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The 2021 James J. Morgan Early Career Award Winners: The Americas Region
Environmental Science & Technology Letters ( IF 10.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 , DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00904 Julie Zimmerman , Bryan Brooks
Environmental Science & Technology Letters ( IF 10.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 , DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00904 Julie Zimmerman , Bryan Brooks
“If I have seen further,” Isaac Newton wrote in a 1675 letter to fellow scientist Robert Hooke, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Newton’s humility originated early on from a formative appreciation of how knowledge builds upon itself, incrementally improving upon existing ideas until the cumulative adds up to the revolutionary. That is, standing on the shoulders of giants enables us to see much farther, further than we see currently or those before us have seen. As such, each of us in the ES&T community have benefitted from the giants that came before. And we each must be humbled as members of the ES&T community with our obligation to those that came before to give a hand up to the next generation to get on our shoulders to see beyond what we see now. Collectively, we must look to the horizon. The James J. Morgan Environmental Science& Technology Early Career Award, named after the first Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Science& Technology, aims to recognize those early career researchers who are standing on our shoulders, who are seeing the farthest horizons and leading the fields in new directions through creative, new ideas consistent with Morgan’s early contributions in environmental chemistry. Each of these Morgan Award winners is seeing a different part of the horizon from their own unique perspective. As importantly, each of them is passionately committed to sharing their view of the diverse and exciting landscapes that lay ahead for the fields contributing to Environmental Science& Technology and Environmental Science& Technology Letters through the combination of their scholarship, mentorship, and service. With the Morgan Award, we celebrate the impact they have already had and the diversity of perspectives of what they see over the horizon. In addition, this award recognizes their commitment to pioneering paths through these new landscapes so that others may follow—and eventually stand on their shoulders for a view of the next revolutionary directions for our fields. This year, we received a significant number of nominations for the Morgan Early Career Award from the Americas region. These meaningful contributions from such a robust pool of scholars were impressive. Please join us in congratulating the 2021 James J. Morgan Early Career Award winners. Dr. Lee Blaney, Associate Professor Department of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County https://cbee.umbc.edu/lee-blaney/ Dr. Blaney joined the University of Maryland Baltimore County as an assistant professor in 2011, after completing his Ph.D. at The University of Texas at Austin in Environmental Engineering. His research focus has been to pursue the link between engineering and health-related issues, and he has an established research portfolio in water/wastewater treatment of contaminants, the environmental fate and toxicity of contaminants such as pharmaceuticals, hormones, and personal care products, and the development of resource recovery technologies from municipal and agricultural waste streams. Specifically, his research has included phosphorus recovery, antibiotic transformation, ozone/peroxide advanced oxidation processes, and photolysis and photodegradation processes. He is considered a leading researcher with a broad vision, innovative research ideas, and an outstanding commitment to developing a sustainable research program that is diverse and focused on grand challenges. Dr. Jeremy Guest, Associate Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://engineeringforsustainability.com/ Dr. Guest became an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019 following his position as assistant professor since 2011 and completing his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in 2012 at The University of Michigan. His research interests cover sustainable design, sanitation and resource recovery from wastewater, and innovation for technology development. Specifically, research areas include energy and anaerobic membrane bioreactors with full life-cycle assessment, biofuels, microalgae and the removal of nutrients from wastewater to generate biomass for energy, and improving sanitation for developing countries alongside the challenges of technology adoption and local economics. His research style shows an effective and systematic ability to identify the relevance and practical implications of a given research area and address key questions for further forward development. Dr. Lea Hildebrandt-Ruiz, Associate Professor Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin https://che.utexas.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-directory/hildebrandt-ruiz-lea-ph-d/ Dr. Hildebrandt-Ruiz joined the University of Texas Austin as an assistant professor in 2012 from a post-doctoral position at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. Since taking up this position, Dr. Hildebrandt has built a world-class, large environmental chamber with extensive gas phase and aerosol phase analytical equipment, with research focused towards characterizing the role of chlorine radicals in urban and regional atmospheres – a cutting edge area of atmospheric chemistry research. Her research contributions have also included identifying new sources of emissions, e.g. the formation of particulate nitrates from hydraulic fracturing of shale formations, and characterization of indoor air quality and chlorine chemistry as part of the HOMEChem indoor air quality field campaign. Dr. Hildebrandt-Ruiz is currently leading an initiative to investigate the surface chemistry of face masks and exposure to potential byproducts formed on different masks depending on the cleaning products used. Her innovative and ground-breaking research work will be foundational in the evolution of air quality research. Dr. Katherine Peter, Research Chemist National Institute of Standards and Technology, Charleston, South Carolina https://www.nist.gov/people/katherine-peter Dr. Peter is a National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Research Chemist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States, having joined the institute in 2019 from her postdoctoral position at the Center for Urban Waters, University of Washington, Tacoma. Her research focus is on the creation of novel applications for high-resolution mass spectrometry in the field of urban water quality, treatment, and management, including toxicant identification, treatment system performance evaluation, and source tracking work in complex environmental systems. Dr. Peter works at the interface of ecosystem and human health with nontarget, high-resolution mass spectrometry analysis, conducting novel, ground-breaking, and innovative research in these developing areas of urban water quality and associated societal challenges. James J. Morgan Award - Honorable Mentions The number of outstanding quality nominations this year gave the James J. Morgan award selection committee the welcome opportunity to recognize a number of additional researchers with an Honorable Mention. Honorable Mentions are awarded to the following researchers for their creative and novel contributions to environmental science and technology. Joshua Apte, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley http://apte.berkeley.edu/ Gregory Lefevre, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Iowa http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/glefevre/ Shihong Lin, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University www.shihonglin.net Haizhou Liu, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside http://www.cee.ucr.edu/liu Daniel McCurry, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California https://www.mccurrylab.com/ Amy Pickering, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Blum Center for Developing Economies, University of California, Berkeley https://ce.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/pickering Francois Perreault, Assistant Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/francois-perreault/ Vishal Verma, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign https://cee.illinois.edu/directory/profile/vverma Ngai Yin Yip, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University https://yiplab-h2o-e-env.eee.columbia.edu/ The team at ES&T, ES&T Letters, and the ACS Environment Division thanks all those who nominated candidates for the award this year. A thank you also to the James J. Morgan Award selection committee, for their unenviable task of assessing and choosing the winners from such a strong field. We encourage the environmental science and technology community to consider nominating worthy scholars from the European Region for the next James J. Morgan award for 2022. A call for nominations for the award will be announced in mid-2021.
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the ACS. This article has not yet been cited by other publications.
更新日期：2020-12-08
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the ACS. This article has not yet been cited by other publications.
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