Dr Talia Abbott Chalew is an environmental health scientist and educator with over 15 years of experience designing and teaching courses in public health, environmental science, sustainability, and the urban environment. She has led interactive programs for American study abroad students in London, taught graduate level seminars, and currently serves as adjunct faculty for Johns Hopkins University and Purdue University. Dr Abbott Chalew earned her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she later completed a post doctoral fellowship. Her research investigates how emerging nanomaterials behave as contaminants in drinking water and what that means for human health.
Selected Publications
Ajmani, G., Abbott Chalew, T. E., Teychene, B., Wang, Y., Jacangelo, J.G., and H. Huang. Effect of hydrodynamic diameter on the sieving of waterborne carbon nanotubes by porous membranes. Journal of Membrane Science. 470: 470-478, 2014.
Ajmani, G., Cho, H., Abbott Chalew, T. E., Schwab, K., Jacangelo, J.G., and H. Huang. Static and dynamic removal of aquatic natural organic matter by carbon nanotubes. Water Research. 59: 262-270, 2014.
Huang, H., Fairbrother, H., Teychene, B., Ajmani, G.S., Abbott Chalew, T. E., Lahr, M., Cho, H., Schwab, K.S., and J. G. Jacangelo. Carbon Nanotube Composite Membranes for Small “Designer” Water Treatment Systems. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply (2014) 14 (5): 917-923, 2014.
Wang, Z., Teychene, B., Abbott Chalew, T. E., Ajmani, G.S., Zhou, T., Wu, Z., and H. Huang. Aluminum – humic colloid formation during pre-coagulation for membrane water treatment: Mechanisms and impacts. Water Research. 61 (171-180), 2014.
