Catherine Hoar

Assistant Professor

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Catherine Hoar

Ph.D.

Contact

245 Beacon Street, Room 512

Telephone: 617-552-3514

Email: catherine.hoar@bc.edu

Education

  • B.S., Tufts University
  • M.S., Columbia University
  • Ph.D., Columbia University

Research Interests

Environmental microbiology, wastewater surveillance, biological wastewater treatment, emerging contaminants

Biography

Catherine Hoar will join 艾可直播 College as an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Department. Catherine鈥檚 work interrogates wastewater and wastewater treatment systems to detect contaminants, understand their fate, and improve their removal. Her research interests include wastewater surveillance of emerging pathogens, biological wastewater treatment processes, and biodegradation of emerging contaminants in natural and engineered systems.

Motivated by the goals of improving environmental quality and protecting public health, her work combines tools in microbiology, molecular biology, and analytical chemistry to not only optimize removal of contaminants from sewage, but also gain information from sewage about community-level health. In her courses, Catherine is passionate about highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of sustainable, accessible, and effective engineering through project-based learning and community outreach.

Prior to joining 艾可直播 College, Catherine worked as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, where she collaborated with academic partners and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection to implement New York City鈥檚 SARS-CoV-2 wastewater monitoring program. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Earth and Environmental Engineering from Columbia University and B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Tufts University.

Representative Publications

  • Hoar, C.; McClary-Gutierrez, J.; Bivins, A.; Wolfe, M.; Bibby, K.; Silverman, A.; McLellan, S. (2022) Looking Forward: The Role of Academic Researchers in Building Sustainable Wastewater Surveillance Programs. Environmental Health Perspectives. .
  • Sivaganesan, M.; Willis, J. R.; Karim, M.; Babatola, A.; Catoe, D.; Boehm, A. B.; Wilder, M.; Green, H.; Lobos, A.; Harwood, V. J.; Hertel, S.; Klepikow, R.; Howard, M. F.; Laksanalamai, P.; Roundtree, A.; Mattioli, M.; Eytcheson, S.; Molina, M.; Lane, M.; Rediske, R.; Ronan, A.; D鈥橲ouza, N.; Rose, J. B.; Shrestha, A.; Hoar, C.; Silverman, A. I.; Faulkner, W.; Wickman, K.; Kralj, J. G.; Servetas, S. L.; Hunter, M. E.; Jackson, S. A.; Shanks, O. C. (2022) Interlaboratory Performance and Quantitative PCR Data Acceptance Metrics for NIST SRM庐 2917. Water Research. .
  • Hoar, C.; Li, Y.; Silverman, A. I. (2022) Assessment of Commonly Measured Wastewater Parameters to Estimate Sewershed Populations for Use in Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Insights into Population Dynamics in New York City during the COVID-19 Pandemic. ACS ES&T Water. .
  • Hoar, C.; Chauvin, F.; Clare, A.; McGibbon, H.; Castro, E.; Patinella, S.; Katehis, D.; Dennehy, J. J.; Trujillo, M.; Smyth, D. S.; Silverman, A. I. (2022) Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater during New York City鈥檚 Second Wave of COVID-19: Sewershed-Level Trends and Relationships to Publicly Available Clinical Testing Data. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. .
  • Sathyamoorthy, S.; Hoar, C.; Chandran, K. (2018) Identification of Bisphenol A-assimilating Microorganisms in Mixed Microbial Communities using 13C-DNA Stable Isotope Probing. Environmental Science & Technology. .
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