Research
B.S. in Environmental Chemistry
Individual faculty explore a wide range of research in the Environmental
Chemistry program.
Follow the links below and contact the professors directly to discuss
their work. Everyone likes to talk about
their research!
Current
Research Interests
- harmful
algal blooms (Boyer)
- microbial
uptake of heavy metals (Boyer)
- photochemistry
in lakes and streams (Hassett) and marine waters (Kieber)
- new
techniques for field and laboratory analysis of molecules, radicals,
and particles in water, air, and soil (Dibble , Hassett, Johnson , Kieber, Teece)
- insect
pheremones (Webster)
fate
of Persistant Organic Pollutants like PCBs, dioxins, and mirex (Hassett)
- destruction
of pollutants with non-thermal plasmas (Dibble)
- mechanisms
of formation of organic aerosol (Dibble)
- kinetics
and mechanisms of smog chemistry (Dibble)
- global
carbon and sulfur cycles (Kieber)
- coral
reef ecosystems (Teece)
- marine
and lake food webs (Teece)
- biological
chemistry (Teece)
- gunshot
residues (Johnson)
- particles
on leaves (Johnson)