Contaminant Fate and Transport
Our research and teaching mission is to advance the understanding of subsurface fate and transport of contaminants, particularly in the vadose zone, and to apply this knowledge to improve environmental management and clean-up of soil and subsurface systems.
Our specific research areas and expertise comprise the following: (1) characterization of water flow and solute transport in the vadose zone, (2) colloid-facilitated transport of contaminants through the vadose zone, (3) modeling sorption kinetics and transport of organic chemicals, colloids, and viruses, (4) characterization and evaluation of dye tracers for vadose zone hydrology, (5) characterization of subsurface minerals and colloids, (6) sorption of organic and inorganic contaminants to soil particles, (7) the role of mineral weathering in contaminant phytoavailability.
Professor and Scientist, soil physics
Markus Flury
Fate and Transport of Contaminants in the SubsurfaceProfessor and Scientist, soil chemistry
James Harsh
Using Chemistry to Sustain our SoilAssistant Profesor and Scientist, environmental chemistry
Jeffrey Ullman, BSysE
Profile
Related pages:
WSU Receives Grant for Hanford Cleanup Research
PULLMAN, Wash. -- Markus Flury, Washington State University professor of soil physics, and Jim Harsh, WSU professor of soil chemistry, and colleagues from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, have received a three-year $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue research on the fate of radioactive waste that has leaked from underground tanks into the soil. (CAHNRS News, 7/22/08) Read more.
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