Ben Stanford

Ben Stanford is a scholar-in-residence at CU Boulder, bringing practical consulting experience to the courses he teaches.  He is also an associate vice president with Hazen and Sawyer in the Denver office, where he leads the implementation of innovations in water, wastewater and water reuse.  He currently supports the applied research, water reuse, drinking water,and wastewater process groups at Hazen, but focuses on utility innovation across digital technologies, treatment technologies and enterprise management.  Stanford earned his PhD in environmental sciences and engineering from UNC Chapel Hill and has conducted a range of studies across big data/analytics, science, engineering and public health protection.  He serves as an expert advisor to AWWA, NSF, municipalities and several other groups on emerging contaminants, cyanotoxins, chlorate/perchlorate, disinfection byproducts and control of legionella in premise plumbing systems.  Stanford has more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, and his work has been cited more than 3,000 times in peer-reviewed literature.

Education:

• Duke Leadership Program (Duke Fuqua School of Business), 2018
• Wharton Executive Education (UPenn), Leading and Managing People, 2018
• PhD, environmental sciences and engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008
• BS,  chemistry, Warren Wilson College, 1997

Honors and Distinctions:

• 2021 AWWA Best Paper: Membranes Division, Critical Control Points in DPR
• 2012 AWWA Publications Award for Hypochlorite/Chlorate/Perchlorate Study
• Mentor to Dr. Aleks Pisarenko, Winner of the 2010 AWWA 1^st Place Dissertation Award
• Future Faculty Fellow, UNC-CH
• B.B. Parker Fellow, UNC-CH, Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Recent Publications:

1. Stanford, B. D., S. Pochiraju, T. Yokoyama, P. Maari, L. Grijalva, Z. Bukhari (2022). “Evaluating Satellite and In Situ Monitoring Technologies for Leak Detection and Response. AWWA Water Science e1288. 13 Pages
2. Stanford, B. D., D. A. Arrington, W. J. Raseman, W. C. Becker (2021). “Improved Operational Reliability and Contaminant Removal in Water Reuse through Filter Upgrades. AWWA Water Science e1253. 10 Pages
3. Yokoyama, T., P. Maari, E. v. Hagen, L. Grijalva, B. D. Stanford, M. Xu and Z. Bukhari (2020). Demonstrating Innovative Leakage Reduction Strategies. California Energy Commission, Report No. CEC-15-096, Sacramento, CA: 129 Pages.
4. Walker, T., N. Boyle, B. D. Stanford, C. Owen and P. G. Biscardi (2020). "Full-Scale Evaluation of Critical Control Points and Monitors at a Reuse Facility." AWWA Water Science 2(5): e1195.
5. Verdugo, E. M., M. Gifford, C. Glover, A. A. Cuthbertson, R. A. Trenholm, S. Y. Kimura, H. K. Liberatore, S. D. Richardson, B. D. Stanford, R. S. Summers and E. R. V. Dickenson (2020). "Controlling Disinfection Byproducts from Treated Wastewater Using Adsorption with Granular Activated Carbon: Impact of Pre-Ozonation and Pre-Chlorination." Water Research X 9: 100068.
6. Cuthbertson, A. A., S. Y. Kimura, H. K. Liberatore, D. R. U. Knappe, B. Stanford, R. S. Summers, E. R. Dickenson, J. C. Maness, C. Glover, M. Selbes and S. D. Richardson (2020). "GAC to BAC: Does It Make Chloraminated Drinking Water Safer?" Water Research 172: 115432.
7. Hadjikakou, M., B. D. Stanford, T. Wiedmann, H. V. Rowley, Y. Kobayashi, S. Ishii, J. P. A. Gaitan, G. Johns, S. Lundie and S. J. Khan (2019). "A Flexible Framework for Assessing the Sustainability of Alternative Water Supply Options." Science of the Total Environment 671: 1257-1268.
8. Cuthbertson, A. A., S. Y. Kimura, H. K. Liberatore, R. S. Summers, D. R. U. Knappe, B. D. Stanford, J. C. Maness, R. E. Mulhern, M. Selbes and S. D. Richardson (2019). "Does Granular Activated Carbon with Chlorination Produce Safer Drinking Water? From Disinfection Byproducts and Total Organic Halogen to Calculated Toxicity." Environmental Science & Technology 53(10): 5987-5999.
9. Stanford, B. D., S. K. L. Ishii, G. Johns, M. Hadjikakou, S. Khan and T. O. Wiedmann (2018). Comprehensive Analysis of Alternative Water Supply Projects Compared to Direct Potable Reuse. Water Research Foundation, Denver, CO: 100 pages.
10. Stanford, B. D., D. Knappe, C. Maness, C. Zhang, R. S. Summers, R. Mulhern, S. D. Richardson, A. Cuthbertson, S. Y. Kimura, H. Liberatore, E. R. V. Dickenson, E. Verdugo, C. Glover, A. Ghosh, C. Seidel, M. Selbes, A. Reinerg, M. Pierce and E. Rosenfeldt (2017). GAC Control of Regulated and Emerging DBPs of Health Concern. Water Research Foundation, Denver, CO: 364 Pages.