Soil&aqueous geochemistry at Columbia Univ.'s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Looking for the intersection of chem & life in soil, sediments & ocean. Idahoan
New York, NY
Joined November 2015
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Could new bus shelter roofs help New Yorkers stay cool in extreme heat?
We're testing a few in Brownsville to find out: a green roof covered with native plants, and reflective roofs covered with low-cost, heat-resilient film.
When it comes to climate change, we're using every tool at our disposal — including everyday infrastructure — to keep New Yorkers safe.
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We are pleased to welcome 14 new members to our advisory committee! These faculty members join our diverse community of researchers and scholars. Learn more: tinyurl.com/4s2tafb8
ALT photos of new advisory committee members.
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We currently have three open tenure-track faculty positions at @Columbia in the area of Earth Science! Two are teaching focused in the Dept of Earth & Environmental Sciences (DEES) and one is a research focused position at @LamontEarth.
Really nice work about dust provenance from fellow @LamontEarth students and faculty. It is hard to imagine a dusty Antarctica.
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Now we are cooking with(out) gas. Great work to examine health benefits of cooking without gas in NYC. A great partnership between @weact4ej and @ColumbiaMSPH @LamontEarth and others.
Strong work from @misbath_d and colleagues at @weact4ej, @RockyMtnInst, @BerkeleyAir, @AccessSensor, @ColumbiaMSPH, @LamontEarth. "results suggest that decarbonization energy transitions can improve health by reducing indoor NO2" sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
New work from the @KathrinSchilli3 and the Metals lab at @ColumbiaMSPH working with @LamontEarth scientists Beizhan Yan and Khue Nguyen (and others) on a neglected exposure pathway to metals and other contaminants. Funded in part by @SRP_NIEHS via @Columbia_SRP and @CEHJNM
New #ColumbiaEHS & @UCBerkeleySPH study finds toxic metals in tampons from various brands, raising public health concerns due to the high potential for chemical absorption through vaginal skin. @KathrinSchilli3 #WomensHealth
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The Woodwell Climate team has been amazing to work with, so please consider applying for this opportunity! The postdoc hired through this project will work closely with me.
The advertisement for our postdoc position in rangeland carbon monitoring is now live. This is an amazing opportunity to work with @WoodwellClimate and partners @LamontEarth @NFWFnews @WWF @audubonsociety. I'm happy to answer any questions (email or DM).
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So excited about the upcoming PhD Thesis defense of our #ColumbiaEHS @Columbia_SRP superstar trainee @irenemmorata 💫 this coming Tuesday July 2nd at 10 am ET -- join in person or via zoom‼️ She'll rock it🎸
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Finally, after considerable effort, the first field trial of our iron-based remediation methods. The Suns Jing and Yuqin used Fe(II) injections to remediate natural As contamination affecting an irrigation well in Western China. 1/ @SRP_NIEHS funded pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
Research involved long time collaborators Yan Zheng, Henning Prommer, our students, and Hung Sun, now a professor at Chinese Academy if Sciences but at one time the PhD student developing this work in my group. 5/
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High pumping rates in irrigation wells limit contact time and interactions, but adsorption was still appreciable during the pump phase. Overall excellent work doing how we can successfully inject F(II)-nitrate into a week generate Stable ferric minerals and treat water. 4/
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Magnetite and other Fe(III) minerals formed in the pore sources and effectively decreased As levels without decreasing pore volumes and flow. The complications come from asymmetry in mineralization around the well and dual domain flow. 3/
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This work is essentially a push-pull experiment to remediate a region around an irrigation well. It was complicated to execute given the perturbed nature of the aquifer, but was successful. Modeling was necessary to figure out what happened (chemistry/Geobiol. is complicated) 2/
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Arsenic remediation in highly-contaminated sites represents a challenge that requires active approaches. With collaborators Alyssa Barron, Henning Prommer, and others, we demonstrate how As is retained by in situ iron mineral formation, @SRP_NIEHS funded pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
A chance to go work with a real leader in our field.
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My friend and colleague Charlie Harvey doing the kind of research that you can only propose, fund and execute as a full professor. Great work to understand tropical peat forests.
Charles Harvey, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT, spent over 15 years studying a peat bog in Brunei to produce a mathematical model for how much carbon any given bog contains. quantamagazine.org/simple-eq…
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An amazing idea. #openscience is perfect to actually make a tool (and data) that often is never reproduced. I want one of these for both education and research.
Our very first #flumefriday! Introducing OpenFlume: An accessible and reproducible benchtop flume for research and education. Certified Open Hardware by @oshwassociation. #harrislab #openscience
Build instructions: github.com/harrislab-brown/O…
Repository: github.com/harrislab-brown/O…
Tungsten is an understudied emerging environmental contaminant. It can be hard to measure, and we have spent a lot of time to learn how to do so. Today, Jing Sun et al reports our new method for tungsten analysis The original work was funded by the @NSF. authors.elsevier.com/c/1j8Ve…
We report considerable progress in minimizing risks of human exposure to arsenic in rice and water within Cambodia, a place that has long had a special place in my heart. My collaborators there, Kongkea and now Yan, are great resources. link.springer.com/chapter/10…
