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Leif (PhD, Organic Chemistry, 1997) has measured and detected biogenic organic compounds, like semiochemicals and secondary metabolites, in trace amounts from animals and plants using mass spectrometry and other organic spectroscopies for twenty years. He has studied how these chemicals interact in ecosystems like the North American Sonoran Desert, Biosphere 2, the Amazonian tropical forest, and in plant-insect relationships. He has also investigated chemical interactions amongst marine microorganism assemblies, mammalian ligand receptors, and in the interstellar media.

Teaching

• Environmental Microbiology

Research Interests

• Water Quality
• Water Microbiology
• Environmental Quality
• Emerging Pollutants

My Research Interests

• Plant adaptation to changing environmental conditions
• Metal tolerance and hyperaccumulation
• Plant-soil-microbial interactions in metalliferous
• Phytoremediation and restoration of arid lands 
• Phytomining

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Teaching

• Data Analysis for Life and Environmental Science (ENVS 275)

Research Interests

My Research Interests

• Water pollution microbiology
• Microbial risk assessment
• Virology
• Water and wastewater treatment

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SOIL HEALTH

Teaching

• Soil Ecology (ENVS 300)

My Research Interests

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My Research Interests

• occurrence, survival, and fate of microbial pathogens\

• new methods for the concentration and detection of pathogens in the environment (particularly water)

• identification of alternative indicator organisms for determining the microbial safety of irrigation waters

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Brusseau Lab

Teaching

• Environmental Monitoring and Remediation (ENVS 430R)

• Reclamation and Redevelopment of Impacted Lands (ENVS 482)

My Research Interests

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Carini Lab

Teaching 

• Environmental Microbiology (ENVS 425)

My Research Interests

My Research Interests

• Impacts of fire on watersheds
• measuring and modeling environmental processes in arid soils
• climate change impacts on water resources and indigenous people

Extension and Outreach

• Climate Science, Biometerology and Hydrology
• Food Safety

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Chorover Lab

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My Research Interests

• biogeochemistry of soil, sediment and water
• reactions controlling fate of carbon and contaminants in the critical zone
• environmental surface and colloid chemistry

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Teaching 

• Careers in Environmental Science (ENVS 195A)
• Introduction to Environmental Science (170A1)
• Introduction to Soil Science (ENVS 200)
• Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition (ENVS 316)

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CLIMAS

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Biosphere 2

Teaching

• Environmental Organic Chemistry (ENVS 464/564)
• Environmental Soil & Water Chemistry (ENVS 462/562)

My Research Interests

My Research Interests

• evaluation of use-inspired environmental research
• development of theory and pragmatic approaches to socially-engaged environmental research
• development of knowledge about societal and cultural context for inter- and trans-disciplinary teams and the design and implementation partner engagement strategies.

CLIMAS

Teaching

• Critical Zone Science (ENVS 270)
• Environmental Soil & Water Chemistry (ENVS 462)
• Introduction to Soil Science (ENVS 200)
• Soils Laboratory (ENVS 201)

My Research Interests

• Soil chemistry and biogeochemistry
• Use of biochar for soil carbon sequestration
• Soil greenhouse gas emissions
• Nitrogen cycling

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My Research Interests

• aquaculture
• reuse of effluents for crop irrigation
• aquaponics
• tilapia
• shrimp
• seaweeds and multi-trophic systems
• sustainable feeds
• international economic development

Extension and Outreach

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West Center

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My Research Interests

• environmental microbiology
• gene probes
• water reuse
• bio- colloid transport in the subsurface
• virology
• parasitology
• risk assessment

Research Interests:

• Biospshere-atmopshere interactions
• Ecohydrology
• Climate extremes
• Remote sensing
• Machine learning

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Teaching

• Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Sustainability (ENVS 210)
• Scientific Writing for Environmental, Agricultural and Life Sciences (ENVS 408)

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Dr. Hoover is an environmental scientist who addresses environmental exposure and health disparities using community engaged research methods and geospatial technology. His research emphasizes drinking water quality and access challenges experienced by Indigenous communities with additional interests in community engaged research methods and healthy homes. He employs a community-driven research approach to develop sustaining partnerships with communities, which includes project co-development and training. Dr.

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WEST Center

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My Research Interests

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Superfund

My Research Interests

• microbial ecology of stressed environments (caves, deserts, dust)
• bioremediation and reclamation of mining sites;
• biosurfactant discovery and characterization

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Teaching

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WRRC

Teaching

• Scientific Writing for the Environmental, Agricultural and Life Sciences (ENVS 408)

My Research Interests

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WRRC

My Research Interests

• water management, policy, and governance in water-scarce regions
• water recharge and banking
• groundwater governance
• water pricing
• environmental water
• international comparative analysis
• trans-boundary aquifer assessment

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CESM

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WEST Center

Teaching

• Pollution Science (ENVS 305)

My Research Interests

• soils and human health
• potable water quality including real- time sensors for microbial and chemical contaminants
• fate of emerging microbial and biological contaminants
• water and wastewater reuse

I investigate the effects of wildfire on soil chemistry and the fate of pyrogenic carbon in montane semi-arid forested catchments.

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Teaching

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Teaching

• Environmental Monitoring and Remediation Class and Lab (ENVS 430R/L)
• Soil Genesis and Classification (ENVS 431)
• Advanced Soil Genesis (ENVS 541)

My Research Interests

• pedogenesis
• soil forming processes
• soil carbon cycling
• mineral weathering
• soil-landscape evolution

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My Research Interests

• molecular pathogen detection
• assessment of nutrient, chemical and biological variability of seasonal reclaimed water quality
• evaluation of programs, data sources and utilization of treated wastewater in Arizona

Extension and Outreach

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Chorover Lab

My Research Interests

• geochemistry
• metal speciation
• EXAFS
• XANES
• X-ray spectroscopy
• weathering
• contaminant transport
• medical mineralogy

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My Research Interests

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My Research Interests

• plant nutrient utilization
• soil and water management
• salinity, and fate and transport of agriculturally derived chemicals and environmental toxins

Extension and Outreach

• Soil and Land Management

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Teaching

• Environmental Physics (ENVS 420)

My Research Interests

• environmental physics
• measurements and computer modeling of physical transport processes in the environment
• soil, aquifer and vadose zone flow and transport
• pore-scale fluid dynamics

Teaching

• ENVS 225: Biology of Environmental Systems
• ENVS 275: Data Analysis for Life and Environmental Sciences
• ENVS 408: Scientific Writing
• ENVS 425: Environmental Micro-Biology

My Research Interest

I study the trophic ecology and the ecological and environmental impacts of invasive species (Pomacea canaliculata) in native and non-native freshwater systems; using statistical modeling to investigate species' diets therein via stable isotopes.

Ken Smith has over 30 years’ experience directing forest restoration and soils-oriented research and management projects in ecosystems across the United States (Tennessee, Florida, New Mexico, Georgia) as well as in Quebec, Canada, the Brazilian Amazon, and in Guinea, West Africa. Most of these field and laboratory research projects had direct implications for improving land management practices.

Teaching

ENVS 305: Pollution Science

Research

Teaching

• Microbial Geochemistry and Global Change (ENVS 410)

My Research Interests

• Soil organic matter composition
• Controls on organic matter transformation and degradation
• Biotic (microbial) and abiotic factors
• Greenhouse gas emissions