Danielle Freeman (2024- current, Postdoctoral Investigator) – Danielle has just completed her PhD in marine oil spills at the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. She is joining us as a postdoctoral scholar interested in passive sampling and environmental fate and transport.
Erich Nitchke(2023- current, Research Assistant – Lab Manager) – Erich joined our group after working as a seasonal research assistant at CT DEEP. He is involved in several ongoing projects. In Fall 2024 he switches to a Masters Project in our Group.
Jorge Luis Gallego Zapata Estudiante (2019-2020, Fulbright Fellow) – Jorge just joined our team as a Fulbrighter and worked on a project entitled “Pesticide Use and Toxicity Biomarkers of Allium cepa L. Cultivated in Colombia” His research addresses how inadequate handling of agrochemicals leads to the accumulation of residual quantities in the environment and food products. The aim of this research is to assess pesticide residues and their toxicity in soils, water, sediments, and cultivated onions in an intensive agricultural region in Colombia. Jorge is now Professor at Universidad de Medellin, Environmental Research Group in Colombia.
Joseph Warren (2013- 2017, Research Assistant – Lab Manager) – Joe worked on two main projects including the development of an in situ sulfate sampler and passive sampling of munitions in marine systems. He eventually moved into our graduate program as a Masters student and is now at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California (MBARI).
Dr. Richard Smith ( 2010- 2014, post-doctoral investigator) – Rick worked on several aspects of our munitions fate and transport project tracking 15N labelled TNT and RDX mineralization pathways. He was also involved in several lignin phenol biomarker studies with Prof. Craig Tobias’s Lab. He is Now President of Global Aquatic Research in Rochester NY.
