Current Position

Wanzek Collegiate Chair and Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences

Education

Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Yale University
M.Phil., Environmental Engineering, Yale University
M.S., Environmental Engineering, Yale University
B.S., Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame

Research Interests

Microbiology relevant to water quality and public health protection. Specific research foci include the detection and fate of human pathogenic viruses in the environment, the microbiome of the built environment, and the microbial ecology of fossil-fuel impacted environments, such as produced water from hydraulic fracturing.

Relevant Energy Publications

1. Akyon, Benay, Daniel Lipus, and Kyle Bibby. "Glutaraldehyde inhibits biological treatment of organic additives in hydraulic fracturing produced water." Science of the Total Environment 666 (2019): 1161-1168.
2. Akyon, Benay, Molly McLaughlin, Felipe Hernández, Jens Blotevogel, and Kyle Bibby. "Characterization and biological removal of organic compounds from hydraulic fracturing produced water." Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts 21, no. 2 (2019): 279-290.
3. Gulliver, Djuna, Daniel Lipus, Daniel Ross, and Kyle Bibby. "Insights into microbial community structure and function from a shallow, simulated CO2‐leakage aquifer demonstrate microbial selection and adaptation." Environmental microbiology reports 11, no. 3 (2019): 338-351.
4. Lipus, Daniel, Dhritikshama Roy, Eakalak Khan, Daniel Ross, Amit Vikram, Djuna Gulliver, Richard Hammack, and Kyle Bibby. "Microbial communities in Bakken region produced water." FEMS microbiology letters 365, no. 12 (2018): fny107.
5. Lipus, Daniel, Amit Vikram, Daniel Ross, Daniel Bain, Djuna Gulliver, Richard Hammack, and Kyle Bibby. "Predominance and metabolic potential of Halanaerobium spp. in produced water from hydraulically fractured Marcellus shale wells." Applied and environmental microbiology 83, no. 8 (2017): e02659-16.

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