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Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty

Dr. Huiyun Wu

Huiyun Wu

Assistant Professor

Office:

PACCAR 438

Phone:

Fax:

509-335-7632

Email:

huiyun.wu@wsu.edu

Microbial water quality research website

Education

  • Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, 2019, Michigan State University 
  • M.S., Environmental Engineering, 2015, Michigan State University 
  • B.S., Environmental Science, 2013, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University 

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, WSU, 2024 – Present 
  • Postdoc Associate, Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University, 2022 – 2024 
  • ORISE Fellow, US EPA, 2019 – 2022 

Awards

Research Interests

  • Microbial water quality 
  • Wastewater-based epidemiology 
  • Microbial fate and transport models 
  • Water reuse and water cycles 
  • Environmental Bioinformatics 
  • One health 
  • Open science 

Teaching

  • Hazardous waste pathway 

Publications

  • Vigil, K., Wu, H., Aw, TG., (2024). A systematic review on global zoonotic virus-associated mortality events in marine mammals. One Health, 100872. 
  • Brighton, K., Fisch, S., Wu, H., Vigil, K., & Aw, T. G. (2023). Targeted community wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 and Mpox virus during a festival mass-gathering event. Science of The Total Environment, 167443.  
  • Wu, H., Juel, M. A. I., Eytcheson, S., Aw, T. G., Munir, M., & Molina, M. (2023). Temporal and spatial relationships of CrAssphage and enteric viral and bacterial pathogens in wastewater in North Carolina. Water Research, 239, 120008. (+)  
  • Pilgrim, E.M., Smucker, N.J., Wu, H., Martinson, J., Nietch, C.T., Molina, M., Darling, J.A. and Johnson, B.R., 2022. Developing Indicators of Nutrient Pollution in Streams Using 16S rRNA Gene Metabarcoding of Periphyton-Associated Bacteria. Water, 14(15), p.2361. (+)  
  • Smucker, N.J., Pilgrim, E.M., Wu, H., Nietch, C.T., Darling, J.A., Molina, M., Johnson, B.R. and Yuan, L.L., 2022. Characterizing temporal variability in streams supports nutrient indicator development using diatom and bacterial DNA metabarcoding. Science of The Total Environment, 831, p.154960. (+)  
  • McCall, C., Wu, H., O’Brien, E., & Xagoraraki, I. (2021). Assessment of enteric viruses during a hepatitis outbreak in Detroit MI using wastewater surveillance and metagenomic analysis. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 131(3), 1539-1554. (+)  
  • McCall, C., Wu, H., Miyani, B., & Xagoraraki, I. (2020). Identification of multiple potential viral diseases in a large urban center using wastewater surveillance. Water research, 184, 116160. (+)  
  • Wu, H., Oun, A., Kline-Robach, R., & Xagoraraki, I. (2018). Microbial Pollution Characterization at a TMDL Site in Michigan: Effect of Hydrological Conditions on Pollution Loading. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 44(3), 421-427. (+)  
  • Wu, H., Oun, A., Kline-Robach, R., & Xagoraraki, I. (2018). Microbial pollution characterization at a TMDL site in Michigan: source identification. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 44(3), 412-420. (+)