Participatory Science Supported Multi-Omic Water Quality Monitoring to Inform Public Health Priorities and Clean Water Advocacy

The research team will analyze water quality data from Charleston’s estuaries and waterways for long-term microbial and chemical trends. Data previously collected by the Charleston Waterkeepers will be thoroughly characterized with the long-term goal of creating a water quality monitoring model that can be expanded to other watersheds and extended to include data on pathogenic bacterial strains and antibiotic resistance genes to inform public health priorities.