Environmental Geoscience Department

Environmental Geoscience educates students to scientifically diagnose and respond to the environmental impacts of energy projects. Students master groundwater contamination transport modeling and geochemical fingerprinting, draft their own Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) scenarios, and run projects that simulate the effectiveness of remediation techniques such as phytoremediation and in-situ chemical oxidation. By graduation, students can independently carry a project from contamination diagnosis through remediation design as environmental geology specialists.

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⭐ Carson

Chair

💡 Environmental Science & Contamination Assessment

Researchers (real GeoVerse Lab members) 15

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1886–1975

Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

Researcher

💡 Taylor dispersion theory describing solute spreading in flowing fluids (1953)

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1910–2003

Konrad Bates Krauskopf

Researcher

💡 Author of the standard geochemistry textbook "Introduction to Geochemistry"

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1913–2006

Lynton K. Caldwell

Researcher

💡 Principal intellectual architect of the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA, 1969), which created the modern environmental impact assessment requirement

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1677–1761

Stephen Hales

Researcher

💡 Founder of plant physiology; first quantitative measurement of plant transpiration and sap pressure ("Vegetable Staticks", 1727)

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1854–1929

Henry John Horstman Fenton

Researcher

💡 Discovered Fenton's reagent (Fe2+/H2O2 oxidation system) in 1894

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1865–1932

Louis Agricola Bauer

Researcher

💡 Founder of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution; pioneer of systematic magnetic field surveying

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1920–2017

T. William Lambe

Researcher

💡 Co-author of the standard soil mechanics textbook "Soil Mechanics" underlying modern geotechnical waste-containment engineering

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1904–1993

Lorenzo A. Richards

Researcher

💡 Derived the Richards equation for unsaturated (vadose zone) flow through porous media (1931)

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1920–2001

Ian McHarg

Researcher

💡 Founder of the GIS overlay method for land suitability analysis ("Design with Nature", 1969)

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1825–1899

Edward Frankland

Researcher

💡 Founder of systematic water analysis; monthly chemical monitoring of London water supply; Rivers Pollution Commission

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1919–2022

James Lovelock

Researcher

💡 Invented the electron capture detector (ECD), enabling trace detection of halogenated organic compounds

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1881–1965

Hermann Staudinger

Researcher

💡 Founder of polymer chemistry; proved that polymers are covalently bonded macromolecules (1920); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1953)

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1909–1994

René Truhaut

Researcher

💡 Coined the term "ecotoxicology" and defined it as a scientific discipline (1969)

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1938–2020

Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty

Researcher

💡 Engineered the first oil-degrading bacterium, subject of the landmark Diamond v. Chakrabarty patent case (1980)

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1916–1988

Robert Garrels

Researcher

💡 Founder of quantitative aqueous mineral equilibrium geochemistry (Eh-pH stability diagrams)