Research
Research in the Geochemistry program is carried out in the following areas. Interested students can contact our faculty members for more information.
Biogeochemical Cycling
- Cyling of nutrients and toxic metals from streams to the open ocean
- Bioavailability of trace metals
- Geochemistry of Energy
- Biofuels-Bioenery
- Origin, migration and modification of hydrocarbons
- Trace element and isotope geochemistry
- Carbon sequestration
- Geochemistry of gas shales
Environmental Microbiology
- Microbial ecology of extreme environments
- Microbial driven corrosion of metals
- Microbes in the weathering cycle
Environmental Remediation
- Bioremediation of heavy metal and radionuclides in contaminated sites
- Behavior and remediation of organic contaminants in the subsurface
- Reactive transport in contaminated sites
- Fate and transport of trace elements
- Waste water treatment
- Trace metals in aquatic and near-surface environments
Geochemical Hydrology
- Integration of geochemical and hydrological models
- Chemical transport in watersheds
- Reactive mass transport models
Geochemistry of the Crust and Mantle
- Petrogenesis of igneous rocks
- Generation and recycling of continental crust
- Behavior of dateable accessory minerals at high-temperatures and hydrothermal environments
- Evolution of mountain belts through space and time
- Mantle melting and the origin of diamonds
- Experimental Petrology
Geochemistry of Economic Minerals
- Genesis of ore deposits
- Exploration geochemistry
- Geochemistry of uranium deposits
- REE mineral deposits
- Geometallurgy and quantitative mineralogy
Hydrothermal Geochemistry
- Thermodynamics of fluid-rock interaction
- Numerical simulations of hydrothermal systems
- Mineral-fluid element partitioning
- Experimental geochemistry
Isotope Geochemistry
- Light stable isotopes
- Isotope hydrology, carbonate diagenesis and paleoclimatology