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Presenter Biographies

Below is a closer look at the presenters, their backgrounds, and the topics they will be covering.

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Jeff Meilander

Northern Arizona University

TOPICMicrobial Succession of Human Feces in Self-Contained Composting Toilets

Jeff Meilander is a Biology PhD Candidate in the Caporaso Lab at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff Arizona where he studies the microbiomes of human fecal composting using composting toilets. Jeff has 20 years of experience working as a professional educator and as the Executive Director of the Flagstaff EcoRanch, a non-profit sustainability education center focused on sustainable agriculture he founded in 2012.

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Pete Muñoz is an international lumiére in his innovative work as a licensed engineer, certified wastewater treatment plant operator. He has been involved in over 200 infrastructure projects involving wastewater treatment, stormwater management, rain harvesting, environmental remediation, and watershed restoration. Pete co-founded SEEDS in 1990, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of the fields of design, education, and ecology. He is a partner in the Alliance for Regeneration, an EcoDistricts Incubator faculty and regularly teaches courses at Yestermorrow Design/Build in Warren, Vermont and the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. In addition to co-founding NRS in 2021, Pete currently manages the Biohabitats Cascadia Bioregion office in Portland, Oregon and works around the globe helping to connect communities with appropriate inspirational living water infrastructure.

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Florent BRUN

Programme OCAPI - Laboratoire eau, environnement et systèmes urbains - Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées

TOPICThe Kolos project demonstrator

Florent Brun is a doctoral student at LEESU in engineering and environmental sciences, and coordinator of the Kolos project. After a career as a sanitation engineer, combining project management, contracting and knowledge dissemination in associative networks such as the Ecological Sanitation Network, he entered research, focusing on the socio-technical analysis of channels for valorizing human excreta as fertilizer. His research is based on action research with a transformative and operational vocation. This has led him to focus on (i) the conditions for organizing such channels, linking the worlds of agriculture and sanitation, and (ii) the mechanisms for demonstrating and replicating the use of these fertilizers.

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Bryan Horsley

Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment - MASSTC 

TOPICWhat's up with UD on Cape Cod

Bryan joined the MASSTC team in 2020 where he helps out with a wide range of projects from installing and testing innovative nutrient removing septic systems to facilitating acceptance of ecological sanitation practices for pollution source control. A lifelong Cape Codder and avid outdoorsman, he is passionate about protecting and restoring the Cape's environment. He earned a B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a focus in Conservation Biology and Old Norse studies. Although relatively new to the wastewater field, he has a significant background in related environmental topics including coastal ecology, limnology, ecological restoration, stormwater management and of course, ecological sanitation.

Ryan Smith & Alisa Keesey

GiveLove

TOPICObstacles and Opportunities for Disrupting Flush Toilets: three case studies from Uganda and the USA

Ryan Smith is a municipal wastewater professional and waterless sanitation evangelist. He manages the wastewater treatment facility in Watsonville, and has a bachelor's degree in agriculture from Cal Poly SLO and a master's degree in security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Ryan found a passion for container-based sanitation while researching his master's thesis topic, that explores the problem area of traditional wastewater systems and their vulnerabilities to natural disasters and climate change. He interviewed Alisa for this research and they have since become close friends while developing this unique pilot project together. You can read Ryan's thesis here. When not managing other people's excreta, Ryan spends as much time as possible outdoors hiking and noodling on the future of our planet and ecosystems. Alisa Keesey brings over 25 years of experience as a program officer to the program design and applied research that ground GiveLove's EcoSan programs. As co-founder of COVOL, she worked with women’s groups and farmers to improve food security, increase household income, and establish the first fair trade shea butter cooperatives in northern Uganda. Alisa holds a B.A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University, a M. SCI. in International Agricultural Development from University of California, Davis, and a M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She's excited to collaborate with a diverse group of organizations to link EcoSan programs with holistic programming that integrates livelihoods, sustainable land use, food security, and local resiliency in the context of climate change.

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Nebiyat Nigusie

Addis Ababa University

TOPIC: Method validation, detection and quantification of selected antimicrobials from struvite by ultrahigh liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

I am a phD student at Addis Ababa University in Dr Adey Feleke's waste water laboratory

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Nicola Parfitt

Sanitation 360

TOPICPee-recycling in Sweden with SLU & Sanitation360

Sanitation360 and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have three main urine recycling hubs in Sweden with several ongoing projects. This virtual tour will explain these projects, the importance of recycling urine in all kinds of settings as well as the importance of turning human urine into a dry, granular fertilizer for agriculture.

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Sr. Stella Ewa ISMV

Life Giver Foundation Nigeria

TOPICUsing Urine as alternative fertilizer in Nigeria south East zone

Using Urine as alternative fertilizer has tremendously improved agricultural yield . Due to poverty and high cost of fertilizer it is necessary to teach men and women how to use this God given gift to humanity.

Birger "Burger"

​Sanitation Ambassadors 

TOPICNext Generation Sanitation a new way

Birger “Burger” Lundgren is a Swedish serial tech entrepreneur and visionary investor who moved to Cape Town, South Africa two decades ago. With an extensive track record of innovation and business acumen, Birger has left a mark on the global tech and sanitation landscape.

Madeline DuBois

The Land Institute

TOPICPutting the P(ee) in Perennial Agriculture

Madeline DuBois is a soil ecology research technician at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, where she supports the development of management strategies for perennial grain crops. She designed and launched the first known urine reclamation project in Kansas in summer 2023, focused on land application to a perennial forage and the cultural changes necessary for the success of workplace-based urine diversion.

Lourdes Valenzuela

Aguatuya

TOPICNutrient recovery and reuse

Msc. Lourdes Valenzuela Allende Communication Director at Aguatuya Latin America Coordinator of Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) With a Master's degree in Integrated Water Management and a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, I bring over 20 years of experience in the water and sanitation sector, coupled with 9 years specializing in solid waste management. Throughout my career, I've been dedicated to promoting sustainable development, fostering behavior change, and advocating for gender equity through effective communication and environmental education initiatives. I firmly believe that combating pollution and enhancing environmental services is a collective responsibility. Let's advocate for increased participation, education, behavior change, and gender equity to pave the way for a more sustainable future.

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Bara Wahbeh

AKYAS environmental consultancy

TOPICThe Effluent Diversion Unit

Bara Wahbeh is the co-founder and CTO of AKYAS, a pioneering venture in sanitation innovation. He holds an undergraduate degree in engineering and a master's degree in environmental science, and he is a self-taught sanitation practitioner. His passion for developing onsite treatment systems for low-income communities stems from witnessing the profound impact of inadequate sanitation on vulnerable populations. Over the past six years, Bara and his team have been developing and refining onsite treatment technology to provide affordable and safe sanitation solutions for low-income communities. In 2021, AKYAS Sanitation was awarded the Sarphati Sanitation Award. Currently, AKYAS is operating in both Jordan and Bangladesh.

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Niko Bogianzidis

öKlo GmbH 

TOPICHow our feces can change the environmental climate

öKlo, the pioneers of the sanitation transition, offer environmentally friendly, chemical-free toilet solutions for events and public areas. With öKlo, clean and sustainable hygiene conditions are created while protecting the environment at the same time. Experience the perfect combination of comfort and sustainability with öKlo!

Charles Buregeya Niwagaba

Sustainable Sanitation and Water Renewal Systems (SSWARS)

TOPICCircular fertilizer production by solar-thermal driven passive drying of acid- and base-stabilized fresh human urine

Dr. Charles B. NIWAGABA is the founder and Executive Director of Sustainable Sanitation and Water Renewal Systems, a local NGO working in Uganda; and an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Makerere University. He has extensive knowledge in development of innovative practices in sanitation improvement (from Engineering, social marketing to financing); solid waste management with emphasis on recycling and re-use e.g. composting, treatment of source-separated faeces and urine for plant nutrient recycling and soil improvement, grey water treatment and use, design and construction of biogas systems, application of faecal sludge in industrial kilns and boilers, design and operation of faecal sludge treatment plants etc.

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Maano Tshimange

university of surrey

TOPIC: Evaluation of membrane fouling during dewatering and nutrients concentration from fresh urine by Forward Osmosis

Maano Tshimange University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK My name is Maano Tshimange, and I am a 2nd-year Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering and Processing at the University of Surrey in the UK. My work focuses on membrane fouling and nutrient recovery from urine.

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Raluca Anisie

Mosan

TOPICThe potential of urine-enriched human feces biochar for maize production in the Guatemalan highlands

Mosan is a social organization offering ecological sanitation and treatment solutions in Guatemala. Working in collaboration with local municipalities and community stakeholders, Mosan manages a urine-diverting dry-toilet service appropriate for households in densely populated settlements or public places. Mosan ensures the safe containment, collection, transport, and transformation of human excreta into safe, nutrient-rich products for use in agriculture.

Soliver Fusi

University of California, Berkeley

TOPIC:  Functional Group Analysis for Screening Biochars for Total Ammonium Nitrogen Recovery from Hydrolyzed Urine

Sol is driven by global environmentalism, particularly by understanding how knowledge about the environment is produced, shared, and influences our relationship with it. Her current research focuses on the intersection of sanitation and agriculture by utilizing biochar to recover nutrients from human urine and reuse them in agricultural soils. She finds purpose in working on technologies that are available to the most marginalized and is additionally pursuing a data science focus by developing models for predicting biochar properties in collaboration with the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Lotte Kristoferitsch

EOOS / Social Design

TOPICDesigning for Circularity

Lotte Kristoferitsch is managing director of EOOS / Social Design contributing to sustainable sanitation on multiple levels of engagement since 2011.

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Rosanne Wielemaker

Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology)

TOPICDriver, Strategy and Technology Factsheets for Urine Diversion & Resource Recovery

Rosanne Wielemaker (dr.) is the Project Coordinator at Eawag’s Water Hub Innovation Lab in Switzerland. In this role, Rosanne supports strategic innovation on the topic of resource-oriented sanitation together with researchers and stakeholders in the field, and oversees communication and outreach activities. Rosanne is project lead for the Water Hub Toolbox on Resource Oriented Sanitation, which she is developing with her colleagues at the Water Hub.

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Weonjung Sohn

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

TOPIC: Urine Treatment and Processing Research (part 2)

Weonjung Sohn is currently a PhD candidate at University of Technology Sydney under Prof. Hokyong Shon’s supervision. Her main research interests include biological nitrification process in membrane bioreactors for nutrients recovery in a circular economy from source separated urine.

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Rebecca Nelson

Cornell University

TOPIC: YouGo Gardening Tour

Rebecca Nelson' is a professor at Cornell University, in the School of Integrative Plant Science and the Department of Global Development. Her lab is working on various aspects of circular bionutrient economy. The team has a special interest in the use of pee-powered composting and Grow-as-You-Go gardening in low resource settings, including informal settlements in Africa.

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Laura Carter

University of Leeds

TOPIC: Contaminant risks in an agricultural-sanitation circular economy

Laura Carter is an Associate Professor in Soil and Environmental Chemistry at the University of Leeds, UK and leads a research group interested in exploring the fate and effects of emerging contaminants in the environment following their inadvertent release. Work is understand to understand the implications of the reuse of sanitation and animal wastes on soil and crop health as well as the role resource reuse plays in the development of antimicrobial resistance.

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Kevin Orner

West Virginia University

TOPICTransdisciplinary approaches to sustainable decentralized wastewater treatment and resource recovery in Monteverde, Costa Rica

Kevin Orner is an Assistant Professor at West Virginia University. After obtaining a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he served for two years as a Water and Sanitation Engineer in the Peace Corps in Panama. Kevin completed his M.S. and PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida, is an E.I.T. with engineering consulting experience, and was awarded a Fulbright Research Grant to study the recovery of nutrients and energy in Costa Rica. From 2019-2021, Kevin was a postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley studying nutrient recovery from urine and digestate.

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Earle Barnhart and Hilda Maingay from the Green Center on Cape Cod Massachusetts, conduct research and provide education about urine diversion. They promote eco-sanitation as the fastest, most affordable solution to solve water pollution problems in their town, in the Cape Cod region and beyond. They have used waterless nutrient-recovering composting toilets in their home for 24 years and added urine-diverting fixtures to their existing eco-toilets 10 years ago. They have recycled all their human waste nutrients and kitchen straps back into their extensive home food production gardens since 2000.

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Jordan Roods

Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney

TOPICWhy Circular Economy’s vision to ‘regenerate nature’ needs earth-centred governance

Jordan Roods is a PhD candidate in the Australian Research Council’s Nutrients in a Circular Economy Research Hub (ARC NiCE Hub). Jordan is located at the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF), University of Technology Sydney, where he is conducting research on the governance of a new circular economy in Australia based on nutrient recovery through the separation, collection and processing of human urine into safe and effective fertilisers. Jordan is also part of the Resource Stewardship team at ISF, where he assists industry, government and community organisations to identify and evaluate opportunities to avoid, reuse and recover resources through circular economy practices.

Zhenyu Xia

University of Michigan

TOPICPFAS and Pharmaceutical Removal from Urine by Biochar

Zhenyu Xia is a second-year PhD candidate in environmental engineering, University of Michigan. Advised by Professor Aleksandra Szczuka, he's currently conducting research on the performance of biosolids-derived biochar for organic contaminants removal, such as PFASs and pharmaceuticals from urine.

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Benson Colella

Wasted *PBC

TOPICUrine to Fertilizer in Burlington, VT: Process and Characterization

Benson was introduced to urine-diversion as an intern of the Rich Earth Institute in 2019, where he worked on the development of a urine freeze-concentrator among other assignments. He is excited to continue the work of reclaiming nutrient resources from human "waste" as an engineer at Wasted* in Burlington, VT. Benson holds a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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Manon Rumeau

University of Birmingham

TOPICAssessing the impact of human urine fertilization on soil nutrient dynamics and bacterial communities

Manon Rumeau is a PhD student at the University of Birmingham, UK but will present today a work conducted during her master thesis at the Eco&Sols of Montpellier. This work investigate the direct re-use of human urine after storage as a sole treatment.

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Matilda Gunnarsson

Stockholm Environment Institute

TOPICEstimating environmental and societal impacts from scaling up urine concentration technologies

Matilda Gunnarsson is a Research Associate in the Water, Coasts and Ocean Team at Stockholm Environment Institute Headquarters. She holds a M.Sc. in Environmental and Water Engineering from Uppsala University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences with focus on water and sanitation systems. Her research interests are related to societal impacts of transitions, in particular for sanitation systems.

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Lucas Crane

Arizona State University, NSF Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Center

TOPICP in our Pee: Advancing Phosphorus Recovery from Fresh and Hydrolyzing Urine

Lucas Crane is a Doctoral Student in Environmental Engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University, where he is affiliated with the STEPS (Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability) Center and studies with Dr. Treavor Boyer. His research focuses on advancing the implementation of urine diversion and treatment processes to recover phosphorus, and has previously studied the production of urine-based biocement and the recovery of urea using commercial membranes. Crane holds a MS in Environmental Engineering from Arizona State University.

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Earle Barnhart & Hilda Maingay

Green Center Inc

TOPIC: Green Center Cubie-Based Urine Diversion Pilot Study

Earle Barnhart and Hilda Maingay from the Green Center on Cape Cod Massachusetts, conduct research and provide education about urine diversion. They promote eco-sanitation as the fastest, most affordable solution to solve water pollution problems in their town, in the Cape Cod region and beyond. They have used waterless nutrient-recovering composting toilets in their home for 24 years and added urine-diverting fixtures to their existing eco-toilets 10 years ago. They have recycled all their human waste nutrients and kitchen straps back into their extensive home food production gardens since 2000.

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Hannah Vandenbergh

NPK recovery

TOPICHow 'Wee' can fix the UK

NPK recovery are a start-up exploring how best to convert urine into an alternative to synthetic fertilisers, without the need for large scale storage. The team would like to share their ideas, and gather inout from attendees on how urine as fertiliser can be scaled up in the UK.

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Krisztina Mosdossy

Cornell University​

TOPICUrine-powered composting of cereal residues rivals mineral soil in crop yield with biochar benefits

Krisztina Mosdossy is a soil ecologist and Postdoctoral Associate working with Professors Rebecca Nelson and Johannes Lehmann on the circular bionutrient economy. Her work focuses on nutrient and carbon cycling in the soil micro-food web with a focus on nematodes and microarthropods and their interactions with fungi and bacteria in agroecological and composting systems. Krisztina applies intersectionality and critical theory to her work to revitalize reciprocal relationships between human and other organisms, including the positive impact that human nutrients can have on agroecosystems.

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Marius Klinger

aneco

TOPICDecentralized Implementation of the Pitribon System in Housing Cooperatives

Marius Klinger is an environmental engineer and co-founder of aneco, a Geneva-based association (Switzerland) that promotes the valorization of wastewater resources and develops circular sanitation projects in rural and urban areas. They are convinced that the development of more decentralized, water- and energy-efficient systems, focused on local resource recovery, is essential for a more sustainable society.

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Elena Bischak

California Association of Resource Conservation Districts

TOPICNitrogen and Phosphorus Mineralization Dynamics of Human-Excreta Derived Fertilizers

Elena received her PhD in Environmental Systems from UC Merced in 2023. Her research is focused on the biogeochemical outcomes of the application of source-separated human excreta-derived fertilizers.

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Lucinda Li

Cornell University

TOPIC: Biochar-based nutrient recovery for a circular bionutrient economy

Lucinda Li is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in Environmental Engineering. Her research is focused on evaluating the ecological and public health impacts of waste-to-resource systems to advance a circular bionutrient economy.

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Nolan Grant

Brightwater Tools

TOPICModeling US Economic & Environmental Drivers behind the standard Wastewater Cycle

Nolan Grant is a junior Environmental Engineering student at the University of Vermont. This summer, as an intern with Brightwater Tools, he created a model to estimate residential water and sewer fees throughout the U.S.

Louise Raguet

OCAPI Research program

TOPICThe nutrient cycle in a community-supported agriculture (CSA) in Paris region

Louise Raguet is designer for the OCAPI research program in France (Paris). She develops project for ecological sanitation, and especially urine collection in urban context. As a freelance designer she developped the female urinal "Marcelle", and recently released the unisex version!

Sybrand Metz

Desah

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Fernando Perez has a PhD in technologies for waste treatment and reuse at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). He is a researcher at the University of San Simon in Bolivia. Collaborating with the group of environmental engineering from SLU in developing the drying technology for treatment and reuse of urine.

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Kai Udert

Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Bolivia

TOPIC: Urine Fertilizer in Agriculture
(part 1)

Fernando Perez has a PhD in technologies for waste treatment and reuse at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). He is a researcher at the University of San Simon in Bolivia. Collaborating with the group of environmental engineering from SLU in developing the drying technology for treatment and reuse of urine.

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Tatiana Schreiber

Rich Earth Institute 

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Tatiana Schreiber received her B.S. in Rural Sociology and Nutrition from Cornell University, her M.A. in Mass Communications from Emerson College and her Ph.D in Environmental Studies from Antioch University Graduate School. Her graduate work examined economic, ecological and cultural sustainability and resilience among coffee and cacao growers in Chiapas, Mexico. She has worked as a public radio journalist and is currently teaches agroecology and writing courses at Keene State College. At Rich Earth Institute she conducts social research on urine diversion and re-use under our National Science Foundation (NSF) and Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) grants. She especially enjoys working with and learning from farmers about their interests and needs. Other current endeavors include development of dual-use solar and agricultural projects and growing/selling organic seedlings at Sowing Peace Farm, in Westminster West, Vermont.

Loïc Déchaseaux

LEESU / OCAPI

TOPICUrine applicator for small vegetable farm

I am Loïc Déchaseaux from France. I am Mechanical engineer, welder, and farmworker. I discovered urine fertilization two years ago.

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Abe Noe-Hays

Brightwater Tools

TOPIC: Urine Processing Startups

Abraham Noe-Hays has been working with dry sanitation systems since 1990. He holds a B.A. in Human Ecology with concentrations in agroecology and compost science from the College of the Atlantic, where his interest in recycling human manure was solidified by an internship at Woods End Research Laboratory and a thesis project, “An Experiment in Thermophilic Composting.” He has operated Full Circle Compost Consulting since 2001, providing complete design, manufacture, and maintenance services to individuals and institutions with dry toilet systems. He is now the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Rich Earth’s spin-off, Brightwater Tools.

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Mathew Lippincott

Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Bolivia

TOPIC: Urine Fertilizer in Agriculture
(part 1)

Fernando Perez has a PhD in technologies for waste treatment and reuse at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). He is a researcher at the University of San Simon in Bolivia. Collaborating with the group of environmental engineering from SLU in developing the drying technology for treatment and reuse of urine.

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Gretchen Saveson

Rich Earth Institute 

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Paul spent his entire life working on the wise and efficient transformation of waste. He distinguishes four kinds of biodegradable solid waste, and when they are properly transformed, farmers are able to make their own feed, fertilizer, high-grade heat and biochar. He believes that farmers should buy no bottled gas, no commercial feeds and no chemical fertilizers. He is now setting up sites that enable farmers to raise pigs, chickens, fish and cows in an entirely unconventional way.

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Elena Bischak

California Association of Resource Conservation Districts

TOPICNitrogen and Phosphorus Mineralization Dynamics of Human-Excreta Derived Fertilizers

Elena received her PhD in Environmental Systems from UC Merced in 2023. Her research is focused on the biogeochemical outcomes of the application of source-separated human excreta-derived fertilizers.

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Krisztina Mosdossy

Cornell University

TOPICUrine-powered composting of cereal residues rivals mineral soil in crop yield with biochar benefits

Krisztina Mosdossy is a soil ecologist and Postdoctoral Associate working with Professors Rebecca Nelson and Johannes Lehmann on the circular bionutrient economy. Her work focuses on nutrient and carbon cycling in the soil micro-food web with a focus on nematodes and microarthropods and their interactions with fungi and bacteria in agroecological and composting systems. Krisztina applies intersectionality and critical theory to her work to revitalize reciprocal relationships between human and other organisms, including the positive impact that human nutrients can have on agroecosystems.

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Marius Klinger

aneco

TOPICDecentralized Implementation of the Pitribon System in Housing Cooperatives

Marius Klinger is an environmental engineer and co-founder of aneco, a Geneva-based association (Switzerland) that promotes the valorization of wastewater resources and develops circular sanitation projects in rural and urban areas. They are convinced that the development of more decentralized, water- and energy-efficient systems, focused on local resource recovery, is essential for a more sustainable society.

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Juila Cavicchi

Rich Earth Institute, Brightwater Tools

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Julia coordinates Rich Earth’s “Urine My Garden” education program, local community outreach, and science communication. She also organizes the annual Rich Earth Summit, the global gathering for researchers and practitioners to advance the field of urine nutrient reclamation. She received her B.A. in Environmental Studies from Skidmore College in 2018 and an MRes in Human Geography from the University of Glasgow. In the past, her research has explored combined sewer overflows in Troy, NY, glass eels, community science, and the environmental humanities. Julia has been an avid peecycler since joining the Institute in 2019. Pee the change!

Abby Verney-Fink

Putney School 

TOPIC"Pee Lab": Experiments with Urine Fertilizer at Putney School

Maura Whalen, Maggie Mu, & Jane Ward

Wellesley University, Green Center

TOPICApplied Internships & Urine Diversion Communication Strategies

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