Graduate Students & Researchers
Currently Advised Graduate Students
Julianna Tresca. Master’s of Natural Resources – Hydrology. Options and Choices for PFAS Passive Sampling of Groundwater.
Hayden Rudd. Ph.D. High Resolution Mass Spectrometry as a Diagnostic Tool for Assessing Groundwater Quality.
Sedanur Yilmaz. Master’s of Natural Resources – Hydrology.
David Craig. 2022. Masters of Environmental Assessment. Source Identification of Per- and Poly-fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Cedar Lake, Alcona and Iosco County, Michigan. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.20/39424
Wendell Bunch. 2022. Masters of Environmental Assessment. A Review of Microgrids Ability to Enhance Readiness for Military and First Responders. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.20/39798
Past Graduate Students
2021
Hayden Rudd.Master’s of Science in Natural Resources – Hydrology. Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Plain Groundwater to Flood Water Intrusion using High Resolution Mass Spectrometry. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.20/38926
Joe Donlon. Masters of Environmental Assessment. Regulatory overview of PFAS and identification of potentially impacted sites in Denver, CO using GIS analysis. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.20/39264
Robert Booth. Masters of Environmental Assessment. Challenges associated with intermediate ozonation in drinking water treatment during cold weather: A case study. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.20/38797
Dr. Solomon Ghezehei. Research Scholar (2019-2021). Short Rotation Woody Crops and Wood Products for the Southeastern USA. (2014-current).
Poplar “sticks” to 10″ logs in 10 years. Not bad.
Dr. Melanie Hedgespeth. Post-Doctoral Scholar. Municipal Wastewater Application To Forests: Participatory Science To Understand Human Exposure And Risks To Chemical Contaminants Of Concern. (2016-2020). (currently USEPA Postdoctoral Fellow).
2020
Chad Broadway. Masters of Environmental Assessment. Evaluating the Impact of Intermittent Flooding on Growth and Annual Productivity of Non-Managed Loblolly Pine Stands at the B. Everett Jordan Lake Reservoir, N.C. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.20/39358
Sarah Brecht. Master’s of Science -Toxicology. Comparative Analysis of Non-targeted and Suspect-screening High Resolution Mass Spectrometry for Hydroponic Soybeans in Different Irrigation Sources. (Currently, Ph.D. Zurich, Switzerland) https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.20/37458
2019
Kyle Goeke Dee. Master’s of Forest Management. Loblolly Pine Growth and Productivity With and Without Municipal Wastewater Irrigation. (South Carolina Forestry Commission). http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.20/37243
Nancy Gibson. Master’s of Science in Natural Resources. Forest Hydrology. Impacts of Municipal Wastewater Irrigation to the Water Balance of a Forested Water Reuse System.
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.20/36385
(US Forest Service- Hydrologist Idaho).
Michael Liebl. 2019. Masters of Environmental Assessment. Pharmaceuticals and personal care product impacts to groundwater from the land application of treated wastewater effluent: A comparison of three land application systems. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.20/36904
2018
Shane Beeson. Masters of Environmental Assessment. Pollution discharge from Hurricane Florence: Examining How North Carolina is Impacted by Modern Day Storms.
Aurora Baker. Masters of Environmental Assessment. A Review of Non-targeted Screening Approaches to Monitoring Groundwater.
2017
Liudmila Maslova. Masters of Environmental Assessment. Water Quality Responses From Major Hurricanes in Robeson County: A Review and Historic Data Analysis.
Alex Ewald. Master’s of Science in Natural Resources. Productivity and Profitability for Poplar on Fertile and Marginal Sandy Soils with Different Fertilization and Planting-Density Treatments. . Employed CHM2-Hill Inc.
2016
Shawn Shifflet. Ph.D. Using Ecohydrology and Bioenergy to Assess Ecosystem Services on Multifunctional Landscapes. (USPEA ORISE Post Doctoral Scholar – Cincinnatti, OH).
Andrew McEachran. Ph.D. Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Product (PPCP) Occurrence, Distribution, and Export at a Forest-Water Reuse System. (USPEA ORISE Post Doctoral Scholar – RTP NC).
Michael Fisher. Master’s of Environmental Assessment. Reductive Dechlorination of Dieldrin and Potential Impact for Remediation in the Southeastern USA.
Kristin Smith. Master’s of Environmental Assessment. Evaluating the potential for vapor instrusion at superfund sites in North Carolina contaminated with volatile organic compounds.//
2015
Katie Tatum. Master’s of Environmental Assessment. The use of constructed wetlands as secondary wastewater treatment for the removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products: A review.
Lauren Pillow. Master’s of Environmental Assessment. Recreational water quality criteria and its effectiveness at protecting human health: A review of state and federal standards. Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.
Airell Oakes Swanson. Master’s of Environmental Assessment. Establishing Pollinator Habitat at Solar Farms in North Carolina: a Feasibility Study.
Andrew Birch. Masters of Natural Resources – Hydrology. Evaluating the Subsurface Export of Municipal Wastewater at a Forested Land-Application Site. North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Groundwater
Aana Taylor-Smith. Master’s of Environmental Assessment. Pharmaceutical compounds in land-applied sludge and plant uptake: A review. Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
2014
Tamika Brown. Master’s of Environmental Assessment. Implications for a Drug Take Back Program in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
Elizabeth Wilcox. Master’s of Environmental Assessment. Pharmaceuticals in the environment: review of current disposal practices for medications and the influence of public perception on environmental risks. Employer: City of Raleigh.
2013
Anna Barnes Alicea. Master’s of Natural Resource – Assessment. Phytotoxicity of Silver Nanoparticles to Hydroponic Hybrid Poplar and Willow Cuttings. Employer: URS Corp.
Damain Maddalena. Ph.D. – Forestry. Utilizing Stable Isotopes and Spatial Analysis to Understand Hillslope Ecohydrological. Employer. Employer: Post-doctoral scholar. US. DOE. Oak Ridge National Labs.
Heather Sorenson. Master’s of Environmental Assessment. 1,4 Dioxane and the Application of Phytoremediation at North Carolina Hazardous Waste Groundwater Contaminated Sites. Employer: NC DENR.
2012
Shawn Dayson Shifflet. Master’s of Natural Resource – Hydrology. Species Trials of Short Rotation Woody Crops on Two Waste Water Application Sites. Employer: NCSU
2011
Jim Kimani. Master’s of Environmental Assesssment. GIS Analysis of Fuel Removal at Phytoremediation Demonstration Site. Employer: NC DENR
Brian Fetzer. M.Sc. Natural Resources – Hydrology. Isotope Analyses of Tree Leaves Around Hog Waste Lagoons. Employer: ITG, New Bern, NC
Ricky Ebersohl. Master’s of Environmental Assesssment. Undergraduate Perceptions of Renewable Energies and Careers. Employer: NC DENR
Laurie Nielsen. Master’s of Environmental Assesssment. GIS Analysis of Biofuel Acreage at NC WWTP. Employer: Wake Technical Community College
2009
Maternity leave
Cathy Thompson (Ph.D. committee) Tracking Organic Matter from Source to Sink in the Waiapu River Watershed, New Zealand: A Geochemical Perspective. Employer: CSIRO, New Zealand
2008
Rachel Cook M.Sc. Phytoremediation of a Petroleum-Hydrocarbon Contaminated Shallow Aquifer, Elizabeth City, NC: Planting Methods and Preliminary Results. Employer: BASF
2007
Thorne Gregory M.Sc. DIfferences in Sediment Organic Matter Composition and PAH Weathering Between Non-Vegetated and Recently Vegetated Fuel-Oiled Sediments.
2006
Maternity leave
Jennifer Musella M.Sc. Impact of Plant Organic Matter on PAH Desorption from Petrogenic-Polluted Sediments. Employer: ENSR, Colorado
2005
Adam Sharpe M.Sc. What Factors Influence Freshwater Molluscan Survival in the Conasauga River? Employer: CH2M-Hill
Euh-na Cho (Ph.D. committee) Bioturbation as a Novel Method to Characterize the Toxicity of Aquatic Sediment.
Katrina White (Ph.D. committee) Bioavailability of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Aquatic Environment. Employer: US FDA
2004
Waverly Thorsen (Ph.D. committee) Bioavailability of Particulate-Sorbed Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Employer: NC State University