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Meagan Mauter

Meagan Mauter

Affiliated Faculty
Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Center Fellow, by courtesy, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
School: 
Engineering
Research Areas: 
Water quality & treatment
Water resources management
Water supply

Meagan Mauter is Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and a Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Stanford  Woods Institute for the Environment. Her research focuses on providing sustainable water supply in a carbon-constrained world through innovation in water treatment technology, optimization of water management practices, and redesign of water policies. Research areas include 1) developing automated, precise, robust, intensified, modular, and electrified (A-PRIME) water desalination technologies to support a circular water economy; 2) addressing the water constraints to deep decarbonization by quantifying the water requirements of energy systems and developing new technologies for high salinity brine treatment; and 3) supporting design and enforcement of California agricultural water policy. Prof. Mauter also serves as the research director for the National Alliance for Water Innovation, a $100-million DOE Energy-Water Desalination Hub (pending appropriations) to address water security issues in the United States. The Hub targets early-stage research and development of energy-efficient and cost-competitive technologies for desalinating non-traditional source waters.