Elizabeth Nichols
Bio
I am a Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources and associate faculty with the NC State Toxicology Program. I collaborate with diverse academic researchers as well as municipalities, state agencies, federal agencies, and landowners across disciplines of forestry, environmental chemistry, water, contaminant remediation, and community engagement. My interests include the protection of surface waters and groundwater quality and their sustainable use, ensuring forest landscapes for the future, and supporting diversity and inclusion in forestry, environmental technology, and toxicology.
SHORT DESCRIPTION OF INTERESTS:
I am interested to collaborate at the intersections of forest systems and water quality and quantity. Recent and current research focuses on short-rotation hardwood forestry, organic contaminant forecasting for groundwater and surface water, sustainable water reuse for agriculture, managing excess water from catastrophic storms, and community engagement.
https://research.cnr.ncsu.edu/blogs/elizabethnichols/
Publications
- Diagnostic screening of private well water using gas chromatography with high resolution mass spectrometry to support well water management , SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2024)
- Vulnerability of wells in unconfined and confined aquifers to modern contamination from flood events , SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2023)
- Non-target and suspect-screening analyses of hydroponic soybeans and passive samplers exposed to different watershed irrigation sources , SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2022)
- Extreme Flooding and Nitrogen Dynamics of a Blackwater River , WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH (2021)
- Productivity and Profitability of Poplars on Fertile and Marginal Sandy Soils under Different Density and Fertilization Treatments , FORESTS (2021)
- Suspect-screening analysis of a coastal watershed before and after Hurricane Florence using high-resolution mass spectrometry , SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2021)
- Water balance of municipal wastewater irrigation in a coastal forested watershed , ECOHYDROLOGY (2020)
- Adaptability of Populus to Physiography and Growing Conditions in the Southeastern USA , Forests (2019)
- Ecosystem services of poplar at long‐term phytoremediation sites in the Midwest and Southeast, United States , Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment (2019)
- Expanding phytoremediation to the realms of known and unknown organic chemicals of concern , International Journal of Phytoremediation (2019)