Minhazul Islam
Grad Research Associate,
ENGR School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Research Enterprise - Westerhoff, Paul - JM
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Mail code: 3005Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Graduate StudentCivil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering
Ira A Fulton Engineering
Long Bio
Minhazul Islam is a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State University. He received his bachelor's degree in Water Resources Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and obtained his MS degree in Civil Engineering from Tennessee Technological University. Minhazul's research experience encompasses several important areas, including:
- De facto wastewater reuse
- PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) occurrence
- Co-occurrence of groundwater contaminants
- Optimization of phosphorus recovery and reuse in wastewater systems
- Central Arizona Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP-LTER) project for changes in phosphorus flow
- Development of GIS tools to delineate vegetated highway median swales
- Bias correction of satellite rainfall data
- Environmental flow modeling of rivers to support healthy fish habitats
He has expertise in GIS (ArcGIS, QGIS), hydrological and hydrodynamic modeling (HECRAS, HECHMS, SWAT), urban stormwater modeling (SWMM), machine learning, and programming in Python and R.
Education
PhD in Environmental Engineering (Arizona State University). Tentative Graduation Plan: Fall 2025
MS in Civil Engineering (Tennessee Technological University). Graduation Year: 2020
BSc in Water Resources Engineering (Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology). Graduation Year: 2017
Research Website URL
ORCID Profile ID
Research Interests
- De facto wastewater reuse
- National scale PFAS incidence modeling
- Groundwater co-occurrence of contaminants
- Optimization of national scale phosphorus recovery and reuse at wastewater systems
- Urban climate and vegetation health
- GIS based tool development for highway median vegetated swales
- Bias correction of satellite rainfall data
- Hydrologic modeling of river to evaluate flow feasibility for fish habitat
- Urban stormwater modeling to design effective canal system to prevent water logging
Research Group
- Westerhoff Lab
- Global Center for Water Technology (GCWT)
- STEPS
- NEWT Center
- TechWARMS
- Climate Modeling and Simulation Lab, IWFM
- Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Research (C3ER), BRAC University
Publications
2025
- Ruyle, B.J., Pennoyer, E.H., Vojta, S., Becanova, J., Islam, M., Webster, T.F., Heiger-Bernays, W., Lohmann, R., Westerhoff, P., Schaefer, C.E. and Sunderland, E.M., 2025. High Organofluorine Concentrations in Municipal Wastewater Affect Downstream Drinking Water Supplies for Millions of Americans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2417156122 [New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, STAT, press release]
2024
- Mahmood, A.U. (Co-first author), Islam, M. (Co-first author), Gulyuk, A.V. (Co-first author), Briese, E., Velasco, C.A., Malu, M., Sharma, N., Spanias, A., Yingling, Y.G. and Westerhoff, P., 2024. Multiple Data Imputation Methods Advance Risk Analysis and Treatability of Co-occurring Inorganic Chemicals in Groundwater. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(46), pp.20513-20524. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c05203 [Phys.org, EurekAlert, Water Online, Smart Water Magazine, ScienceDaily, press release]
- Ahmed, K.J., Oyshi, J.T., Islam, M., Rashid, M.B., Atiqul Haq, S.M. and Tasneem, N., 2024. Comparing household heads’ perception of climate change variability with meteorological trends and understanding mitigation measures to combat the adverse effects in coastal areas of Bangladesh. SN Social Sciences, 4(9), p.168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00971-0
- Baker, J., Schunk, N., Scholz, M., Merck, A., Muenich, R.L., Westerhoff, P., Elser, J.J., Duckworth, O.W., Gatiboni, L., Islam, M. and Marshall, A.M., 2024. Global-to-Local Dependencies in Phosphorus Mass Flows and Markets: Pathways to Improving System Resiliency in Response to Exogenous Shocks. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 11(6), pp.493-502. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00208
2023
- Islam, M., Thompson, K., Dickenson, E., Quiñones, O., Steinle-Darling, E. and Westerhoff, P., 2023. Sucralose and Predicted De Facto Wastewater Reuse Levels Correlate with PFAS Levels in Surface Waters. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 10(5), pp.431-438. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00185
2020
- Saha, P., Islam, M., Oyshi, J.T., Khanum, R. and Nishat, A., 2020. A sustainability analysis on the trends and frequency of the channel flow of a carp breeding river against human interventions and governing public–private partnership (PPP) as adaptation. SN Applied Sciences, 2, pp.1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-020-2766-4
2019
- Saha, P., Islam, M., Oyshi, J.T., Khanum, R. and Nishat, A., 2019. A sustainability study of the flow regulation impacts by dams in a carp breeding river using the hydrodynamic model and building block analysis. SN Applied Sciences, 1(11), p.1429. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-019-1417-0
Research Activity
- Geospatial environmental data analysis & mapping
- Large data modeling
- Machine learning
- Remote sensing satellite data analysis
- Python & R script development
- Peer-reviewed journal publication
- Journal paper reviewer
Professional Associations
- Reviewer at Journal of hydrologic engineering.
Service
- 2022-2023: Secretary at Student Leadership Council (SLC) of STEPS
- 2022 - 2023: Cultural Secretary at Bangladesh Students' Association - BSA
- 2022 - Present: Active member at PhosForUs Podcast Team