I received my doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in Civil and Environmental Engineering where I studied substrate interactions of gasoline aromatics and oxygenates. As a post-doctoral fellow at Berkeley, I collaborated with scientists and engineers at other universities and with consulting firms and the U.S. Air Force to develop and implement research addressing the remediation of sites impacted with contaminant mixtures such as PFAS. My work has been recognized with awards from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water Environment Federation, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Association of University Women, Air and Waste Management Association, American Chemical Society, and American Society for Microbiology. I was selected as a National Science Foundation Engineering Education Scholar for Excellence in Engineering Education for my teaching at Berkeley and Stanford.In my work at Geosyntec, I address the cross-media fate and transport of contaminants, and I help remediate complex soil and groundwater sites impacted by nonaqueous-phase liquids (NAPL) and per and PFAS. My focus is on helping people become more aware of emerging contaminants and learn more about sources, occurrence, fate and transport and behavior of emerging and recalcitrant compounds, like PFAS, 1,4-dioxane, MTBE and other fuel oxygenates, perchlorate, NDMA, EDCs, PPCPs and others. I’m proud of the work I do with the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering program, bringing together emerging engineering leaders from industry, academia, and government to discuss pioneering technical work and leading-edge research across engineering fields and industry sectors.
Listed skills include Environmental Engineering, Groundwater, Remediation, Water Quality, and 45 others.