About the Authors

Shweta Ganapati

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ All authors contributed equally and should be considered co-first authors.

Affiliation Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellow 2020-21, Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Tessy S. Ritchie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tessy.ritchie@westpoint.edu

‡ All authors contributed equally and should be considered co-first authors.

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Life Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: SG is a participant of the Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellowship Program, which is a competitive fellowship that places Ph.D. graduates in the Canadian government departments and agencies. All data presented in this paper were collected prior to SG’s placement with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). TSR is an employee of the United States government. This manuscript and its findings are in no way a reflection of the United States Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, United States Government, Mitacs, NSERC, or the views of departments and agencies of the Government of Canada or its provinces. All information and conclusions presented herein belong to the authors alone who contributed equally to this manuscript. These affiliations do not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.