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Faculty & Research
M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry

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Core Faculty and their Specialties

• Dr. Gregory L. Boyer, Chair, Biochemistry
• Dr. Theodore S. Dibble, Associate Chair, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physical Chemistry
• Dr. John P. Hassett, Aquatic Chemistry
• Dr. David J. Kieber, Associate Chair, Aquatic Organic Chemistry
• Dr. Huiting Mao, Atmospheric Chemistry
• Dr. Mark A. Teece, Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry

Other Participating Faculty and their Specialties

• Dr. Kelley Donaghy, Inorganic Chemistry, Fuel cells, Chemical Education
• Dr. Jose Giner, Sterol synthesis, Natural Products
• Dr. David L. Johnson, Emeritus, Particles in Air and Water
• Dr. Francis X. Webster, Chemical Ecology, Pheromones, Organic Chemistry
• Dr. Art Stipanovic, Biopolymers, Biodegradable Polymers
• Dr. Richard Zepp, Adjunct, US Environmental Protection Agency

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, Kieber, Teece)
• insect pheremones (Webster)
• fate of Persistant Organic Pollutants like PCBs, dioxins, and mirex (Hassett)
• biodiesel combustion (Dibble)
• 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)