Patricia Clyde (PhD, 2021)

Patricia Clyde is an environmental chemist specializing in contaminant fate and transport, environmental forensics, read-across assessment, and wastewater treatment.  As a Senior Environmental Chemist at Gradient, she provides chemistry expertise on a range of projects involving cost allocation, source identification, remedy evaluation, and contaminant modeling.  She also advises on the use of appropriate chemicals for toxicological read-across analyses to support consumer product safety assessments. 

Dr. Clyde received her Ph.D. in Marine and Atmospheric Science from Stony Brook University, where she authored a dissertation on the fate and transport of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in on-site wastewater treatment systems.  During her time at SoMAS she worked in the Center for Clean Water Technology. She also has experience working with quaternary ammonium compounds as tracers to assess the effects of extreme weather events on sewage distributions in coastal embayments.