John Norton

About

Dr. John Norton is Director of Energy, Research, and Innovation for GLWA, a combined water/wastewater utility in Southeast Michigan. GLWA treats more than 40% of the water, and 30% of the wastewater, for the state of Michigan. Norton leads GLWA's research efforts to understand, extend, and enhance its linear and process infrastructure and directs projects ranging from source water monitoring and distribution system water quality, through to energy extraction from biosolids.

Employment

• Great Lakes Water Authority Director of Energy, Research, and Innovation
  2018 - Present

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

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Publications (28)

• Application of wastewater and environmental surveillance for pathogenic agents during the 2024 National Football League (NFL) Draft in Detroit, Michigan (USA)
  2026 DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.20.26348829
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• PFA technology: Production, safety and wastewater deployment analysis
  Water Research 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2026.126289
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• Identifying potential bacterial pathogens in wastewater by expert reliability analysis of full-length 16S rRNA and untargeted RNA sequencing data processed with four bioinformatic workflows
  Water Research 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2025.124442
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• A comparative evaluation of performic acid, peracetic acid, and sodium hypochlorite for bacterial disinfection of secondary effluent
  Journal of Environmental Management 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124711
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• Per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances in untreated and treated sludge/biosolids from 27 water resource recovery facilities across the United States and Canada
  Water Environment Research 2025 DOI: 10.1002/wer.70039
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• Integrating Machine Learning with Flow-Imaging Microscopy for Automated Monitoring of Algal Blooms
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.12.623192
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• Erratum for “Early Warnings of COVID-19 Second Wave in Detroit” by Brijen Miyani, Liang Zhao, Maddie Spooner, Sejal Buch, Zachary Gentry, Anna Mehrotra, John Norton, and Irene Xagoraraki
  Journal of Environmental Engineering 2022 DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001960
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• Wet Waste Hydrothermal Liquefaction and Biocrude Upgrading to Hydrocarbon Fuels: 2021 State of Technology
  2022 DOI: 10.2172/1863608
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• Comparative Study on the Continuous Flow Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Various Wet-Waste Feedstock Types
  ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 2022 DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c07214
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• High-temperature technology survey and comparison among incineration, pyrolysis, and gasification systems for water resource recovery facilities
  Water Environment Research 2022 DOI: 10.1002/wer.10715
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