Danny Reible

Fate and transport of contaminants in the environment

Understanding and modeling of processes leading to exposure and riskIn-situ approaches to intervention in these processes to manage that risk

Media of interest – contaminated sediment

Passive sampling of interstitial water concentrationsSediment capping/amended capping/permeable sorptive barriers

reible@mail.utexas.edu9.102F ECJ

Ongoing Activities Lab – 7.102 ECJ

PhDTony Smith – Evaluation of biodegradation in sediments and beneath a sediment cap (expected to finish 5/11)Fei Yan – Redox control of sediment fate processes (expected to finish 12/11)Mustafa Erten – Geotechnical assessment of NAPL contaminated sediments (expected to finish 12/11)Paul Bireta – Mercury fate and transport in sediments (expected to finish 5/14)Courtney Thomas – Passive sampling of organic contaminants (expected to finish 5/14)Wardah Azhar – Capping contaminated sediments (expected to finish 5/14)

MSPatrick Dunlap – Sediment capping amendments (expected to finish 5/11)

Research Associate/Visiting ProfessorsXiaoXia Lu – Laboratory Director – Chemical Engineer/Benthic BiologyDavid Lampert – Postdoctoral Associate (Passive sampling and sediment transport modeling)Cesar Gomez-Hermosillo – Visiting professor Univ of Guadalajara

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Passive Sampling for Organics and Metals