Environmental awards Winners of the 1986 Graduate Student Awards in Environmental Chemistry
Last year, the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry initiated a program of awards for graduate students. Alan Elzerman, chairman of the awards committee and an associate professor in environmental chemistry at Clemson University in South Carolina, announced the winners earlier this year. The 1986 awards committee also included Herbert E. Allen of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pa.; Mark And e r s o n of H a r v a r d University, Cambridge, Mass.; W. Dean Adams of Tennessee Technological University in Cookesville; and Stanton S . Miller of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C. Roger A. Minear, chairman of the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry in 1985, says he was pleased to see the initiation of the awards, and J. Donald Johnson, the new chairman, says that the awards will be continued this year and that application forms will be mailed later in the year. The awards are in the form of oneyear memberships in the division and one-year subscriptions to Environmental Science & Technology. The following 22 graduate students are the 1986 winners. We extend congratulations to each of them. Marijan Ahel of the Center for Marine Research in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, is a marine chemist working on the fate of alkylphenol polyethoxylate surfactants in wastewater treatment and in natural waters. Joseph T. Angley is a water chemist at the University of Florida in Gainesville. His work is on the sorption and degradation of benzene, toluene, xylene, and ethyl benzene in a Florida aquifer. Stephen E. Cabaniss of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill is an environmental chemist working on the speciation and kinetics of the interaction of dissolved organic matter with copper and iron. Patricia V. Cline of the University of
Florida in Gainesville is a water chemist working on enhancement of the rate of abiotic degradation of trichloroethylene. Allen R Davis of the University of Delaware in Newark is an environmental engineer working on the photoelectrochemical oxidation of lead sulfide in aqueous solution. Richard T. DeCesar of the Oregon Graduate Center in Beaverton is a contaminant hydrogeologist conducting experimental and theoretical investigations of contaminant dispersion in a fractured porous aquifer. Frank M. Dunnivant of Clemson University in Clemson, S.C., is an environmental chemist working on the desorption kinetics of polychlorinated biphenyls from selected lake sediments under environmental conditions. Thomas D. Gauthier of the University of New Hampshire in Durham is an analytical and environmental chemist working on the binding of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons to dissolved and particulate humic materials. Kimberly A. Gray of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., is an environmental engineer working on the formation of iron(II1) polymers and their use in coagulation for water treatment. Stephen R. Harper of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta is an environmental engineer working on application of hydrogen management techniques to the optimization of anaerobic wastewater treatment. George D. Harris of Utah State University in Logan is an environmental engineer working on the efficacy of ultraviolet disinfection of secondary wastewater. Hans Jannasch of the University of Washington in Seattle is an oceanographer working on the role of organic coatings in the surface chemistry of natural particles. James N. Jensen of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill is an
environmental chemist working on the characterization of monochloramine and aquatic fulvic acid. Deborah J. McKechnie of the University of Iowa in Iowa City is an environmental engineer working on the transport and fate of pesticides in a runof-the-river impoundment and the effects on downstream surface water supply intakes. James R. Mihelcic of CarnegieMellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., is a water chemist interested in groundwater contamination and the adsorption and degradation of polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons in soil. Daniel Lee Norwood of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill is an environmental chemist conducting a structural study of the aqueous halogenation of aquatic humic material. Mary E. Pitts of Utah State University in Logan is an environmental engineer working on the fate and transport of organics in a groundwater system. Chittaranjan Ray of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark is an environmental engineer working on risk assessment of hazardous waste disposal. Charles V. Shorten of Clemson University in Clemson, S.C., is an environmental chemist working on coal piles as sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the environment. Thomas J. Simpkin of the University of Wisconsin at Madison is a sanitary engineer working on the behavior of nitrate reductase and nitrate-reducing organisms in activated sludge. James E. Szecsody of the University of Arizona in Tucson is a water chemist and hydrologist working on the sorption kinetics of organic pollutants. Mark A. mmeo of the University of California at Davis is an environmental engineer working on the methodology of the assessment of risk in mathematical modeling of environmental water quality.
Environ. Sci. Technol., Vol. 20,
No. 3, 1986
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