Publications

Liu, L., Morrison, J., Stadler, L., Shaw, A., Vela, J. D., & Christenson, D. (2025). Modeling the Resilience Performance of Houston’s Wastewater Treatment Plant under Wet Weather Conditions (Accepted). Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.1061/jswbay.sweng-609

Ali, P., Xu, G., Carlson-Stadler, R., Delgado Vela, J., Liu, L., Shaw, A., & Stadler, L. B. (2025). Resilience in Function, Microbial Community Structure, and Nitrifier Composition of Bench-Scale Biofilm Reactors during Wet Weather Disturbances. ACS ES and T Water. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.4c00524

Delgado Vela, J., Philo, S. E., Brown, J., Taniuchi, M., Cantrell, M., Kossik, A., … Bibby, K. (2024). Moving beyond Wastewater: Perspectives on Environmental Surveillance of Infectious Diseases for Public Health Action in Low-Resource Settings. Environment & Health (Washington, D.C.), 2(10), 684–687. https://doi.org/10.1021/envhealth.4c00119

Al-Faliti, M., Wang, P., Smith, A. L., & Delgado Vela, J. (2024). Phage phylogeny, molecular signaling, and auxiliary antimicrobial resistance in aerobic and anaerobic membrane bioreactors. Water Research, 256, 121620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.121620

Philo, S. E., De León, K. B., Noble, R. T., Zhou, N. A., Alghafri, R., Bar-Or, I., … Delgado Vela, J. (2024). Wastewater surveillance for bacterial targets: current challenges and future goals. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 90(1), e0142823. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01428-23

Wang, P., Zarei-Baygi, A., Delgado Vela, J., & Smith, A. L. (2023). Metagenomic Analysis of the Antibiotic Resistance Risk between an Aerobic and Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor. ACS ES and T Water, 3(7), 1865–1873. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.2c00383

Delgado Vela, J., & Al-Faliti, M. (2023). Emerging investigator series: the role of phage lifestyle in wastewater microbial community structures and functions: insights into diverse microbial environments. Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, 9(8), 1982–1991. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ew00755j

Delgado Vela, J., & Boltz, J. P. (2023). Innovations in Process Engineering. Water Environment Research : A Research Publication of the Water Environment Federation, 95(5), e10842. https://doi.org/10.1002/wer.10842

Fofana, R., Parsons, M., Bachmann, M., Jones, K., Delgado Vela, J., Akyon, B., … De Clippeleir, H. (2023). Robustness of partial denitrification-anammox (PdNA) in filters with methanol and glycerol as carbon sources. Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, 9(4), 1124–1136. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ew00360k

Delgado Vela, J., Gordon, K. J., Klatt, J. M., Dick, G. J., & Love, N. G. (2022). Integrated Modeling and Lab-Scale Investigations Demonstrate the Impact of Sulfide on a Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor. ACS ES and T Water, 2(12), 2388–2399. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.2c00253

Al-Faliti, M., Kotlarz, N., McCall, C., Harris, A. R., Smith, A. L., Stadler, L. B., … Delgado Vela, J. (2022). Comparing Rates of Change in SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Load and Clinical Cases in 19 Sewersheds Across Four Major Metropolitan Areas in the United States. ACS ES and T Water, 2(11), 2233–2242. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.2c00106

Fofana, R., Peng, B., Huynh, H., Sajjad, M., Jones, K., Al-Omari, A., … De Clippeleir, H. (2022). Erratum: Media selection for anammox-based polishing filters: Balancing anammox enrichment and retention with filtration function. Water Environment Research : A Research Publication of the Water Environment Federation, 94(6), e10753. https://doi.org/10.1002/wer.10753

Fofana, R., Huynh, H., Jones, K., Delgado Vela, J., Long, C., Chandran, K., … De Clippeleir, H. (2022). Mainstream partial denitrification-anammox in sand and expanded clay deep-bed polishing filters under practical loading rates and backwashing conditions. Water Environment Research : A Research Publication of the Water Environment Federation, 94(5), e10728. https://doi.org/10.1002/wer.10728

Fofana, R., Peng, B., Huynh, H., Sajjad, M., Jones, K., Al-Omari, A., … De Clippeleir, H. (2022). Media selection for anammox-based polishing filters: Balancing anammox enrichment and retention with filtration function. Water Environment Research : A Research Publication of the Water Environment Federation, 94(5), e10724. https://doi.org/10.1002/wer.10724

Delgado Vela, J., McClary-Gutierrez, J. S., Al-Faliti, M., Allan, V., Arts, P., Barbero, R., … Bibby, K. (2022). Impact of Disaster Research on the Development of Early Career Researchers: Lessons Learned from the Wastewater Monitoring Pandemic Response Efforts. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(8), 4724–4727. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c01583

Fofana, R., Bachmann, M., Jones, K., Vela, J. D., Akyon, B., Liu, W., … De Clippeleir, H. (2022). Advancing full-scale partial denitrification-anammox (PdNA) filters: design and operation guidelines. In 95th Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference, WEFTEC 2022 (pp. 892–897).

Coffman, M. M., Guest, J. S., Wolfe, M. K., Naughton, C. C., Boehm, A. B., Vela, J. D., & Carrera, J. S. (2021). Preventing Scientific and Ethical Misuse of Wastewater Surveillance Data. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(17), 11473–11475. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c04325

Delgado Vela, J., Bristow, L. A., Marchant, H. K., Love, N. G., & Dick, G. J. (2021). Sulfide alters microbial functional potential in a methane and nitrogen cycling biofilm reactor. Environmental Microbiology, 23(3), 1481–1495. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15352

McClary-Gutierrez, J. S., Aanderud, Z. T., Al-Faliti, M., Duvallet, C., Gonzalez, R., Guzman, J., … Vela, J. D. (2021). Standardizing data reporting in the research community to enhance the utility of open data for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance. Environmental Science : Water Research & Technology, 9. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ew00235j

Fofana, R., Bachmann, M., Jones, K., Delgado-Vela, J., Benay, A., Liu, W., … De Clippeleir, H. (2021). Carbon Source Selection for Deep-bed Partial Denitrification – Anammox (PdNA) Polishing Filters. In 94th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference, WEFTEC 2021 (pp. 2294–2299).

Bivins, A., North, D., Ahmad, A., Ahmed, W., Alm, E., Been, F., … Bibby, K. (2020). Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19. Environmental Science & Technology, 54(13), 7754–7757. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c02388

Bekele, Z. A., Delgado Vela, J., Bott, C. B., & Love, N. G. (2020). Sensor-mediated granular sludge reactor for nitrogen removal and reduced aeration demand using a dilute wastewater. Water Environment Research : A Research Publication of the Water Environment Federation, 92(7), 1006–1016. https://doi.org/10.1002/wer.1296

Fofana, R., Huynh, H., Chen, H., Jones, K., Al-Omari, A., Bott, C., … de Clippeleir, H. (2020). Partial denitrification – anammox (PdNA) implementation in polishing filters: Performance and Phosphorus limitations. In 93rd Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference 2020, WEFTEC 2020 (pp. 2107–2123).

Ali, P., Delgado-Vela, J., Liu, L., Shaw, A., & Stadler, L. B. (2020). Quantifying and assessing wet-weather resilience of urban water resource recovery facilities. In 93rd Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference 2020, WEFTEC 2020 (pp. 3350–3358).

Sakowski, E., Uritskiy, G., Cooper, R., Gomes, M., McLaren, M. R., Meisel, J. S., … Preheim, S. P. (2019). Current State of and Future Opportunities for Prediction in Microbiome Research: Report from the Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-up in Baltimore on 9 January 2019. MSystems, 4(5), e00392–e00319. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00392-19