Principal Investigator
Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor Robinson Fulweiler and Ph.D. candidate Timothy Maguire will conduct a study on the urban groundwater and runoff in Boston to investigate the causes, effects, and extent of nutrient non-point pollution in urbanized subterranean estuaries.
Publications
Fulweiler, Robinson and Timothy Maguire. 2016. Urban Dissolved Silica: Quantifying the Role of Groundwater and Runoff in Wastewater Influent. Environmental Science and Technology, 50 (1), 54-61.
Maguire, Timothy J., Robinson W. Fulweiler. 2019. Urban groundwater dissolved silica concentrations are elevated due to vertical composition of historic land-filling. Science of the Total Environment 684, no. 20: 89-95.
Presentations
“Connecting History to Water Quality.” Boston Athenaeum, March 2016.
“Wastewater and urban runoff -significant anthropogenic sources of silica to coastal systems.” Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Conference, November 2015.
“Urban Runoff – an overlooked yet Significant Source of Silica to Coastal Habitats.” New England Estuarine Research Society, April 2015.
“Urban Runoff and the Biogeochemical Cycles of Dissolved Silica.” Boston University Biogeoscience Symposium, January 2015.
Media Releases
Science Under Our Feet, BU Today
Early Stage Urban Research Awards