Brooke E Mason The International Conference on Urban Drainage 2021

Brooke E Mason

Brooke E. Mason is a Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering with a concentration in intelligent systems at the University of Michigan. In addition, she is pursuing an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a concentration in machine learning. She is motivated by algal blooms and polluted runoff which are threatening our waterways. To that end, her unique approach leverages recent technological advances such as sensors and real-time data algorithms. Presently, stormwater is routed passively through various stormwater pipes, channels, and ponds resulting in minimal water treatment. Akin to a self-driving car, the watersheds of the future will adapt themselves in real time to maximize water treatment. Specifically, she is focused on modeling complex stormwater pollutant treatment and generation processes, determining how to optimize stormwater flows through a watershed to maximize pollutant treatment, and investigating a systems framework to control water quality in real-time at the watershed scale. Brooke is a founding member of Open-Storm.org, an open-source consortium dedicated to freely sharing hardware, software, and case studies on smart water systems. She is a recipient of the Dow Sustainability Fellowship, Rackham Merit Fellowship, and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention. In her department, she serves as a peer mentor, a member of the Graduate Student Advisory Council, and a member of an informal student group working on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. She is also a mentor with Clean Water Science Network which facilitates a mentorship program between undergraduate students from Latin America and graduate students in the US.