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Education

Columbia University
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences
MPhil in Earth and Environmental Sciences
MA in Earth and Environmental Sciences

University of California, Berkeley
BA in Geophysics and in Statistics

Appointments & Research Experience

  • ETH Zürich
    Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry

    Post-Doctoral research, Advisor: Lenny Winkel
    November 2021-present
  • Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
    Doctoral research, Advisor: Benjamin Bostick
    September 2016-October 2021
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) & University of Western Australia
    Visiting PhD student, Advisor: Henning Prommer
    November 2019-October 2021
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & UC Berkeley Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program
    Honors Thesis: “Particulate Composition and Subsurface Dynamics at Eel River Critical Zone Observatory”
    Advisor: Professor James Bishop
    October 2013-May 2016
  • European Center for Research and Education in Geosciences and the Environment (CEREGE) & Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT)
    NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates
    May 2015-July 2015
  • UC Berkeley Eel River Critical Zone Observatory
    NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates
    June 2014-August 2014

Selected Publications

    2023

  • Shen, Y., Wiita, E., Nghiem, A., Liu, J., Haque, E., Austin, R., Seng, C., Phan, K., Zheng, Y., Bostick, B., (2023), Zinc localization and speciation in rice grain under variable soil zinc deficiency. Plant and Soil, DOI:10.1007/s11104-023-06140-1
  • Nghiem, A., Prommer, H., Mozumder, M.R.H., Siade, A., Jamieson, J., Ahmed, K.M., van Geen, A., Bostick, B., (2023), Sulfate reduction accelerates groundwater arsenic contamination even in aquifers with abundant iron oxides. Nature Water, DOI:10.1038/s44221-022-00022-z
  • 2022

  • Liang, Y., Ma, R., Nghiem, A. Xu, J., Tang, L., Wei, W., Prommer, H., Gan, Y., (2022) Sources of ammonium enriched in groundwater in the central Yangtze River Basin: anthropogenic or geogenic? Environmental Pollution, DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119463
  • 2021

  • Reich, N., Nghiem, A., Nicholas, S., Bostick, B., Campbell, M., (2021), Determination of Arsenic Content in Water Using a Silver Coordination Polymer. ACS Environmental Au, DOI: 10.1021/acsenvironau.1c00036
  • Wei, W., Nghiem, A., Ma, R., Sun, Z., Gong, X., Zhou, A., Prommer, H., (2021), The Origin and Factors Controlling Iodine Enrichment in a Coastal Plain Aquifer in the North Jiangsu Yishusi Plain, China. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 103894.DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2021.103894
  • Haque, E., Thorne, P., Nghiem, A., Yip, C., Bostick, B., (2021), Lead (Pb) concentrations and speciation in residential soils from an urban community impacted by multiple legacy sources. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 416, 125886.DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125886
  • Glodowska, M., Schneider, M., Eiche, E., Kontny, A., Neumann, T., Straub, D., Berg, M., Prommer, H., Bostick, B., Nghiem, A., Kleindienst, S., Kappler, A., (2021), Fermentation, methanotrophy and methanogenesis influence sedimentary Fe and As dynamics in As-affected aquifers in Vietnam. Science of the Total Environment, 779, 146501.DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146501
  • 2020

  • Sun, Y., Sun, J., Nghiem, A., Bostick, B., Ellis, T., Han, L., Li, Z., Liu, S., Han, S., Zhang, M., Xua, Y., Zheng, Y., (2020), Reduction of sediment arsenate associated with iron(III) oxide: Evidence from high depth resolution sampling of a reducing aquifer in Yinchuan Plain, northwestern China. Journal of Hazardous Materials DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.124615
  • Nghiem, A., Shen, Y., Stahl, M., Sun, J., Haque, E., DeYoung, B., Nguyen, K., Mai, T., Trang, P., Pham, H., Mailloux, B., Harvey, C., van Geen, A., Bostick, B., (2020), Aquifer-Scale Observations of Iron Redox Transformations in Arsenic-Impacted Environments to Predict Future Contamination. Env. Sci. Tech. Letters DOI:10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00672
  • Kumar, A., Singh, C., Bostick, B., Nghiem, A., Mailloux, B., van Geen, A., (2020), Regulation of groundwater arsenic concentrations in the Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej floodplains of Punjab, India. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 276, 384–403. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.03.003
  • 2019

  • Nghiem, A., Stahl, M., Mailloux, B., Mai., T., Trang, P., Viet, P., Harvey, C., van Geen, A., Bostick, B., (2019), Quantifying Riverine Recharge Impacts on Redox Conditions and Arsenic Release in Groundwater Aquifers Along the Red River, Vietnam. Water Resour. Res. 55, 6712–6728. DOI: 10.1029/2019WR024816

Awards and Honors

  • ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship
    July 2022
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) Award
    July 2019
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2018-2021)
    April 2018
  • UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science
    Distinction in General Scholarship (Cum Laude)
    Highest Honor in Geophysics
    May 2016
  • Association for Women Geoscientists - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
    UC Berkeley EPS Department Outstanding Student Award
    May 2016
  • UC Berkeley Earth and Planetary Sciences Ramsden Research Fellowship
    December 2015
  • UC Berkeley Dean’s Honor List
    2014-2016

Teaching

  • ETH Zurich
    Carbonate Chemistry in Aquatic Systems: Bachelors Practical Course
    Co-Instructor of Record
    Spring 2023
  • Double Discovery Center at Columbia College
    Minds on Problem Solving: Data Science course
    Co-Instructor of Record
    Spring 2019
  • Columbia University, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
    EESC UN2100 Climate Systems: undergraduate climate course & laboratory section
    Teaching Assistant
    Spring 2018, Fall 2018
  • UC Berkeley, Department of Statistics
    Statistics 133: Concepts in Computing with Data (R Programming)
    Undergraduate Laboratory TA
    Spring 2015

Outreach

Yearly outreach events
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Open House
Girls Science Day

Columbia OpenLabs Science Cafe
Speaker, May 2017

pictured: Girls Science Day, Fall 2018, teaching middle school girls about the water cycle and contaminated groundwater through a hands-on experiment entitled "Well, well, well: what is groundwater?: an experiment in water contamination"