Position Title
Professor
Position Title
Professor
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
He/Him/His
- (530) 754-9399
- [email protected]
- https://aqrc.ucdavis.edu/people/thomas-young
- https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/young/
3113 Ghausi
Bio
Professor Young has degrees in chemical engineering, public policy, and environmental engineering and he applies this training to understand and help solve complex environmental problems. He worked as a regulator for the US Environmental Protection Agency prior to joining the UC Davis faculty.
Honors and Awards
- 2004 Distinguished Service Award, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
- 1998 Career Award, NSF
- 1995 Outstanding Environmental Engineering Graduate Student, University of Michigan
- 1990 Benton Fellowship, University of Michigan
- 1985 Berkeley Policy Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
- 1983 Harry S. Truman Scholarship, Truman Scholarship Foundation
- 1981 Alumni Distinguished Scholarship, Michigan State University.
Publications
- Assessing the combined effects of bifenthrin and temperature on early life stage sturgeon
Journal Article | Yang, D., Steel, A., Cocherell, D., Young, T., Connon, R., Fangue, N. Environmental Research, 306, 125207. 10.1016/j.envres.2026.125207 - Suspect screening for trace pesticides in wet deposition using liquid and gas chromatography with high-resolution mass spectrometry
Journal Article | Belay, G., Gray, R., Alaimo, C., Santiago, E., Vanderlaan, K., Morrison, J., Young, T., Faust, J. International Journal of Environmental & Analytical Chemistry, ahead-of-print, 1-28. 10.1080/03067319.2026.2664677 - Variability in site-specific pyrethroid KOC and KDOC partition coefficients and implications for predicted aquatic toxicity
Journal Article | Anderson, B., Young, T. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, vgag182. 10.1093/etojnl/vgag182 - Aqueous exposure to a pyrethroid pesticide results in behavioural effects in early life stage sturgeon
Journal Article | Steel, A., Baird, S., Cocherell, D., Young, T., Connon, R., Fangue, N. Conservation Physiology, 13, coaf055. 10.1093/conphys/coaf055 - Characterizing pyrethroid and fipronil concentrations in biosolids
Journal Article | Wheeler, J., Black, G., Hladik, M., Sanders, C., Teerlink, J., Wong, L., Zhang, X., Budd, R., Young, T. The Science of The Total Environment, 969, 178954. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178954 - See publications and more on Aggie Experts: https://experts.ucdavis.edu/expert/nuzTTJKR