WPES students present research at Maine Sustainability & Water Conference
Students from the WPES group exhibited their latest research in Augusta on March 27 at the 2025 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference. The annual event, which set a new attendance record this year, brings together researchers, resource managers and planners, regulators, and other stakeholders at the university, municipal, state, and federal levels to discuss water resources and other pressing sustainability issues in Maine.
During the conference’s poster session, PhD candidate Taylor Bailey Spencer shared her work, “Impacts of High-Frequency, Short-Duration Rainfall Events on Bacterial Pollution in Frenchman Bay, Maine” (co-authors Drs. Lauren Ross, Sean Smith, Bea Van Dam, and WPES alum Dr. Sohaib Alahmed). In the undergraduate poster category, Lara Luczak and Madeline Gavin presented “Pipes, Pollution, and Prisms: Adapting a Mapping Tool to Assess Wastewater Outflows Along Maine’s Coast” (co-authors Van Dam and Smith).
