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C.T. DeGroot

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Associate ProfessorDepartment of Mechanical and Materials EngineeringWestern University

C.T. DeGroot

Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Western University

London, Ontario, Canada

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35 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 9 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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Latest papers

Large-scale chamber tests of in-room germicidal ultraviolet (GUV) systems: Review and best practices
Building and Environment · 2026
Twelve Distinct Laboratory Methods Used to Measure SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewaters throughout a Three-Year Ontario-Wide, Canada Study: Impact on Public Health Interpretation of Disease Incidence
medRxiv · 2026
Persistence and UV inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater: Experimental characterization of time, temperature, and aerosolization effects
PLOS Water · 2026 · senior author

All 69 publications

69 publications.

Large-scale chamber tests of in-room germicidal ultraviolet (GUV) systems: Review and best practices

Ernest R. Blatchley, J. Vivian Belenky, Holger Claus, Christopher T. DeGroot, Amin Hadizade, Waseem F.M. Hiwar, Catherine J. Noakes, Shohoria Afrin Shorno, Richard D. Williamson

Building and Environment20264 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2026.114357

Twelve Distinct Laboratory Methods Used to Measure SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewaters throughout a Three-Year Ontario-Wide, Canada Study: Impact on Public Health Interpretation of Disease Incidence

Nada Hegazy, K. Ken Peng, Johanna de Haan-Ward, Elizabeth M. Renouf, Elizabeth Mercier, Shen Wan, X. Joan Hu, Charmaine Dean, Mark Servos, Elizabeth Anne Edwards, Gustavo Ybazeta, Marc Habash, Lawrence D. Goodridge, R. Stephen Brown, Sarah Jane Payne, Andrea E. Kirkwood, Christopher J. Kyle, R. Michael McKay, Kimberly A. Gilbride, Christopher T. DeGroot, Robert Delatolla

medRxiv2026Open Access

DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.27.26349524

Persistence and UV inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater: Experimental characterization of time, temperature, and aerosolization effects

Justin M. Donovan, Michael D. Siemon (23811807), Michelle A. Gabriel, Brian Petri (23811813), Yue Li, Yiying Zhang, Dylan Weninger (23811816), Richard Gibson (299010), Miguel E. Quiñones‐Mateu, Eric J. Arts, Christopher T. DeGroot

PLOS Water2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pwat.0000468

One for all and all for one health: Harmonizing SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance results across a laboratory network.

Chik AHS, Adam C, Ho JJY, Aris T, Arts EJ, Brown RS, Bulir D, Corchis-Scott R, DeGroot CT, Delatolla R, Dennis P, Dhiyebi HA, Gedge A, Geng Q, Gilbride KA, Habash M, Harnden MB, Kibbee R, Knockleby J, Kyle CJ, Mangat CS, Marttala S, McDougall H, Mejia EM, Mercier É, Örmeci B, Oswald C, Payne SJ, Servos MR, Sun J, Yang IM, Ybazeta G, Wastewater Surveillance Consortium

The Science of the total environment20254 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180200 PMID: 40857943

Variability of Clinical Metrics in Small Population Communities Drive Perceived Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance Data Quality: Ontario, Canada-Wide Study.

Hegazy N, Peng KK, D'Aoust PM, Pisharody L, Mercier E, Ramsay NT, Kabir MP, Nguyen TB, Tomalty E, Addo F, Wong CH, Wan S, Hu J, Dean C, Yang MI, Dhiyebi H, Edwards EA, Servos MR, Ybazeta G, Habash M, Goodridge L, Poon AFY, Arts EJ, Brown S, Payne SJ, Kirkwood A, Simmons DBD, Desaulniers JP, Ormeci B, Kyle C, Bulir D, Charles T, McKay RM, Gilbride KA, Oswald CJ, Peng H, DeGroot C, WSI Consortium, Renouf E, Delatolla R

ACS ES&T water20254 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1021/acsestwater.4c00958 PMID: 40242342

Spatiotemporal structure of SARS-CoV-2 mutational frequencies in wastewater samples from Ontario

Paula Magbor, William Z. Wang, Gopi Gugan, Abayomi S. Olabode, Devan G. Becker, Valeria R. Parreira, Opeyemi Uwangbaoje Lawal, Amber Fedynak, Linkang Zhang, Fozia Rizvi, Melinda J. Precious, Christopher T. DeGroot, Lawrence D. Goodridge, Art F. Y. Poon

medRxiv20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1101/2025.04.23.25326084

SARS-CoV-2 Aggregated Activity Level Across Ontario Canada, Measured with the US CDC Wastewater Viral Activity Level (WVAL) Metric

Robert Delatolla, Christopher T. DeGroot, Robert Michael L. McKay, Mark Roy Servos, Steven McAvoy, S. Krishnakumar, Orchid Jo, Michael S. C. Fung, Sherif Hegazy, Tim D. Fletcher, Albert Simhon, Vince Pileggi

medRxiv20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.07.25321887

Spatiotemporal structure of SARS-CoV-2 mutational frequencies in wastewater samples from Ontario.

Magbor P, Wang WZ, Gugan G, Olabode AS, Becker DG, Parreira VR, Lawal OU, Fedynak A, Zhang L, Rizvi F, Precious M, DeGroot CT, Goodridge L, Poon AFY

PloS one2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0333945 PMID: 41100509

Exploring Waste Heat Recovery from Applied Smouldering Systems

Ryan B. Morales, Tarek L. Rashwan, Marco A.B. Zanoni, Christopher T. DeGroot, Jason I. Gerhard

SSRN Electronic Journal2025Open Access

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5357216

Optimizing Nitrate Dosing Strategies for Sulfide Control Using Kinetic Modeling, Variance-Based Sensitivity Analysis, and Laboratory-Scale Sewer Reactors.

Khalil A, Haroun B, Santoro D, Batstone DJ, DeGroot CT

Water environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation2025Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/wer.70226 PMID: 41355434

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C.T. DeGroot

Research

Latest papers

Large-scale chamber tests of in-room germicidal ultraviolet (GUV) systems: Review and best practices

Twelve Distinct Laboratory Methods Used to Measure SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewaters throughout a Three-Year Ontario-Wide, Canada Study: Impact on Public Health Interpretation of Disease Incidence

Persistence and UV inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater: Experimental characterization of time, temperature, and aerosolization effects

One for all and all for one health: Harmonizing SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance results across a laboratory network.

Variability of Clinical Metrics in Small Population Communities Drive Perceived Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance Data Quality: Ontario, Canada-Wide Study.

Spatiotemporal structure of SARS-CoV-2 mutational frequencies in wastewater samples from Ontario

SARS-CoV-2 Aggregated Activity Level Across Ontario Canada, Measured with the US CDC Wastewater Viral Activity Level (WVAL) Metric

Spatiotemporal structure of SARS-CoV-2 mutational frequencies in wastewater samples from Ontario.

Exploring Waste Heat Recovery from Applied Smouldering Systems

Optimizing Nitrate Dosing Strategies for Sulfide Control Using Kinetic Modeling, Variance-Based Sensitivity Analysis, and Laboratory-Scale Sewer Reactors.

Frequent collaborators

Christopher DeGroot

A.G. Straatman

Anthony Straatman

Hassan Peerhossaini

Robert Delatolla

Eric Arts

Lawrence Goodridge

Art Poon

Arthur Poon

Domenico Santoro

Mark Servos

Christopher Kyle

Banu Örmeci

David Bulir

Marc Habash

Andrea Kirkwood

Trevor Charles

Claire Oswald

Jean-Paul Desaulniers

Kamran Siddiqui

J Floryan

E. Johlin

R.E. Khayat