Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Andrea I. Silverman, Tega Brain, Brett Branco, Praneeth sai venkat Challagonda, Petra Choi, Rebecca Fischman, Kathryn Graziano, Elizabeth Hénaff, Charlie Mydlarz, Paul Rothman, Ricardo Toledo-Crow. 2022. Making Waves: Uses of real-time, hyperlocal flood sensor data for emergency management, resiliency planning, and flood impact Water Research, 118648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.118648
Catherine Hoar, Yitao Li, Andrea I. Silverman. 2022. Assessment of commonly-measured wastewater parameters to estimate sewershed populations for use in wastewater-based epidemiology: insights into population dynamics in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. Environmental Science & Technology Water, 2: 2014-2024. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.2c00052
Catherine Hoar, Francoise Chauvin, Alexander Clare, Hope McGibbon, Esmeraldo Castro, Samantha Patinella, Dimitrios Katehis, John J. Dennehy, Monica Trujillo, Davida Smyth, Andrea I. Silverman. 2022. Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater during New York City’s second wave of COVID-19: Sewershed-level trends and relationships to publicly-available clinical testing data. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 8: 1021-1035. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EW00747E
Mwale Chiyenge and Andrea I. Silverman. 2022. Effect of pH on Endogenous Sunlight Inactivation Rates of Laboratory Strain and Wastewater Sourced coli and Enterococci. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 24: 2167-2177. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EM00227B
Catherine Hoar, Jill McClary-Gutierrez, Marlene K. Wolfe, Aaron Bivins , Kyle Bibby, Andrea I. Silverman, Sandra L. McLellan. 2022 . Looking forward: The role of academic researchers in building sustainable wastewater surveillance programs. Environmental Health Perspectives, 130: 125002. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP11519
Mano Sivaganesan, Jessica R. Willis, Mohammad Karim, Akin Babatola, David Catoe, Alexandria Boehm, Maxwell Wilder, Hyatt Green, Aldo Lobos, Valerie J. Harwood, Stephanie Hertel, Richard A. Haugland, Regina Klepikow, Mondraya F. Howard, Pongpan Laksanalamai, Alexis Roundtree, Mia Mattioli, Stephanie Eytcheson, Marirosa Molina, Molly Lane, Richard Rediske, Amanda Rolizo, Nishita D’Souza, Joan B. Rose, Abhilasha Shrestha, Catherine Hoar, Andrea I. Silverman, Wyatt Faulkner, Kathleen Wickman, Jason Kralj, Stephanie Servetas, Monique E. Hunter, Scott A. Jackson, Orin C. Shanks. 2022. Interlaboratory Performance and Potential Quantitative PCR Performance Benchmarks for NIST SRM® 2917. Water Research, 225: 119162 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.119162
Mwanarusi H. Mwatondo and Andrea I. Silverman. 2021. Escherichia coli and Enterococcus spp. indigenous to wastewater have slower free chlorine disinfection rates than their laboratory-cultured counterparts. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 8: 1091-1097. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.1c00732
Fiona B. Dunn and Andrea I. Silverman. 2021. Sunlight photolysis of extracellular and intracellular antibiotic resistance genes tetA and sul2 in photosensitizer-free water. Environmental Science & Technology, 55: 11019–11028. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c00732
Andrea I. Silverman and Alexandria B. Boehm. 2021. Systematic review and meta-analysis of the persistence of enveloped viruses in environmental waters and wastewater in the absence of disinfectants. Environmental Science & Technology, 55: 14480–14493. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c03977
Jill S. McClary-Gutierrez, Mia C. Mattioli, Perrine Marcenac, Andrea I. Silverman, Alexandria B. Boehm, Kyle Bibby, Michael Balliet, Francis L. de los Reyes, Daniel Gerrity, John F. Griffith, Patricia A. Holden, Dimitrios Katehis, Greg Kester, Nathan LaCross, Erin K. Lipp, Jonathan Meiman, Rachel T. Noble, Dominique Brossard, and Sandra L. McLellan. 2021. SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance for public health action. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 27. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2709.210753
Marlene K. Wolfe, Anand Archana, David Catoe, Mhara M. Coffman, Samuel Dorevich, Katherine E. Graham, Sooyeol Kim, Lorelay Mendoza Grijalva, Laura Roldan-Hernandez, Andrea I. Silverman, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, Duc J. Vugia, Alexander T. Yu, Winnie Zambrana, Krista R. Wigginton, and Alexandria B. Boehm. 2021. Scaling of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in settled solids from multiple wastewater treatment plants to compare incidence rates of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in their sewersheds. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 8: 398–404. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.1c00184
Andrea I. Silverman and Alexandria B. Boehm. 2020. Systematic review and meta-analysis of the persistence and disinfection of human coronaviruses and their viral surrogates in water and wastewater. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 7: 544-553. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00313
Xinyi Zhang, Amanda Lardizabal, Andrea I. Silverman, Davide Vione, Tamar Kohn, Thanh H. Nguyen, and Jeremy S. Guest. 2020. Global sensitivity analysis of environmental, water quality, photoreactivity, and engineering design parameters in sunlight inactivation of viruses. Environmental Science & Technology, 54: 8401–8410. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c01214
Adlai Katzenberg, Akash Raman, Nicole L. Schnabel, Andrea L. Quispe, Andrea I. Silverman, and Miguel A. Modestino. 2020. Photocatalytic hydrogels for removal of organic contaminants from aqueous solution. Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 5: 377-386. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9RE00456D
Alexandria B. Boehm, Andrea I. Silverman, Alexander Schriewer, and Kelly Goodwin. 2019. Systematic review and meta-analysis of decay rates of waterborne mammalian viruses and coliphages in surface waters. Water Research, 164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.114898
Andrea I. Silverman, Nerissa Tay, and Nikoloas Machairas. 2019. Comparison of biological weighting functions used to model endogenous sunlight inactivation rates of MS2 coliphage. Water Research, 151: 439-446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2018.12.015
Andrea I. Silverman, David L. Sedlak, and Kara L. Nelson. 2019. Simplified process to determine rate constants for sunlight-mediated removal of trace organic and microbial contaminants in unit process open-water treatment wetlands. Environmental Engineering Science, 36: 43-59. https://doi.org/10.1089/ees.2018.0177
Kara L. Nelson, Alexandria B. Boehm, Rob J. Davies-Colley, Michael C. Dodd, Tamar Kohn, Karl G. Linden, Y. Liu, Peter A. Maraccini, Kris McNeill, William A. Mitch, Thanh H. Nguyen, Kimberly M. Parker, Roberto A. Rodriguez, Lauren M. Sassoubre, Andrea I. Silverman, Krista R. Wigginton, Richard G. Zepp. 2019. Sunlight-mediated inactivation of microorganisms in water: A review of mechanisms and modeling approaches. Environmental Science: Processes & Technologies, 20: 1089-1122. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8EM00047F
Andrea I. Silverman and Kara L. Nelson. 2016. Modeling endogenous sunlight inactivation rates of laboratory strain and wastewater E. coli and enterococci using biological weighting functions. Environmental Science & Technology, 50: 12292–12301. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b03721
Andrea I. Silverman, Mi T. Nguyen, Iris E. Schilling, Jannis Wenk, and Kara L. Nelson. 2015. Sunlight inactivation of viruses in open-water unit process treatment wetlands: Modeling endogenous and exogenous inactivation rates. Environmental Science & Technology, 49: 2757-2766. https://doi.org/10.1021/es5049754
Andrea I. Silverman, Mark O. Akrong, Pay Drechsel, and Kara L. Nelson. 2014. On-farm treatment of wastewater used for vegetable irrigation: Bacteria and virus removal in small ponds in Accra, Ghana.Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination, 4: 276-286. https://doi.org/10.2166/wrd.2014.010
Mi T. Nguyen, Andrea I. Silverman, and Kara L. Nelson. 2014. Sunlight inactivation of MS2 coliphage in the absence of photosensitizers: Modeling the endogenous inactivation rate using a photoaction spectrum. Environmental Science & Technology, 48: 3891-3898. https://doi.org/10.1021/es405323p
Andrea I. Silverman, Britt M. Peterson, Alexandria B. Boehm, Kristopher McNeill, and Kara L. Nelson. 2013. Sunlight inactivation of human viruses and bacteriophages in coastal waters containing natural photosensitizers. Environmental Science & Technology, 47: 1870–1878. https://doi.org/10.1021/es3036913
Andrea I. Silverman, Mark O. Akrong, Philip Amoah, Pay Drechsel, and Kara L. Nelson. 2013. Quantification of human norovirus GII, human adenovirus, and fecal indicator organisms in wastewater used for irrigation in Accra, Ghana. Journal of Water and Health, 11: 473-488. https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2013.025
Lauren M. Sassoubre, Dave C. Love, Andrea I. Silverman, Kara L. Nelson, and Alexandria B. Boehm. 2012. Comparison of enterovirus and adenovirus concentration and enumeration methods in seawater from Southern California, USA and Baja Malibu, Mexico. Journal of Water and Health, 10: 419-430. https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2012.011
Dave C. Love, Andrea I. Silverman, and Kara L. Nelson. 2010. Human virus and bacteriophage inactivation in clear water by simulated sunlight compared to bacteriophage inactivation at a Southern California beach. Environmental Science & Technology, 44:6965-6970. https://doi.org/10.1021/es1001924
Book Chapters, Design Manuals, and Other Non-peer-reviewed Publications
Andrea I. Silverman, Jeremy S. Guest. 2022. News & Views: Cleaner Water with Light. Nature Sustainability, 5: 737-738. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00926-4
Yury Dvorkin, Miguel A. Modestino, Andrea I. Silverman. 2020. Engineering an Interdisciplinary Connection: Bridging Gaps between Chemical, Electrical, and Environmental Engineers. iScience, 23: 101337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101337
Andrea I. Silverman, Kara L. Nelson, and David L. Sedlak. 2019. Guidelines for the Design and Operation of Unit-process, Open-water Wetlands. Guidance manual published by the Engineering Research Center for Re-inventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt). LINK
Bernard Keraita, Andrea I. Silverman, Philip Amoah, and Senorpe Asem-Hiablie. 2014. Quality of Irrigation Water Used for Urban Vegetable Production. In: Irrigated Urban Vegetable Production in Ghana: Characteristics, Benefits and Risk Mitigation, 2nd Ed. P. Drechsel and B. Keraita, Eds. pp. 62-73.