Jordan L. Peccia is an American engineer and Professor of Environmental Engineering at Yale University. He was born in Cut Bank, MT. Since 2005, Peccia has been a member of the Chemical and Environmental Engineering faculty at Yale University, where he holds the Thomas E. Golden endowed professorship.,[1] and serves as the department's Chair.[2] He is an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.[3] In 2023, Peccia was named Head of Yale’s Benjamin Franklin College.[4]
Jordan Peccia | |
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| Occupation(s) | Professor, Head of College |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Montana State University, University of Colorado Boulder |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | environmental engineering, environmental microbiology, indoor air quality, wastewater-based epidemiology |
| Institutions | Yale University |
Academic career
editPeccia’s academic work integrates the problem-solving aspects of environmental engineering with microbial genetics and public health. Contributions include determining the infectious risks associated with the land application of sewage sludge,[5] advancing exposure science on the beneficial health impacts of the indoor microbiome,[6][7] and inventing DNA sequence-based tools for classifying the mold status of a building.[8][9] Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Peccia’s lab at Yale demonstrated how SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in domestic wastewater could be a leading indicator (over clinical case monitoring) of COVID-19 outbreaks.[10][11][12][13][14] Peccia is a member of a group of international scientists that advocated for recognizing the airborne route of transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic.[15][16] He is the founding chair of the Gordon Research Conference of the Microbiology of the Built Environment[17]
Family
editHis brother is James D. Peccia III, Major General (retired), United States Air Force.
References
edit- ^ Pevner, Jessica (2018-02-22). "Peccia, Irish earn endowed professorships". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ^ "Chemical & Environmental Engineering | Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science". seas.yale.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ^ "Members". Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ^ "Jordan Peccia named next Head of Benjamin Franklin College". YaleNews. 2023-03-31. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ^ "Safety Rules For Sewage Sludge May Be Outdated". Chemical & Engineering News. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ^ Schiffman, Richard (2017-06-06). "Are Pets the New Probiotic?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ^ Dannemiller, K. C.; Mendell, M. J.; Macher, J. M.; Kumagai, K.; Bradman, A.; Holland, N.; Harley, K.; Eskenazi, B.; Peccia, J. (2014-10-06). "Next-generation DNA sequencing reveals that low fungal diversity in house dust is associated with childhood asthma development". Indoor Air. 24 (3): 236–247. Bibcode:2014InAir..24..236D. doi:10.1111/ina.12072. PMC 4048861. PMID 24883433.
- ^ Patent: US20230038963A1, Peccia, Jordan & Hegarty, Bridget, "Computer-implemented methods of identifying mold growth", issued 2023-02-09
- ^ Hegarty, Bridget; Pan, Annabelle; Haverinen-Shaughnessy, Ulla; Shaughnessy, Richard; Peccia, Jordan (2020-12-15). "DNA Sequence-Based Approach for Classifying the Mold Status of Buildings". Environmental Science & Technology. 54 (24): 15968–15975. Bibcode:2020EnST...5415968H. doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c03904. ISSN 0013-936X. PMID 33258367.
- ^ Tingley, Kim (2020-11-24). "Watching What We Flush Could Help Keep a Pandemic Under Control". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ^ "Yale Scientists Use The Sewer System To Track And Predict Changes In Coronavirus Outbreak". Connecticut Public. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ^ Peccia, Jordan; Zulli, Alessandro; Brackney, Doug E.; Grubaugh, Nathan D.; Kaplan, Edward H.; Casanovas-Massana, Arnau; Ko, Albert I.; Malik, Amyn A.; Wang, Dennis; Wang, Mike; Warren, Joshua L.; Weinberger, Daniel M.; Arnold, Wyatt; Omer, Saad B. (2020-09-18). "Measurement of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater tracks community infection dynamics". Nature Biotechnology. 38 (10): 1164–1167. doi:10.1038/s41587-020-0684-z. ISSN 1546-1696. PMC 8325066. PMID 32948856.
- ^ Larsen, David A.; Wigginton, Krista R. (2020-09-21). "Tracking COVID-19 with wastewater". Nature Biotechnology. 38 (10): 1151–1153. doi:10.1038/s41587-020-0690-1. ISSN 1546-1696. PMC 7505213. PMID 32958959.
- ^ Brindley, Emily; Courant, Hartford (2020-05-27). "A community's sewage could give early warning of COVID-19 outbreaks, Yale study finds. Here's how". Hartford Courant. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ^ Morawska, Lidia; Allen, Joseph; Bahnfleth, William; Bluyssen, Philomena M.; Boerstra, Atze; Buonanno, Giorgio; Cao, Junji; Dancer, Stephanie J.; Floto, Andres; Franchimon, Francesco; Greenhalgh, Trisha; Haworth, Charles; Hogeling, Jaap; Isaxon, Christina; Jimenez, Jose L. (2021-05-14). "A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection". Science. 372 (6543): 689–691. Bibcode:2021Sci...372..689M. doi:10.1126/science.abg2025. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 33986171.
- ^ Morawska, Lidia; Bahnfleth, William; Bluyssen, Philomena M.; Boerstra, Atze; Buonanno, Giorgio; Dancer, Stephanie J.; Floto, Andres; Franchimon, Francesco; Haworth, Charles; Hogeling, Jaap; Isaxon, Christina; Jimenez, Jose L.; Kurnitski, Jarek; Li, Yuguo; Loomans, Marcel (2023-05-24). "Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Airborne Transmission: Science Rejected, Lives Lost. Can Society Do Better?". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 76 (10): 1854–1859. doi:10.1093/cid/ciad068. ISSN 1537-6591. PMC 10209435. PMID 36763042.
- ^ "2018 Microbiology of the Built Environment Conference GRC". www.grc.org. Retrieved 2024-07-10.