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CENTER FOR HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS

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The interdisciplinary and multimedia nature of urban environmental problems demand a diverse array of scientific talent and facilities. An outstanding team of engineers and scientists has been assembled to form this HSRC. The five academic partners and expertise of the Principal Investigators are detailed below:
 

Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore, Maryland 
(Lead Institution)

Faculty and technical staff from the Departments of Geography and Environmental Engineering (DoGEE), Mechanical Engineering (ME), and Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) will participate in the initial activities of the Center:
Personnel Department Expertise
Edward Bouwer 
(Director)		 DoGEE Environmental engineering, bioremediation, and engineering microbiology
Hedy Alavi  
(Assoc. Director)		 DoGEE Environmental engineering, hazardous waste and solid waste management
William Ball DoGEE Environmental engineering, contaminant fate and transport
Howard Fairbrother  Chemistry Surface spectroscopy and catalysis, and corrosion process
Ralph Lightner DoGEE Environmental remediation, radioactive and hazardous waste management, stakeholder involvement, risk assessment
Charles Meneveau ME Turbulence modeling, large-eddy simulation
Charles O'Melia DoGEE Environmental engineering, colloid chemistry
Marc Parlange DoGEE Environmental fluid mechanics
A. Lynn Roberts DoGEE Environmental chemistry zero-valent metals/contaminant reactions
Alan Stone DoGEE Environmental inorganic chemistry

 

University of Maryland 

Faculty and technical staff from the Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) (Solomons, MD), Department of Chemistry (College Park, MD), and the Environmental Health Education Center (EHEC) in the School of Nursing (Baltimore, Maryland) at the University of Maryland (UM) will participate in the initial activities of the Center:
Participant Department Expertise
Joel Baker CBL Transport and fate of organic compounds in environmental media
Rebecca Clouse Nursing Environmental Health Nursing
Robyn Gilden Nursing Environmental Health Nursing
Robert Mason CBL Transport and fate of mercury in environmental media
John Ondov   Chemistry Movement and chemistry of aerosol particles
Barbara Sattler Nursing Public health with emphasis on environmental health

 

Morgan State University; Baltimore, Maryland

The following three faculty from the School of Engineering at Morgan State University (MSU) will participate in the first-year Center outreach activities:
Participants Department Expertise
Guangming Chen Industrial Risk assessment, experimental design and statistics
G.B. Oguntimein Civil Chemical engineering, hazardous waste management, bioremediation
Sedley Williams Civil Soil chemistry, water quality analysis, environ. assessment, GIS

 

University of Connecticut; Storrs, Connecticut

Faculty and technical staff from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, and the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) at the University of Connecticut (UConn) will participate in the initial activities of the Center:
Participants Department Expertise
Amine Dahmani ERI Site assessment hazardous water remediation
Joe Helble Chemical Engineering Air pollutants from combustion processes
Kevin Hood ERI Community Outreach
Allison MacKay Environmental Engineering Environmental organic chemistry, contaminant hydrology
Chris Perkins ERI Natural resources management, environmental risk and toxicology
Barth Smets Environmental Engineering Contaminant biotransformations, microbial ecology

 

New Jersey Institute of Technology; Newark, New Jersey  

Faculty and technical staff from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Environmental Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will participate in the initial activities of the Center:
Participants Department Expertise
Dan Watts Sustainability
James Mack Brownfields development
Gerald McKenna Technology transfer and training
Fred Ellerbusch Technology transfer and training

Last Updated: April 07, 2004
Please send comments to Janet Krupsaw, Johns Hopkins University