The Environmental Institute

Working Group

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Contaminants

Overview

TEI Working Groups provide a framework to encourage faculty to work together to develop multidisciplinary approaches to complex environmental issues. Working Groups involve both natural and social scientists and encourage intellectual leadership and dialogue within specific environmental thematic areas. Working Groups also provide a mechanism for integration and communication of information on complex issues and a venue for sharing information among faculty and researchers. Participants may discuss and identify environmental research needs, identify and develop collaborative opportunities, develop working papers, and disseminate information through lectures, seminars, publications, forums and conferences. Working groups will also provide direction and leadership to related activities including the Environmental Lecture Series, the MA Water Resources Research Center Annual Conference, and the Annual Contaminated Soils and Water Conference.

TEI first explored the Working Group concept through the Environmental Fellowship Program funded by DOE, which focused on three themes: climate change, contaminants (specifically phytoremediation), and methods of environmental modeling. As this project nears completion, TEI plans to build on the strengths of the working group and will soon be issuing a broad invitation to faculty to participate in discussing three new proposed Working Groups.

Faculty Working Group

If you have an interest in becoming involved in the contaminants working group or the related initiatives discussed below, please contact TEI.

Name	Department	Research Interests
John Clark	Veterinary and Animal Sciences	Toxicology, risk assessment of chemicals in turf and greenhouse settings, pollutants in turf runoff and the use of buffer strips to remove runoff pollutants
Sarina Ergas	Civil and Environmental Engineering	Bioremediation of contaminated soil and water, remediation of acid mine drainage sites, biological water, wastewater, and drinking water treatment, biological air pollution control
Guy Lanza	Microbiology	Phytoremediation of organic and inorganic pollutants, sediment and soil remediation, wetlands
Klaus Nusslein	Microbiology	Microbial ecology, acid mine drainage, bioremediation
Om Parkash	Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences	Phytoremediation of toxic pollutants, application of methodologies from molecular biology, genomics, physiology and biochemistry to decipher the underlying molecular mechanism of metal tolerance
David Reckhow	Civil and Environmental Engineering	Drinking water, ozonation, natural organic matter, halogenated organic compounds
Richard Vachet	Chemistry	Method development to analyze trace-level organics and metals with improved efficiency, selectivity, and sensitivity, fate, transport, and bioavailability of trace metals
Baoshan Xing	Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences	Sorption mechanisms of organic chemicals in soils and sediments, natural organic matter chemistry, fate and transport of organic chemicals and heavy metals in soils and sediments, biogeochemistry of trace elements, phytoremediation, risk assessment and soil remediation

Related On Campus Groups

Turf Program
Pesticides Analysis Laboratory
Acid Mine Drainage Project

Other Working Groups

Climate Change
Environmental Modeling and Monitoring

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