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Water quality • Risk assessment • Data science • Environmental justice

My research investigates environmental contamination and human health-related exposures.

My approach centers on community engagement and data-intensive research. In the past, I have worked with communities in North Carolina, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and the Bolivian Andes. I will be developing research collaborations with others at INSTAAR, CU Boulder, and beyond.

See also:

• INSTAAR welcomes a new faculty fellow: Riley Mulhern (INSTAAR News)

Education

• PhD (Environmental Sciences and Engineering): University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021
• MS (Environmental Engineering): °µÍø½ûÇø, 2016
• BS (Physics: Geophysics and International Development): Wheaton College, 2014

Note to prospective students

If you are interested in working with me beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, please send me an email describing your research interests and goals and how they align with my work.

Selected publications

MacDonald Gibson, J., Desclos, A., Harrington, J., McElmurry, S.P., Mulhern, R., 2024: Environmental Science & Technology 58 (3), 1441-1451. doi 10.1021/acs.est.3c01341

Mulhern, R.E., Kondash, AJ, Norman, E., Johnson, J., Levine, K., McWilliams, A., Napier, M., ÌýWeber, F., Stella, L., Wood, E., Lee Pow Jackson, C., Colley, S., Cajka, J., MacDonald Gibson, J., Hoponick Redmon, J. 2023: . Environmental Science & Technology 57 (46), 17959-17970. doi 10.1021/acs.est.2c07477

Mulhern, R., Roostaei, J., Schwetschenau, S., Pruthi, T., Campbell, C., MacDonald Gibson, J. 2022: . Environmental Research 204, 112146. doi 10.1016/j.envres.2021.112146

Mulhern, R., Grubbs, B., Gray, K., MacDonald Gibson, J. 2022: . Science of the Total Environment 806, 150448. doi 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150448

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