Lut Raskin

Feng Distinguished Lecturer, Professor Lut Raskin, with the Feng family and the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering faculty and staff.

Amazing lecture by Prof. Raskin (@lutraskin.bsky.social), this year’s Distinguished Feng Lecturer. Thanks for joining us at UMass!

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Moving Beyond the Silos of Opportunistic Pathogen and Disinfection Byproduct Research to Improve Drinking Water System Management Drinking water opportunistic pathogens (OPs) and disinfection byproducts (DBPs) both pose risks to public health, and their variable occurrence from source to tap complicates efforts to control them s...

Check out our new open access review paper in ES&T on ways to unify drinking water opportunistic pathogen and disinfection byproduct research. Excited for this to be my first paper as a corresponding. Shout out to our amazing co-authors! @lutraskin.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Wildfires can contaminate drinking water systems with harmful chemicals − here’s what Los Angeles needs to know Fires can make drinking water, and the water pipes and tanks themselves, unsafe. A researcher who has worked with communities after several wildfires explains why, and what to do.

NEW: As residents and business owners prepare to return to their properties near #LosAngeles, safe drinking water should be top of mind.

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Open‐Source Anaerobic Digestion Modeling Platform, Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 Fast (ADM1F) ADM1F is an open-source platform utilizing PETSc for efficient numerical solutions to the Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1). The iPython interface streamlines workflows for influent configuratio...

Check out our new open access paper with Kuang Zhu, Steve Skerlos and others: Open‐Source Anaerobic Digestion Modeling Platform, Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 Fast (ADM1F) in Biotechnology and Bioengineering analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

💯Clean air delivery rate (CADR) is more important than HEPA rating! I have been buying portable air cleaners for the lab and home that are not HEPA-level but offer a high CADR per dollar spent and low noise.

Marwa Zaatari's comparison chart from 2021 is a good way to think about this.

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There are some good microbiome and microbiologist starter packs

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Check out our new pre-print on NTM in drinking water systems! @lutraskin.bsky.social

Interested in drinking water flow cytometry? Check out our new studying evaluating near real-time FCM for disinfection system monitoring! @lutraskin.bsky.social 🧪 #MicroSky

We are recruiting two postdocs at the University of Michigan with expertise in anaerobic biotechnology research, sociotechnical education, and community-led circular economy social structures and infrastructure facilities. Job posting at

I am doing online canvas quizzes for everyone for the first time. I had the same problem last year with too many sick students, so I decided to change things. I am glad I did, especially with the high number of covid cases in Ann Arbor.