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The Environmental Geochemistry Research Group conducts innovative research on the biogeochemistry of near-surface environments, including soils, wetlands, aquatic sediments, aquifers, and the coastal margin. As such, our research group studies geoscience at the interface between biogeochemistry, geomorphology and landscape ecology. We are also interested in improving learning about complex, dynamic environmental systems. |
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M.T. Halbouty Building,
Room 257Geology & Geophysics,
TAMU herbert@geo.tamu.edu
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Christopher Markley (Ph.D. student) Chris won $1000 from the 2003 Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) Mills Fellowship Program, based upon his proposal entitled “Cyanobacteria and the formation of organoarsenicals“. 2003 Leslie Randolph (Ph.D. student) Leslie won $5,000 graduate student research support from the TWRI based upon her proposal entitled “Spatial and Temporal Characterization of the Radon Distribution in a Region of the Hickory Aquifer in Central Texas: Assessment of Stratigraphy and Groundwater Dynamics on Radon Concentrations”. 2003 Kevin Yeager (Ph.D., 2002) Kevin was awarded the 2002 George W. Kunze Prize by the Office of Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University. The Kunze Prize is presented annually to a single graduate student at Texas A&M University who has excelled in scholarship and service to Texas A&M and the community May 2002 Graciela Lake (M.S., 2002) Graciela defended her M.S. thesis entitled Quantification of potential arsenic bioavailability in spatially varying Geologic Environments at the Watershed Scale Using Chelating Resins (Call Number etd-11012002-160858). December 2002 Misun Kang (M.S., 2002) Misun defended her M.S. thesis entitled Quantification of soil organic carbon using mid- and near- DRIFT spectroscopy (Call Number etd-07032002-184019). August 2002 Laiman Lee (Ph.D. student) and Kevin Yeager (Ph.D., 2002) Lai and Kevin won $1000 awards for best poster presentations during the 125th Anniversary Celebration Symposium: “A Sustainable Gulf of Mexico: Research, Technology and Observations 1950 to 2050”, Sustainable Coastal Margins Program, Texas A&M University, February 2002. February 2002 Laiman Lee (Ph.D. student) Lai was selected by The National Science Foundation (NSF) for the 2002 NSF Summer Research Fellowships in Taiwan, out of approximately 100 U.S. graduate students applicants. The Program Chair stated that her proposal was one of the best submitted. May 6, 2002 Kevin M. Yeager (Ph.D., 2002) Kevin defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Characterizing coastal margin fluvial and marine processes using lithogenic and fallout radionuclides: Isotope fractionation, sediment sourcing and transport. May 6, 2002 Laiman Lee (M.S., 2001) Lai defended her M.S. thesis entitled Pyrene Sorption to Natural Clay Minerals and Reference Clay Standards. August 2001 Veit Matt (Ph.D., 2001). Veit has started as a research scientist with the Energy and Minerals Applied Research Center in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Veit will be developing reservoir simulation models to improve petroleum exploration. Veit's current email is veit@emarc.colorado.edu. September 26, 2001 Veit Matt (PhD, 2001) Veit defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled The effect of clastic sedimentary structures at multiple scales on fluid flow and transport: High-resolution numerical experiments. August 2001 Ron Parker (Ph.D., in progress). Watershed-Scale Mobility of Arsenic and Uranium Released from South Texas Uranium Mines. Ron started in the 2001 Fall semester as Assistant Professor of Geoscience at Earlham College. Earlham is a prestigous, four-year college in Indiana with a historically-strong geology program. Ron will be teaching introductory geology, mineralogy, environmental geology, and other majors courses. Ron's current email is parkero@pop.earlham.edu. September 26, 2001 Dongqiang Zhu (Ph.D., 2001) Don defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Sorption of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to hydrated mineral surfaces: A deuterium NMR study. August 2001 Dongqiang Zhu (Ph.D., 2001). Sorption of Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to hydrated mineral surfaces - A deuterium NMR study. Don won the 2001 Best Student Paper from the Environmental Divsion of the American Chemical Society. Don presented his paper at the August, 2001 National ACS meeting in Chicago. His paper was entitled "Spectroscopic Evidence for A Cation-p Sorption Mechanism for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Hydrated Mineral Surfaces". Extended Abstract (Adobe Acrobat). Don's current email is d0z7577@yahoo.com September 26, 2001 Jaeyoung Choi (PhD, 2001) Jae defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Adsorption and toxicity of metal contaminants in soils and sediments: Predicting toxicity of cadmium to microorganisms with the free ion activity model. May 2001 Heather Lott (M.S., 1999) makes an appearance on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" Laiman Lee (M.S., 2001) wins fellowship from the Sustainable Coastal Margins Program at Texas A&M to support her Ph.D. research.
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