PERSONNEL


Faculty:

Annette L. Bunge, Professor, Chemical Engineering & Petroleum Refining Department. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Transport in membranes; dermal absorption of chemicals
Helen E. Dawson, Assistant Research Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering Division. Ph.D., Stanford University. Multiphase flow and transport in the saturated and unsaturated zones; processes for displacement of residual organic liquids trapped in soil; coupling of flow and transport models with geochemical processes.
Linda A. Figueroa, PE, Associate Professor. Environmental Science and Engineering Division. Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder. Microbial transformation of hazardous organic and inorganic pollutants; integration of reactor modeling with mass transfer constants and microbial kinetics.
Bruce D. Honeyman, Associate Professor. Environmental Science and Engineering Division. Ph.D., Stanford University. Surface chemistry; environmental radiochemistry; metal-organic interactions; the physical/chemical processes controlling the fate of chemical species in natural and engineered systems.
Donald Macalady, Chairperson of the Center, Professor, Chemistry and Geochemistry Department. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison. The chemistry of natural organic matter, abiotic oxidation/reduction reactions, hydrolysis reaction rates and mechanisms, environmental partitioning from aqueous to soil/sedimentand other systems, transport of contaminant chemicals across the human skin, particle effects in aqueous chemistry acid mine drainage, and chemistry in wetlands.
James Ranville, Research Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Geochemistry Department. Ph.D., Geochemistry Colorado School of Mines. Environmental colloids and suspended particles; Field-flow fractionation methods; ICP-AES/MS methods; chemistry of acid-mine drainage; particles in drinking water.
Philippe Ross, Professor and Division Director, Environmental Science and Engineering Division. Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Robert L. Siegrist, PE, Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering Division. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Environmental characterization and risk assessment; subsurface manipulation and in situ treatment of contaminated land, water, and waste water treatment, and reuse in natural and alternative systems.



Graduate Students:

Andrew B. Sheldon, Ph.D. Candidate. Environmental Science and Engineering Division. Human Exposure Assessment, Contaminant Transport/Fate Modeling, Risk Analysis. Current Project: Experimental Validation and Reliability Evaluation of Multimedia Risk Assessment Models
Lixin Sun, Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering & Petroleum Refining Department. Drug Delivery, BioSeparation, Controlled Release, Current Project: Dermal Absorption of Chemicals from Evaporating Vehicle Mixtures

Last Updated: 09/02/1998