Director
Director Emeritus
Post Doc
Derrick Rodriguez
Andrea Koenig
PhD Students
Andy Miller
Emily Lesher
Erik Hunter
Colleagues
A. J.
Francis
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Jan Havorka
Charles University, Prague
Robert
Holub
Dept. of Physics/Dept. of Environmental Science & Eng., Colorado
School of Mines
Phillip Long
PNNL
Aaron Peacock
Haley Aldrich
James
Ranville
Dept. of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines
Peter
Santschi
Laboratory for Oceanographic & Env. Research, Texas A&M
University at Galveston
John
Spear
Colorado School of Mines
Jim Davis, Gary Curtis, Michael Hay, Mathias Kohler and Doug Kent
USGS Menlo Park, CA
Carl Steefel
LBNL
Kenneth H. Williams
LBNL
Ming Ye
Florida State University
Steven Yabusaki
PNNL
Past Master Students
| Name | Thesis Title | Year | Present Affiliation |
Birgit Braun |
Sorption of As(V) onto quartz sand in batch and column experiments. | 2003 | Ph.D.
student, Dept. of ChemE, CSM |
Daniel J. Dawson |
Characterization of polydisperse colloids by field-flow fractionation (FFF) : Determination of size and composition of soil colloids. | 2002 | |
Magnus Skold |
Copper
complexation by natural organic matter (NOM) as related to sample
origin. [Co-advisor w/Don Macalady] |
1999 | Ph.D.
student, Dept. of Geology, CSM |
Mia Lahti-DeBruyne |
The
influence of fine particulate deposition and portable air cleaning
devices on indoor air quality. [Co-advisor w/Robert Holub] |
1997 | |
Kelly S. Sexsmith |
A detailed examination of the chemical, hydrological, and geological properties influencing the mobility of ²²²radon and parent radionuclides in groundwater. | 1996 | |
David M. Kaneko |
The
sorption of uranium onto chitin : sorption onto unwashed chitin, effects
of sulfate and carbonate species on sorption, and desorption of uranium
from chitin. [Co-advisor w/Linda Figueroa] |
1996 | |
Kathleen M. Rosow |
Sorption of thorium at the hematite/water interface in the presence of marine colloidal material. | 1994 | |
Leigh |
Characterization of the surface reactions controlling the sorption of U (VI) on to animal chitin. | 1993 |
Past Doctoral Students
| Name | Thesis Title | Year | Present Affiliation |
Ruth Tinnacher |
Effects of fulvic acid and extracellular polymeric substances on the mobility of uranium and plutonium in saturated groundwater systems | 2008 | |
Angelique Diaz |
Biogeochemical cycling of plutonium : effect of natural organic matter, microbial activity, and time | 2008 | |
Patsy (Buckley) Moran |
2007 | Knight Piesold and Co., Denver, CO. | |
| Lee L. Landkamer | Sorption of U(VI) to Desulfovibrio Vulgaris, a gram-negative bacterium: Development of an experimental and modeling framework for the characterization and predicition of metal sorption to bacteria. | 2003 | Postdoctoral
researcher, USGS Boulder |
| Andy Logan | Mechanisms
controlling the fate and transport of Cryptosporidium parvum in granular-media filtration systems used for drinking water treatment. [Co-advisor w/Robert Siegrist] |
2002 | |
| Charoen Sanpawanitchakit | The
application of surface complexation modeling to the adsorption of
uranium(VI) on natural composite materials. [J. Davis, Co-advisor] Abstract |
2002 | |
| Cetin Kantar | The role of citric acid in the transport of U(VI) through saturated porous media: the application of surface chemical models to transport simulations of bench scale experiments. Abstract | 2002 | |
| Janet Yanowitz | In-use emissions from heavy-duty diesel vehicles. Abstract | 2001 | |
| Richard Murphy | Thorium(IV)
binding to organic and inorganic ligands: marine colloidal matter,
marine polysaccharides and hematite. Abstract |
2000 | |
| Flavio de Morais Vosconcelos | The
role of natural organic matter in the sorption of Cu to Brazilian
oxisoils. [Co-advisor w/Don Macalady] Abstract |
2000 | |
| John R. Spear | Modeling
the kinetics of removal for U(VI) and sulfate from aqueous solutions
in the presence of sulfate reducing bacteria. [Co-advisor w/Linda Figueroa] Abstract |
1999 | |
| John J. Lenhart | Surface chemical modeling of U(VI) sorption onto hematite in the presence of humic and fulvic acids. Abstract | 1997 |
