Kimberly Parker awarded 2017 AEESP Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
PhD student Kimberly Parker has been selected to receive the 2017 Paul V. Roberts/AEESP Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizing her PhD dissertation work on “Contribution of halides to photochemical reactions in estuaries and coastal water.” This prestigious award recognizes Parker for completing a top dissertation in the environmental science and engineering field during 2016.
2017 AEESP Awards will be presented at the AEESP Research and Education Conference at the University of Michigan (June 20–22, 2017 in Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Parker has been a PhD student in the Mitch Lab since 2011. She is from Chicago, IL, and received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Yale University. Her thesis work is focused on characterizing photochemical processes in the marine and estuarine environment. In addition to her primary thesis work, Kim has explored how hydraulic fracturing can impact dowstream drinking water quality in a collaborative project with Prof. Avner Vengosh at Duke University.
Parker will join the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis as an assistant professor on January 1, 2018.
