Kimberly Parker awarded Best Paper 2016 by Environmental Science & Technology

Kimberly Parker’s paper “Halogen Radicals Promote the Photodegradation of Microcystins in Estuarine Systems” was named one of Environmental Science & Technology’s Best Papers of 2016 (Top Paper, Environmental Science).

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.