Research Interests
- Environmental analytical chemistry and applications of high resolution mass spectrometry to trace organic contaminant analysis
- Environmental fate of per-and-polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment
- Polymer additives and microplastics in the aquatic environment
- Mechanisms of environmental endocrine disruption in aquatic organisms
Selected Grants
Water Quality for Fisheries: PFAS and Heavy Metal Contamination in North Carolina Farm Raised and Wild Caught Oyster Populations
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Coastal Carolina Riverwatch · 2024 - 2026Field Studies to Collect Farm Raised and Wild Caught Oyster Populations for Analysis of Chemical Pollutants
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Coastal Carolina Riverwatch · 2024 - 2025Establishing an Approach to PFAS Forensics and a PFAS Source Materials Forensic Library
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NuGlobal Solutions · 2022 - 2025PFAST Team 1: PFAS sources and fate in public drinking waters of North Carolina impacted by firefighting and textile operations
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2024 - 2025Collection of Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF) samples from North Carolina Fire Stations to Create a PFAS Source Material Archive
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2023 - 2025Water Quality for Fisheries: PFAS and Heavy Metal Contamination in North Carolina Farm Raised and Wild Caught Oyster Populations
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Coastal Carolina Riverwatch · 2024 - 2026Field Studies to Collect Farm Raised and Wild Caught Oyster Populations for Analysis of Chemical Pollutants
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Coastal Carolina Riverwatch · 2024 - 2025Establishing an Approach to PFAS Forensics and a PFAS Source Materials Forensic Library
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NuGlobal Solutions · 2022 - 2025PFAST Team 1: PFAS sources and fate in public drinking waters of North Carolina impacted by firefighting and textile operations
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2024 - 2025Collection of Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF) samples from North Carolina Fire Stations to Create a PFAS Source Material Archive
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2023 - 2025Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Vanderbilt University · 2023 - 2025Assessing the Pulmonary Toxicity of Microfibers Complexed with Azo Dyes
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Florida · 2022 - 2024Acquisition of an Orbitrap Astral Mass Spectrometer for Research on PFAS in North Carolina Drinking Waters
EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2023 - 2024Comprehensive additive release and bioaccessibility model for risk assessment of micro- and nano-plastics in the environment
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by European Chemical Industry Council · 2021 - 2024Regional Monitoring Program (RMP)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by San Francisco Estuary Institute · 2016 - 2024PFAS Testing Network Team 1: Sample Acquisition and PFAS Sample Analysis
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2020 - 2024Duke University Program in Environmental Health
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024Collaboratory Applied Research Fellowship - DEQ
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2022 - 2023Assessment of parking garage washdown as a method for mitigating urban runoff of vehicle-derived contaminants to stormwater
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2021 - 2023Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO) for Complete PFAS Destruction
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program · 2020 - 2023MRI: Acquisition of a GC Hybrid Orbitrap High Resolution Tandem Mass Spectrometer for Environmental Science
EquipmentCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2021Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2008 - 2021Fate of PU and PP microplastics and associated polymer additives in freshwater environments
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by BASF Corporation · 2020 - 2021Assessment of emerging contaminant occurrence in Coastal North Carolina waters after Hurricane Dorian
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2019 - 2021Mechanisms of Environmental-Mixture Induced Metabolic Disruption
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2020Children Exposure to SVOC Mixtures Indoors and Associations with Obesity
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2020Co-occurrence of mercury with other inorganic and organic contaminants in marine and freshwater fish and shellfish
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Dartmouth College · 2018 - 2020Exposomics Reserach Project
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Wallace Genetic Foundation · 2017 - 2019Duke University Program in Environmental Health
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · 2013 - 2019Development of affinity-directed isolation methods to identify novel hormonally active chemicals
FellowshipCo-Sponsor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2019Investigating Electrocatalytic and Catalytic Approaches for In Situ Treatment of Perfluoroalkyl Contaminants in Groundwater
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The Shaw Group Inc. · 2015 - 2019Residential Exposure of Young Children to SVOCs
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency · 2014 - 2018REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2018NCCLC: Life Cycle of Nanomaterials (LCnano)
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Arizona State University · 2013 - 2018Contribution of Toll-like Receptors in the Pulmonary Response to Nanoparticles and Pathogens
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Florida · 2012 - 2018Reversible Photohydration in Diene and Triene Steroids: A Mechanism for Unexpected Persistence of Unique, Biologically Active Steroidal Contaminants?
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Iowa · 2013 - 2017Photodegradation of Imidacloprid in Rivers: A Novel Water Quality Monitoring Approach
FellowshipMentor · Awarded by Department of Agriculture · 2016 - 2017Support for the NonTarget 2016 Conference
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency · 2016 - 2017Characterizing the composition and biogeochemical behavior of dispersants and their transformation products in Gulf of Mexico coastal ecosystems
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Mississippi State University · 2012 - 2016Metal Fingerprinting and Chemothermal Isolation Methods to Quantify Natural and Engineered Carbon Nanoparticles
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2013 - 2016ContaSed2015: Support for U.S. participants in an international conference on environmental chemistry, toxicology, and engineering of contaminated sediments.
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2016REU: Research Experience for Undergraudates on Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2010 - 2014External Relationships
- Coastal Carolina River Watch
- Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- San Francisco Estuary Institute
- Southern Environmental Law Center
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