Dr. Simon C Brewer is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Society & Sustainability at the University of Utah, USA. He obtained his B.Sc. in Biological Sciences from Kings College, University of London, UK in 1996, his M.Sc. in Quaternary Sciences from Royal Holloway and Bedford College, University of London, UK in 1997, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Biosciences from Université d’Aix-Marseille I, Marseille, France in 2002. After completing his Ph.D., he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at CEREGE-CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France in 2002–2006, at CEMAGREF, Aix-en-Provence, France in 2006–2007, at the Laboratory of Planetary and Atmospheric Physics, Liege, Belgium in 2007–2008, and at the Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, USA in 2008–2011. He joined the University of Utah as an Assistant Professor in 2011 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. His research interests include understanding complex systems in space and time, analyzing spatial and spatiotemporal data, changes in past climate and terrestrial ecosystem responses, and understanding societal responses to environmental changes.
Dr. Ramesh Goel is a Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Utah, USA. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, in 1994 and 1996, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of South Carolina in 2003. He completed his post-doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin in 2005. He joined the University of Utah in January 2006 as an Assistant Professor and became a Professor in July 2017. Dr. Goel researches the interface of process engineering, ecosystem sustainability, and environmental microbiology, explicitly focusing on nutrient management in municipal wastewater treatment, innovations in activated sludge processes, harmful algal blooms, virology, and computer bioinformatics. His research projects have been funded by the United States National Science Foundation, USEPA, and the US Department of Defense.
