Dr. Kurt Pennell is the 250th Anniversary Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering at Brown University. Previously, Dr. Pennell was Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University, and the Bernard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow in Environmental Engineering. Prior to moving to Tufts, Dr. Pennell was a Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and held an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Neurology at the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Pennell’s research addresses soil and groundwater remediation, engineered nanomaterials, and environmental toxicology. His current research projects focus on the remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), environmental exposure metabolomics, and the use of engineered nanomaterials for subsurface characterization. Dr. Pennell has published over 200 referred journal articles and book chapters, is a registered Professional Engineer (PE), a Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE), a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and a Fellow of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP). Dr. Pennell served on the review committee for the Orica Botany Groundwater Cleanup Project in Sydney Australia (2020) and the United Nations Compensation Committee for the 1st Gulf War (2008-2014). He was a member of the National Research Council Committee on the Nation’s Groundwater (2010-2013), which authored “Alternatives for Managing the Nation's Complex Contaminated Groundwater Sites”. Dr. Pennell currently serves as co-chair on the organizing committee for the Remediation Technology Summit (RemTec) (2019-), and recently served as a panelist on the National Academy of Science Engineering and Medicine, and the Environmental Health Matters Initiative workshop on PFAS (2019).
| Garza-Rubalcava, Uriel, Klevan, Craig, Pennell, Kurt D., Abriola, Linda M. "Transport and competitive interfacial adsorption of PFOA and PFOS in unsaturated porous media: Experiments and modeling." Water Research, vol. 268, 2025, pp. 122728. |
| Fossa, Alan J., Manz, Katherine E., Papandonatos, George D., Chen, Aimin, La Guardia, Mark J., Lanphear, Bruce P., C.Hale, Robert, Pagano, Alexandra, Pennell, Kurt D., Yolton, Kimberly, Braun, Joseph M. "A randomized controlled trial of a housing intervention to reduce endocrine disrupting chemical exposures in children." Environment International, vol. 191, 2024, pp. 108994. |
| Yan PF, Dong S, Pennell KD, Cápiro NL. "A review of the occurrence and microbial transformation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF)-impacted environments." Science of The Total Environment, vol. 927, 2024, pp. 171883. |
| Klevan, Craig, Caines, Seth, Gomes, Andre, Pennell, Kurt D. "Accurate Determination of Perfluorooctanoate Aqueous Solubility, Critical Micelle Concentration, and Acid Dissociation Constant." Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2024. |
| Meservey, Alexis, Külaots, Indrek, Bryant, J. Daniel, Gray, Chloe, Wahl, Julia, Manz, Katherine E., Pennell, Kurt D. "Adsorption of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances on biochar derived from municipal sewage sludge." Chemosphere, vol. 365, 2024, pp. 143331. |
| Zheng, T., Kelsey, K., Zhu, C., Pennell, K.D., Yao, Q., Manz, K.E., Zheng, Y.F., Braun, J.M., Liu, Y., Papandonatos, G., Liu, Q., Shi, K., Brochman, S., Buka, S.L. "Adverse birth outcomes related to concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in maternal blood collected from pregnant women in 1960–1966." Environmental Research, vol. 241, 2024, pp. 117010. |
| Yan, Peng-Fei, Dong, Sheng, Manz, Katherine E., Woodcock, Matthew J., Liu, Chen, Mezzari, Melissa P., Abriola, Linda M., Pennell, Kurt D., Cápiro, Natalie L. "Aerobic biotransformation of 6:2 fluorotelomer sulfonate in soils from two aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF)-impacted sites." Water Research, vol. 249, 2024, pp. 120941. |
| Yan, Peng-Fei, Dong, Sheng, Woodcock, Matthew J., Manz, Katherine E., Garza-Rubalcava, Uriel, Abriola, Linda M., Pennell, Kurt D., Cápiro, Natalie L. "Biotransformation of 6:2 fluorotelomer sulfonate and microbial community dynamics in water-saturated one-dimensional flow-through columns." Water Research, vol. 252, 2024, pp. 121146. |
| Lee, Junseok, Kim, Changwoo, Schmucker, Daniel, Lee, Seung Soo Steve, Liao, Shuchi, Cápiro, Natalie L., Pennell, Kurt D., Fortner, John D. "Delineating the role of surface grafting density of organic coatings on the colloidal stability, transport, and sorbent behavior of engineered nanoparticles." Environmental Science: Nano, vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, pp. 578-587. |
| Wu H, Kalia V, Manz KE, Chillrud L, Dishon NH, Jackson GL, Dye CK, Orvieto R, Aizer A, Levine H, Kioumourtzoglou MA, Pennell KD, Baccarelli AA, Machtinger R. "Exposome Profiling of Environmental Pollutants in Seminal Plasma and Novel Associations with Semen Parameters." Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 58, no. 31, 2024, pp. 13594-13604. |
| Lai, Yunjia, Koelmel, Jeremy P., Walker, Douglas I., Price, Elliott J., Papazian, Stefano, Manz, Katherine E., Castilla-Fernández, Delia, Bowden, John A., Nikiforov, Vladimir, David, Arthur, Bessonneau, Vincent, Amer, Bashar, Seethapathy, Suresh, Hu, Xin, Lin, Elizabeth Z., Jbebli, Akrem, McNeil, Brooklynn R., Barupal, Dinesh, Cerasa, Marina, Xie, Hongyu, Kalia, Vrinda, Nandakumar, Renu, Singh, Randolph, Tian, Zhenyu, Gao, Peng, Zhao, Yujia, Froment, Jean, Rostkowski, Pawel, Dubey, Saurabh, Coufalíková, Kateřina, Seličová, Hana, Hecht, Helge, Liu, Sheng, Udhani, Hanisha H., Restituito, Sophie, Tchou-Wong, Kam-Meng, Lu, Kun, Martin, Jonathan W., Warth, Benedikt, Godri Pollitt, Krystal J., Klánová, Jana, Fiehn, Oliver, Metz, Thomas O., Pennell, Kurt D., Jones, Dean P., Miller, Gary W. "High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry for Human Exposomics: Expanding Chemical Space Coverage." Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 58, no. 29, 2024, pp. 12784-12822. |
| Dunn, Fiona, Paquette, Shannon E., Pennell, Kurt D., Plavicki, Jessica S., Manz, Katherine E. "Metabolomic changes following GenX and PFBS exposure in developing zebrafish." Aquatic Toxicology, vol. 271, 2024, pp. 106908. |
| Arshadi M, Garza-Rubalcava U, Guedes A, Cápiro NL, Pennell KD, Christ J, Abriola LM. "Modeling 1-D aqueous film forming foam transport through the vadose zone under realistic site and release conditions." Science of The Total Environment, vol. 919, 2024, pp. 170566. |
| Gumus S, Biechele-Speziale D, Manz KE, Pennell KD, Rubenstein BM, Rosenstein JK. "Repurposing Waste Chemicals for Sustainable and Durable Molecular Data Storage." ACS Omega, vol. 9, no. 18, 2024, pp. 19904-19910. |
| Liao, Shuchi, Garza‐Rubalcava, Uriel, Abriola, Linda M., Preisendanz, Heather E., Lee, Linda S., Pennell, Kurt D. "Simulating PFAS transport in effluent‐irrigated farmland using PRZM5, LEACHM, and HYDRUS‐1D models." Journal of Environmental Quality, 2024. |
| Vilfranc CL, Houghton LC, Tsui F, Barrett E, Llanos AAM, Pennell K, Walker DAH, Martinez M, Morton B, Shepard P, Terry MB, McDonald JA. "The hair tales of women of color in Northern Manhattan: a qualitative analysis." Frontiers in reproductive health, vol. 6, 2024, pp. 1298615. |
| Smith SJ, Lauria M, Higgins CP, Pennell KD, Blotevogel J, Arp HPH. "The Need to Include a Fluorine Mass Balance in the Development of Effective Technologies for PFAS Destruction." Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 58, no. 6, 2024, pp. 2587-2590. |
| Dong S, Yan PF, Mezzari MP, Abriola LM, Pennell KD, Cápiro NL. "Using Network Analysis and Predictive Functional Analysis to Explore the Fluorotelomer Biotransformation Potential of Soil Microbial Communities." Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 58, no. 17, 2024, pp. 7480-7492. |
| Dong S, Yan PF, Liu C, Manz KE, Mezzari MP, Abriola LM, Pennell KD, Cápiro NL. "Assessing aerobic biotransformation of 8:2 fluorotelomer alcohol in aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF)-impacted soils: Pathways and microbial community dynamics." Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 446, 2023, pp. 130629. |
| Hall, Amber M., Fleury, Elvira, Papandonatos, George D., Buckley, Jessie P., Cecil, Kim M., Chen, Aimin, Lanphear, Bruce P., Yolton, Kimberly, Walker, Douglas I., Pennell, Kurt D., Braun, Joseph M., Manz, Katherine E. "Associations of a Prenatal Serum Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Mixture with the Cord Serum Metabolome in the HOME Study." Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 57, no. 51, 2023, pp. 21627-21636. |
| Tong, Jason H, Elmore, Sarah, Huang, Shenq-Shyang, Tachachartvanich, Phum, Manz, Katherine, Pennell, Kurt, Wilson, Machelle D, Borowsky, Alexander, La Merrill, Michele A. "Chronic Exposure to Low Levels of Parabens Increases Mammary Cancer Growth and Metastasis in Mice." Endocrinology, vol. 164, no. 3, 2023. |
| Liao S, Liu XL, Manz KE, Pennell KD, Novak J, Santos E, Huang Y. "Comprehensive analysis of alkenones by reversed-phase HPLC-MS with unprecedented selectivity, linearity and sensitivity." Talanta, vol. 260, 2023, pp. 124653. |
| Manz KE, Dodson RE, Liu Y, Scheidl L, Burks S, Dunn F, Gairola R, Lee NF, Walker ED, Pennell KD, Braun JM. "Effects of Corsi-Rosenthal boxes on indoor air contaminants: non-targeted analysis using high resolution mass spectrometry." Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, vol. 33, no. 4, 2023, pp. 537-547. |
| Kossack, Michelle E., Manz, Katherine E., Martin, Nathan R., Pennell, Kurt D., Plavicki, Jessica. "Environmentally relevant uptake, elimination, and metabolic changes following early embryonic exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in zebrafish." Chemosphere, vol. 310, 2023, pp. 136723. |
| Paquette, Shannon E., Martin, Nathan R., Rodd, April, Manz, Katherine E., Allen, Eden, Camarillo, Manuel, Weller, Hannah I., Pennell, Kurt, Plavicki, Jessica S. "Evaluation of Neural Regulation and Microglial Responses to Brain Injury in Larval Zebrafish Exposed to Perfluorooctane Sulfonate." Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 131, no. 11, 2023. |
| Liao, Shuchi, Akbariyeh, Simin, Chen, Xiongyu, Klevan, Craig, Greenley, Caroline, Johnston, Keith P., Abriola, Linda M., Pennell, Kurt D. "Evaluation of Polyelectrolyte Complex Nanoparticles for Prolonged Scale Inhibitor Release in Porous Media." Energy & Fuels, vol. 37, no. 6, 2023, pp. 4515-4523. |
| Wu, Haotian, Kalia, Vrinda, Manz, Katherine E., Chillrud, Lawrence, Dishon, Nathalie Hoffmann, Jackson, Gabriela L., Orvieto, Raoul, Dye, Christian K., Aizer, Adva, Levine, Hagai, Kioumourtzoglou, Marianthi-Anna, Pennell, Kurt, Machtinger, Ronit, Baccarelli, Andrea A. "EXPOSOME PROFILING REVEALS WIDESPREAD ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EXPOSURE IN SEMINAL PLASMA AND PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN ASSOCIATIONS WITH MALE FERTILITY." Fertility and Sterility, vol. 120, no. 4, 2023, pp. e304. |
| Manz KE, Kulaots I, Greenley CA, Landry PJ, Lakshmi KV, Woodcock MJ, Hellerich L, Bryant JD, Apfelbaum M, Pennell KD. "Low-temperature persulfate activation by powdered activated carbon for simultaneous destruction of perfluorinated carboxylic acids and 1,4-dioxane." Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 442, 2023, pp. 129966. |
| Puvvula, Jagadeesh, Manz, Kathrine E., Braun, Joseph M., Pennell, Kurt D., DeFranco, Emily A., Ho, Shuk-Mei, Leung, Yuet-Kin, Huang, Shouxiong, Vuong, Ann M., Kim, Stephani S., Percy, Zana P., Bhashyam, Priyanka, Lee, Raymund, Jones, Dean P., Tran, Vilinh, Kim, Dasom V., Chen, Aimin. "Maternal and newborn metabolomic changes associated with urinary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolite concentrations at delivery: an untargeted approach." Metabolomics, vol. 20, no. 1, 2023. |
| Hnatko JP, Liu C, Elsey JL, Dong S, Fortner JD, Pennell KD, Abriola LM, Cápiro NL. "Microbial Reductive Dechlorination by a Commercially Available Dechlorinating Consortium Is Not Inhibited by Perfluoroalkyl Acids (PFAAs) at Field-Relevant Concentrations." Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 57, no. 22, 2023, pp. 8301-8312. |
| Manz KE, Feerick A, Braun JM, Feng YL, Hall A, Koelmel J, Manzano C, Newton SR, Pennell KD, Place BJ, Godri Pollitt KJ, Prasse C, Young JA. "Non-targeted analysis (NTA) and suspect screening analysis (SSA): a review of examining the chemical exposome." Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, vol. 33, no. 4, 2023, pp. 524-536. |
| Zdioruk, Mykola, Jimenez-Macias, Jorge-Luis, Nowicki, Michal Oskar, Manz, Katherine E., Pennell, Kurt D., Koch, Marilin S., Finkelberg, Tomer, Wu, Bin, Boucher, Paul, Takeda, Yuji, Li, Weiyi, Piranlioglu, Raziye, Ling, Alexander L., Chiocca, E. Antonio, Lawler, Sean E. "PPRX-1701, a nanoparticle formulation of 6′-bromoindirubin acetoxime, improves delivery and shows efficacy in preclinical GBM models." Cell Reports Medicine, vol. 4, no. 5, 2023, pp. 101019. |
| Lee, Junseok, Kim, Changwoo, Liu, Chen, Wong, Michael S., Cápiro, Natalie L., Pennell, Kurt D., Fortner, John D. "Ultra-high capacity, multifunctional nanoscale sorbents for PFOA and PFOS treatment." npj Clean Water, vol. 6, no. 1, 2023. |
| Koelmel, Jeremy P, Xie, Hongyu, Price, Elliott J, Lin, Elizabeth Z, Manz, Katherine E, Stelben, Paul, Paige, Matthew K, Papazian, Stefano, Okeme, Joseph, Jones, Dean P, Barupal, Dinesh, Bowden, John A, Rostkowski, Pawel, Pennell, Kurt D, Nikiforov, Vladimir, Wang, Thanh, Hu, Xin, Lai, Yunjia, Miller, Gary W, Walker, Douglas I, Martin, Jonathan W, Godri Pollitt, Krystal J. "An actionable annotation scoring framework for gas chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry." Exposome, vol. 2, no. 1, 2022. |
| Yan, Peng-Fei, Dong, Sheng, Manz, Katherine E., Liu, Chen, Woodcock, Matthew J., Mezzari, Melissa P., Abriola, Linda M., Pennell, Kurt D., Cápiro, Natalie L. "Biotransformation of 8:2 Fluorotelomer Alcohol in Soil from Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFFs)-Impacted Sites under Nitrate-, Sulfate-, and Iron-Reducing Conditions." Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 56, no. 19, 2022, pp. 13728-13739. |
| Kalia, Vrinda, Niedzwiecki, Megan M, Bradner, Joshua M, Lau, Fion K, Anderson, Faith L, Bucher, Meghan L, Manz, Katherine E, Schlotter, Alexa Puri, Fuentes, Zoe Coates, Pennell, Kurt D, Picard, Martin, Walker, Douglas I, Hu, William T, Jones, Dean P, Miller, Gary W. "Cross-species metabolomic analysis of tau- and DDT-related toxicity." PNAS Nexus, vol. 1, no. 2, 2022. |
| Dodson, Robin E., Manz, Katherine E., Burks, Shaunessey R., Gairola, Richa, Lee, Nina F., Liu, Yun, Pennell, Kurt D., Walker, Erica D., Braun, Joseph M. "Does Using Corsi–Rosenthal Boxes to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission Also Reduce Indoor Air Concentrations of PFAS and Phthalates?." Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 57, no. 1, 2022, pp. 415-427. |
| Dusza HM, Manz KE, Pennell KD, Kanda R, Legler J. "Identification of known and novel nonpolar endocrine disruptors in human amniotic fluid." Environment International, vol. 158, 2022, pp. 106904. |
| Liu C, Chu J, Cápiro NL, Fortner JD, Pennell KD. "In-situ sequestration of perfluoroalkyl substances using polymer-stabilized ion exchange resin." Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 422, 2022, pp. 126960. |
| Liao, Shuchi, Arshadi, Masoud, Woodcock, Matthew J., Saleeba, Zachary S. S. L., Pinchbeck, Dorothea, Liu, Chen, Cápiro, Natalie L., Abriola, Linda M., Pennell, Kurt D. "Influence of Residual Nonaqueous-Phase Liquids (NAPLs) on the Transport and Retention of Perfluoroalkyl Substances." Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 56, no. 12, 2022, pp. 7976-7985. |
| Walker DI, Hart JE, Patel CJ, Rudel R, Chu JH, Garshick E, Pennell KD, Laden F, Jones DP. "Integrated molecular response of exposure to traffic-related pollutants in the US trucking industry." Environment International, vol. 158, 2022, pp. 106957. |
| Walker, Douglas I., Cápiro, Natalie L., Chen, Emmie, Anderson, Katelyn, Pennell, Kurt D. "Micellar solubilization of binary organic liquid mixtures for surfactant enhanced aquifer remediation." Journal of Surfactants and Detergents, vol. 26, no. 3, 2022, pp. 357-368. |
| Dandamudi, Chola Bhargava, Iqbal, Muhammad, Lyon-Marion, Bonnie A., Han, Jae Jin Lisa, Fei, Yunping, Lee, Joohyung, Ellison, Christopher J., Pennell, Kurt D., Johnston, Keith P. "Mobility of Sub-50 nm Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Ultrahigh Initial Magnetic Susceptibility in Intact Berea Sandstone at High Salinity." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 61, no. 33, 2022, pp. 12132-12141. |
| Machtinger, R, Kalia, V, Orvieto, R, Levine, H, Baccarelli, A.A, Hoffmann-Dishon, N, Aizer, A, Pennell, K.D, Manz, K, Wu, H. "O-247 Seminal Plasma Exposomics and Male Reproductive Parameters." Human Reproduction, vol. 37, no. Supplement_1, 2022. |
| Hu X, Walker DI, Liang Y, Smith MR, Orr ML, Juran BD, Ma C, Uppal K, Koval M, Martin GS, Neujahr DC, Marsit CJ, Go YM, Pennell KD, Miller GW, Lazaridis KN, Jones DP. "A scalable workflow to characterize the human exposome." Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021, pp. 5575. |
| Mohammadnejad, Hamed, Marion, Bonnie A., Kmetz, Anthony A., Johnson, Keith P., Pennell, Kurt D., Abriola, Linda M. "Development and experimental evaluation of a mathematical model to predict polymer-enhanced nanoparticle mobility in heterogeneous formations." Environmental Science: Nano, vol. 8, no. 2, 2021, pp. 470-484. |
| vonderEmbse AN, Elmore SE, Jackson KB, Habecker BA, Manz KE, Pennell KD, Lein PJ, La Merrill MA. "Developmental exposure to DDT or DDE alters sympathetic innervation of brown adipose in adult female mice." Environmental health : a global access science source, vol. 20, no. 1, 2021, pp. 37. |
| Liao, Shuchi, Ghosh, Anushree, Becker, Matthew D., Abriola, Linda M., Cápiro, Natalie L., Fortner, John D., Pennell, Kurt D. "Effect of rhamnolipid biosurfactant on transport and retention of iron oxide nanoparticles in water-saturated quartz sand." Environmental Science: Nano, vol. 8, no. 1, 2021, pp. 311-327. |
| Liao, Shuchi, Liu, Chen, Pinchbeck, Dorothea, Cápiro, Natalie L., Fortner, John D., Abriola, Linda M., Pennell, Kurt D. "Effects of rhamnolipid biosurfactant on the dissolution and transport of silver nanoparticles in porous media." Environmental Science: Nano, vol. 8, no. 9, 2021, pp. 2492-2506. |
| Yang L, Hnatko JP, Elsey JL, Christ JA, Pennell KD, Cápiro NL, Abriola LM. "Exploration of processes governing microbial reductive dechlorination in a heterogeneous aquifer flow cell." Water research, vol. 193, 2021, pp. 116842. |
| Liao, Shuchi, Saleeba, Zachary, Bryant, J. Daniel, Abriola, Linda M., Pennell, Kurt D. "Influence of aqueous film forming foams on the solubility and mobilization of non-aqueous phase liquid contaminants in quartz sands." Water Research, vol. 195, 2021, pp. 116975. |
| Voinescu PE, Pennell KD, Bay CP, Stowe ZN, Peng L, Frye CA, Tang KY, Pennell PB. "Pregnant women with more seizures have lower allopregnanolone concentrations." Epilepsy Research, vol. 177, 2021, pp. 106778. |
| Manz, Katherine E, Yamada, Kyle, Scheidl, Lukas, La Merrill, Michele A, Lind, Lars, Pennell, Kurt D. "Targeted and Nontargeted Detection and Characterization of Trace Organic Chemicals in Human Serum and Plasma Using QuEChERS Extraction." Toxicological Sciences, vol. 185, no. 1, 2021, pp. 77-88. |
| Liu, C., J. Hatton, W.A. Arnold, M.F. Simcik, K.D. Pennell. ". In-situ sequestration of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) using polymer-stabilized powdered activated carbon." Environ. Sci. Technol, vol. 54, 2020, pp. 6929-6936. |
| Johnson, Caitlin L., Jazan, Elisa, Kong, Sek Won, Pennell, Kurt D. "A two-step gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for measurement of multiple environmental pollutants in human plasma." Environmental Science and Pollution Research, vol. 28, no. 3, 2020, pp. 3266-3279. |
| Huff, David K., Morris, Lawrence A., Sutter, Lori, Costanza, Jed, Pennell, Kurt D. "Accumulation of six PFAS compounds by woody and herbaceous plants: potential for phytoextraction." International Journal of Phytoremediation, vol. 22, no. 14, 2020, pp. 1538-1550. |
| Costanza J, Abriola LM, Pennell KD. "Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Exhibit Greater Interfacial Activity than PFOA, PFOS, or FOSA." Environmental Science & Technology, 2020. |
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Hnatko, J.P., L. Yang, K.D. Pennell, L.M. Abriola, N.L. Cápiro.
"Bioenhanced back diffusion and population dynamics of Dehalococcoides mccartyi strains in heterogeneous porous media." Chemosphere, vol. 254, 2020, pp. 126482.
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| Hnatko JP, Yang L, Pennell KD, Abriola LM, Cápiro NL. "Bioenhanced back diffusion and population dynamics of Dehalococcoides mccartyi strains in heterogeneous porous media." Chemosphere, vol. 254, 2020, pp. 126842. |
| Kim C, Pennell KD, Fortner JD. "Delineating the Relationship between Nanoparticle Attachment Efficiency and Fluid Flow Velocity." Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 54, no. 21, 2020, pp. 13992-13999. |
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Mohammadnejad, H., S. Liao§, B. Marion§, K.D. Pennell, L.M. Abriola.
"Development and validation of a two-stage kinetic sorption model for polymer and surfactant transport in porous media." Environ. Sci. Technol., vol. 54, 2020, pp. 4912-4921.
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| Naidu, R., Nadebaum, P., Fang, C., Cousins, I., Pennell, K., Conder, J., Newell, C.J., Longpré, D., Warner, S., Crosbie, N.D., Surapaneni, A., Bekele, D., Spiese, R., Bradshaw, T., Slee, D., Liu, Y., Qi, F., Mallavarapu, M., Duan, L., McLeod, L., Bowman, M., Richmond, B., Srivastava, P., Chadalavada, S., Umeh, A., Biswas, B., Barclay, A., Simon, J., Nathanail, P. "Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Current status and research needs." Environmental Technology & Innovation, vol. 19, 2020, pp. 100915. |
| Ureña-Benavides, Esteban E., Moaseri, Ehsan, Changalvaie, Behzad, Fei, Yunping, Iqbal, Muhammad, Lyon, Bonnie A., Kmetz, Anthony A., Pennell, Kurt D., Ellison, Christopher J., Johnston, Keith P. "Polyelectrolyte coated individual silica nanoparticles dispersed in concentrated divalent brine at elevated temperatures for subsurface energy applications." Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, vol. 586, 2020, pp. 124276. |
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Muff, J., L. MacKinnon, N.D. Durant, L.F. Bennedsen, K. Rügge, M. Bondgaard, K.D. Pennell.
"Solubility and reactivity of surfactant-enhanced alkaline hydrolysis of organophosphorus pesticide DNAPL." Environ. Sci. Pollution Res., vol. 27, 2020, pp. 3428-3439.
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Costanza, J., M. Arshadi, L.M. Abriola, K.D. Pennell.
"Accumulation of PFOA and PFOS at the air-water interface." Environ. Sci. Technol. Letters, vol. 6, 2019, pp. 487-491.
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| Aly, Yousof H., McInnis, Daniel P., Lombardo, Samuel M., Arnold, William A., Pennell, Kurt D., Hatton, James, Simcik, Matt F. "Enhanced adsorption of perfluoro alkyl substances for in situ remediation." Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, vol. 5, no. 11, 2019, pp. 1867-1875. |
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La Merrill, M.A., CL. Johnson§, M.T. Smith, N.R. Kandula, A. Macherone, K.D. Pennell, A.M. Kanaya.
"Exposure to dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and association with hepatic fat and insulin insensitivity among Asian Indian immigrants in the United States." Environ. Sci. Technol., vol. 53, 2019, pp. 13906-13918.
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| La Merrill, Michele A., Johnson, Caitlin L., Smith, Martyn T., Kandula, Namratha R., Macherone, Anthony, Pennell, Kurt D., Kanaya, Alka M. "Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Their Relationship to Hepatic Fat and Insulin Insensitivity among Asian Indian Immigrants in the United States." Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 53, no. 23, 2019, pp. 13906-13918. |
| Walker, Douglas I., Perry-Walker, Kayla, Finnell, Richard H., Pennell, Kurt D., Tran, Vilinh, May, Ryan C., McElrath, Thomas F., Meador, Kimford J., Pennell, Page B., Jones, Dean P. "Metabolome-wide association study of anti-epileptic drug treatment during pregnancy." Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, vol. 363, 2019, pp. 122-130. |
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Kingsley, S.L., D.I. Walker, A.M. Calafat, A. Chen, G.D. Papandonatos, Y. Xu, D.P Jones, B.P. Lanphear, K.D. Pennell, J.M. Braun.
"Metabolomics of childhood exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances: A cross-sectional study." Metabolomics, vol. 15, 2019, pp. 95-103.
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| Walker, Douglas I., Marder, M. Elizabeth, Yano, Yukiko, Terrell, Metrecia, Liang, Yongliang, Barr, Dana Boyd, Miller, Gary W., Jones, Dean P., Marcus, Michele, Pennell, Kurt D. "Multigenerational metabolic profiling in the Michigan PBB registry." Environmental Research, vol. 172, 2019, pp. 182-193. |
| D, Walker, S, Kingsley, G, Papandonatos, A, Calafat, B, Lanphear, K, Pennell, J, Braun, N, Li. "Untargeted high-resolution metabolomics to measure and describe the “perfluorome”." Environmental Epidemiology, vol. 3, no. Supplement 1, 2019, pp. 420-420. |
| Lyon-Marion, Bonnie A., Mittelman, Anjuliee M., Rayner, Justine, Lantagne, Daniele S., Pennell, Kurt D. "Impact of chlorination on silver elution from ceramic water filters." Water Research, vol. 142, 2018, pp. 471-479. |
| Marcet TF, Cápiro NL, Yang Y, Löffler FE, Pennell KD. "Impacts of low-temperature thermal treatment on microbial detoxification of tetrachloroethene under continuous flow conditions." Water research, vol. 145, 2018, pp. 21-29. |
| Aly, Yousof H., Liu, Chen, McInnis, Daniel P., Lyon, Bonnie A., Hatton, James, McCarty, Michael, Arnold, William A., Pennell, Kurt D., Simcik, Matt F. "In Situ Remediation Method for Enhanced Sorption of Perfluoro-Alkyl Substances onto Ottawa Sand." Journal of Environmental Engineering, vol. 144, no. 9, 2018. |
| Walker, Douglas I., Lane, Kevin J., Liu, Ken, Uppal, Karan, Patton, Allison P., Durant, John L., Jones, Dean P., Brugge, Doug, Pennell, Kurt D. "Metabolomic assessment of exposure to near-highway ultrafine particles." Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, vol. 29, no. 4, 2018, pp. 469-483. |
| Lee, Joohyung, Beniah, Goliath, Dandamudi, Chola Bhargava, Han, Jae Jin, Lyon, Bonnie A., Norton, Chasity A., Huffman, Nicolas D., Johnson, Leah M., Mecham, Jeffrey B., Rothrock, Ginger D., Zhou, Nijia, Pennell, Kurt D., Johnston, Keith P. "Noncovalent grafting of polyelectrolytes onto hydrophobic polymer colloids with a swelling agent." Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, vol. 555, 2018, pp. 457-464. |
| Marcet, Tyler F., Cápiro, Natalie L., Morris, Lawrence A., Hassan, Sayed M., Yang, Yi, Löffler, Frank E., Pennell, Kurt D. "Release of Electron Donors during Thermal Treatment of Soils." Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 52, no. 6, 2018, pp. 3642-3651. |
| Wilton, Nicholas, Lyon-Marion, Bonnie A., Kamath, Roopa, McVey, Kevin, Pennell, Kurt D., Robbat, Albert. "Remediation of heavy hydrocarbon impacted soil using biopolymer and polystyrene foam beads." Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 349, 2018, pp. 153-159. |
| Walker, Douglas I., Pennell, Kurt D., Jones, Dean P. "The Mitochondrial Exposome." Mitochondrial Dysfunction Caused by Drugs and Environmental Toxicants, 2018, pp. 613-637. |
| Iqbal, Muhammad, Lyon, Bonnie A., Ureña-Benavides, Esteban E., Moaseri, Ehsan, Fei, Yunping, McFadden, Charles, Javier, Kevin J., Ellison, Christopher J., Pennell, Kurt D., Johnston, Keith P. "High temperature stability and low adsorption of sub-100 nm magnetite nanoparticles grafted with sulfonated copolymers on Berea sandstone in high salinity brine." Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, vol. 520, 2017, pp. 257-267. |
| Yang, Yi, Cápiro, Natalie L., Marcet, Tyler F., Yan, Jun, Pennell, Kurt D., Löffler, Frank E. "Organohalide Respiration with Chlorinated Ethenes under Low pH Conditions." Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 51, no. 15, 2017, pp. 8579-8588. |
| Yang, Yi, Cápiro, Natalie L., Yan, Jun, Marcet, Tyler F., Pennell, Kurt D., Löffler, Frank E. "Resilience and recovery of Dehalococcoides mccartyi following low pH exposure." FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 93, no. 12, 2017. |
| Lyon-Marion, Bonnie A., Becker, Matthew D., Kmetz, Anthony A., Foster, Edward, Johnston, Keith P., Abriola, Linda M., Pennell, Kurt D. "Simulation of magnetite nanoparticle mobility in a heterogeneous flow cell." Environmental Science: Nano, vol. 4, no. 7, 2017, pp. 1512-1524. |
| Costanza, Jed, Marcet, Tyler, Cápiro, Natalie L., Pennell, Kurt D. "Tetrachloroethene Release and Degradation During Combined ERH and Sodium Persulfate Oxidation." Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation, vol. 37, no. 4, 2017, pp. 43-50. |
| Walker DI, Mallon CT, Hopke PK, Uppal K, Go YM, Rohrbeck P, Pennell KD, Jones DP. "Deployment-Associated Exposure Surveillance With High-Resolution Metabolomics." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, vol. 58, no. 8 Suppl 1, 2016, pp. S12-21. |
| Dean ED, Mexas LM, Cápiro NL, McKeon JE, DeLong MR, Pennell KD, Doorn JA, Tangpricha V, Miller GW, Evatt ML. "25-Hydroxyvitamin D depletion does not exacerbate MPTP-induced dopamine neuron damage in mice." PLoS ONE, vol. 7, no. 7, 2012, pp. e39227. |
| Fletcher KE, Ritalahti KM, Pennell KD, Takamizawa K, Löffler FE. "Resolution of culture Clostridium bifermentans DPH-1 into two populations, a Clostridium sp. and tetrachloroethene-dechlorinating Desulfitobacterium hafniense strain JH1." Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 74, no. 19, 2008, pp. 6141-3. |
| Young MH, Rasmussen TC, Lyons FC, Pennell KD. "Optimized system to improve pumping rate stability during aquifer tests." Ground water, vol. 40, no. 6, 2002, pp. 629-37. |
My current research focuses on the transport and remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment, the use of engineered nanomaterials for subsurface characterization and delivery, and the use of high-resolution mass spectrometry for exposure assessments and metabolomics.
1. Development of Predictive Tools for Assessment of Natural Attenuation Capacity and Treatment Transition at Chlorinated Solvent Sites
Strategic Environmental Research Development Program (SERDP) 8/1/2020-1/31/2023
co-PI with Natalie Capiro (PI, Auburn), and Mike Kavanaugh (co-PI, Geosyntec)
2. Evaluating PFAS Occurrence and Fate in Rural Water Supplies and Agricultural Operations to Inform Management Strategies
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 11/1/2020-10/31/2023
co-PI with Linda Lee (PI, Purdue) and Heather Preisendanz (Penn State)
3. Acquisition of High Resolution Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometer
National Science Foundation (NSF) 9/1/2019-8/31/2022,
PI, co-PIs with Bob Hurt (Brown), Jess Plavicki (Brown), Joe Braun (Brown), Vicki Colvin (Brown)
4. Fate and Transport of PFAS in the Subsurface
Strategic Environmental Research Development Program (SERDP) 7/1/2018-8/31/2021
co-PI with Linda Abriola (PI, Tufts) and Natalie Capiro (co-PI, Auburn)
5. Effects of Nano-Bio Interactions on Nanoparticle Fate and Transport in Porous Media
National Science Foundation (NSF) 9/1/17–8/31/20
PI with John Fortner (co-PI, Wash Univ.) and Natalie Capiro (co-PI, Tufts)
6. Development of Coupled Physiochemical and Biological Systems for In-Situ Remediation of Mixed Perfluorinated Chemical and Chlorinated Solvent Groundwater Plumes
Strategic Environmental Research Development Program (SERDP) 1/1/18-8/31/21
PI with Natalie Cápiro (co-PI, Tufts) and John Fortner (co-PI, Wash Univ.)
7. An Environment-wide Association Study in Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Novel Bioinformatics Methods and Metabolomics via Mass Spectrometry
National Institute of Health (NIH) 9/1/15 - 8/31/20
co-PI with Sek Won Kong (PI, Children’s Hospital) and Dean Jones (co-PI, Emory)
8. Measurement and Modeling of High Mobility Nanoparticles for Advanced Oil Recovery
Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC) 1/01/15-12/31/20
PI with Linda Abriola (co-PI, Tufts)
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | PhD | University of Florida |
| 1986 | MS | North Carolina State University |
| 1984 | BS | University of Maine |
| Post-Doctoral Fellow | University of Michigan, Civil & Environmental Engineering | 1990-1993 | Ann Arbor, MI |
Fellow, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP)
Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
SERDP Project of the Year, Environmental Restoration
Career Award (K25), National Institutes of Health, NIEHS
Outstanding Service Award, Soil Physics Division, Soil Science Society of America
Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society
Faculty Member of the Year Award, College of Engineering, Order of Omega
250th Anniversary Professor, School of Engineering, Brown University 2018-
| Board Certified Environmental Engineer | AAEES, Environmental Engineering | 2009- | |
| Professional Engineer | State of Georgia | 2006- | #PE030840 |
| Professional Soil Scientist | ARCPACS | 1998- | #24756 |
| ENGN 0490 - Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering |
| ENGN 1150 - Environmental Engineering Design |
| ENGN 1340 - Water Supply and Treatment Systems - Technology and Sustainability |
| ENGN 2911P - Fate and Transport of Environmental Contaminants |
