Alexandria B B Boehm

This study quantifies eDNA shedding and decay rates of sunflower sea stars under sunlit and dark conditions, finding low shedding rates and decay constants compared to other marine organisms.

The paper develops and validates an eDNA assay for the sunflower sea star to monitor its populations and assess recovery efforts.

This study evaluates the removal and survival of Ascaris eggs on cement-based surfaces in low-resource settings, finding that mopping removes over 92% of eggs and survival varies with temperature.

This study evaluates E. coli survival and removal on traditional and sustainable cement-based surfaces under field conditions, finding similar performance between fly ash and traditional mixes.

This paper develops a label-free, scalable method for bacterial detection in wastewater using SERS and machine learning, achieving over 85% accuracy at 10^9 cells/mL.

This study shows that using a heat snap in RT-PCR increases rotavirus RNA quantification in environmental samples by 125-fold across different sample types and laboratories.

The paper develops qPCR assays for detecting three marine species in environmental water samples, showing high sensitivity but varying specificity.