Rate My Professor Shane Rogers

Shane Rogers is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Clarkson University, affiliated with the Coulter School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, and the Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries. He joined Clarkson in 2013 as an Assistant Professor, progressed to Associate Professor, and was promoted to full Professor in 2022. Prior to his academic career, Rogers served as a Research Environmental Engineer at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2007 and as a Special Government Employee there in 2013. He holds a B.S. (1996), M.S. (1999), and Ph.D. (2004), all from Iowa State University.

Rogers' research focuses on the fate, transport, and vectoring of microbial and chemical stressors in the environment, including risks from exposure to microbial agents in air, water, soils, and produce grown for human consumption. His recent work addresses economic and environmental tradeoffs in new technologies, such as macroalgae cultivation for nutrient bioextraction from wastewater treatment plant ocean outfalls, algal products as ruminant livestock feeds to reduce methane emissions, biosensors for pathogen detection and oxidative stress in antibiotic-resistant microorganisms, small-scale anaerobic digester development, electrical discharge plasma reactors for sterilizing liquid foods, and bipolar membrane electrodialysis for recovering high-purity nutrients from wastewater sludge. Key publications include "Bipolar membrane electrodialysis for nutrient recovery from anaerobic digestion dewatering sidestream" (Chen et al., 2024, Chemical Engineering Journal); "A Comparison of Multiple Macroalgae Cultivation Systems and End-Use Strategies of Saccharina latissima and Gracilaria tikvahiae" (Wu et al., 2023, Sustainability); "Bioextractive aquaculture as an alternative nutrient management strategy for water resource recovery facilities" (Wu et al., 2022, Water Research); "Ammonia Recovery from Domestic Wastewater Using a Proton-Mediated Redox Couple" (Chen et al., 2021, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering); and "Microbial adaptation and response to high ammonia concentrations and precipitates during anaerobic digestion" (Quispe-Cardenas and Rogers, 2021, Water Research). Rogers has received numerous honors, including the 2022 Positive Droplet Award from Bio-Rad Laboratories for contributions to digital PCR in water testing, the 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award from Clarkson University, the 2021 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Visiting Professorship at SRH Heidelberg, the 2015-2016 U.S.-Norway Fulbright Scholar award, and the 2008 Water Environment Federation McKee Groundwater Protection Medal.