RESEARCH INTERESTS

 
Environmental Engineering and Chemistry:
Chemical Kinetics and Mechanisms; Adsorption and Surface Catalysis, Drinking Water Treatment and Membrane Processes, Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water, Application of Nanoparticles for Water Treatment, Site Remediation (Toxic Metals and Radionuclides), Reductive and Oxidative Dechlorination of Chlorinated Ethylenes, Microbial Processes for Toxic Metal Transformations, Water Quality, Environmental Chemistry of Soils, Sediments, and Aquifers
Research projects
  • EEM Fluorescence Spectroscopy Fingerprints and Monitoring of NDMA and TTHM Formation Potentials (PI, Missouri Water Resources Research Center, $22,000, 3/06 - 3/07)
  • Mercury Reduction From Coal Power Plant Emission Using Functionalized Ordered Mesoporous Carbons (FOMCs) (Co-PI, with Dr. D. Gang at West Virginia Tech as PI, Center for Advanced Separation Technologies, total budget - $214,728, 06/2005-8/2006)
  • Recovery of Chromium and Arsenic from Toxic Waste Stream by Reactive Polymer-Coated Absorbents (Co-PI, with Dr. D. Gang at West Virginia Tech as PI, Center for Advanced Separation Technologies, total budget - $299,779, 6/04- 8/06)
  • Use of Fluorescence Spectroscopy for Wastewater Evaluation (C Phase II (PI. Missouri Department of Natural Resources, $25,000, 01/2004-12/2006)
  • Use of Excitation/Emission Matrix Fluorescence for Wastewater Sources Identification (PI, Missouri Water Resources Research Center, $22,000, 3/04 - 3/06)
  • Renewal: Interfacial Reduction-Oxidation Mechanisms Governing Fate and Transport of Contaminants in the Vadose Zone (PI/Project Director, in collaboration with Dr. S. Jurisson at UM-Columbia, Dr. E, Thornton at PNNL, and Dr. J. Terry at IIT, funded by the Department of Energy EMSP program. Total budget- $900,000, 9/2003 - 12/2006)

  • Use of Fluorescence Spectroscopy for Wastewater Evaluation (PI. MO Department of Natural Resources, $25,000, 1/03 - 12/03)

  • Transport of Zerovalent Iron Colloids in Porous Media (PI. UM Research Board, $29284, September 1, 2002 - August 31, 2003)

  • Interfacial Reduction-Oxidation Mechanisms Governing Fate and Transport of Contaminants in the Vadose Zone (PI/Project Director, in collaboration with PNNL, funded by the Department of Energy EMSP program. Total budget- $840,000, 9/1999 - 9/2003)

  • CAREER: Integrated Research and Education on Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water (National Science Foundation, $374,782, 3/2001 - 2/2006)

  • Chromium Stability in Soils Treated with In-Situ Gas Reduction (PI. Waste-management Education and Management Consortium-WERC, $60,932; 8/2001 - 12/2002)

  • Reduction of Cobalt(III) in Subsurface Environments: Mineral Surface-Catalyzed versus Microbially Mediated Reactions (PI. Supported by Los Alamos National Laboratory, $27,500, 12/1999 - 12/2001)

  • Autocatalytic CrVI Reduction in the CrVI-Oxalate-MnII Systems (PI. Supported by the Hispanic Collaborative for Research and Education in Science and Technology - HiCREST, $5,000, 9/99 - 10/2001)

  • Chinese Area Studies in Water Law and Water Quality: An Intercultural Perspective (Co-PI, with Vannetta Perry and Clint Richardson, Department of Education Fulbright/Hayes program. $66,000, 2000)

  • Evaluating Natural Attenuation of Chromate and Chlorinated Solvents in Groundwater (PI. Supported by Sandia National Laboratories, $24,952, 12/98 - 10/99)

  • Catalysis of Soil Minerals on Cr(VI) Reduction by Organic Compounds and Its Application for Contaminated Site Reme -diation (PI. Supported by WERC, $58,677, 8/97 - 12/98)

  • Kinetics of Vinyl Chloride Reduction by Metallic Iron (PI. Supported by WERC, $9,966, 1/97-12/97)

  • An Investigation of the Use of Potassium Superoxide for Generating Free Radicals to Oxidize Organic Waste compounds (Co-PI, with Roy Dixon in Chemistry - Supported by WERC, $9,140, 1/97 - 12/97)
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