Presentations

• Microplastics in Marine Mammals: A One-Health Perspective to Inform Human Health and Environmental Risk Assessment The North America Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 45th annual meeting. Fort Worth, TX. Platform presentation. October 2024.

• Marine Mammal Health and Monitoring: A One Health Approach to Understanding Anthropogenic Effects in the Coastal Environment The Public Health and Integrated Toxicology Division of the US EPA Emerging Topics Lecture. Research Triangle Park, NC. Invited talk. June 2024.

• Microplastics in the gastrointestinal tracts of stranded Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops erebennus) from South Carolina* The Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium (SEAMAMMS). Beaufort, NC. Lighting Talk. April 2024. *1st Place PhD Lightning Talk.

• Monitoring microplastics in a local population of Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops erebennus)* The Carolinas Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (CSETAC) annual meeting. Boone, NC. Oral presentation. April 2024. *2nd Place Graduate Student Platform Presentation.

• Microplastics Enumeration Workshop led 3-hour training course addition to the Microplastics in the Coastal Region Conference. April 2024.

• Microplastics in Marine Mammals: A One Health approach to understanding the fate, pathways, and impacts of microplastics in the coastal region South Carolina SeaGrant and NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Microplastics in the Coastal Region Conference. Charleston, SC. Oral presentation. April 2024.

• Marine Mammal Health in the Southeast and Caribbean NOAA One Health Pre-Summit Webinar Series. Virtual presentation. July 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opysb9lYsQQ&authuser=3

• Microplastics in a Local Population of Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): A One Health Approach to Coastal Monitoring The European Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 33rd annual meeting. Dublin, Ireland. Poster presentation. May 2023.

• Microplastics in Megafauna: Monitoring coastal plastic pollution using locally-stranded bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) The Carolinas Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (CSETAC) annual meeting. Charleston, SC. Oral presentation. April 2023.

• Monitoring Microplastics in a Local Population of Estuarine Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) The Southeastern Estuarine Research Society (SEERS) annual meeting. Charleston, SC. Oral presentation. March 2023.

• Bioaccumulation of Microplastic Particles in the Eastern Oyster Crassostrea virginica: One Health Connections The North America Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 43rd annual meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. Poster presentation. November 2022.

• Charleston street flooding is more than just a nuisance: A pathway for microplastic particles into our coastal waterways South Carolina Sea Grant Symposium. The Citadel, Charleston, SC. Poster presentation. May 2022.

• Uptake and Depuration of Microplastics and Tire Particles in the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica: A Toxicokinetic Approach* The Carolinas Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (CSETAC) annual meeting. BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC. Oral presentation. April 2022. *1st Place Graduate Student Platform Presentation.

• Charleston’s sunny-day flooding: A pathway for street-derived microplastic and tire wear particles into coastal waterways The Citadel Academy of Science and Mathematics Banquet. Trident Technical College, Charleston, SC. Poster presentation. March 2022.

• Plastic PPE Litter on Beaches: Estimating Abundance Through Citizen Science and Standardized Sampling Techniques Ocean Sciences Meeting, the Global Council for Science and the Environment. Virtual presentation. February 2022.

• Rising Seas and Roadway Debris: Environmental Fate of Tire-Wear Microplastic Following Nuisance Flooding in Coastal South Carolina The North America Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 42nd annual meeting - SciCon4. Virtual oral presentation. November 2021.

• Investigating Impacts of the Pandemic on Plastic Pollution Using Citizen Science Databases* The North America Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 42nd annual meeting -SciCon4. Virtual oral presentation. November 2021. *2nd Place Graduate Student Platform Presentation.

• Uptake and Elimination of Microplastics and Tire Wear Particles in the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica): Implications for Lowering Exposures to Human Consumers The North America Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 42nd annual meeting - SciCon4. Virtual poster presentation. November 2021.

• Human Dietary Exposure to Microplastics from Oysters (Crassostrea virginica): Lowering Exposure through Depuration Joint Oceans and Human Health annual meeting, hosted by the Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters and Human Health. Virtual poster presentation. October 2021.

• Marine Plastic Litter and the Pandemic: Trends in PPE Prevalence and Volunteer Clean-up Efforts Northeast Regional Idea Conference, hosted by Rhode Island INBRE. Virtual oral presentation. August 2021.

• Microplastics Short Course Carolinas Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Annual meeting. May 2021.

• Prevalence of PPE in plastic litter before and during the pandemic* Carolinas Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (CSETAC) annual meeting. Virtual oral presentation. May 17-18 2021. *2nd Place Graduate Student Platform Presentation.

• Environmental fate of microplastic and tire wear particles from coastal floodwater in Charleston, SC* Carolina’s Climate Resilience Conference, Durham NC. Virtual poster presentation. May 10-12 2021. *1st Place Student Poster Presentation.

• Climatological Research Studies Grant: Nuisance Flooding and Microplastics James B. Near Center for Climatological Studies Advisory Board meeting. April 17 2021.

• Recent trends in plastic litter from within the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic Global Council for Science and the Environment French-American Plastic Pollution Cohort meeting. Virtual oral presentation. April 2021.

• Plastic Pollution, PPE, and the Pandemic The Citadel’s Student Excellence Day. Poster presentation. April 2021.

• Assessing nuisance floodwater in Charleston, SC as a potential pathway for street-derived microplastic and tire wear particles in coastal waterways NSF-NIH Oceans and Human Health annual meeting, hosted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Virtual poster presentation. October 2020.

• Encroaching Tides and Extreme Rainfall: Floodwater as a Source of Microplastic and Tire Wear Particles to Coastal Waterways The North America Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 41st annual meeting - SETAC SciCon2. Virtual oral presentation. November 2020.

• Nuisance floodwaters as a potential pathway for microplastic and tire wear particle transport into the waterways of Charleston, SC Carolinas Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (CSETAC) annual meeting. Virtual oral presentation. May 2020.

• Climate-change associated floodwater as a pathway for microplastic and tire wear particle transport to coastal waterways: A case study of Charleston, SC (USA) The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Europe 30th annual meeting - SETAC SciCon. Virtual poster presentation. May 2020.

• A spatiotemporal assessment of surface-water microplastics in a coastal bay system: Blue Hill, Maine Microplastic Analysis Workshop, QUASIMEME. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Poster presentation. November 2018.

• Marine debris in salt marshes and microplastic ingestion by Uca pugilator. Atlantic Estuarine Research Society’s (AERS) 2017 Spring annual meeting. Rehoboth Beach, DE. April2018.

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