Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Ending a legacy of pollution: Using bacteria to break down persistent dioxin and furan pollution in riverine sediments
Speaker: Dr. Danielle Delp, Postdoctoral Associate Researcher, Rutgers University
Dr. Danielle Delp is a Postdoctoral Associate Researcher in the Environmental Science Department of Rutgers University in New Jersey. Her areas of research interest include bioremediation, anaerobic digestion, and environmental justice. Her research emphasizes the use of living things (algae, bacteria, plants) to help clean up dangerous and persistent pollution in the environment, with an emphasis on the practicality and affordability of solutions to maximize accessibility to local communities. Her current research is using bacteria to mitigate contamination from river sediments on the Passaic River in Newark, NJ, where decades of chemical manufacturing and careless dumping have left heavy contamination. Danielle will be presenting findings from her current research on the Passaic River, as well as findings from research she has collaborated on with the similarly contaminated Tittabawassee River downstream from Midland, Michigan.