Ameet
Pinto
Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Ameet Pinto in the Press
Mass Live
Somerville enters Phase 3 of COVID-19 reopening, last remaining Massachusetts community to do so
To further prevent a surge of cases in the city, Curtatone launched a community wastewater testing program last week, in partnership with a Northeastern University professor, to monitor for the virus.
WHDH 7 News
Somerville launching community wastewater testing program to monitor for coronavirus
Mayor Joe Curtatone announced Thursday that the city is partnering with Northeastern University Asst. Professor Ameet Pinto of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Stantec for the program that is designed to reveal COVID-19 hotspots up to one to two weeks earlier than current individual testing.
Somerville, Northeastern Partner To Look For Coronavirus In City Sewage
The initiative is a partnership between the city, the engineering firm Stantec, and a research team at Northeastern University led by Ameet Pinto, an environmental engineer and microbiologist.
