Position:
Faculty Affiliate
College or Department name:
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email:
gdaigger@umich.edu
Office Location:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 2316 GGB Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2125
Degrees:
Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Purdue University
M.S., Purdue University
B.S., Civil Engineering, Purdue University
Research Interests:
Daigger’s research has focused on the fundamental science and engineering supporting the advancement of technologies and practices which have been transformational for environmental engineering. These have included topics such as wastewater nutrient removal and recovery (biological and chemical), treatment process optimization and control (particularly biological treatment systems), control of activated sludge bulking and foaming, which can be debilitating and lead to excessive treatment costs if not properly addressed, and the highly efficient coupled attached and suspended growth systems.
Projects:
- Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: The Moveable Nexus: Design-led urban food, water and energy management innovation in new boundary conditions of change
- FEW Workshop: "Scaling Up" Urban Agriculture to Mitigate Food-Energy-Water Impacts
- Life Cycle Analysis of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), Detroit, Michigan
- M-CUBED 2.0: Uncovering the Food-Energy-Water Nexus for Urban Sustainability
Publications:
- Life Cycle Assessment of Urine Diversion and Conversion to Fertilizer Products at the City Scale
- Life Cycle Assessment of Urine Diversion Wastewater Treatment: Results and Software Tool
- Quantifying the Urban Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus: The Case of the Detroit Metropolitan Area
- Scaling Up Agriculture in City-Regions to Mitigate FEW System Impacts