formerly University of Missouri-Rolla

 

Environmental Research
Center
201 Butler-Carlton Hall
1401 N. Pine St.
Rolla, MO 65409
573-341-6908
erc@mst.edu

Environmental Research Center Investigators

 

Craig Adams, P.E., Ph.D.
Chair and J.L. Constant Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas
Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Research Professor Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering
(785) 864-1921
cadams@ku.edu

Research Interests 

  • Sustainable drinking water, wastewater, and water reuse technologies
  • Analysis, occurrence, fate, and control of organic chemicals in natural and engineered systems
  • Oxidation and sorption processes
  • Emerging contaminants including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, estrogens, disinfection byproducts, and pesticides
  
  
Jeffrey Cawlfield, Ph.D.
Professor of Geology Science and Engineering
(573) 341-4557 Fax: (573) 341-6935
email: jdc@mst.edu
  
  
Charles Chusuei, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
(573) 341-4537 Fax: (573) 341-6033
email: chusuei@mst.edu

Research Interests

  • Molecular-scale characterization of binding and release of metal oxyanions and metal nanoparticles onto metal oxide surfaces
  • Electronic structure studies of post-synthesis-treated carbon nanotubes
  
  
Steven CornsSteve Corns, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering
(573) 341-6367 Fax:  (573) 341-6567
email:  cornss@mst.edu

Research Interests

  • Optimization of not only engineering problems, but the application of artificial intelligence techniques to problems in engineering and biology.
  • Involved in theoretical application of evolutionary computation methods, such as graph based evolutionary algorithms.
  
  
 Shari Dunn-Norman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Geology Science and Engineering
(573) 341-4840 Fax: (573) 341-6935
email: caolila@mst.edu
  
  

Daniel Forciniti, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
(573) 341-4427 Fax: (573) 341-4377
email: forcinit@mst.edu

  
  
 Donald Hagen, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
(573) 341-4351 Fax: (573) 341-4891
email: hagen@mst.edu
  
  
David Henthorn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
(573) 341-7632 Fax: (573) 341-4377
email: henthord@mst.edu
  
  
Kim Henthorn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
(573) 341-7633 Fax: (573) 341-4377
email: henthork@mst.edu 

Research Interests

  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Particulate characterization and transport
  • Two-phase microfluidic flows
  
  
Cheol-woon Kim
Research Assistant Professor
Materials Research Center
(573) 341-4359 Fax: (573) 341-2071
email: cheol@mst.edu
  
  
Jennifer Leopold
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
(573) 341-44491 Fax: (573) 341-4501
email: leopoldj@mst.edu

Research Interests

  • End-user programming environments, with particular focus on database accessibility and analysis, and scientific visualization
  • Bioinformatics and chemoinformatics
  
  

Doug Ludlow, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemical and Biolofical Engineering
(573) 341-6477 Fax: (573) 341-4377
email: dludlow@mst.edu

  
  
Ronaldo Luna, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
(573) 341-4484 Fax: (573) 341-4729
email: rluna@mst.edu
  
  
Anne Maglia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
(573) 341-7190 Fax: (573) 341-4821
email: magliaa@mst.edu
  
  
Cesar Mendoza, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering
(573) 341-4463 Fax: (573) 341-4729
email: mendozac@mst.edu
  
  
Dev Niyogi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
(573) 341-7191 Fax: (573) 341-4821
email: niyogid@mst.edu

  Research Interests

  • Freshwater Ecology
  • Aquatic Ecosystem Processes
  • Nutrient Retention in Streams
  • Mircrobial Ecology of Aquatic Systems
  
  
Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe
Professor of Geology Science and Engineering
(573) 341-6946 Fax: (573) 341-6935
email: ikuenobe@mst.edu
  
  
Thomas Schuman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
(573) 341-6236 Fax: (573) 341-6033
email: tschuman@mst.edu
  
  

Oliver Sitton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
(573) 341-4016 Fax: (573) 341-6935
email: ocs@mst.edu

  
  

Jee Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
(573) 341-6705 Fax: (573) 341-4377
email: jcwang@mst.edu 

  
  
David Westenberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
(573) 341-4798 Fax: (573) 341-4821
email: djwesten@mst.edu

Research Interests

  • Rhizosphere Microbiology
  
  

Yangchuan Xing
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
(573) 341-6772 Fax: (573) 341-4377
email: xingy@mst.edu