@mcbeath2o.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineer, UMass Amherst. Water Research and Applied Electrochemistry.
NeoCitran >>>>> Lemsip
13.08.2025 00:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ride together, relax together.
27.06.2025 17:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Big congrats to Faye, Alanna & Josh on their graduation! We're so proud of everything you've accomplished at WWET Lab and excited to see what’s next. Read more on our website:
www.wwetlab.com/2025/05/22/f...
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Faye Kuszewski representing the @mcbeathlab.bsky.social at #AEESP2025. Presenting to a packed room about the unforeseen consequences of toxic disinfection byproduct formation during the electrochemical treatment of textile dye wastewater.
22.05.2025 20:42 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Great UMass Amherst faculty representation at #AEESP2025! Many more students, postdoc and staff also in attendance.
@aeesprofs.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social
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End of the semester lab party! Congrats Faye and Alanna on graduating!
17.05.2025 23:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The final post from my 'Water Chemistry' graduate class this semester!
If you've missed this, please check out the account.
Hydrogen bonding helps explain why water behaves in the (sometimes strange) ways it does. But what exactly is hydrogen bonding and why does it happen? And how is this related to ice?
Watch the full video by our friends over at Reactions to learn more: buff.ly/rnKmO56
Congrats to Alanna and Faye for successfully defending their MS thesis this week! Very proud of the work they've done in the @mcbeathlab.bsky.social. They have made a big impact @umassamherst.bsky.social, and both will soon be starting their next journey in industry!
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Stable isotopes are foundational tools in hydrologic research—letting us see the invisible paths water takes through the environment. Essential for everything from climate reconstructions to water resource management.
A great thread by my Water Chemistry class about oxygen and hydrogen isotopes:
Is taking CO2 out of the atmosphere best achieved through greenhouse gas emissions reductions, or carbon capture and storage?
Given current projections, the answer might be both. A process called carbon mineralization looks at locking away CO2 in rocks and mineral precipitates permanently. (1/5)
If attending @acs.org‘s #ACSSpring2025, check out Lohita’s presentation tomorrow!
She will be talking about her work related to the electrosorption of organic micropollutants using activated carbon fibres.
Amherst’s nearest Superfund site, PSC Resources, a former waste oil refinery, has been on the NPL since 1982. Contaminants spread into soils and groundwater, but levels have decreased with ongoing remediation. The site will soon undergo its sixth 5-year review to ensure continued protection.
13.03.2025 09:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Lab BlueSky account!
09.03.2025 18:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Had a great time at the @aeesprofs.bsky.social Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Lynn Katz at @umassamherst.bsky.social! Before the lecture, we presented @mcbeathlab.bsky.social’s poster. Honored to have lunch with Dr. Katz and discuss water treatment challenges. Thanks to Dr. Katz & the organizers!🙌
09.03.2025 18:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0🔁 A great thread on the flickering cluster model—one of water’s unique chemical quirks. It’s this ever-shifting hydrogen bond network that gives water strange but essential properties, helping to make life as we know it possible.
#WaterChemistry #Science
One of the leading experts in water quality, HACH company can trace its roots back to the piloting skills of the amazing women pictured below. Kathryn Hach-Darrow, a founder of the Hach chemical company helped drive expansion by selling water testing kits across the country flying her own plane.
02.03.2025 17:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0History of Acids Cont'd:
In 1884, Svante Arrhenius and Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald proposed that the atoms of acids and bases separate in water—acids releasing hydrogen ions (H+) and bases producing hydroxide ions (OH-). This explained why acids and bases neutralize each other to form water (H2O).1/6
TEAM ART HISTORY! I know how much you love Jacques Louis David and his bangin' portrait of the Lavoisiers. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
But did you know that Lavoisier didn't just play a scientist in paint? He did real life science too! Follow Water Chem at Umass to get all the knowledge.
My 'Water Chemistry' grad class @umassamherst.bsky.social has started a BlueSky for a semester project. The goal is to disseminate interesting communications about all things water. From acid-base chemistry to wastewater treatment memes.
Give them a follow if you want to learn more about water!
Very excited to present at this week's #WASHCanada Talk Series. While the future of drinking water research is uncertain at the moment in the US, I'm proud of the work our lab does and I hope that our goals can press on.
If interested, please consider joining me this Thursday: t.ly/_Xyug
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Very excited to have hosted Dr. Lily Dove (@solilyquy.bsky.social) at our Environmental & Water Resources Seminar today at @umassamherst.bsky.social. Great to see Lily, after two years and moves from the other coast!
22.02.2025 00:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1every tap has a past. every flush has a future.
16.02.2025 17:35 — 👍 295 🔁 32 💬 6 📌 5My thoughts are with the early career US scientists & engineers who recently lost their jobs. As I noted in a previous editorial, folks working in environmental science, engineering & health are really in the survival business: you can go 3 min without air, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food
15.02.2025 15:43 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled
29.01.2025 20:59 — 👍 223 🔁 147 💬 9 📌 8
Two dogs seen through the doorway to our house. They are sitting at the top of three steps that lead into the foyer.
Welcome! Please kindly remove your shoes and sanitize your hands before entering our home thank you.
03.01.2025 22:29 — 👍 32 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Alanis Morissette… also Canadian!
19.12.2024 02:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Michael Bublé is Canadian!
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These maps illustrates significant changes in 6,167 reaches of the largest rivers on earth—44.2% saw decreases in streamflow and 11.9% saw increases over 35 years. Of nearly 1.5 million of the smallest, upstream rivers on earth, 17% of rivers saw a 1-5% increase in streamflow (blue) while 9.9% saw a decrease (red) over 35 years.
A new study has mapped 35 years of river changes on a global scale. “We think this is maybe the most accurate map of river flow ever made,” notes co-author Colin Gleason, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at UMass Amherst.
Read the full story: www.umass.edu/news/article...
