Alexandria Boehm
· Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies, Professor of Oceans and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the EnvironmentStanford University · Civil and Environmental Engineering
Active 1969–2024
About
Alexandria Boehm is the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies, Professor of Oceans, and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Her role involves research and teaching in the field of environmental studies, with a focus on oceanic and environmental issues. As a senior fellow at the Woods Institute, she contributes to interdisciplinary research efforts related to environmental challenges and sustainability.
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Research topics
- Medicine
- Computer Science
- Environmental science
- Environmental engineering
- Virology
- Business
- Biology
- Engineering
- Environmental health
- Internal medicine
- Waste management
- Computer Security
- Environmental planning
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Microbiology
- Chemistry
- Demography
- Ecology
- Public relations
- Pathology
- Biochemistry
Selected publications
MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report · 2022 · 86 citations
- Sociology
- Demography
- Medicine
Notes from the Field: Early Evidence of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant in Community Wastewater — United States, November–December 2021 Covers: California, Colorado, New York City, Houston
Preventing Scientific and Ethical Misuse of Wastewater Surveillance Data
Environmental Science & Technology · 2021 · 33 citations
- Computer Security
- Computer Science
- Business
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVViewpointNEXTPreventing Scientific and Ethical Misuse of Wastewater Surveillance DataMhara M. CoffmanMhara M. CoffmanDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United StatesMore by Mhara M. Coffman, Jeremy S. GuestJeremy S. GuestDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United StatesMore by Jeremy S. Guesthttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2489-2579, Marlene K. WolfeMarlene K. WolfeDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United StatesMore by Marlene K. Wolfe, Colleen C. NaughtonColleen C. NaughtonDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California Merced, Merced, California 95343, United StatesMore by Colleen C. Naughton, Alexandria B. Boehm*Alexandria B. BoehmDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States*Email: [email protected]More by Alexandria B. Boehmhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8162-5090, Jeseth Delgado VelaJeseth Delgado VelaDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059, United StatesMore by Jeseth Delgado Velahttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6171-4400, and Jennifer S. CarreraJennifer S. CarreraDepartment of Sociology and Environmental Science & Policy Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United StatesMore by Jennifer S. CarreraCite this: Environ. Sci. Technol. 2021, 55, 17, 11473–11475Publication Date (Web):August 25, 2021Publication History Received29 June 2021Published online25 August 2021Published inissue 7 September 2021https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04325https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c04325article-commentaryACS PublicationsCopyright © 2021 American Chemical Society. This publication is available under these Terms of Use. Request reuse permissions This publication is free to access through this site. Learn MoreArticle Views5207Altmetric-Citations11LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail PDF (1 MB) Get e-AlertscloseSUBJECTS:Biomarkers,COVID-19,Elimination reactions,Wastewater,Water treatment Get e-Alerts
Environmental Science Water Research & Technology · 2021 · 71 citations
- Computer Science
- Political Science
- Business
SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in wastewater is being rapidly developed and adopted as a public health monitoring tool worldwide. With wastewater surveillance programs being implemented across many different scales and by many different stakeholders, it is critical that data collected and shared are accompanied by an appropriate minimal amount of metainformation to enable meaningful interpretation and use of this new information source and intercomparison across datasets. While some databases are being developed for specific surveillance programs locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally, common globally-adopted data standards have not yet been established within the research community. Establishing such standards will require national and international consensus on what metainformation should accompany SARS-CoV-2 wastewater measurements. To establish a recommendation on minimum information to accompany reporting of SARS-CoV-2 occurrence in wastewater for the research community, the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Coordination Network on Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 hosted a workshop in February 2021 with participants from academia, government agencies, private companies, wastewater utilities, public health laboratories, and research institutes. This report presents the primary two outcomes of the workshop: (i) a recommendation on the set of minimum meta-information that is needed to confidently interpret wastewater SARS-CoV-2 data, and (ii) insights from workshop discussions on how to improve standardization of data reporting.
SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance for Public Health Action
Emerging infectious diseases · 2021 · 144 citations
- Environmental health
- Medicine
- Business
Wastewater surveillance for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has garnered extensive public attention during the coronavirus disease pandemic as a proposed complement to existing disease surveillance systems. Over the past year, methods for detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in untreated sewage have advanced, and concentrations in wastewater have been shown to correlate with trends in reported cases. Despite the promise of wastewater surveillance, for these measurements to translate into useful public health tools, bridging the communication and knowledge gaps between researchers and public health responders is needed. We describe the key uses, barriers, and applicability of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance for supporting public health decisions and actions, including establishing ethics consideration for monitoring. Although wastewater surveillance to assess community infections is not a new idea, the coronavirus disease pandemic might be the initiating event to make this emerging public health tool a sustainable nationwide surveillance system, provided that these barriers are addressed.
Environmental DNA reveals seasonal shifts and potential interactions in a marine community
Nature Communications · 2020 · 320 citations
- Ecology
- Biology
Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis allows the simultaneous examination of organisms across multiple trophic levels and domains of life, providing critical information about the complex biotic interactions related to ecosystem change. Here we used multilocus amplicon sequencing of eDNA to survey biodiversity from an eighteen-month (2015-2016) time-series of seawater samples from Monterey Bay, California. The resulting dataset encompasses 663 taxonomic groups (at Family or higher taxonomic rank) ranging from microorganisms to mammals. We inferred changes in the composition of communities, revealing putative interactions among taxa and identifying correlations between these communities and environmental properties over time. Community network analysis provided evidence of expected predator-prey relationships, trophic linkages, and seasonal shifts across all domains of life. We conclude that eDNA-based analyses can provide detailed information about marine ecosystem dynamics and identify sensitive biological indicators that can suggest ecosystem changes and inform conservation strategies.
Environmental Science & Technology · 2020 · 397 citations
Senior authorCorresponding- Virology
- Biology
- Chemistry
Wastewater-based epidemiology may be useful for informing public health response to viral diseases like COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2. We quantified SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater influent and primary settled solids in two wastewater treatment plants to inform the preanalytical and analytical approaches and to assess whether influent or solids harbored more viral targets. The primary settled solids samples resulted in higher SARS-CoV-2 detection frequencies than the corresponding influent samples. Likewise, SARS-CoV-2 RNA was more readily detected in solids using one-step digital droplet (dd)RT-PCR than with two-step RT-QPCR and two-step ddRT-PCR, likely owing to reduced inhibition with the one-step ddRT-PCR assay. We subsequently analyzed a longitudinal time series of 89 settled solids samples from a single plant for SARS-CoV-2 RNA as well as coronavirus recovery (bovine coronavirus) and fecal strength (pepper mild mottle virus) controls. SARS-CoV-2 RNA targets N1 and N2 concentrations correlated positively and significantly with COVID-19 clinically confirmed case counts in the sewershed. Together, the results demonstrate that measuring SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in settled solids may be a more sensitive approach than measuring SARS-CoV-2 in influent.
Environmental Science & Technology · 2020 · 467 citations
- Environmental science
- Environmental planning
- Virology
From the article: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel member of the Coronaviridae family, has been identified as the etiologic agent of an ongoing pandemic of severe pneumonia known as COVID-19. To date there have been millions of cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in 184 countries with case fatality rates ranging from 1.8% in Germany to 12.5% in Italy. Limited diagnostic testing capacity and asymptomatic and oligosymptomatic infections result in significant uncertainty in the estimated extent of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Recent reports have documented that infection with SARS-CoV-2 is accompanied by persistent shedding of virus RNA in feces in 27% to 89% of patients at densities from 0.8 to 7.5 log10 gene copies per gram. The presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in feces raises the potential to survey sewage for virus RNA to inform epidemiological monitoring of COVID-19, which we refer to as wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), but is also known as environmental surveillance. ...
Recent grants
NSF · $282k · 2011–2016
SGER: Human Contributions to Microbial Pollution in Hanalei Bay, Kauai
NSF · $125k · 2007–2009
Collaborative Research: Pacific Research Center for Marine Biomedicine
NSF · $393k · 2009–2013
NSF · $86k · 2016–2020
NSF · $171k · 2009–2012
Frequent coauthors
- 225 shared
D.G. Fong
- 225 shared
M. Rohde
Delft University of Technology
- 223 shared
G. Herten
University of Freiburg
- 223 shared
D. Luckey
ETH Zurich
- 223 shared
U. Becker
European Organization for Nuclear Research
- 223 shared
M. J. White
- 222 shared
M. Fukushima
- 221 shared
H. Fesefeldt
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