Dr Onstad works with the Washington State Department of Ecology as an Industrial Enforcement Specialist, which involves water quality regulation of industrial effluents that impact surface water, groundwater and wastewater treatment plants.
She gives guest lectures in undergraduate courses about water and sampling.
Drinking water quality and treatment, analytical method development, oxidation kinetics, disinfection byproducts, harmful algal blooms, source apportionment of chemical contaminants (nitrates, fracking fluid) in household wells and removal by point-of-use water treatment.
Not available to mentor new students in autumn 2020.
Research Interests:
Drinking water quality and treatment, analytical method development, oxidation kinetics, disinfection byproducts, harmful algal blooms, source apportionment of chemical contaminants (nitrates, fracking fluid) in household wells and removal by point-of-use water treatment.
