Biography
Aria has been a professor at Santa Clara University since January 2020. Since 2022, he has been the Department Chairperson and the Sukhmander Singh Endowed Professor. He started his academic career at the University of Maine in 1997. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG). He teaches courses in environmental and hydraulic engineering at SCU. His research interests are aquatic chemistry, contaminant transport, and water treatment. He studies the cycling of metals and nutrients in natural and engineered systems. Aria has been a visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zürich), and the U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA. He is currently conducting research on mercury biogeochemistry at the USGS. He is a registered Professional Engineer in California and has several years of professional experience as an environmental and water resources engineer in the public and private sectors.
Education
Ph.D. - University of California, Irvine
M.S. - San Jose State University
B.S. - San Jose State University
Courses Taught
CENG 122 – Air Pollution
CENG 123 – Pollutant Fate and Transport
CENG 141 – Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Engineering
CENG 143 – Environmental Engineering
CENG 144 – Water and Wastewater Treatment
Selected Publications
(for a complete list, see here)
- Amirbahman A., K.N. Fitzgibbon, S.A. Norton, L.C. Bacon, and S.D. Birkel, “Controls on the epilimnetic phosphorus concentration in small temperate lakes.” Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts. 2022, 24, 89–101, doi.org/10.1039/D1EM00353D.
- Deeds J., A. Amirbahman, S.A. Norton, L.C. Bacon, and R. Hovel, “Shifting baselines and cross-scale drivers of lake water clarity: applications for lake assessment.” Limnology and Oceanography. 2021, doi.org/10.1002/lno.11873.
- Ohno T., J.D. Kubicki, and A. Amirbahman, “Molecular orbital study of Fe(II) and Fe(III) complexation with salicylate and citrate ligands: Implications for soil biogeochemistry.” Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2021, doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20339.
- Porcal P., A. Amirbahman, J. Kopáček, and S.A. Norton; Solar radiation, the likely cause of acid-soluble rare-earth elements in sediments of freshwater humic lakes. Environmental Science & Technology. 2020, 54, 1545−1553.
- McDonald G.J., S.A. Norton, I.J. Fernandez, K.M. Hoppe, J. Dennis, and A. Amirbahman, “Chemical controls on dissolved phosphorus mobilization in a calcareous agricultural stream during the base flow.” Science of the Total Environment. 2019, 660, 876−885.
- Yaparatne S., C.P. Tripp, and A. Amirbahman, Photodegradation of taste and odor compounds in water in the presence of immobilized TiO2-SiO2 photocatalysts. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 2018, 346, 208−217.
- Amirbahman A., D.B. Kent, G.P. Curtis, and M.C. Marvin-DiPasquale; Kinetics of homogeneous and surface-catalyzed mercury(II) reduction by iron(II). Environmental Science & Technology, 2013, 47, 7204-7213.
- Merritt K.A., and A. Amirbahman; Cycling of methylmercury in estuarine sediment pore waters (Penobscot River Estuary, Maine, USA). Limnology and Oceanography, 2008, 53, 1064-1075.
- Ohno T., A. Amirbahman, and R. Bro; Parallel factor analysis of excitation-emission matrix fluorescence spectra of water-soluble organic matter as a basis for the determination of conditional metal binding parameters. Environmental Science & Technology, 2008, 42, 186-192.
- Amirbahman A., D.B. Kent, G.P. Curtis, and J.A. Davis; Kinetics of sorption and abiotic oxidation of arsenic(III) by aquifer materials. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2006, 70, 533-547.
