Weiwei Mo

Weiwei Mo
Occupation	Civil and Environmental Engineer
Employer	University of New Hampshire
Alma mater	Shanghai Jiao Tong University University of South Florida Yale University

Weiwei Mo is an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of New Hampshire. Her research addresses the water-energy nexus, life cycle assessment, and the environmental sustainability of water and energy infrastructure.

Education

Mo studied environmental engineering and science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 2004 to 2008. She earned a PhD in civil and environmental engineering from the University of South Florida, completed between 2008 and 2012. She then conducted postdoctoral research in chemical and environmental engineering at Yale University from 2013 to 2014.

Career

Mo joined the University of New Hampshire in 2015 as an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, a position she held until 2021. She has served as an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of New Hampshire since 2021.

Research

According to Semantic Scholar, Mo has published 65 papers that have been cited a total of 1,753 times, giving her an h-index of 22. Her work has examined the energy and resource implications of water infrastructure, including embodied energy in drinking water supply systems, carbon neutrality potential of municipal wastewater treatment, and greenhouse gas emissions from dams.

Mo has received six grants from the National Science Foundation totaling $7,164,465. These include a Collaborative Research award for "RII FEC: Equitable Nature-based Climate Solutions" ($3,005,254, awarded July 22, 2024), an FMRG grant for "GOALI: CAS: Understanding the Sustainability Framework for Convergent In-Space Manufacturing" ($2,995,494, awarded August 22, 2023), a CAREER award for "Decision Theoretic Life Cycle Assessment" ($507,099, awarded January 27, 2021), a project on "Resilience, Reliability, and Externalities of Integrated Centralized and Distributed Water and Energy Systems: The Integrated Water-Energy Dynamic (iWED) Model" ($303,680, awarded July 19, 2017), and an EAGER grant for "Development of a Contest-based Crowdsourcing Scheme for Public Water Quality Monitoring" ($100,000, awarded August 1, 2017).

Selected publications

• Mo, W. et al. (2013). "Energy-nutrients-water nexus: integrated resource recovery in municipal wastewater treatment plants." Journal of Environmental Management.
• Mo, W. et al. (2014). "Energy-water nexus analysis of enhanced water supply scenarios: a regional comparison of Tampa Bay, Florida, and San Diego, California." Environmental Science and Technology.
• Mo, W. et al. (2015). "Application of membrane dewatering for algal biofuel."
• Mo, W. et al. (2012). "Can municipal wastewater treatment systems be carbon neutral?" Journal of Environmental Management.
• Mo, W. et al. (2010). "Measuring the embodied energy in drinking water supply systems: a case study in the Great Lakes region." Environmental Science and Technology.
• Mo, W. et al. (2018). "Cradle-to-grave greenhouse gas emissions from dams in the United States of America." Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews.
• Mo, W. et al. (2018). "A multiscale approach to balance trade-offs among dam infrastructure, river restoration, and cost." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
• Mo, W. et al. (2011). "Embodied energy comparison of surface water and groundwater supply options." Water Research.
• Mo, W. et al. (2019). "Managing dams for energy and fish tradeoffs: What does a win-win solution take?" Science of the Total Environment.
• Mo, W. et al. (2018). "The water-energy nexus at water supply and its implications on the integrated water and energy management." Science of the Total Environment.

External links

• Weiwei Mo on ORCID