Linda Kay Weavers is an American environmental engineer specializing in

water treatment Water treatment is any process that improves the quality of water to make it appropriate for a specific end-use. The end use may be drinking, industrial water supply, irrigation, river flow maintenance, water recreation or many other uses, ...

, including the use of

sonochemistry In chemistry, the study of sonochemistry is concerned with understanding the effect of ultrasound in forming acoustic cavitation in liquids, resulting in the initiation or enhancement of the chemical activity in the solution. Therefore, the chemica ...

and

ozone Ozone () (or trioxygen) is an Inorganic compound, inorganic molecule with the chemical formula . It is a pale blue gas with a distinctively pungent smell. It is an allotrope of oxygen that is much less stable than the diatomic allotrope , break ...

in water treatment and the study of emerging contaminants. She is a professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering at the

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

, where she holds the John C. Geupel Endowed Chair and co-directs the Ohio Water Resources Center.

Education and career

Weavers majored in civil engineering at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1992. She continued her studies in environmental engineering science at the

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes ...

, received a master's degree in 1994, and completed her Ph.D. in 1998. Her dissertation, ''Enhancement of ultrasonic and ultraviolet irradiation with chemical oxidants'', was supervised by Michael R. Hoffmann. She joined the Ohio State University as an assistant professor in 1998. She was tenured as an associate professor and given the John C. Geupel Endowed Chair in 2003, and promoted to full professor in 2008.

Recognition

Weavers received the

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the United States federal government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. T ...

in 2001. The

American Association of University Women The American Association of University Women (AAUW), officially founded in 1881, is a non-profit organization that advances Justice, equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research. The organization has a nationwide Social net ...

gave her their Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars in 2003. The Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors gave her their Distinguished Service Award in 2012 and 2018, and named her as a fellow in 2021.

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