Kathy Conn

My research focuses on the occurrence, fate, and transport of contaminants in the aquatic environment. Recent activities and interests include:

- Developing novel field methods to quantify fluvial sediment-bound chemical concentrations and fluxes from rivers to Puget Sound 

- Entry and movement of urban contaminants in nearshore coastal environments 

- Monitoring of legacy contaminants (e.g., PCBs and metals), emerging contaminants (e.g., microplastics and endocrine-disrupting chemicals), and microbial contaminants (e.g., bacteria, viruses, and fecal indicators) in aquatic resources with implications for ecological and human health

- Providing technical guidance for water-quality projects, including study design, data quality, and dissemination