engineer, the Magazine of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, 10:27-34.
• Thomas, K. D., Howard, J. A., Omisca, E., Trotz, M. A. (2009) Exploring the Link between Ecotourism Activities and Surface Water Quality: Using Water Quality as a Sustainability Indicator. J. Association of Professional Engineers of Trinidad and Tobago, 38 (1), 76-87.
• Dalrymple, O. K.; Yeh, D.; Trotz, M. A. (2007) Photocatalysis as a removal mechanism for pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting compounds in wastewater – A Review. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, 82 (2), pages 121-134.

 

Web site: http://www.eng.usf.edu/~matrotz/