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Classes offered through the New England Onsite Wastewater Training Program (NEOWTP) are taught by NEOWTP staff, former research program colleagues, experienced onsite wastewater practitioners, regulatory staff from the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management<\/a> and Suffolk County Department of Health Services<\/a>, and faculty members of the URI Department of Natural Resources Science<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program Staff<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Alissa Cox, Program Director<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Alissa Cox earned her PhD in URI\u2019s Laboratory of Soil Ecology and Microbiology (LSEM), and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Natural Resources Science department at URI, and the new Director of the New England Onsite Wastewater Training Program. Before pursuing her PhD, Alissa received a B.S. and M.S. degree in Environmental Science, and spent several years teaching science and special education in high schools in Providence and Coventry, RI. Her research focuses on understanding groundwater table dynamics along the southern Rhode Island coast, to assess how changes in the groundwater table may be affecting current and future onsite wastewater treatment systems in near shore coastal areas. Additionally, Alissa is interested in how the microbial communities in soils and various treatment components in different technologies affect nutrient and contaminant transformations, and how they affect greenhouse gas emissions. Effective outreach and education remain central to Alissa\u2019s interests, and she shares her research findings with stakeholders to help improve the resiliency of coastal communities facing myriad future changes and threats. She currently serves as the coordinator of the USDA Hatch Multi-state Research Project NE2045 related to onsite wastewater treatment and climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cooperative Extension, University of Rhode Island<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t

Room: 001H Coastal Institute,
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