Mira Chaplin
mchaplin@umich.edu
PhD Environmental Engineering
Advisor: Krista Wigginton
2020, BS Civil and Environmental Engineering
2022, MSE Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
Research Projects:
Summary. I use modeling and laboratory experiments to understand virus disinfection rates and examine disinfection regulations.
Current work. I conduct laboratory experiments with UV disinfection, free chlorine, and chloramines. Currently, I am measuring the efficacy of UV disinfection of influenza A virus.
I am also creating statistical and machine learning models to predict chlorine disinfection of viruses. I am measuring how chlorine disinfection of viruses changes with shifts in temperature to validate those models. Through a literature review, my team is assembling a dataset on chloramine, peracetic acid, and chlorine dioxide disinfection of viruses, which we will use for future modeling.
Publication:
(In review) Chaplin, M; Henderson, J; Leung, L.; Szczuka, A.; Hansen, B.; Rockey, N. C.; Wigginton, K. Linear Mixed Model of Virus Disinfection by Chlorine to Harmonize Data Collected Across Broad Environmental Conditions. Environ. Sci. Technol. Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.12.557160v1.
Whitney, O. N.; Kennedy, L. C.; Fan, V. B.; Hinkle, A.; Kantor, R.; Greenwald, H.; Crits-Christoph, A.; Al-Shayeb, B.; Chaplin, M.; Maurer, A. C.; Tjian, R.; Nelson, K. L. Sewage, Salt, Silica, and SARS-CoV-2 (4S): An Economical Kit-Free Method for Direct Capture of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from Wastewater. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2021, 55 (8), 4880–4888. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c08129.