Research

Students, please let me know if you'd like to join the lab and do some research! Email me for an appointment or stop on down in my office, Bowers Hall room 24. 

Research Topics

We (myself, collaborators, and students in my lab) do research in two areas of specialization.

• In the field of environmental chemistry, we investigate the processes that determine the fate of pollutants in the environment, so that we can better understand what happens to pollutants after they enter the environment. I specifically have worked on a few different processes, including photochemical degradation (i.e. degradation of pollutants driven by sunlight exposure), as well as microbial processes driven by bacteria and archaea. 

• In the field of microbial ecology, I have worked on a number of different projects including microbial community structures in anaerobic digestion systems, microbial communities on hops flowers, the human gut microbiome, high-throughput sequencing methods optimization, and bioremediation of PCE and TCE. In these projects, my areas of expertise are high throughput molecular analysis including proteomics and microbial community metagenomics.