Kaitlyn Hanley

Kaitlyn Hanley is an Industry Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Urban and Environmental Engineering at New York University Tandon School of Engineering. She joined the department in August 2022. Her research focuses on microbial water quality, including microbial source tracking, waterborne pathogens, bacteria total maximum daily loads, and shellfish safety. Since 2007, Dr. Hanley has applied molecular technologies to protect recreational water quality and assess aquaculture. Previously, she taught environmental chemistry and microbiology at Tandon as an Adjunct Professor and worked as a Senior Engineer and Laboratory Project Manager at Wood PLC, leading microbial water quality projects.

Kaitlyn Hanley is an Industry Associate Professor at New York University, specializing in waterborne pathogens, microbial source tracking, quantitative microbial risk assessment, noroviruses, and shellfish safety. Her research focuses on developing and validating molecular methods for detecting fecal contamination in environmental waters, with an emphasis on human and animal sources. She has contributed to multi-laboratory studies evaluating the performance of qPCR-based assays for microbial source tracking and has investigated the environmental factors influencing norovirus behavior in coastal waters. Her work addresses public health risks associated with shellfish consumption and the impact of microbial contaminants on water quality.