Stephanie Lipe Lansing
| Stephanie is currently the president of the OSU chapter of
Ecological Engineering. Her passion is poo. Well, to put it more
scientifically, stephanie is researching ways to treat wasterwater from animal
operations. Her work at OSU deals with a living machine on Waterman Farm
which treats waste from dairy cow operations. Below are some of the other
areas of the world she works in and the people that she helps. You are a savior steph.
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Steph's Bio: BS
from University of Oklahoma in Environmental Science (May 2000)
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| Jay
Martin (OSU professor), Stephanie Lansing (OSU PhD student), and a Costa
Rican farmer standing next to a biodigester located in the Limon Province of
Costa Rica. Wastewater from a nearby pig corral enters the biodigester,
which creates an environment conducive to biogas formation. The
biogas, which is mainly in the form of methane, is carried from the top of
the biodigester to the kitchen to meet the farmer’s cooking needs.
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local farmer, Melanie Miller (OSU student), Jay Martin (OSU professor) and
Raul Botero (EARTH University professor) at a biodigester in
the Limon Province of Costa Rica. This biodigester treats wastewater from the
pig corral, produces biogas for cooking, and the biodigester effluent is used to
provide nutrients for a tilapia pond. The effluent from the tilapia pond system
is then used to clean the pig stalls, resulting in a closed nutrient system.
Students and professors from Ohio State have been working closely with students
and professors from EARTH University in Costa Rica for the past two years in
collaborative research efforts.
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| Tim Salzman (OSU student) in an ecological treatment system used to treat dairy wastewater from the Ohio State University dairy farm. The wastewater travels through a series of anaerobic tanks, planted aerobic tanks, clarifiers, and wetland mesocosms, resulting in wastewater that meets tertiary treatment standards. The plants seen here were planted as 1” seedlings four months prior, and grew at an heightened rate due to the high levels of nutrients available in the wastewater. | |
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