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Alexandria B. Boehm, PhD | |
| Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor of Oceans Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment Faculty Fellow, Center for Innovation in Global Health Stanford University Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building RM. 189 (+1) 650-724-9128 Email: aboehm@stanford.edu |
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| Education | 1996 B.S. |
Engineering and Applied Science with Honors from California Institute of Technology |
| 1997 M.S. |
Environmental Engineering from University of California Irvine | |
| 2000 Ph.D. |
Environmental Engineering from University of California Irvine Thesis title: An Integrative Investigation of Particle Distributions in Natural Waters |
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| Research Interests |
I am interested in pathogens in the environment including their sources, fate, and transport in natural and engineered systems. I am interested in understanding how pathogens are transmitted to humans through contact with water, feces, and contaminated surfaces. My research is focused on key problems in both high-income and low- and middle-income countries with the overarching goal of designing and testing novel interventions and technologies for reducing the burden of disease.
I am also interested broadly in coastal water quality where my work addresses the sources, transformation, transport, and ecology of biocolloids - specifically fecal indicator organisms, DNA, pathogens, and phytoplankton - as well as sources and fate of nitrogen. This knowledge is crucial to formulating new management policies and engineering practices that protect human and ecosystem health at the coastal margins. Details of projects can be found here. |
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| Teaching | Environmental science and engineering, by its very nature, is multi-disciplinary. In order to be successful, students must be grounded in fundamental sciences and also have the know-how to apply the fundamentals to real, complex problems. Because there are also regulatory, political, and social components to real environmental problems, the most successful environmental science and engineering problem-solvers will have a background in these broader domains as well. With these challenges in mind, I have developed four multi-disciplinary classes that aim to supply the fundamentals for applied environmental problem solving: CEE 41Q: Clean Water Now: Urban Water Conflicts!, CEE 175A/275A California Coast: Science, Policy, and Law, CEE 272 Coastal Contaminants, CEE 271M Transport Phenomena, CEE 274E Pathogens in the environment, and CEE 274P Environmental Health Microbiology Lab. I co-teach CEE175A/275A with a law professor (Deborah Sivas). The class is popular with students from the Law School, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Earth Systems Science. The class was even featured on Jeopardy (the game show). For more information about these courses, please follow this link. | |
| Awards | ||
| 2024 | Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) | |
| 2017 | ACS Environmental Science & Technology Excellence in Review Award | |
| 2016 | National Oceanographic Partnership Program Excellence in Partnership Award | |
| 2016 | ACS Environmental Science & Technology Letters Excellence in Review Award | |
| 2016 | ASCE Huber Prize | |
| 2008 | Participant in National Academy of Engineers' Frontiers of Engineering Symposium | |
| 2007 | NSF Career Award | |
| 2007 | Pacific Rim Center for Oceans and Human Health Visiting Scholar | |
| 2001 | Excellence in Teaching Award at Univ. California Irvine | |
| 2000 to 2002 |
Faculty Fellow Award at Univ. California Irvine | |
| State and National Service | 2020 to Present |
Associate editor at Environmental Science & Technology and Environmental Science & Technology Letters |
| 2018 to 2022 |
Member State of California Ocean Acidification Science Task Force | |
| 2007 to Present |
Member State of California Clean Beach Task Force | |
| 2008 to Present |
Member State of California Ocean Protection Council Science Advisor Team | |
| 2014 to 2016 |
Co-Chair of West Coast Science Panel on Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia | |
| 2007 | Participant on National Experts Workshop of Recreational Water Quality Criteria held by USEPA | |
| Links | Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Environmental and Water Studies Woods Institute for the Environment WastewaterSCAN |
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| Updated January 2021 |
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