Research
Research published by students and researchers at CU Boulder
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Selected prior research
Jones, Christopher H., Mulhern, R.E., Wylie, V., Fawell, J., Oza, S., Holmer, M., Bell, K. Quantitative Relative Chemical Assessment to Support Risk Frameworks for Water Recycling. (2025). ES&T Water. In press.
MacDonald Gibson, J.; Desclos, A.; Harrington, J.; Mcelmurry, S. P.; Mulhern, R. Effect of Community Water Service on Lead in Drinking Water in an Environmental Justice Community. (2024). Environmental Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c01341.
Bauza, V.; Furey, S.; Alvarez-Sala, J.; Bartram, J.; Danert, K.; Jennifer, D. F.; Samuel, D.; Fisher, M. B.; Hansen, D.; Hutchings, P.; Lindsay, C.; Mulhern, R.; Norman, R.; Ramseier, C.; Strandberg, J.; Studer, P.; Salzberg, A. (2023). Eliminating Lead Exposure from Drinking Water — A Global Call to Action. PLOS Water, 2(4), e0000122. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000122
Mulhern, R. E., Kondash, A., Norman, E., Johnson, J., Levine, K., McWilliams, A., Napier, M., Weber, F., Stella, L., Wood, E., Lee Pow Jackson, C., Colley, S., Cajka, J., MacDonald Gibson, J., Hoponick Redmon, J. Improved Decision Making for Water Lead Testing in U.S. Child Care Facilities Using Machine-Learned Bayesian Networks. (2023). Environmental Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c07477.
Hoponick Redmon, J., Kondash, A. J., Norman, E., Johnson, J., Levine, K., Mcwilliams, A., Napier, M., Weber, F., Stella, L., Wood, E., Lee, C., Jackson, P., Mulhern, R., Lee Pow Jackson, C., Mulhern, R. (2022). Lead Levels in Tap Water at Licensed North Carolina Child Care Facilities, 2020-2021. American Journal of Public Health, 112 (S7), S695–S705. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307003.
Hoponick Redmon, J., Mulhern, R. E., Castellanos, E., Wood, E., Mcwilliams, A., Herrera, I., Liyanapatirana, C., Weber, F., Levine, K., Thorp, E., Bynum, N., Amato, K., Andrea, M., Acevedo, N., Baker, J., Houtven, G. Van, Henry, C., Wade, C., Kondash, A. J. (2022). A Participatory Science Approach to Evaluating Factors Associated with the Occurrence of Metals and PFAS in Guatemala City Tap Water. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 19, 6004. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19106004.
Mulhern, R. Grubbs, B., Gray, K., MacDonald Gibson, J. (2022). User experience of point-of-use water treatment for private wells in North Carolina: Implications for outreach and well stewardship. Science of the Total Environment. 806, 150448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150448.
Mulhern, R., Roostaei, J., Schwetschenau, S., Pruthi, T., Campbell, C., MacDonald Gibson, J. (2022). A new approach to a legacy concern: Evaluating machine-learned Bayesian networks to predict childhood lead exposure risk from community water systems. Environmental Research. 204, 112146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.112146
Mattos, K. J., Mulhern, R., Naughton, C. C., Anthonj, C., Brown, J., Brocklehurst, C., Brooks, C., Desclos, A., Escobedo, N. E., Gibson, M., Linden, K. G., Lindsay, C. A., Newby, J., Sinclair, R., & Smith, A. (2021). “Reaching those left behind: knowledge gaps, challenges, and approaches to achieving SDG 6 in high-income countries.” Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2021.057
Mulhern, R. E., Bynum, N., Liyanapatirana, C., Knappe, D., DeStefano, N., MacDonald Gibson, J. (2021). Longitudinal assessment of point-of-use carbon filters for removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances from private well water. AWWA Water Science. 3 (6), e1262. https://doi.org/10.1002/aws2.1262
Mulhern, R. E., Stallard, M., Zanib, H., Stewart, J., Sozzi, E., MacDonald Gibson, J. (2021). Are carbon water filters safe for private wells? Evaluating the occurrence of microbial indicator organisms in private well water treated by point-of-use activated carbon block filters. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 238, 113852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2021.113852
Roostaei, J., Colley, S., Mulhern, R. E., May, A. A., & Gibson, J. M. (2021). Predicting the risk of GenX contamination in private well water using a machine-learned Bayesian network model. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 411, 125075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125075
Stallard, M., Mulhern, R., Greenwood, E., Franklin, T., Engel, L. S., Fisher, M., Sobsey, M., Noble, R., Stewart, J., & Sozzi, E. (2021). Occurrence of male-specific and somatic coliphages and relationship with rainfall in privately-owned wells from peri-urban and rural households. Water Research X, 12, 100102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wroa.2021.100102
Mulhern, R. E., & Gibson, J. M. (2020). Under-sink activated carbon water filters effectively remove lead from private well water for over six months. Water. 12 (12), 3584. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12123584
Mulhern, R. E., Mulhern, M., & Perreault, T. (2020). Contesting the social license to operate: Competing visions and community exclusion on the Bolivian altiplano. The Extractive Industries and Society. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.08.014
Quaghebeur, W., Mulhern, R. E., Ronsse, S., Blommaert, H., Potemans, S., Mendizábal, C. V., Heylen, S., & García, J. T. (2019). Arsenic contamination in rainwater harvesting tanks around Lake Poopó in Oruro, Bolivia: An unrecognized health threat. Science of the Total Environment, 688, 224-230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.126
Mulhern, R. E., Dickenson, E. R. V., & Summers, R. S. (2017). Evaluating and modeling the activated carbon adsorption of wastewater-derived N-Nitrosodimethylamine precursors. Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, 3(5), 844-856. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7EW00123A