Gallery — Jade's Field Notes

Gallery

Moments from research, conferences, and everything in between.

A photo journal of the work and the people behind it — from conference podiums to the lab bench to the field.

Conferences

Podium & Post-Its

Big check moment for the DBIA Scholarship, 2026

Jade next to her favorite AI poster at the FWRC Conference 2026

2nd place poster in hand at the FSAWWA 2025 Conference

Proudly displaying the 3rd-place poster at WQTC 2025

3rd place! Presenting advanced methods for studying biofilms at WQTC 2025

Mid-presentation at WQTC 2025, Tacoma, WA

The whole crew at WQTC 2025 in Tacoma, WA

Touched down in Tacoma, WA for WQTC 2025

2nd place for the nitrification control poster at FSAWWA, 2024

All smiles after receiving the FSAWWA Roy W. Likins Scholarship, 2024

Trivia night at the FSAWWA Water Bowl, 2023

Presenting on distribution system nitrification control plans at WQTC 2023

Repping the AWWA USF Student Chapter at WQTC 2023 in Dallas, TX

Exploring Dallas with Dr. Alfredo, Andrew, and Monica ahead of WQTC 2023

Talking biofiltration, one poster session at a time

Featured on the news as a Women of Water (WoW) Scholarship recipient — flip it, and WOW becomes MOM

Field & Internship

Out in the Wild

FWRC Conference in Daytona with the Carollo team, 2026

Repping Wright-Pierce on site

Smoke testing for the Pinellas Find & Fix sewer-rehabilitation project

A day to lay the pipes down

Media collection day at the Tippin plant

Suited up inside the filter for replacement work at DLTWTF

Meeting with FDACS and a cow at the farm to talk nursery runoff and bioretention (cows included) — Meeting with FDACS and a cow at the farm to talk nursery runoff and bioretention

On-site at the biochar-amended bioretention system

Monitoring differential pressure across the filters

Replacing granular activated carbon media

A beautiful view of the Hillsborough dam

Piloting a new carbon treatment system

What is this... algae?

Algae season — time to copper-spray the Hillsborough River!

Gowning up for aseptic work

Team spirit with the Wright-Pierce crew

A visit to the Tampa Bay Veolia plant

Collecting backwash water from the David L. Tippin WTF to seed a bioreactor

Field sampling at the water treatment plant with Carollo Engineers

Lab

Science in Motion

A close look at biofilms growing on carriers

Lab day with Monica and Sarah

Action shot from the Ct study

Testing a 3D-printed biofilm carrier prototype

Running samples through the flow cytometer

Developing a GC-MS method for 1,4-dioxane detection

Deep in microbiology mode

Inoculating E. coli for the next study

Sterilizing GAC for the next round of testing

Testing how backwash duration and aggressiveness affect GAC and biomass

Running the GAC study

Tracking contaminant degradation over time

GAC under the microscope

Wrapping up the co-op with one last day at the City of Tampa

Microscopy day in the bacteriology lab

Testing polymers for dewateringoptimization — Testing polymers for dewatering optimization

Just Jade and her filter

Celebrating with the Alfredo Group — congrats, Drs. Andrew Black and Horace Jakpa!

Defending the PhD proposal, surrounded by supportive friends

Collecting backwash water for the next experiment

Outreach

Hearts & Minds

AWWA USF hosts a World Cup 2026 watch party

Demonstrating water treatment processes to K-12 students at the 2026 USF Engineering Expo

Staffing the hydraulic testing station at the 2026 Water Tower Competition

Judging the Hillsborough Regional STEM Fair, February 2026

Model water towers, round 3

Model water towers, round 2

Model water towers, round 1

Model water towers, round 4

Model water towers, round 5

Putting the model towers through a hydraulics test

Judging the Invention Convention, May 1, 2026

Teaching kids about water conservation at the 2025 Water Festival

Judging a robotics class — the creativity did not disappoint

USF FootballTailgating with AWWA USF at Raymond James Stadium — USF Football Tailgating with AWWA USF at Raymond James Stadium

More game night fun with the AWWA Student Chapter

Game night with the FSAWWA and USF crowd

Cypress Point Park clean-up crew, round one

Showing K-12 students the ropes at the 2024 USF Engineering Expo

Leading drinking water treatment demonstrations for 1st–3rd graders, Great American Teach-In 2023

A rendered concept of the water treatment plant Jade plans to 3D print

Representing AWWA on campus with colleagues

AWWA swag haul — tote bags and merch ready to hand out

Wright-Pierce's Tampa office teams up with Tampa Bay Watch for a nursery planting day

Spreading the STEM love at Roland Park

Back at Cypress Point Park for round two of the clean-up

More STEM demos at the Great American Teach-In

Mentees

REUs in Action

See the full mentee roster with project titles on the Experience page and the Teaching page.

Sarah plating E. coli — and making a few Z. coli (zombie E. coli) along the way

Sarah presenting her REU poster at the USF symposium

Sarah in action

Sarah hard at work in the microbiology lab

Sarah examining GAC and biofilms under the microscope

Marie running her degradation and seasonality study

Marie visits the water treatment plant

One more from Marie's water plant visit

Marie comparing ATP results with flow cytometry data

Marie running the flow cytometer for cell counts

Another great shot of Toheedat and Sky at their REU poster session

Toheedat's REU poster, ready for presentation

Toheedat and Sky presenting their posters

Off the Clock

Off-Duty Action

Agate hunting in Anacortes, WA — and finding the smoothest rock on the beach

Scenic trail views with friends in Anacortes, WA

A night of camping — and chasing raccoons — at Fort De Soto

Beach day at Fort De Soto

Checking out the historic cannons at Fort De Soto

A day at Wat Mongkolratanaram, Tampa, FL, for the Thai food market

A pickle gummy taste test that went hilariously wrong

Happy Cinco de Mayo

Drumming up some fun

A stop at the rubber duck museum in Seattle, 2025

Visiting the very first Starbucks with her sister Waratchaya (June) Luangphairin, Seattle 2025

Beach day at Driftwood Beach, Jekyll Island, GA, 2025

Painting a frog sculpture

Strawberry picking at the UF IFAS farm

Diploma in hand — Jade's Master's graduation, December 2024

Giving thanks with friends and family

Halloween vibes, 2024

Jade and her work buddy Frank Segui at the City of Tampa

A visit to the Michigan Museum

Kayaking with friends

Digging a hole to cook taro the traditional way

Game day with the Tampa Bay Lightning

At the pit for the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

Brewery class at Florida Avenue Brewing Co.

Giving a Ford truck a fresh coat of paint

Model assembly: one of Jade's favorite hobbies

A peach of a water tower, spotted in Georgia

Golfing with the Fitzpatricks

Restoring a 1968 Corvette, one part at a time

Jade and Duke — quite possibly the cutest Bernese Mountain Dog around

AWWA USF Student Chapter and Advisor Dr. Katherine Alfredo at the monthly FSAWWA Region IV board meeting, Columbia Restaurant, Tampa

Christmas with the family

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