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Shangping Xu

  • Associate Professor, Geosciences

Education

  • PhD, Princeton University
  • MS, Princeton University
  • BS, Peking University, Beijing China

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
GEO SCI 400-401 Water Quality MW 11:30am-12:45pm
GEO SCI 400-801 Water Quality F 8:30am-11:10am
GEO SCI 400-802 Water Quality F 11:30am-2:10pm
GEO SCI 400G-401 Water Quality MW 11:30am-12:45pm
GEO SCI 400G-801 Water Quality F 8:30am-11:10am
GEO SCI 400G-802 Water Quality F 11:30am-2:10pm

Teaching Interests

  • Water quality
  • Environmental Hydrology
  • Soil Biogeochemistry

Research Interests

Professor Xu's current research focuses on the protection and sustainable use of groundwater resources. Globally, about 1.7 billion people rely on groundwater as the primary source of drinking water. Within the United States, groundwater is the main water source for about 40% of the population. Both the quality and quantity of groundwater have profound implications for public health and well being.

His current research projects can be divided into three research themes. In the first research theme, I seek the understanding and prediction of the transport of contaminants such as bacteria and nanoparticles within the groundwater systems. Policy makers, scientists, engineers and concerned citizens can use the information to develop management, protection and remediation plans. The second theme of my research focuses on the development of novel and inexpensive geosorbents (e.g., modified zeolite) to remove contaminants from water. Finally, he is studying how global climate change could potentially influence groundwater resources.

Selected Publications

Feriancikova, Lucia, Bardy, Sonia L., Wang, Lixia, Li, Jin, and Xu, Shangping. “Effects of Outer Membrane Protein TolC on the Transport of Escherichia coli within Saturated Quartz Sands” Environmental Science & Technology 47.11 (2013): 5720–5728.
Feriancikova, L., and Xu, Shangping. “Deposition and remobilization of graphene oxide within saturated sand packs” Journal of Hazardous Materials 235-236. (2012): 194-200.
Walczak, Jacob J., Wang, Lixia, Feriancikova, Lucia, Li, Jin, and Xu, Shangping. “Influence of Desiccation on the Transport of Escherichia coli through Saturated Sand Packs” Water, Air and Soil Pollution 223.3 (2012): 1353-1362.
Johanson, Jennifer J., Feriancikova, Lucia, and Xu, Shangping. “Influence of Enterococcal Surface Protein (esp) on the Transport of Enterococcus faecium within Saturated Quartz Sands” Environmental Science & Technology 46.3 (2012): 1511-1518.
Walczak, J. J., Bardy, S. L., Feriancikova, L., and Xu, Shangping. “Comparison of the transport of tetracycline-resistant and tetracycline-susceptible Escherichia coli isolated from Lake Michigan” Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 222.1-4 (2011): 305-314.
Wang, Lixia, Xu, Shangping, and Li, Jin. “Effects of Phosphate on the Transport of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Saturated Quartz Sand” Environmental Science & Technology 45.22 (2011): 9566-9573.
Walczak, Jacob J., Bardy, Sonia L., Feriancikova , Lucia, and Xu, Shangping. “Influence of Tetracycline Susceptibility on the Transport of Manure-derived Escherichia coli in Saturated Porous Media” Water Research 45.4 (2011): 1681-1690.
Walczak, Jacob J., and Xu, Shangping. “Manure as a source of antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli and Enterococci: A case study of a Wisconsin, USA family dairy farm” Water, Air and Soil Pollution 219.1-4 (2011): 579-589.
Porubcan, Alexis A., and Xu, Shangping. “Colloid Straining within Saturated Heterogeneous Porous Media” Water Research 45.4 (2010): 1796-1806 .

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.