Faculty and Staff
Associate Professor of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry
Research Interests: atomic force microscopy of solid-liquid interfaces,studies of heterogeneous kinetics under well–defined chemical and transport conditions, inorganic and bio–mineralization processes, aqueous geochemistry.
Office: 205 Oelman Hall
Voice: (937)0775–2479
Fax: (937)775–2717
Email: steven.higgins@wright.edu
URL:http://www.chm.wright.edu/higgins/contact/
Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Programs of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor of Biogeochemistry
Research Interests: Treatment techniques of contaminated groundwater by metallic reductants; study of the biogeochemical processes in a constructed wetland; role of wetland plant rhizoshpere in destruction of CEs.
Office: 268 Brehm Laboratories
Voice: (937)775–4991
Fax: (937)775–4997
Email: abinash.agrawal@wright.edu
URL: http://www.wright.edu/ees/agrawal/
Director of Environmental Sciences, and Professor, Biological Sciences
Research Interests: Focus is on mechanisms, costs, and benefits of inducible chemical defenses in wild and agricultural Brassica species, in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, and in the invasive weed Alliaria petiolata.
Office: 279 Brehm Laboratories
Voice: (937)775–3805
Fax:
Email:don.cipollini@wright.edu
URL:http://www.wright.edu/biology/department/directory/faculty/cipollini/
Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Research Interests: Intercalibration of Collection, Handling and Analysis Methods for Mercury Species in Seawater,
Vertical and Horizontal Distributions of Mercury Species in the South Atlantic Ocean, Mercury Biogeochemistry on the Continental Shelf and Slope
Office: 279 Brehm Laboratories
Voice: (937)775–3457
Fax: (937)775–4997
Email:chad.hammerschmidt@wright.edu
URL: http://www.wright.edu/ees/hammerschmidt/index.html
Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry
Research Interests: Bio–nanotechnology and nanotoxicology, physical chemistry (with a special emphasis on Raman and Surface–Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy), analytical chemistry (study of environmental effects from platinum group metals)
Office: 464 Oelman Hall
Voice: (937)775–4652
Fax: (937)775–2717
Email:ioana.pavel@wright.edu
URL: http://www.chm.wright.edu/pavel/
Professor of Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Research Interests: Nanoscale Properties and Processes, Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Education, Surfaces & Interfaces in Solids, Advanced Spectroscopic & Microscopic Techniques.
Office: 129 Russ Engineering Center
Voice: (937)775–5092
Fax:
Email:sharmila.mukhopadhyay@wright.edu
URL:http://www.cs.wright.edu/mme/faculty-bio.shtml?113
Associate Professor Biological Sciences
Research Interests:The function of benthic, or bottom, habitats in both lakes and streams.
Office:226 Biological Sciences Bldg.
Voice: (937)775–2657
Fax:
Email: yvonne.vadeboncoeur@wright.edu
URL:http://www.wright.edu/biology/department/directory/faculty/vadeboncoeur/
Instrumentation Specialist
Research Interests:
Office: 003 Mathematical & Microbiological Building
Voice: (937)775–4991
Fax: (937)775–2717
Email:joseph.solch@wright.edu
Instrumentation Specialist
Research Interests:
Office: 003 Mathematical & Microbiological Building
Voice: (937)775–4991
Fax: (937)775–2717
Email:garrett.vanness@wright.edu
