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Curriculum Vitae

Education

2022- Present

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY: PhD in Environmental Science

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2018- 2020:

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Masters of Science in Entomology                                                                                                                                     

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2013-2017

Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA: Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science                                                                            

Research Experience

2022- Present: SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York                           

  • Sampled deep water carbon gas using Niskin sampler and infrared gas analyzer (IRGA)

  • Measured greenhouse gas (CO2 and CH4) fluxes in wetlands using chambers and an IRGA over hourly and monthly time scales

  • Built and maintained eddy covariance towers in tidal and non-tidal wetland systems

  • Installed and worked with the following: ClimaVue sensor, sonic anemometers, DO probes, CH4 and CO2 sensors, temperature probes, pressure transducers

  • Analyzed greenhouse gas diurnal and seasonal cycles using R and Matlab from eddy covariance towers and infrared gas analyzers

  • Simulated carbon gas fluxes and microbial populations using the processed-based model, ecosys, in Linux and the Ohio Supercomputer

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2021- 2022: SUNY Upstate Medical University; Syracuse, New York                                                               

  • Received, identified, and processed ticks for New York citizen science program

  • Designed and implemented field study to assess the ecology of Powassan virus in New York sites

  • Ran qRT-PCR to test field ticks for panel of 13 pathogens

  • Obtained laboratory skills: cell culture, focus forming assays, gel electrophoresis

 

2018-2020: Cornell University; Ithaca, New York                                                                                          

  • Collected ticks within highly trafficked park sites for species distribution analysis, risk analysis, and pathogen testing of Haemaphysalis longicornis

  • Administered behavioral surveys to assess park visitor behavior and attitude and risk of tick acquisition

  • Observed and recorded human behavior across 14 park sites to assess risk for tick exposure

  • Identified ticks by species and life stage across all park sites using appropriate taxonomic keys

 

January 2019: Max Planck Tandem Group; Universidad de Antioquia Internship; Medellin, Colombia 

  • Performed preliminary testing on Anopheles swarming and acoustic behavior

  • Dissected Aedes wings and spermathecaes

  • Field collected both larvae and adult Aedes and hatched eggs under laboratory protocols

Work Experience

2025- Present: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA                                                   

  • Performed literature review on marsh organ methods for assessing sea level rise effects on vegetation

  • Involved in creating Pest Alerts to inform select areas of Virginia about seasonally and geographically important invasive species of concern

  • Helped compile a database of invasive species factsheets, identifying gaps in information, and creating new factsheets where those were missing.

  • Recorded and analyzed spotted lanternfly counts across vineyards in Virginia​

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2020: Delaware Division of Fish & Wildlife; Natural Resources & Environmental Control, Newark, DE; Environmental Scientist 1                                           

  • Conducted routine freshwater marsh and impoundment sampling for mosquito surveillance

  • Certified in pesticide application 5a

  • Controlled mosquitoes using insecticides, backpack sprayers, and truck-mounted foggers

  • Sampled ticks in twelve public parks via dragging and flagging techniques

  • Performed weekly sentinel chicken serology and husbandry for West Nile and Eastern equine encephalitis virus surveillance
     

May 2017-July 2018: Tennessee Dept. of Health, Nashville, TN; Internship                                                       

  • Performed insecticide resistance testing in mosquitoes using the CDC bottle bioassay method

  • Reared Aedes mosquitoes from field collected eggs across Tennessee for identification

  • Ran qRT-PCR to test statewide mosquitoes for West Nile, Flanders, and St. Louis encephalitis viruses

  • Trapped mosquitoes using BGS 2.0, CDC light, gravid traps, and oviposition cups for species identification

 

May-August 2016: Missouri Department of Conservation, Clinton, MO; Internship                                        

  • Piloted study to determine fish species richness in non-altered streams to compare against anthropogenically altered streams

  • Sampled fish species with backpack, boat, and barge electroshocking equipment and kick-nets, drag seines, fyke nets, and hoop nets

  • Identified and quantified fish species to calculate richness

  • Classified physical stream characteristics using densitometer, clinometer, flow meter, and range finder
     

May 2014- 2017: Westminster College Field Station, New Wilmington, PA; Student Technician                   

  • Collected and identified aquatic macroinvertebrates to assist students with taxonomy

  • Assisted in the construction of the Westminster College wind turbine project and installed solar panels for weekly data collection and analysis on energy production and savings

  • Constructed permanent bird blind, trails, bridges, and informational kiosks across field station

  • Planted trees and inventoried the native trees in the local forest

  • Recorded weekly weather data from our Weather Underground station

  • Hassett E, Uveges B, McCaffrey L, et al. Are the mysterious Seneca drums an unaccounted-for natural source of geologically formed methane and chloride to Seneca Lake? In preparation.

  • Hassett E, Mattioli T, Endriss, S. Marsh organs as an underused method for studying the effects of sea level rise: A systematic review of existing methods to improve experimental implementation. In preparation.

  • Hassett E, Ashley Brereton, Zelalem Mekonnen, et al. Heterogeneity in freshwater wetland inundation zones drive carbon fluxes: a process-based modeling approach. In preparation.

  • Hassett E, Monty-Bromer C, Adesanmi A, et al. Wetland in situ zero resistance ammetry measurements demonstrate hourly microbial activity and can be used to evaluate process-based model microbial respiration estimates. In preparation.

  • Hassett E, Bohrer G, Kinsman-Costello L, et al. Changes in inundation drive carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in a temperate wetland. Science of The Total Environment. 2024; 915, 170089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170089

  • Hassett E, & Morin T. The largely ignored but important role of non‐rooted, submersed vegetation and small waterbodies on greenhouse gas emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2024;129(1): e2023JG007902.

  • Hassett E, Thangamani S. Ecology of Powassan virus in the United States. Microorganisms. 2021; 9 (11): 2317. doi:10.3390/microorganisms9112317 

  • Hart C, Hassett E, Vogels C, et al. Powassan Virus lineage I in field collected Dermacentor variabilis ticks, New York, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2023; (2): 415-417. doi: 10.3201/eid2902.220410. PMID: 36692472; PMCID: PMC9881768.

  • Hassett E, Diuk-Wasser M, Harrington L, et al. Integrating tick density and park visitor behaviors to assess the risk of tick exposure in urban parks on Staten Island, New York. BMC Public Health. 2022;22,1602.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13989-x

 

Publications

Datasets

  • Hassett E, Villa J, Onyango Y, Eberhard E, Bohrer G, Kinsman-Costello L, Morin T (2023): Carbon flux measurements from chambers collected between July to October 2022 at Old Woman Creek, Huron, Ohio. Rewriting the Redox Paradigm: Dynamic hydrology shapes nutrient and element transformations in a Great Lakes Coastal Estuary, ESS-DIVE repository. Dataset. doi:10.15485/2229438 accessed via https://data.ess-dive.lbl.gov/datasets/doi:10.15485/2229438 on 2025-12-02

  • Hassett E, Villa J, Bohrer G, Kinsman-Costello L, Eberhard E, Carnevali J, Brown M,  Martin S, Morin T (2025): Carbon flux measurements from chambers collected between April to October 2023 at Old Woman Creek, Huron, Ohio. Rewriting the Redox Paradigm: Dynamic hydrology shapes nutrient and element transformations in a Great Lakes Coastal Estuary, ESS-DIVE repository. Dataset. doi:10.15485/3003419 accessed via https://data.ess-dive.lbl.gov/datasets/doi:10.15485/3003419 on 2025-11-18

 

Journalism

 

Presentations

  • ​Hassett E, Bohrer G, Costello-Kinsman L, Onyango Y, Pope T, Smith C, Missik J, Eberhard E, Villa J McMurray S, Morin T. Simulating microbial activity in a freshwater wetland: a field-based and modeling approach. Poster for the CNY Conference, Syracuse, NY, April 2025; American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, LA, December 2025.

  • Hassett E, Collins D, Stefl M, Whitmarsh O, Morin T. Bringing Carbon and Climate to Local Groups. Poster presentation at the NYS COE in Healthy Water Solutions; Syracuse, NY; May 2024.

  • Hassett E, Bohrer G, Costello-Kinsman L, Onyango Y, Pope T, Smith C, Missik J, Eberhard E, Villa J McMurray S, Morin T. Changes in standing water depth affect carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in a temperate wetland. Poster presentation for the CNY Conference, Syracuse, NY, April 2023 and the ESS PI meeting, Reston, VA, March 2024.   

  • Kennedy A, Hassett E. Investigating tick-host associations in Delaware. Oral presentation for “Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Exploring the Intersection of Wildlife and Entomology” symposium; 91st Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America Eastern Branch, March 2021.

  • Kennedy A, Hassett E. Results from the first two years of tick surveillance in Delaware. Oral presentation for the 46th Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Mosquito Control Association; February 2021; Virtual.

  • Hassett E, Shah P, Diuk-Wasser M, Centeno S, Harrington L, Fernandez P. Tick Hazard and Tick Exposure in Three Staten Island, NY Public Parks. Oral presentation for the Northeast Vector-borne Disease Center of Excellence Annual Meeting; January 2020; New Haven, CT.

  • Hassett E, Rodriguez A, Parman B, et al. Statewide entomological and arboviral survey in TN, 2017. Poster presented at: Tennessee Mosquito and Vector Control Association; 2017; Nashville, TN. Poster presented at: ASTMH Conference; 2017; Baltimore, MD.

  • Booth J, Cheatam A, Hassett E, Pacifico N. Determinants of water quality in western PA and eastern OH. Oral and poster presentation at URAC; 2017; Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA.

  • Hassett E.  Fish response to flow alteration: Internship with the Missouri Department of Conservation. Poster presented at: Environmental Science Symposium; 2016; Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA.  

 

Awards/ Honors

  • ESF Alumni Memorial Travel Award 2025

  • ESF Alumni Memorial Scholarship Award 2024

  • O’Brien and Gere Scholarship Award, Spring 2023, 2024

  • Student Travel Award for the ESS PI Meeting, Virginia, Spring 2024

  • Society of Wetland Scientists Biogeochemistry Grant ($1000), Fall 2023

  • 3rd place oral elevator research pitch at the CNY Conference, Syracuse, NY, 2023

  • 1st place oral presentation at the Tennessee Mosquito Control and Vector Association conference, Nashville, TN, 2017

  • 1st place URAC Prize for Best Environmental Presentation, Spring 2017

  • Honorable Mention URAC Prize for the oral capstone presentations, Spring 2017

  • Best Environmental Project, Student Symposium on the Environment, Fall 2016

  • Honorable Mention for the oral presentations, Student Symposium on the Environment, Fall 2016

  • Bartramian Audubon Society’s Helen B. Ferguson Scholarship, Spring 2016

  • 1st place Hanley Speech Scholarship competition, 2014

  • Dean’s List, 2014, 2016, 2017

 

Teaching/Mentoring

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, 2025-2026

  • Research support specialist for the Invasive Species Research and Extension Lab: assisted undergraduate and graduate students with their research project designs, data collection and analyses, manuscript writing, presentations, and job applications.

Guest Lectures

  • Hassett E. Intro to Environmental Journalism. Presented at Montana State University: LRES 501 Writing and Professional Development for Environmental Scientists, Fall 2024, 2025

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY

  • TA for ESF 300: Intro to Geospatial Information Technologies (ArcGIS; ArcPro), Fall 2022-2024

  • Created and taught a 3-Day program about climate, carbon, and sensors to local groups through the program ESF in the High School, Spring 2024

  • TA for ERE 133: Intro to Engineering Design (AutoCAD), Spring 2023

Media Appearances

 

Academic Activities

  • Member of Invasive Species Collaborative––Extension Subcommittee, Virginia Tech 2025-2026

  • Managing Editor for Unearthed, SUNY ESF’s environmental literary magazine 2024-2025

  • Jugatae member, Cornell Entomology Graduate Society, 2018-2020

  • Chair of Jugatae Social Committee, Cornell University, 2019-2020

  • “Ecosystem Investigations” judge for Westminster College’s Student Symposium on the Environment, 30 November 2020, virtual

  • Environmental and Sustainability Panelist for Westminster College’s Professional Networking Symposium, 25 September 2020, virtual

  • Guest professional for Westminster College’s ENV 199 Sustainability in a Time of Crisis course, June 2020, virtual

  • Guest speaker on ticks and mosquitoes for Shoe Shoe and Lemonade, Makerpark Radio, August 7, 2019

  • Entomology leader for Kids’ Science Camp at Cornell University, Spring 2019

 

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