Eli Zeeb

Eli completed his MASc in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he used wastewater and river monitoring data from the Servos Lab to develop a modelling framework for predicting the fate and transport of trace organic contaminants in the Grand River. His work focused on pharmaceuticals such as carbamazepine, naproxen, triclosan, and venlafaxine, integrating wastewater treatment plant processes and river transport dynamics to better understand how these compounds move from source to ecosystem.

He subsequently worked as a data analysis technician on the COVID-19 research project, where he served as the COVID data technician supporting the analysis of trends and patterns of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. In this role, he worked extensively in R to process, visualize, and interpret wastewater surveillance data, integrating influent flow data from wastewater treatment plants to normalize COVID-19 signals and improve comparability across sites and time.

Through this work, he contributed to strengthening analytical workflows for wastewater surveillance, improving data consistency and supporting more robust interpretation of COVID-19 trends in wastewater.