Emily Nottingham Byers PhD, EIT
Roles:
Author,
Reviewer,
Section Editor
Editorial groups:
JEED Committee
Affiliation:
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- Assistant Professor
- Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering
- University of Minnesota View ROR record for University of Minnesota. (opens in new tab)
- Aug 2026–
Biography
Emily obtained her B.S. and M.S. in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering at Kansas State University and her Ph.D. in Biological Systems and Agriculture Engineering at the University of Kentucky. She then worked for the USDA-ARS in Columbus, OH, within the Soil Drainage Research Unit and was a postdoctoral scholar with the Kentucky Water Research Institute at the University of Kentucky. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests are at the intersection of hydrology, water quality, and engineering design to assess the driving forces behind the complex interactions of environmental contaminants and their implications for ecological water treatment technologies. She has worked on projects related to both water quality and quantity challenges across various scales and landscapes such as heavily managed agricultural systems, forested watersheds, and urbanized regions. More recently, her focus has been working with rural water utilities to analyze drinking water contaminants and understand the environmental factors that drive contaminant precursors in surface waters.