Dr. Stephen Dent earned a B.S. and M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering at Montana Tech (Go Orediggers!), Montana’s Premier STEM University. He earned a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Washington State University with Dr. Beutel in 2012. Stephen’s research focused on the effects of lake oxygen addition on mercury cycling in Twin Lakes, WA, publishing two studies on his work in Lake and Reservoir Management and Science of the Total Environment. While at WSU he also mentored rural secondary students, helping a team from Roosevelt High School win a statewide WSU-hosted sustainable energy competition. He was on the science faulty at Miles Community College in Montana for a number of years and is now an environmental consultant working on mercury contamination in the western US.

PUBLICATIONS

Beutel MW, Dent SR, Newcombe G, Moller G. Mercury removal from municipal secondary effluent with hydrous ferric oxide reactive filtration. Water Environment Research. 2019;91 :132-143.

Dent SR, Beutel MW, Gantzer P, Moore BC. Response of methylmercury, total mercury, iron and manganese to oxygenation of an anoxic hypolimnion in North Twin Lake, Washington. Lake and Reservoir Management. 2014;30 (2) :119-130.

Beutel M, Dent SR, Reed B, Marshall P, Gebremariam S, Moore B, Cross B. Effects of hypolimnetic oxygen addition on mercury bioaccumulation in Twin Lakes, Washington, USA. Science of the Total Environment. 2014;496 :688-700.

Dent SR, Beutel MW. Targeted outreach to enhance diverstiy in university-sponsored technology competitions. Journal of Applications and Practices in Engineering Education. 2012;3 (1) :43-49.