Title: Center for Environmental Chemistry and Geochemistry (CECG)
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2Who we are
- Scientists committed to research in environmental
chemistry at Penn State - 65 faculty affiliates from 17 different
departments on campus - Funded by the College of Earth and Mineral
Sciences and Eberly College of Science
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Penn State Scientists and Engineers Awarded
Funding for Environmental Molecular Sciences
Institute
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Penn State Scientists and Engineers Awarded
Funding for Environmental Molecular Sciences
Institute
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Environmentally Focused ECOS/IST Collaboration
Receives 5-Year Grant Worth Over 2.2 Million
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Environmentally Focused ECOS/IST Collaboration
Receives 5-Year Grant Worth Over 2.2 Million
Joel Bandstra, Barbara Garrison, Karl Mueller,
Prasenjit Mitra
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CECG Students Utilize Labs and Facilities at PNNL
Geoff Bowers, Ph.D. student in Karl Muellers
group, studies solid-state 87Sr NMR
Morgan Minyard, Ph.D. student in Bill Burgos
group, studies biological iron reduction
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Students Complete Summer Intern Program at
ExxonMobil Research
Nancy Washton, Ph.D. student in Chemistry,
studied solid-state NMR of aluminosilicates
Sabrina Innocenti, Ph.D. student in Geosciences,
studied biogenic silica precipitation
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Collaborating with DOE Partners
Joel Moore, Geosciences Ph.D. student ,
collaborates with DOE CEKA partner Peter Lichtner
(Los Alamos National Laboratory) on the
application of reactive transport codes in
environmental kinetics research.
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CECG Postdoc Explores New Research Activities on
Old Mining Problems
John Senko examining an iron-rich deep mine
discharge near Altoona, PA
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Partnering with CEKA for Outreach
Chuck Anderson giving a Geo Wall Demonstration
GeoWall brings complex data to life in three
dimensions
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CECG Summer Scholars
Barbara Fricks Joshua Middaugh Apurba Sakti
Laura Hoch
Susan MacFarland
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Summer Research SymposiumCECG Summer Scholars
and Local REU Students
Allison Phillips and Jennifer Williams
Anieri Morales Rivera and Dr. Tim White
149th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student
Symposium March 17th and 18th, 2006
Keynote Speaker Dr. Gene Likens Director,
President, and Ecologist Institute for Ecosystems
Studies
- Pioneer in ecosystems studies
- Pioneer in acid rain research and link to fossil
fuels - Co-founder of Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study
- 2001 National Medal of Science
- 2003 Blue Planet Prize
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2006 Environmental ChemistryStudent Symposium
Dr. Gene Likens delivers two guest lectures on
"The watershed-ecosystem approach of the
Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study Historical
perspectives and future opportunities and
challenges" "Acid Rain An Unfinished
Environmental Problem
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2006 Environmental ChemistryStudent Symposium
Poster Awards Rupinder Randhawa Department of
Crop and Soil Science Mary Kay Lupton
Department of Crop and Soil Science Matthew
Bachmann Department of Geosciences Matthew
McCoy Department of Crop and Soil
Science Geoffrey Bowers Department of
Chemistry Sarah MacDougal School of Forest
Resources Loren Byrne Department of
Ecology Yuan-Liang Tai Dept. of Civil and
Environmental Engineering Lindsey Donaldson
School of Forest Resources Katja Meyer
Department of Geosciences Overall Best Poster
Julia Maresca Department of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology
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2006 Environmental ChemistryStudent Symposium
Oral Presentation Awards Mary Parent Department
of Chemical Engineering Nancy Washton
Department of Chemistry Anthony Buda School of
Forest Resources Best Overall Oral
Presentation Sharmishtha Dattagupta
Department of Biology Best Undergraduate
Poster Leslie Jones School of Forest
Resources Best Undergraduate Oral Christina
Cress Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology
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2006 Environmental ChemistryStudent Symposium
Photo Contest Winners Aaron Diefendorf Heather
Buss Rick Zhuang
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2006 Environmental ChemistryStudent Symposium
Photo Contest Winners Aaron Diefendorf Heather
Buss Rick Zhuang
2010th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student
Symposium April 13th and 14th, 2007
Call for Abstracts
- Poster Oral Session abstracts are now being
accepted from undergrad and grad students - Cash prizes for select student presentations
- Photo contest with cash prizes for top three
photos - New! T-shirt Design contest for this years
symposium T-shirt
To submit an abstract or enter the photo or
T-shirt contests, please visit the symposium
website at http//www.essc.psu.edu/CECG_symposium