Current Research Projects:
- Dynamic Aspects of Metal Speciation
in the Miami River Sediments in Relation to Particle Size
- Distribution and Chemical Heterogeneity
- Assessment of Oil Pretreatment
Technologies to Improve Performance of Reverse Osmosis Systems
- Particle Dynamics Analysis
of Fuel Oil Coagulation
- Management of Product Replacement
Cycles for Electronic Products: Technical and Environmental Criteria
- Experimental and mathematical
modeling of the fate and transport of contaminants in waters
of both natural and engineered systems
- The characterization of processes
that affect the transformation of oils, fuels and herbicides
in surface and ground waters, both fresh and saline
- The calibration and validation
of watershed management models, and the development of pollution
prevention assessments in support of industrial ecology
- Electron Beam Treatment for
the Removal of Organics from Aqueous Streams and Sludges
- Pesticide Sorption on Various
Geosorbents
- Surfactant-Amended Remediation
- Survey on the Occurrence of
Common Disinfection Byproducts in Various Potable Water Supplies
- Instructional Support for Environmental
Engineering Laboratories
- The development of new and
improvement of established analytical methods for measurement
and detection of contaminants in water and soil by capillary
gas chromatography, high pressure liquid chromatography, gas
chromatograph-mass spectrometry, ion chromatography, atomic absorption,
and total organic carbon using a variety of detection methods
- Priority pollutant analysis
in waste aqueous streams by improving analytical methods as well
as quantitative and qualitative analysis of organic and inorganic
contaminants in environmental samples by Gas Chromatography,
High Pressure Liquid Chromatography, Ion Chromatography (using
different detectors) and Atomic Absorption
- Mentors in the Florida Georgia
Alliance Minority Participation -FIU Program
