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Group Leader
Mi-Ling Li
Harvard University, Sc.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Marine Science and Policy
College of Earth, Ocean & Environment | University of Delaware
Email: milingli@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-2558
Address: 306 Robinson Hall • 261 S. College Ave, Newark, DE 19716
Lab and shipping address: Room 145, 15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE 19711
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Postdoc Fellows
Yingzhu Li
Yingzhu is studying contaminant exposure in global subsistence fishing communities. She obtained a Ph.D. degree from University College Dublin in Ireland. She is recruited through the Ocean Nexus program.
Graduate Students
Shannon Jones
Ph.D. student in Marine Bioscience.
Shannon is studying PFAS food-web bioaccumulation. She obtained a B.Sc. degree in Marine Biology from Northeastern University before joining the group.
Juyoung Park
Ph.D. student in Water Science and Policy.
Juyoung is developing novel isotope tools for tracking the source and transformation of PFAS. Before coming to UD, she received a B.Sc. degree from the University of Seoul and M.Sc degree from Gwangju University of Science and Technology.
Natalie O'Hern
Ph.D. student in Water Science and Policy.
Natalie is studying the fate and transport of PFAS in coastal watersheds. She obtained a B.A. degree in Chemistry with a minor in Geoscience from Wellesley College.
Jacqueline Carroll
M.Sc. student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Jackie is assessing recreational fishers' exposure to PFAS. She obtained a B.A. degree in Biology and B.S degree in Wildlife and Conservation Biology from the University of Rhode Island.
Connor Duroe
M.Sc. student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Connor is also working on assessing recreational fishers' exposure to PFAS. He obtained a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Drexel University.
Undergraduate Researchers
Itzel Duran-Herrera
Shayna Demick
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Lab Alumni
Graduate students
Ingrid Havron, M.Sc. in Marine Studies (2021-2024)
Ashley Pavia, M.Sc. in Marine Studies (2021-2023), now an Environmental Scientist at Envirospec Engineering, PLLC
Undergrad RA
Max Curello
Nicole Gutkowski, now a MSc student at Duke University
Anji Copper, now a M.Sc student at the University of Maryland
Renea Briner, NOAA affiliate in the Passive Acoustics Branch at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Tim Smoot, Marine Fisheries Ecology Intern in Mississippi State University
Summer students (via UD SOURCE program)
Cole Seifert (from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Sophia Vrh (from the University of South Carolina), Now at Cold Spring Harbor Lab
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