In 2008, 12.7% of municipal solid waste generated in the U.S. was disposed of through waste incineration with energy recovery.
Jonathan W. Bulkley
Position:
Co-Director
Core Staff
Email:
jbulkley@umich.edu
Website:
Office Location:
2504 Dana Building, 440 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1041
Degrees:
PhD, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, '66
SM, Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, '63
S.B. Civil Engineering, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, '61
Research Interests:
development and application of both quantitative and qualitative means to help policy makers and decision makers attain improved planning, evaluation, and management of natural resources, especially water resources
Projects:
- 21st Century Wastewater Treatment Issues: Ballast Water and Endocrine Disruptor Chemicals (EDCs)
- Alcoa Foundation's Conservation and Sustainability Fellowship Program: Enabling Technology for a Sustainable Energy Future through Interdisciplinary Research and Training
- Application of Life Cycle Assessment to US Water and Wastewater Treatment Facilities
- Benchmarking Current States' Wet Weather Discharge Policies
- Binational Great Lakes Studies Program and Summit on Emerging Canadian and U.S. Issues
- Campus Ecology: Environmental Performance Assessment and Reporting Economicology 1.0, 1.5, 2.0
- Development of Sustainable Shrimp Aquaculture
- Effect of Water Level Changes - Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands
- Energy Utilization: Wastewater Treatment Facilities
- Industrial Ecology of the Automobile Seminar Series
- Interdisciplinary Research and Education on Industrial Ecology
- Life Cycle Assessment of E-Publishing and Digital Libraries: Linking Industrial Ecology, Research and Education
- Life Cycle Assessment of E-Publishing and Digital Libraries: Scholarly Books and E-Book Reading Devices
- Life Cycle Assessment Water Bottles
- Life Cycle Optimization of Vehicle Replacement
- MUSES: Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure Materials and Systems: Developing an integrated life cycle design framework
- Pollution Prevention in the Cruise Ship Industry
- Research and Documentation for Transfer of Waste Reduction Technologies
- Sustainability Assessment and Reporting for University of Michigan Ann Arbor Campus
- Sustainable Water Infrastructure in Developing Countries
- Wetlands Restoration Master's Project
Publications:
- A Predictive Model of Salinity and Crop-Production in the Jezreel Valley in Israel
- An Overview of China's Water Resources
- Characteristics of Integrated Water Resource Management in the Zambezi River and Great Lakes Basins: A Comparison of Two Approaches
- Combined Sewer Overflows; Approaches to Achieve Regulatory Objectives
- CSS Factsheets, U.S. Wastewater Treatment System
- CSS Factsheets, U.S. Water Supply and Distribution
- Energy Utilization: Wastewater Treatment Facilities
- Executive Order 13112 Invasive Species
- Extreme Value Analysis of Wastewater Treatment Plant Flows
- Global Overview: Water Resources and Distributional Issues
- Industrial Ecology of the Automobile: A Life Cycle Perspective
- Integrated Watershed Management: Past, Present, and Future
- Measuring Progress: Developing Standard Campus Performance Metrics
- Mercury Pollution Prevention in Michigan: A Report by the Michigan Mercury Pollution Prevention Task Force
- Optimizing Vehicle Life Using Life Cycle Energy Analysis and Dynamic Replacement Modeling
- Quantifying U.S. aluminum in-use stocks and their relationship with economic output
- Risk Analysis: Water Resources Education
- Risk Analysis: Wet Weather Flows in Southeast Michigan
- Risk Reduction of Lead and Mercury in Michigan
- Rouge River Restoration: Correcting a Major Pollution Source to the Great Lakes
- Seaborne Petrochemical Spill Analysis Within the United States, 1992–1999
- Sustainable Infrastructure for Water Treatment and Delivery
- Sustainable Water Management in the Zambezi River Basin
- The Challenge to Higher Education
- The Environmental Impact of Cruise Ships
- The Impacts of Lead in Michigan
- The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the University of Zambia and the University of Michigan Conception and Subsequent Implementation Goals
- The October 2003 Quantification Settlement Agreement Implications for Water Management
- The State of Michigan's General Storm Water Discharge Permit: An Innovative Approach Contributing to Watershed Planning and Management
- Universities Undertaking Water Resources Security Research: Issues for Consideration
- Waste Reduction in Children's Day Care: Case Study Report of Gretchen's
- Waste Reduction in Department Store Retail: Case Study Report of Hudson's
- Waste Reduction in Food Retail: Case Study Report of the People's Food Co-op
- Waste Reduction in Furniture Manufacture: Case Study Report of Steelcase Inc.
- Waste Reduction in the Hospital Sector: Case Study Report of McPherson Hospital
- Watershed Planning and Management: Institutional Realities
- Wet Weather Benchmarking Report
- Wet Weather Rules, Regulations and Policies: A National Survey