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RESEARCH AREAS

Environmental Process Engineering

Ecohydrology and Environmental Fluid Dynamics

Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology

GRADUATE STUDY

Graduate study in Environmental Engineering at Duke is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on a broad slate of faculty in the Pratt School of Engineering and the Nicholas School of the Environment. Students have considerable flexibility in crafting a graduate program that suits individual interests, but typically students specialize in one of two tracks:

Hydrology and Fluid Dynamics (HFD), or
Environmental Process Engineering (EPE).
 

Course Requirements


 

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING FACULTY

John D Albertson, W.H. Gardner, Jr. Professor and Chair - Environmental fluid mechanics, scaling in hydrology and boundary layer meteorology, use of computational fluid dynamics and field experiments to address issues of mass and energy exchange between the land and the atmosphere.

Ana Barros, Professor - Dynamics of water presence and water pathways in the environment. Understanding the physics of the hydrological cycle at all spatial and temporal scales, technologies for environmental assessment, prediction and control.

Jean-Yves Bottero, Adjunct Professor -Physical chemistry of organic, inorganic, and heterogeneous contaminants; physicochemical properties of surfaces; environmental nanotechnology; solid waste disposal; water and wastewater treatment.

Marc Deshusses, Professor - Environmental biotechnology, biofilms, biofiltration, gas-phase sensors based on functionalized nanomaterials

Lee Ferguson, Associate Professor - Emerging contaminants, nanotechnology, high-performance mass spectrometry techniques to problems in environmental toxicology and chemistry.

Richard T. Di Giulio, Professor - Environmental toxicology, environmental health, and freshwater and estuarine pollution.

Claudia K. Gunsch, Assistant Professor - Identification of gene expression variations linked to vapor-phase biofilter performance, Development of biosensors capable of pathogen and contaminant detection in water and air, Use of DNA chips to study the microbial ecology of groundwater and air treatment systems, Isolation and identification of novel genes in environmentally relevant microorganisms, Development of methods to control the release of genetically engineered microorganisms in natural and controlled environments.

David E. Hinton, Professor -Environmental toxicology, mechanistic and integrative understanding of the manner in which environmental contaminants exert their effects. Pathobiology and toxicopathology of persistent environmental contaminants in fishes.

Heileen Hsu-Kim, Assistant Professor - Environmental chemistry; biogeochemical cycling of pollutant metals; aquatic geochemistry; water-particle surface processes; transformation of metals in engineered ecosystems.

Gabriel Katul, Professor -Hydrology, micrometeorology , surface hydrology, carbon and water cycling, environmental fluid dynamics.

Prasad S. Kasibhatla, Associate Professor - Atmospheric chemistry, regional and global modeling.

Andrey Khlystov, Assistant Professor - Effect of ambient aerosol on the global climate and how aerosol hygroscopic growth affects the magnitude of climate forcing; exploring the relationship between particulate matter and adverse health effects; and development of new automatic measurement techniques to study the properties and transformations of ambient aerosol.

Miguel A. Medina, Jr., Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies - Water resources, hydrologic and water quality mathematical modeling, integration of contaminant transport prediction models within a decision-analysis framework for risk assessment.

Joel N. Meyer, Assistant Professor - Environmental toxicology, environmental and genetic influences on organism health, DNA integrity, oxidative stress, and processes of adaptation to pollution.

Ram Oren, Professor - Forest hydrology, biogeochemistry, global change ecology, wetalnd ecology, terrestrial ecosystems

J. Jeffrey Peirce, Associate Professor - Environmental engineering, hazardous waste engineering, physical, chemical, and biological aspects of particle-fluid interactions, models of trace gas emissions from waste- amended and chemically-applied soils.

Amilcare Porporato, Professor - Ecohydrology and coupled dynamics of the soil-plant-atmosphere system; environmental fluid mechanics and turbulence dynamics; dynamical system approach and stochastic modeling of hydrological and biogeophysical processes; nonlinear time series analysis; flood forecasting.

Kenneth H. Reckhow, Professor - Water quality assessment and management, water quality modeling, risk assessment, decision analysis.

Curtis J. Richardson, Professor - Wetland ecology, phosphorus biogeochemistry, restoration of wetland function.

Jerome Rose, Adjunct Associate Professor -Arsenic removal, ceramic membranes, advanced spectroscopy (EXAFS), Relation between nanostructure of materials and their reactivity and toxicity. Characterization of the structure of ultra-small (colloids and molecular clusters), and/or amorphous and highly divided materials down to the molecular scale.

David Schaad, Associate Professor of the Practice - Water and wastewater treatment design, stormwater retention/detention and treatment design, hazardous waste remediation, urban hydrology, constructed wetland and stream restoration design, ecological stabilization, sustainable engineering in land development, water resources, water and wastewater treatment

Heather Stapleton, Assistant Professor - Fate and biotransformation of organic contaminants in aquatic systems, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).

Daniel Vallero, Adjunct Associate Professor -Risk Assessment, transport and transformation of organic compounds in environmental media, especially soil and the troposphere.

Avner Vengosh, Associate Professor - Environmental and aqueous geochemistry, isotope hydrology, water quality, and salinization of water resources.

Mark R. Wiesner, James L. Meriam Professor - Environmental nanotechnology, membrane science, water treatment, water reuse, desalination, colloidal and interfacial processes, and environmental systems analysis.

Zbigniew J. Kabala, Associate Professor - Deterministic and stochastic modeling of water flow and contaminant transport in saturated and unsaturated heterogeneous porous media, theory of related measurements.


UPCOMING EVENTS:

CEE Events


ME Seminar Series: Dr. Robert J. Kenny, Marshall Flight Space Center
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
11:30 AM-1:00 PM, Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A

CEINT Seminar Series
Thursday, November 12, 2009
12:00 PM-1:00 PM, Hudson Hall 125

Engineering Alumni Council Meeting
Saturday, November 14, 2009
9:00 AM-1:00 PM, Teer 115

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