Stormwater Erosion and Sediment Control Laboratory:
This laboratory is located nearby Neptune Drive on UCF main campus. Research equipment and capabilities include:

  • Index testing
  • Hydraulically adjustable test beds
  • Pervious pavement
  • Rainfall simulator
  • Erosion control testing
  • Slow-release fertilizer testing
  • Curb inlet testing
  • Polymer treatment channel testing

Water Treatment and Sustainability Research Laboratory:
This laboratory is located at 418 Engineering Building II on UCF main campus. Research equipment and capabilities include:

  • Treatability study (column study and pilot study)
  • Upflow reactor
  • Ecotoxicity testing
  • Stormwater harvesting and reuse (exfiltration trench, pipe reactor, road side harvesting)
  • Baffle box with nutrient removal
  • Treatment train testing

Bioenvironmental Systems Research Laboratory:
This laboratory is located at 433 Engineering Building II on UCF main campus. Research equipment and capabilities include:

  • Green roof
  • Biosorption activated media (BAM)
  • Subsurface upflow wetland (SUW) system for wastewater and stormwater treatment
  • Bioretention swale
  • Floating wetland technologies
  • Stormwater infiltration basin with BAM for stormwater treatment – biogeochemical cycle study
  • Microbial ecology study – real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
  • Underground drainfield with BAM for wastewater treatment
  • Lake, streams, and wetland restoration Best Management Practices (BMP)
  • Ecological engineering and receiving water impact assessment

Hydroenvironmental and Ecological Monitoring and Modeling Laboratory:
This laboratory is located at 322 Engineering Building I on UCF main campus. Research equipment and capabilities include:

  • Treatment train design software
    · Watershed modeling and wasetload reduction planning
    · Environmental and water resources systems analysis
  • Geographical Information System (GIS) and spatial analysis
  • Environmental cyberinfrastructure and sensor networks
  • Environmental, hydrological, and ecological remote sensing and informatics

Center for Hydroscience Analysis, Modeling, & Predictive Simulation (CHAMPS):
This laboratory is located on UCF main campus. Research equipment and capabilities include:

  • Eight desktop workstations
  • Data storage server, codenamed ANTARCTICA, houses our geospatial data (GIS shapefiles, aerial imagery, digital elevation models, etc)
  • One high resolution printer (black/white)
  • One networked projector
  • Software: Groundwater Vista 6, Hydrus, ArcGIS, Matlab

Coastal Risks & Engineering (CoRE) Laboratory:
This laboratory is located on UCF main campus. Research equipment and capabilities include:

  • Changes in sea level, storm surges, ocean, waves, precipitation, and river changes
  • (Coastal-) Engineering design concepts
  • Sustainability of human-natural systems in coastal zones
  • Extreme value analysis
  • Climate adaptation and resilience
  • Integrated coastal vulnerability and risk assessment
  • Stochastic and numerical modelling of tides, storm surges, waves, and river flows
  • Multi hazards
  • Coastal processes and hydrodynamics

Kibler Ecohydraulics Laboratory:
This laboratory is located on UCF main campus. Research equipment and capabilities include:

  • Rain-fall modelling platforms for low prediction and poorly-gauged locations
  • Effect of river geomorphology, and hydraulic habitats from diversion to hydropower systems
  • Probabilistic flood risk-benefit analyses
  • Estuary and shoreline restoration
  • Food waste and Food-Energy-Water nexus

Pollutant Fate and Transport Processes and Geochemistry Laboratory:
This laboratory is located on UCF main campus. Research equipment and capabilities include:

  • Geochemical modeling and solid waste management
  • Smart barrier materials for waste containment
  • Geosynthetic materials for sustainable design
  • Green infrastructure
  • Slope remediation and stability
  • Flow and contaminant transport in saturated and unsaturated soils

Green Building Test Bed:
The Florida Showcase EnvironHome is located at Indialantic City

  • Green roof
  • Bioretention swale
  • Solar power generation
  • Wind mill
  • Pervious pavement
  • Building envelope design and insulation material
  • Air conditioning system and energy saving
  • Stormwater and gray water recovery and reuse
  • Sustainable on-site wastewater treatment