Funding Agency: 
National Science Foundation

In collaboration with Clean Water Services and funded by the National Science Foundation, we sampled the sewers of Washington County Oregon for SARS-CoV-2 to identify COVID-19 hotspots, map the geographical spread, and develop sampling and analysis methodologies. 

Publication: Impact of Sampling Type, Frequency, and Scale of the Collection System on SARS-CoV-2 Quantification Fidelity by George et al. in the Environmental Science and Technology Letters journal. (PDF at Research Gate here) 

Publication: Spatial and Temporal Measurements of SARS-CoV-2 in a Sewershed by Layton et al. in the Water Environment Federation Public Health and Water Conference 2022 Proceedings. (Abstract)