Faculty
Herbert E. Allen
- Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Metals in the Environment
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1974
- Environmental chemistry; fate and effects of pollutants in water, sediment, and soil; bioavailability of trace metals; development of environmental standards; ecological risk assessment; analytical chemistry
Daniel K. Cha
- Professor
- Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1990
- Population dynamics of biological wastewater treatment processes; biotransformation of environmental contaminants in natural and engineered systems
Pei C. Chiu
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D., Stanford University, 1996
- Kinetics and mechanisms of pollutant degradation; chemical and microbial reduction of organic compounds; elemental iron technologies for groundwater remediation and water and wastewater treatment
Steven K. Dentel
- Professor
- Ph.D., Cornell University, 1984
- Design and control of contaminant removal processes in water treatment; coagulation and destabilization phenomena in particulate suspensions and sludges; dewatering process strategies for management of wastewater treatment residuals; environmental properties of biosolids: chemistry and environmental interactions of polymers, surfactants, and pollutants
Dominic M. Di Toro
- Edward C. Davis Professor
- Ph.D., Princeton University, 1967
- Water quality modeling; water quality and sediment quality criteria models for organic chemicals, metals, mixtures; organic chemical and metal sorption models; statistical models
Chin-Pao Huang
- Donald C. Philips Professor
- Ph.D., Harvard University, 1971
- Industrial wastewater management; aquatic chemistry;soil and groundwater remediation; environmental nanomaterials and processes
Paul T. Imhoff
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D., Princeton University, 1992
- Transport of fluids and contaminants in multiphase systems; mass transfer processes in soil; groundwater; surface water; and in landfills; and mathematical modeling. Current focus is on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from landfills.
Joint Faculty
Shreeram Inamdar
- Assistant Professor, Watershed Hydrochemistry
- Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 1996
- Controls of hydrologic flow paths on the exports of solutes; influence of wetlands and riparian ecosystems on water quality; watershed responses across spatial and temporal scales
Yan Jin
- Professor, Soil Physics
- Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 1994
- Measurement and modeling of contaminant fate and transport in soil and groundwater
George W. Luther III
- Professor, Oceanography
- Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1972
- Redox reactions in the environment; trace element speciation in marine waters and sediments including metal-ligand complexes; biogeochemical processes in marine environments; application of molecular orbital theory to geochemical processes; in situ electrochemistry and microelectrode technology
William F. Ritter
- Professor and Department Chair, Bioresources Engineering
- Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1971
- Groundwater pollution; waste management; water quality modeling; surface water contamination; irrigation management
Donald L. Sparks
- S. Hallock du Pont Chair and Department Chair, Plant and Soil Science
- Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1979
- Chemistry of soil reactions; reaction (kinetics) rates of metals, nutrients, and organics with soils, clay minerals, iron, aluminum, and manganese oxides, and humic substances; use of surface microscopic and spectroscopic techniques to elucidate mechanisms of metal, nutrient and organic retention, release, and speciation on soils and oxide and clay surfaces