News

New Funding Updates! The group has received a new research

funding from North Carolina Policy Collaboratory for investigating the

“Atmospheric deposition and transformations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl

substances”.

Presentation Updates! Daniel, Chelsea and Greyson presented their research, The Spatial and Temporal Trends of PFAS in Tributary

Streams in the Falls Lake Watershed From 2020 to 2021, at the 2025 NC WRRI conference and won 4th place in the poster competition. Congratulations!

New Funding Updates! The group has received a new research funding from the NC WRRI for “Development of improved analytical methods for the determination of total organic fluorine in wastewater and biosolids”. Go Team!

New Member Updates! Chelsea Dennis joined the research

group as a PhD student. Welcome, Chelsea!

Presentation Updates! Greyson Sanches presented his summer research “The spatial and temporal trends of PFAS in the Tar River: A pilot study from October 2023 to June 2024” at the ECU Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium.

New Member Updates! Greyson Sanches and Chelsea Dennis joined the research group as undergraduate research associates. Greyson was supported through the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation program (LSAMP) at ECU. Welcome, Greyson and Chelsea!

New Funding Updates! The group received an instrumental fund

from the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory to purchase a state-of-art iCAP-TQ inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer from Thermo Fisher Scientific.

We will use the instrument to facilitate the development of new and sensitive total PFAS measurements.

Emerging Contaminant group had the first group meeting.

New Funding Updates! The group received a research fund from the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory to conduct research on the remediation and identification of PFAS in North Carolina.