Dr. Mark Elliott – College of Engineering

Associate Professor

Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

1112 Bevill
(205) 348-5469
(205) 348-0783
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Education

Ph.D., Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina, 2010
M.S., Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2001
B.S., Civil Engineering, Penn State University, 1998

Biography

Dr. Mark Elliott works at the intersection of water, sanitation and public health in low-resource settings. His doctoral and post-doctoral research addressed issues primarily in developing countries, and his recent work focuses largely on wastewater management in the southeastern U.S.

Topics of interest include: household water use, surface water quality, global progress in drinking water and sanitation, onsite and decentralized wastewater treatment, drinking water in Pacific Island countries, UV disinfection, and characterizing and addressing onsite wastewater failures in rural Alabama.

Areas of Research

Latest Publications

Elliott, M., Foster, T., MacDonald, M.C., Harris, A.R., Schwab, K.J., and Hadwen, W.L., “Addressing how multiple household water sources and uses build water resilience and support sustainable development,” npj Clean Water, 2(6), (2019) (DOI: 10.1038/s41545-019-0031-4)
Elliott, M.A., MacDonald, M.C., Chan, T.U., Kearton, A., Shields, K.F., Bartram, J.K., and Hadwen, W.L., “Multiple household water sources and their use in remote communities with evidence from Pacific Island countries,” Water Resources Research. 53, pp. 9106-9117, (2017) (DOI: 10.1002/2017WR021047)
MacDonald, M., Elliott, M., Chan, T.U., Kearton, A., Shields, K., Bartram, J. and Hadwen, W.L. (2016). Investigating multiple household water sources and uses with a computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) survey. 8(12):574. (DOI: 10.3390/w8120574)
Ojomo, E., Elliott, M., Goodyear, L., Forson, M., and Bartram, J. Sustainability and scale-up of household water treatment and safe storage practices: enablers and barriers to effective implementation. Intl J Hygiene Environ Health. 218(8): 704-713. (2015)
Cumming, O., Elliott, M., Overbo, A., and Bartram, J. Does global progress in sanitation really lag water?: an analysis of global progress on community- and household-level access to drinking water and sanitation. PLoS ONE. 9(12): e114699. (2014) (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114699)