| William
C.
Becker:
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| Adjunct Professor,
Ph.D., P.E.,
Johns Hopkins,
1995, 1996 |
| Interests:
Physical/chemical water and wastewater treatment; design of water and wastewater treatment plants |
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| Marco
J.
Castaldi:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Los Angeles),
1997 |
| Interests:
Enhanced combustion processes for waste to energy systems; catalytic reactor design and development for novel material synthesis and efficiency improvements; simulation and analysis of integrated systems for energy, materials, and fuels optimization |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Kartik
Chandran:
|
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Connecticut,
1999 |
| Interests:
Environmental microbial ecology, bacterial response to stress and stimuli, applied bacterial genomics in public health, mathematical modeling and optimal experimental design to characterize microbial transformations. |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Paul
F.
Duby:
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| Professor,
Eng.Sc.D.,
Columbia,
1962 |
| Interests:
Electrochemical and hydrometallurgical processes, corrosion of metals, water chemistry, mineral waste treatment and recovery |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Raymond
S.
Farinato:
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| Adjunct Professor,
Ph.D.,
Massachusetts,
1976 |
| Interests:
Research in water treating, water soluble polymers, surface chemistry and materials science groups; physical chemistry of colloids, colloid-polymer interactions. emulsions and adhesion |
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| Robert
J.
Farrauto:
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| Adjunct Professor,
Ph.D.,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
1968 |
| Interests:
Research and development of advanced automobile emission control catalysts for passenger cars and diesel oxidation catalysts; catalyst technology for fuel cells and hydrogen production |
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| Vasilis
Fthenakis:
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| Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scientist; Director of Center for Life Cycle Analysis,
Ph.D.,
New York,
1991 |
| Interests:
Enviromental health and safety assessment, dynamics and control of accidental two-phase flow releases, consequences analysis, computational fluid dynamics, air pollution control, and atmospheric dispersion |
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| Gavin
Gong:
|
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
MIT,
2003 |
| Interests:
Hydroclimatology, land surface-atmosphere interaction over continental scales, snow hydrology, water resource management |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Scott
Kaufman:
|
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| Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Ph.D,
Columbia,
2008 |
| Interests:
Life cycle assessment, waste treatment technologies |
|
| Klaus
S.
Lackner:
|
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| Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics,
Ph.D.,
Heidelberg,
1978 |
| Interests:
Carbon management, alternative fuels and energy management, fluid mechanics and transport processes, applied physics |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Upmanu
Lall:
|
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| Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science),
Ph.D.,
Texas,
1981 |
| Interests:
Statistical and numerical modeling of hydrologic and climatic systems, planning and management of water resource systems;water quality; hydro-climatic change |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Wade
McGillis:
|
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| Doherty Research Scientist,
Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley),
1993 |
| Interests:
Surface exchange of momentum, heat, water and gas; coupled atmosphere-ocean processes; ocean and river carbon dioxide transport; interfacial hydrodynamics and boundary layer turbulence |
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| Alissa
Ah-Hyung
Park:
|
|
| Lenfest Junior Professor in Applied Climate Science,
Ph.D.,
Ohio State,
2005 |
| Interests:
Clean fossil energy conversion systems, carbon capture and mineral sequestration, liquid fuel and hydrogen production from alternative energy resources, electrostatic charging phenomena and electrostatic tomography, particle technology, multiphase flows and fluidization |
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| Srinivasan
Rangarajan:
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| Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Ph.D., P.E.,
Manitoba,
1995, 1998 |
| Interests:
Microbial source tracking to support TMDL development and implementation; watershed-based pollutant trading; watershed/waterbody modeling; watershed-based pollution control programs |
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| Peter
Schlosser:
|
|
| Vinton Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Ph.D.,
Heidelberg,
1985 |
| Interests:
Studies of water movement and its variability in natural systems, ocean/atmosphere gas exchange, reconstruction of paleotemperature records, anthropogenic impact on natural systems;Human impact on the environment |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Ponisseril
Somasundaran:
|
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| LaVon Duddleson Krumb Professor of Mineral Engineering,
Ph.D.,
Califonia (Berkeley),
1964 |
| Interests:
Surface and colloid science, nanoparticles (drug/toxics/sensory attributes extraction/release), biosurfaces and biosensors, deposition/dispersion/flotation, enhanced oil and coal recovery, polymer/surfactant/protein interactions, arsenic remediation, waste treatment |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Nicholas
J.
Themelis:
|
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| Stanley-Thompson Professor Emeritus,
Ph.D.,
McGill,
1961 |
| Interests:
Transport phenomena in thermal plasma spraying, energy and material recovery from solid wastes, cogeneration of electricity and heat, industrial ecology |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Nicholas
J.
Turro:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
California Institute of Technology,
1963 |
| Interests:
Organic chemistry |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Tuncel
M.
Yegulalp:
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| Professor of Mining Engineering,
Eng.Sc.D.,
Columbia,
1968 |
| Interests:
Mineral economics, systems analysis using operation research methods, extreme value statistics applications in environmental engineering and earth science, zero-emission power plant modeling and design, CO2 sequestration |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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