New work led by Sayalee Joshi identifying water softeners + expansion tanks as potential contributors to water quality issues in a green building w/ decreased occupancy: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Congrats to our team Treavor Boyer paul westerhoff and many others

Step #6 of our 12 Program is to properly maintain your septic system, for this, regular inspections are necessary. This will keep drains free and will prevent high levels of P and other toxic wastes from draining into nearby watersheds. Read more here: phosphorusalliance.org/what-can-i-do/

Next week is the 15th week of 2023. We thought it would be fun to highlight our favorite element of the periodic table—the 15th element, #Phosphorus, all next week. Stay tuned for great content to learn more about phosphorus and our Center's mission of phosphorus sustainability!

We strongly believe that clean and healthy freshwater bodies should be a non-partisan issue and that it should be in everyone’s interest to expand freshwater protection instead of curbing it. This is a sad day for #freshwaterlife in the US and beyond /gk

What are stakeholder views and needs for achieving phosphorus sustainability? Check out our new study that investigates these key questions @awmerck STEPS Center NC State Applied Ecology N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative link.springer.com/article/10.100…

How can we assess the sustainability of food and agriculture that rely on genetic engineering? @GES colleagues and I argue that a range of environmental, health, ethical, and societal factors are needed for long term sustainability nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pp…

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨A STEPS 2022 REU Scholar, Pippin Bucholtz, and other STEPS researchers have published their study of the solar distillation process for urine and the potential to recover P & nitrogen for agricultural use and water.

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 STEPS researchers @awmerck, Khara Grieger, Deviney, & Marshall have published on using the P flow diagram as a boundary object for stakeholder engagement. This work has broad applicability across flows and geographies. Read it at: mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/1…

😁We are thrilled to share this joint effort with RTI Innovation Advisors. We hope you will read the roadmap and join us in collective action to advance our vision for phosphorus sustainability! 🍃 rti.org/announcements/…

📢 STEPS is hiring! Our faculty & leadership team have open positions for postdocs, grad students, & undergraduate roles. Check out our opportunities page if you'd like to join a fun, diverse team w/ big dreams for advancing phosphorus sustainability! 😀 steps-center.org/opportunities/

👀 STEPS works w/ stakeholders involved in wastewater treatment facilities on the topic of biological P removal. Facility managers & utility operators like @cltwater shared their insights on biological P removal processes & developed research questions w/ STEPS researchers.

First paper out from the work of Dr. SeungJu Choi at KAISTPR , who visited us last year as a postdoc. Working with Treavor Boyer, we looked at membrane modifications to remove urea in ultrapure water production. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… SSEBE@ASU Chimie_UQAM Faculté des sciences de l’UQAM

Dr.Boyer & scholar Lucas Crane at Arizona State University believe that urine diversion is the answer to building sustainability! 🚽 To learn about their research, listen to their talk at the Rich Earth Summit (@peecyclers): loom.ly/Ch2BejY & watch a summary video: loom.ly/L4RES-8

❓What is the Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance (SPA, Sustainable P) you ask? Scholar Lucas Crane (Lucas Crane) caught up with Dr. Jim Elser (@Drlimnology), director of the SPA, at the recent P-Forum to find out! #Pforum #phosphorus #sustainability

Saturday, STEPS researchers at Arizona State University took part in the annual Open Door Event! They developed a neat outreach activity for kids to learn about urine diversion. "Fishing for Nutrients in Urine" is a hands on activity for young children to learn about resource recovery. ⬇️

🤩 Meet STEPS' Student Leadership Council! These scholars play an important role in augmenting the scholar experience in our Center. Learn more about the students who are leading this year and their goals for the SLC in our latest news article: steps-center.org/2024/03/29/mee…

Listen to our episode on the PhosForUs podcast below! @awmerck and I chat about two publications that we've been working on in the STEPS Center on urine diversion. You can also read our full paper on urine diversion implementation in buildings: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment is excited to announce we’re ranked No. 9 in environmental engineering and No. 23 in civil engineering in the latest U.S. News Education rankings! ow.ly/QMbp50Snn4X 🎉 #ASUEngineering #GoDevils #BestGradSchools

This ACS ES&T Engineering study by Lucas Crane, Treavor Boyer and team at SSEBEArizona State University @ASU STEPS Center shows that acetic acid dosing increases #PhosphateRecovery in a full-scale multistory #UrineDiversion system. #UrineDerivedFertilizers Read: go.acs.org/aBG