{"id":206790,"date":"2025-04-04T11:59:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/?p=206790"},"modified":"2025-04-04T11:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:59:41","slug":"phd-student-receives-first-place-presentation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/2025\/04\/04\/phd-student-receives-first-place-presentation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Student Receives First-Place Presentation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Odera Umeh, a committed environmental scientist, received first place for his outstanding poster presentation titled &#8220;Statewide Assessment, Land Use Patterns, and Source Apportionment of Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances Across New Jersey Monitoring Wells, Watershed Management Areas, and Regions&#8221; at the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hdcsetac.wildapricot.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hudson-Delaware Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry<\/a> (HDC-SETAC) conference on April 1 in Princeton, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1984 as one of the first regional chapters of SETAC North America, HDC-SETAC brings together environmental scientists to share research and educate on current issues through annual meetings and workshops. Odera&#8217;s innovative and compelling research outputs impressed the judges with its novel approach and potential impact on environmental science and toxicology, exemplifying the scientific excellence HDC-SETAC fosters.<\/p>\n<p>This prestigious award recognizes Odera&#8217;s hard work, expertise, and dedication to advancing understanding of critical environmental challenges in the United States. His research provides valuable insights into PFAS contamination patterns and hotspots across New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odera Umeh, a committed environmental scientist, received first place for his outstanding poster presentation titled &#8220;Statewide Assessment, Land Use Patterns, and Source Apportionment of Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances Across New Jersey Monitoring Wells, Watershed Management Areas, and Regions&#8221; at the Hudson-Delaware Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (HDC-SETAC) conference on April 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":206791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-and-recognition","category-env-sci-mgmt-phd","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206792,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206790\/revisions\/206792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}