| 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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| Paul
Brandt-Rauf:
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| Professor and Chairman of Enviromental Health Sciences,
Sc.D., M.D., Dr.P.H.,
Columbia,
1974, 1979, 1987 |
| Interests:
Environmental carcinogenesis, protein chemistry, molecular epidemiology, ethics;Growth signal transduction; molecular epidemiology; carcinogenesis |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Marco
J.
Castaldi:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
UCLA,
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 of Mineral Engineering,
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.,
University of Massachusetts (Amherst),
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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| Senior Research Scientist,
Ph.D.,
New York University,
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, director of center for Life Cycle Analysis |
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| Gavin
Gong:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
MIT,
2003 |
| Interests:
Hydroclimatology, landsurface-atmosphere interaction over continental scales, snow hydrology, water resource management |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Nikhil
Krishnan:
|
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
University of California at Berkeley,
2003 |
| Interests:
Life cycle analysis |
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| Klaus
S.
Lackner:
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| Professor,
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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| Professor of Civil Engineering,
Ph.D.,
University of Texas,
1981 |
| Interests:
Statistical and numerical modeling of hydrologic and climatic systems, planning and management of water resource systems;Water quality; hydro-climatic chang |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Wade
McGillis:
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| Doherty Research Scientist,
Ph.D.,
University of 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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| D.
R.
Nagaraj:
|
|
| Adjunct Professor,
Eng.Sc.D. |
| Interests:
Floatation, hydrometallurgy and solvent extraction, metal complexation and effluent treatment, reagent-mineral interactions, applied surface and colloid chemistry, water soluble polymers, applied electrochemistry |
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| Alissa
Ah-Hyung
Park:
|
|
| Assistant Professor,
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:
|
|
| Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Ph.D., P.E.,
University of Manitoba (Canada),
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:
|
|
| Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering & Professor in the Dept. 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.,
University of 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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| Professor,
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:
|
|
| 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,
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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