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Student News, cont. Summer, 2010 Student and Faculty Presentations at Goldschmidt 2010 International Conference Michael Lilley, Todd Miller, and Trevor Zimmerman all gave presentations at the annual Goldschmidt Conference. This is an international geochemistry conference which was held in Knoxville, TN June 13-18th.

Zimmerman, T. N., Powell, B. A., “Plutonium Humic-Acid Stability Constant Determination and Subsequent Surface Complexation Studies” Goldschmidt 2010, Knoxville, TN, June 2010. Lilley, M. S., Powell, B. A., Kaplan, D. I., “Sorption of Np, Pu, Tc, and I to Saltstone and Cement Formulations under Oxidizing and Reducing Conditions” GoldsShmidt 2010, Knoxville, TN, June 2010.

Miller, T. J., Powell, B. A., Kaplan, D. I., “A Simplified Quantitative and Conceptual Model of Np Sorption to Natural Sediments” Goldschmidt 2010, Knoxville, TN, June 2010.

At the Goldschmidt conference, Dr. Brian Powell also gave an invited lecture titled “Modeling actinide interactions with minerals and microbes” in the symposium “Transformation of Radionuclides by Microbes and Minerals”. Dr. Tanju Karanfil’s Research Group made several presentations at the 2010 International Carbon Conference in Clemson, July 2010:

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Welcome New Faculty!!

EEES welcomes Dr. David Ladner and Dr. Kevin Finneran to the department. David A. Ladner comes to us from Arizona State University where he was a postdoctoral scholar with Paul Westerhoff in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. Dr. Kevin Finneran joins us from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering where he was an Assistant Professor.

Dr. Leslie Grady was selected as the recipient of 2010 Industrial Water Quality Lifetime Achievement Award from Water Environment Federation. This award is an excellent and well-deserved recognition for all of the work his research group did in trying to understand the factors controlling the biodegradation of synthetic organic compounds as well as the work the industrial water quality group at CH2M HILL did in putting this knowledge into practice. This is only the second year that this award has been given. Les will receive his award at the 2010 WEFTEC meeting in New Orleans.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will make two new nuclear forensics awards to EEES radiochemistry program. This includes a three year $300,000 education award to develop nuclear forensics teaching capabilities led by Dr. Tim DeVol and another three year $300,000 junior faculty award which goes to Dr. Brian Powell for his research efforts. Both of these awards were a result of a national competition, and they are effective September 1, 2010.

Drs. Larry Murdoch and Stephen Moysey were selected by DOE to study CO2 storage with a grant in the amount of $450K for 3 years. They plan to apply reservoir deformation techniques, developed in part at the Clemson well field, and high-performance computing to CO2 sequestration and possibly oil and gas production as well. This is an excellent continuation of the significant progress on CO2 sequestration research being made in the department. More info about this project can be found at: http://www.energy.gov/news/9333.htm

Dr. Stephen Moysey has received two grants from the DoD totaling $400k to investigate the influence of soil moisture on the detection of abandoned landmines using ground-penetrating radar (GPR). Included in the project is the purchase of a very unique GPR system that will place Clemson as a national leader in subsurface imaging. This basic science research has important military and humanitarian applications as abandoned landmines injure or kill thousands of people around the world every year.

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