{"id":23769,"date":"2021-06-04T14:18:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T18:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=23769"},"modified":"2021-06-04T14:18:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T18:18:56","slug":"roadside-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/roadside-waterways\/","title":{"rendered":"Klaine Fellowship Recipient Focusing on Roadside Waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Klaine was a professor in the Clemson Department of Biological Sciences and a member of the environmental toxicology graduate program for 24 years. He was an internationally recognized environmental toxicologist with a legacy of devotion to teaching and mentoring until he passed away in 2016. Colleagues and friends of Klaine honored his contributions to biological sciences by establishing a fellowship in his memory.<br \/>\nIn 2021, Stephanie LaPlaca, a graduate student in the College of Science, is the first recipient of the Dr. Stephen Klaine Annual Memorial Fellowship.<br \/>\n\u201cReceiving the Klaine Fellowship is a huge honor. Although I never got the chance to meet Dr. Klaine, I\u2019ve heard so many wonderful things about him through other students and faculty at Clemson. His legacy is inspiring,\u201d said LaPlaca, a fourth-year Ph.D. student from Virginia in the Department of Biological Sciences\u2019 environmental toxicology program.<br \/>\nLaPlaca\u2019s research focuses on the toxicity of crumb rubber particles to aquatic organisms. As tires wear, they leave tiny particles of rubber on the roadways. When it rains, those particles wash into creeks, streams and lakes. Understanding how crumb rubber affects aquatic organisms can inform stormwater regulators on how to best manage road runoff and help consumers make more eco-friendly choices to reduce their impact.<br \/>\nLaPlaca and Peter van den Hurk, her academic adviser, published a paper in the journal <em>Ecotoxicology<\/em> last April.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s quite impressive for a student to have a publication out of doctoral research in their third year.\u201d said van den Hurk, who coordinates the environmental toxicology program. \u201cSteve was very science-oriented, but he was also oriented toward translating science to applications in the real world. As environmental scientists, we help society address environmental problems. Steve advocated that. I think Stephanie fits that picture very well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Klaine was a professor in the Clemson Department of Biological Sciences and a member of the environmental toxicology graduate program for 24 years. He was an internationally recognized environmental toxicologist with a legacy of devotion to teaching and mentoring until he passed away in 2016. Colleagues and friends of Klaine honored his contributions to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,8],"tags":[777,953,1021,2811,2814],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clemson-forever","category-my-clemson","tag-college-of-science","tag-department-of-biological-sciences","tag-dr-stephen-klaine-annual-memorial-fellowship","tag-summer-2021","tag-summer-2021-clemson-forever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23769"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}