Richard G. Luthy Silas H. Palmer Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering

BS, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, l967
MS, Ocean Engineering, University, Honolulu, HI, 1969
MS, Civil Engineering (Environmental Engineering), University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1974
Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Environmental Engineering), University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1976

Dick Luthy's area of teaching and research is environmental engineering and water quality. His research interests include physicochemical processes and applied aquatic chemistry with application to waste reduction and treatment, and remediation of contaminated soil and sediment. Current projects address the phase partitioning, treatment, and fate of persistent hydrophobic organic compounds. His research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to understand the environmental behavior and availability of organic contaminants and the application of these approaches to the control of contaminant bioavailability and the improvement of water and sediment quality.

Dick Luthy was previously on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was the Thomas Lord professor of environmental engineering and former head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He chairs the National Research Council's Water Science and Technology Board and was a member of the NRC Committees on Innovative Remediation Technologies and on Intrinsic Remediation. He chaired the NRC study on the bioavailability of contaminants in soils and sediments. He is a past president of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. He is a registered professional engineer, a diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

luthy@stanford.edu

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URL: http://www-ce.stanford.edu/faculty/luthy/

Sungwoo Ahn Postdoctoral Researcher

swahn@stanford.edu

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	Yeo-Myoung Cho Postdoctoral Researcher

BS, Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2000
MS, Organic Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2002
MS, Environmental Engineering and Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2005
PhD, Environmental Engineering and Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2009

Hunters Point Navy Shipyard Parcel F - Treatability Study (May. 2004 - Dec.2005, NAVFAC)

Field Testing of Activated Carbon Mixing and In Situ Stabilization of PCBs in Sediment at Hunters Point Shipyard Parcel F (May. 2005 - Dec.2008)

daybreak@stanford.edu

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Ching-Hong Hsieh Postdoctoral Researcher

chsieh13@stanford.edu

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	Chaojie Zhang Visiting Scholar

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Heather Bischel Ph.D Candidate

hbischel@stanford.edu

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	Yongju Choi Ph.D Student

BS, Civil, Urban, and Geosystem Engineering, Seoul National Univeristy, Seoul, Korea, 2006
MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2008

ychoi81@stanford.edu

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Elisabeth(Lilli) Janssen Ph.D Candidate

BS, Water Sciences, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 2005
MS, Environmental Engineering and Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2007

Project: Hunters Point Navy Shipyard Parcel F - Measurement and Modeling of Ecosystem Risk and Recovery for in-situ Treatment of Contaminated Sediment (May 2007 - Sept. 2010)

Lilli’s research involves microcosm time-series studies for PCBs and pesticides with benthic invertebrates Neanthes arenaceodentata and Corophium spp. Furthermore, she works on the parameterization of a biodynamic model to predict tissue concentrations.

ejanssen@stanford.edu

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Eunah Kim Ph.D Student

BS, Chemistry Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2003
MS, Organic Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea, 2006

kimea@stanford.edu

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	Sarah Rubinfeld Ph.D Candidate

sarahamy@stanford.edu

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Jay Thompson Ph.D Student

jayt@stanford.edu

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Yuan Zhuang Ph.D Candidate

B.S., Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 2006
M.S., Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, CA, U.S.A., 2007

Understanding dehalogenation by nanoscale zero-valent iron and its composite materials

Yuan’s research is focused on the dehalogenation by nanoscale zero-valant iron, especially on polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), an emerging class of persistant organic pollutants widely used as fire retardant. In addition, she is exploring ways to synthesize nZVI impregnated activated carbon materials and investigating how sorption of activated carbon impacts dehalogenation.

zhuangy@stanford.edu

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