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Biography
I grew up in Danbury, CT, and stayed along to East Coast for most of my life. I went to college at a small liberal arts university called Loyola University Maryland, in Baltimore, MD where I received my B.S. in Chemistry and minor in Mathematics. I absolutely adored my department and got involved any way I could by tutoring, TAing, and eventually starting my own research project, where I investigated how glyphosate affected the heavy metal uptake in corn and soybeans. I fell in love with research, especially with environmental applications, and decided to follow the rush by attending CSU for my Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry. The Borch lab seemed like the perfect match due to the interdisciplinary nature and environmental focus. Outside of chemistry, I enjoy hiking, kayaking, and baking making Colorado the perfect place to move.
While in the Borch Lab, my project focuses on looking at the effects of treatments on unconventional or polluted water sources. Many wastewaters are currently managed in unsustainable or damaging ways to the environment. As water continues to become a high commodity resource, we want to determine the reuse potential wastewater could have on various end users. With a collaborative team, crossing numerous fields, we use metabolomics, ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry, sorbents and membrane filtration to determine reuse potential for wastewaters.
Project Summary
With pollution becoming a growing issue across the globe, it is important to find alternative ways to treat water safely that won’t endanger the health of the plants that will utilize it. As more and more water becomes polluted, less will be able to be used by the agriculture industry. It is critical that we begin to investigate sustainable solutions that are cost-effective. While in the Borch Lab, my project will focus on looking at the effects of alternative irrigation sources on soil and plant health. With a collaborative team, crossing numerous fields, we hope to use metabolomics, irrigations trails, ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry, and membrane filtration to create a sustainable solution that provides an irrigation alternative that not only is cost effective, but causes little damage to the soil and plant health.
Efficacy of Nanofiltration and Reverse Osmosis for the Treatment of Oil-Field Produced Water Intended for Beneficial Reuse
Nohyeong Jeong, Marin E. Wiltse, Aaron Boyd, Tamzin Blewett, Shinyun Park, Corey Broeckling, Thomas Borch, and Tiezheng Tong
ACS ES&T Engineering Article ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acsestengg.3c00138
Recent Publications
Marin E Wiltse, Brooke Ballenger, Connor B Stewart, Tamzin A Blewett, Claire Wadler, Holly K Roth, Maelle Coupannec, Huma Tariq, Pei Xu, Yeinner Tarazona, Yanyan Zhang, Ralf Sudowe, James S Rosenblum, Jason C Quinn, Thomas Borch. Oil and gas produced water for cattle, crops, and surface water discharge: Evaluation of chemistry, toxicity and economics. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.138581
Sierra Jech, Clifford Adamchak, Sean C Stokes, Marin E Wiltse, Jessica Callen, Jacob VanderRoest, Eugene F Kelly, Eve-Lyn S Hinckley, Holly J Stein, Thomas Borch, Noah Fierer. Determination of Soil Contamination at the Wildland-Urban Interface after the 2021 Marshall Fire in Colorado, USA. Environmental Science & Technology. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c08508
Nohyeong Jeong, Marin E Wiltse, Aaron Boyd, Tamzin Blewett, Shinyun Park, Corey Broeckling, Thomas Borch, Tiezheng Tong. Efficacy of nanofiltration and reverse osmosis for the treatment of oil-field produced water intended for beneficial reuse. Acs Es&T Engineering. 2023. doi:10.1021/acsestengg.3c00138.
Aaron Boyd, Ivy Luu, Devang Mehta, Sunil P Myers, Connor B Stewart, Karthik R Shivakumar, Katherine N Snihur, Daniel S Alessi, Maria Camila Rodriguez Gallo, Heather Veilleux, Marin E Wiltse, Thomas Borch, R Glen Uhrig, Tamzin A Blewett. Persisting Effects in Daphnia magna Following an Acute Exposure to Flowback and Produced Waters from the Montney Formation. Environmental Science & Technology. 2023. doi:10.1021/acs.est.2c0744
