Kelsey Pieper
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact
- k.pieper@northeastern.edu
- 400 SN
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Office
- 467 Snell Engineering Center
Research Focus
Applied environmental chemistry; corrosion; drinking water quality, treatment, and infrastructure; post-disaster drinking water recovery; public health engineering
Education
- PhD, Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2015
- MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2011
Research Overview
Applied environmental chemistry; corrosion; drinking water quality, treatment, and infrastructure; post-disaster drinking water recovery; public health engineering
Selected Research Projects
- Identification of Factors Impacting Efficacy and Adoption of Low-Cost Point of Use Filters
- – Co-Principal Investigator, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Impact of Hurricane Florence on Well Quality in Communities Surrounding Coal Ash Impoundments in North Carolina
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Untapping the Crowd: Consumer Detection and Control of Lead in Drinking Water
- – Co-Principal Investigator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- D. Dai, W. Rhoads, A. Katner, L. Strom, M. Edwards, A. Pruden, K.J. Pieper, Molecular Survey of Legionella and Naegleria Fowleri in Private Well Water and Premise Plumbing Following the 2016 Louisiana Flood, Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 2019
- K.J. Pieper, V.E. Nystrom, J. Parks, K. Jennings, H. Faircloth, J.B. Morgan, J. Bruckner, M.A. Edwards, Elevated Lead in Water of Private Wells Poses Health Risks: Case Study in Macon County, North Carolina, Environmental Science & Technology, 52(7),2018, 4350–4357
- K.J. Pieper, R. Martin, M. Tang, L. Walters, J. Parks, S. Roy, C. Devine, M.A. Edwards, Evaluating Water Lead Levels During the Flint Water Crisis, Environmental Science & Technology, 52(15), 2018, 8124–8132
- J. Parks, K.J. Pieper, A. Katner, M. Tang, M. Edwards, Potential Challenges Meeting the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Lead in School Drinking Water Goal of 1 μg/L, Corrosion, 74(8), 2018, 914-917
- K.J. Pieper, M. Tang, M.A. Edwards, Flint Water Crisis caused by Interrupted Corrosion
Control: Investigating “Ground Zero” Home, Environmental Science & Technology, 51(4), 2017,
2007–2014
May 18, 2020
Effects of COVID-19 on Water Supply Usage
CEE Assistant Professor Ameet Pinto, MES/COS/CEE Associate Professor Aron Stubbins, and CEE Assistant Professor Kelsey Pieper were awarded a $200K NSF RAPID grant for “Extreme water use patterns and their impact on the microbial and chemical ecology of drinking water.”
Feb 21, 2020
Road Salt Contaminating Unregulated Water Supplies
CEE Assistant Professor Kelsey Pieper is researching water contaminated with road salt in communities that use private wells, natural springs, and cisterns.
Aug 29, 2019
New Faculty Spotlight: Kelsey Pieper
Kelsey Pieper joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in August 2019 as an Assistant Professor.