Environmental & Analytical Chemistry Faculty
| Name | Contact info | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Cort
Anastasio Associate Professor Click on .pdf |
Atmospheric Science Program 3146 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building (530) 754-6095 Website |
Environmental chemistry; chemistry and photochemistry of tropospheric cloud and fog drops and aerosol particles; interactions between these condensed phases and the gas phase. |
| Lowell
Ashbaugh Associate Researcher |
Crocker Nuclear Laboratory Crocker Nuclear Laboratory Annex (530) 752-2848 Website |
Sources and generation mechanisms of PM10 fugitive dust. In-use motor vehicle emissions and their effect on air pollution in California. Dry deposition of acidic gases and particles in California. Source/receptor modeling of particles and gases. Interbasin transport of air pollutants in California and the western United States. |
| Victor
P. Claassen Assistant Research Soil Scientist |
Land Air and Water Resources 2144 PES (530)752-6514 Website |
Soil fertility in wildlands systems; revegetation of drastically disturbed soils with native species, endomycorrhizae; soil organic matter. |
| Randy
Dahlgren Professor |
Soil Science and Pedology/Soil Mineralogy 3134 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building (530) 752-2814 Website |
Interactions of hydrological, geochemical, and biological processes in regulating groundwater and surface water chemistry; forest and rangeland biogeochemistry and trace element biogeochemistry. |
| Ian
C. Faloona Assistant Professor Assistant Micrometeorologist |
Atmospheric Science 3138 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building Phone: (530) 752-2044 Website |
The nexus of chemistry and turbulent mixing in the atmosphere; developing fast, sensitive spectroscopic detection techniques for the measurement of biogeochemical trace gases and their fluxes; airborne instrumental studies of chemistry and mixing; understanding the exchange of anthropogenic pollution with terrestrial and marine ecosystems and conversely, the influence of biogenic emissions on the composition of the atmosphere. |
| Peter
G. Green Associate Research Engineer |
Civil and Environmental Engineering 3136 Engineering III (530) 752-8581 Website |
Water quality, air quality, trace metal analysis, trace organic analysis, water resources . |
| Dirk
M. Holstege Adjunct Professor |
Director, DANR Analytical Laboratory 207 Hoagland Hall (530) 752-0148 Website 1 Website 2 |
Development of analytical methodologies for chemical analysis in soil, plant tissue, biological materials, and water. Analysis for naturally-occurring toxins of plant origin. Trace metal analysis and trace organic analysis. Application of LC/MS/MS for trace analysis. |
| William
R. Horwath Professor |
Soils and Biogeochemistry 3226 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building (530) 754-6029 Website |
Stable and radioactive isotope studies in humic chemistry and microbial biomass dynamics, carbon sequestration in managed and natural ecosystems, influence of sustainable agriculture practices on long-term soil fertility and water quality, sources of nitrate in ecosystems, denitrification, root turnover and plant-microbe interactions in the rhizosphere. |
| Krassimira
Hristova Assistant Research Soil Scientist |
Land Air and Water Resources 3240 PES (530) 752-2412 Website |
Microbial ecology of contaminated environments; Molecular and metagenomic approaches to study microbial communities; Biodegradation of organic pollutants; Genomics, proteomics, and genetics of MTBE degrading strain /M. petroleiphilum /PM1; MTBE bioremediation, Se bioremediation; Microbial and algal biofuel production; Nanobiotechnology and biosensors. |
| Norman
Y. Kado Associate Adjunct Professor |
Environmental Toxicology 4336 Meyer Hall (530) 752-2457 Website |
Bioassay and chemical analysis of environmental complex mixtures; analysis of airborne particle and vapor-phase polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). Occupational and environmental exposure and biological monitoring of airborne toxicants. |
| Peter
B. Kelly Professor |
Physical Chemistry Chemistry 22 , Chemistry Annex 0440 (530) 752-2678 Website |
Laser spectroscopy, resonance Raman spectroscopy, multiphoton excitation, electronic structure of small molecules. Environmental analytical work involves the use of mass spectrometry to examine airborne particles collected on air sampling filters. |
| Michael
Kleeman Professor |
Civil and Environmental Engineering 3125 Engineering III (530) 752-8386 Website |
Professor Kleeman's research is focused on the study of urban and regional air quality problems with an emphasis on the size and composition of atmospheric particles and gas-to-particle conversion processes. These issues are important because research has found that airborne particles with diameters less than 2.5 microns cause adverse health effects. The size and composition of particles found in the atmosphere also determines much of the visibility reduction observed in large cities. |
| John
P. Knezovich Adjunct Professor |
Environmental Toxicology Director, Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Director, UC Toxic Substances Research & Training Program Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (925) 422-0925 Website 1 Website 2 |
The environmental fate and toxicity of organic contaminants, heavy metals, and radionuclides. Emphasis on the application of ion-beam analytical techniques to assess the bioavailability of contaminants and their in vivo disposition. Use of accelerator mass spectrometry to assess the fate of low-doses (i.e., environmental concentrations) of contaminants through the application of isotopic tracers. |
| Mark
J. Kurth Professor |
Organic and Combinatorial Synthetic Chemistry 306 Chemistry Bldg (530) 752-8192 Website |
Synthetic organic chemistry methods development, natural products total synthesis, solid-phase synthesis, combinatorial chemistry, and lactose utilization (carbohydrate-based polymers). |
| Kate
M. Scow Professor |
Soil Science and Soil Microbial Ecology 3236 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building (530) 752-4632 Website |
Microbial ecology; biodegradation of organic pollutants (MTBE, perchlorate, pesticides, PAHs); bioremediation of contaminated soil, vadose, and groundwater; coupled physical and microbiological processes; microbial ecology of agroecosystems; microbial communities in dust; carbon cycling in flooded soil; characterization of microbial communities; application of molecular tools in environmental microbiology. |
| Randall J. Southard Professor | Soil Science and Genesis/Morphology Divisional Associate Dean for Environmental Sciences 2148 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building (530) 752-7041 Website |
Soil genesis, morphology, and classification; soil-geomorphic relations; soil mineralogy; agricultural dust and PM-10. |
| Ronald
Tjeerdema Professor |
Environmental Toxicology 4245 Meyer Hall Phone: (530) 754-5912 Website |
Research currently focused on investigating (1) the metabolic actions of toxic chemicals in aquatic animals using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based metabolomics (environmental metabolomics); (2) the biochemical actions of toxic chemicals in aquatic animals using in vivo NMR; (3) the kinetics and biotransformation of pesticides and petroleum hydrocarbons in aquatic animals; (4) the influence of surfactants on the bioavailability of petroleum hydrocarbons in aquatic systems; (5) the dissipation of herbicides via volatilization, soil sorption, photodegradation and microbial degradation under rice field conditions; and (6) the fate of pesticides and petroleum hydrocarbons in marine mussels and sediments. Member of the Graduate Groups in Agricultural & Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Pharmacology & Toxicology. |
| Warren
White Professional Researcher |
Crocker Nuclear Laboratory Phone: (530) 752-1213 Website |
My current research centers on the analysis and quality-assurance of data from the IMPROVE network (Interagency Monitoring of PROtected Visual Environments) operated for the National Park Service by Crocker Nuclear Laboratory. I also retain earlier interests in all aspects of atmospheric visibility, and in qualitative analyses of the equation systems governing particle coagulation and tropospheric photochemistry. |
| Thomas
Young Professor |
Civil & Environmental Engineering 3113 Engineering III Phone: (530) 754-9399 Website |
Sorption/desorption processes in soils and sediments, relationship between natural organic matter structure and sorption reactivity, physical/chemical methods for soil and groundwater remediation, interaction between groundwater redox state and natural attenuation of organic contaminants, environmental applications of supercritical fluids including extraction and pollution prevention. |
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