ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY

Marc Anderson (Chair) Room 122 680 North Park Street Madison, WI 53706-1481 Tel: 608/263-3264 E-mail: mcpossin@wisc.edu limnology.wisc.edu/grad/ec&tcover.htm

SOLVING WATER-RELATED PROBLEMS

Environmental chemistry and technology is an interdepartmental graduate program offering an MS and PhD in environmental chemistry and technology. Participating departments include civil and environmental engineering (primary department), chemical and biological engineering, chemistry, soil science and geology and geophysics.

Program activities are centered in the Water Science and Engineering Lab on Lake Mendota, where graduate students, faculty, postdoctoral fellows and staff researchers examine the applications of chemistry to problems in environmental and engineering systems. Many of the students work on interdisciplinary research problems with groups from other programs and departments.

AREAS OF EMPHASIS

The program has four areas of specialization: aquatic chemistry, which studies the chemical processes in lakes, rivers and watersheds and organic chemicals, trace metals, and nutrient elements; environmental technology, which studies the application of chemistry and biotechnology to development of technologies for water and air treatment, sensors, and energy storage devices; air pollution chemistry, which studies sources, characterization, reactions, and fate of air pollutants as well as air-water interactions; and terrestrial chemistry, which studies chemical and biogeochemical processes in soils and sediments and their influences on land-water and air-water interactions.

Graduates are prepared for a variety of careers, including teaching and research at major universities, research in public and private institutions, industrial research and development, as well as pollution control and resource management.