Land and Water Contaminant Remediation
Cleaning the environment to pristine levels, can be expensive and may cause more damage to the environment and pose more risk to humans (especially the clean-up crew) than imposing a long-term monitoring program or minimally intrusive technical solution to detoxify the contaminant. Our lab works to develop site-specific solutions for land and water remediation that enhance existing natural biogeochemical processes or develop highly effective, low cost, and minimally intrusive solutions.
Quantifying natural attenuation of contaminants to provide accurate prediction of Monitored Natural Attenuation as a land stewardship approach.
Our research group is involved in identifying, quantifying, and modeling natural processes that attenuate contaminant mobility or diminish contaminant toxicity. It is an important first step in contaminant site characterization.
Quantifying natural attenuation of contaminants to provide accurate prediction of Monitored Natural Attenuation as a land stewardship approach.
Our research group is involved in identifying, quantifying, and modeling natural processes that attenuate contaminant mobility or diminish contaminant toxicity. It is an important first step in contaminant site characterization.
In-situ engineering solutions for groundwater remediation.
Our group is especially interested in the develop of materials for creating permeable reactive barriers, barriers put in the path of a contaminant plume that selectively remove the targeted contaminant, while letting water and non-targeted solutes pass through freely. Sometimes the reactive media were designed to be colloidally injected into the subsurface (as shown to the left), while other materials were designed to be installed into pre-dug trenches.