Welcome to the Aquatic Chemistry Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis!

Research in the Aquatic Chemistry Laboratory investigates chemical reactions affecting the fate and transport of heavy metals, radionuclides, and other inorganic contaminants in natural and engineered aquatic systems.

Reactions at the Solid-Water Interface, Drinking Water Treatment, Contaminated Site Remediation, Energy Byproducts in the Environment, Biogeochemistry of Metals in Soils and Sediments, Geochemical Aspects of Carbon Sequestration

 

Recent Publications

Apr. 2013, Our paper investgating effect of connection methods on lead release from galvanic corrision was accepted by Journal AWWA.

Apr. 2013, Zimeng Wang and Dan Giammar discussed the mass action expressions for multidentate surface complexation models in ES&T as a Critical Review. (full text)

Feb. 2013, The collaborative team of the SFA project published in PNAS revealing uranium redox transition pathways. (full text)

Dec. 2012, Our paper about EXAFS and modeling of U(VI) adsorption to synthetic and biogenic Mn oxides was accepted by ES&T. (full text)

Sep. 2012, Our paper on the physical and chemical mechanism of solid-solid (MnO2-UO2) interactions was accepted by Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta (GCA) (full text)

Sep. 2012, Our paper discussing the kinetics of PbO2 reductive dissolution based on surface complexation model was accepted by J. Colloid Interface Sci. (full text)

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Announcements

May 2013, Our recent critical review (Wang and Giammar, ES&T, 2013, 47: 3982) was selected as a research highlight by the Department of Energy (DOE) office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER). (The short write-up by Roland Hirsch at DOE)

Jan. 2013, Class snapshot: 'The Energy-Water Nexus': Dan Giammar's teaching at Princeton University was covered as a Featured Story in Princeton News.

Dec. 2012, Dan Giammar named an associate editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

The special issue on Geologic Carbon Sequestration in ES&T was officially published in the first issue of 2013. Dan Giammar served as a guest editor of that issue. See the guest comment and featured cover article.

Dan Giammar will be on sabbatical at Princeton University from July 2012 - June 2013 as a Kenan Trust Visiting Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.

Dec. 2011, "Lead levels in drinking water spike when copper and lead pipes joined" Our research on galvanic corrosion was featured in WUSTL Newsroom.


Group News

Dan Giammar presented our research on U geochemistry in the last five years in seminars in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Princeton and the Environmental Sciences Department at Rutgers.

May 17, 2013 Let's go Cards! Our group went to a baseball game Brewers vs Cardinals. This is the graduation gift that Dan gave to the extended group and families.

May 2013, Wei Xiong passed her Qualifying Exam and joined our group to work on the CO2 sequestration project.

Apr. 2013, Our group received a grant from I-CARES to investigate iron uptake by plants. Co-PI and collaborators include Jeff Catalano, Stephan Kraemer and Ivan Baxter.

Apr. 2013, Yin Wang (PhD 2012, Currently a UIUC postdoc) won a Graduate Research Award in the EECE department for the year of 2012.

Apr. 2013, Fei, Jose, Vrajesh, Yin and Zimeng presented talks in the ACS meeting in New Orleans.

Mar. 2013, Zimeng Wang visited the Geosciences at Princeton University and gave a special seminar about his PhD research.

Mar. 2013, Lin Wang passed her thesis proposal defense. Congratulations!

Mar. 2013, Dan Giammar gave a seminar on hydraulic fracturing for the Princeton Environmental Institute.

Feb. 2013, Fei visited the group of Prof. Catherine Peters at Princeton University for two weeks.

Feb. 2013, Yin Wang (Ph.D. 2012) started his postdoctoral position at University of Illinois with Profs. Tim Strathmann and Charlie Werth.

Jan. 2013, Dan Giammar gave a seminar on geologic carbon sequestration at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.

Jan. 2013, Zimeng Wang was selected as one of the 2013 winners of the Graduate Student Award by ACS Divison of Environmental Chemistry.

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