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James A. Davis is a Senior Research Geochemist/Engineer at the U. S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, CA, directing field and laboratory research on chemical reactions at the mineral-water interface and the transport of metal contaminants and radionuclides in groundwater. His research has examined geochemical processes at multiple scales, from molecular-scale studies by X-ray absorption spectroscopy to large field-scale investigations. Other research interests include carbonate chemistry, permeable reactive barriers for groundwater remediation, spectroscopic characterization of amorphous mineral phases and contaminants at mineral surfaces, and the spatial variability of hydrologic and geochemical properties in aquifers.
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Tagged: Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series
The U.S.-China Workshop on Carbon Capture & Storage will take place November 11-12, 2009 at Peking University in Beijing, China. The purpose of this workshop is to promote bi-directional transfer of knowledge and information on CCS to promote the development of collaborative projects between U.S. and Chinese researchers that will accelerate development and deployment of safe and effective CCS in China and the U.S. Read more »
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Tagged: Geologic Carbon Sequestration Program
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Josep (Pep) Canadel is the Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project (GCP), whose scientific goal is to develop a complete picture of the global carbon cycle, including biophysical and human dimensions and their interactions. Pep has authored many influential papers on carbon exchanges, storage management, and dynamics in terrestrial systems. In 2007, Pep was a member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Fourth Assessment Report) that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Tagged: Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series, Josep Canadel
September 14–16, 2009
A symposium on applications and enhancements to the TOUGH simulator for multiphase fluid, heat, and chemical transport will be held at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), September 14–16, 2009. The TOUGH Symposium 2009 will consist of oral and poster presentations, with a proceedings volume published online. A banquet dinner featuring an invited talk is always a highlight of this meeting. Courses on TOUGH2, TOUGHREACT, TOUGH+, and TOUGH+HYDRATE will be offered immediately preceding and following the Symposium. Selected papers will be submitted for inclusion in special issues of major scientific journals. Read more »
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Tagged: Hydrogeology Department, TOUGH, TOUGH Symposium, TOUGH+HYDRATE, TOUGH2, TOUGHREACT
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Dr. Rod Ewing is the Donald R. Peacor Collegiate Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Michigan. He has faculty appointments in the Departments of Nuclear Engineering &Radiological Sciences and Materials Science & Engineering, and is an Emeritus Regents’ Professor at the University of New Mexico, where he was a member of the faculty from 1974 to 1997. Ewing is the author or co-author of over 600 research publications and the editor or coeditor of 14 monographs, proceedings volumes or special issues of journals. He has been granted a patent for the development of a highly durable material for the immobilization of excess weapons plutonium. He is a founding Editor of the magazine, Elements. He has received the Hawley Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada in 1997 and 2002, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of Americain 2006 and the Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2006 and a Honorary Doctorate from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 2007.
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Tagged: Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series, Rod Ewing
The 2009 Conference follows in the footsteps of the events, maintaining the objectives to:
- Focus on carbon capture, separation and sequestration technologies that are being or could be deployed in the U.S. and North America;
- Provide a forum for the exchange of experience among U.S. and international scientific and engineering communities working on such technologies and systems;
- Facilitate the necessary dialogue between technology developers/purveyors, industry and the public on the development and deployment of viable technologies; and
- Share experience on developing the necessary capacity within the public and private sector to move the technology base forward.
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Laurent Charlet is a Distinguished Professor, Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble I in France, and an expert in contaminant geochemistry, particularly with respect to arsenic and selenium. Author of more than 120 publications, his research encompasses both molecular-scale modeling and field-scale descriptions of hydrogeology and contaminant availability. He has established research and education programs in Laos and Cambodia. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Hydrology, and manager of several French and EU research initiatives. In 2007, Laurent received the CNRS Silver Medal, one of France’s highest research honors.
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Tagged: Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series, Laurent Charlet
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Professor Jerry Schnoor is the Allen S. Henry Chair in Engineering and the Co-Director of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research at the University of Iowa. Jerry is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (elected in 1999) for his research using mathematical models in science policy decisions. He chaired the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ORD Board of Scientific Counselors, 2000-2004, and is a member of EPA’s Science Advisory Board and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences (NAEHS) Council. Schnoor is considered one of the founding fathers of phytoremediation, using plants to help clean the environment. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the leading international environmental journal, Environmental Science and Technology, and his other research interests include water quality modeling, environmental observatories, sustainability, and global change.
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Martin F. Polz is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is an environmental microbiologist and received his Masters and Ph.D. from Harvard University where he also conducted his postdoctoral research. His research group at MIT studies the dynamics that govern microbes’ interactions and evolution to understand the role of individual populations within the community, the range of genomic similarity that defines a functional unit, and what mechanisms govern diversification of microbial populations in the environment. His research group addresses these questions using a combination of quantitative molecular approaches, genomics, physiology and modeling. He is an editor of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews and among his many honors and awards are the Anna Vaughn Foundation Fellowship, the Gilbert Winslow Career Development Chair and the Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization.
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Alfred M. Spormann is a Professor at Stanford University in the Departments of Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, and (by courtesy) Biological Sciences and Geological & Environmental Sciences. He is a microbial physiologist and biochemist who received his Ph.D. from the Philipps-University, (Marburg, Germany) and conducted postdoctoral research in the Departments of Biochemistry at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) and Stanford University. Among his honors and awards are the Otto Moensted Visiting Professorship (2003; Danish Technical University, Lyngby, DK), the Charles Lee Powell Foundation Research Award (2000-2002), an NSF CAREER award (1998), and a Terman Fellowship Award (1995; Stanford University). He is an editor of Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Archives of Microbiology and has served on several editorial boards and committees (including Annual Review of Microbiology). Currently, he is the director of the Hopkins Microbiology Course (Pacific Grove, CA), and was director of the Stanford Biofilm Research Center and co-director of the Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA.
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