[1] Joe Ryan is a professor of environmental engineering at
the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he has been teaching and conducting
research since 1993. He holds a B.S.
degree in geological engineering from Princeton and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
civil and environmental engineering from MIT.
His emphasis in teaching and research is on the transport and ultimate
fate of contaminants in natural waters. He
studies the role of organic matter in the speciation of trace metals in water,
and the transport of microbes in subsurface waters. He gravitates toward "real' problems, such as
Rocky Flats plutonium, the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that oil spills
release, mercury in the Everglades, microbes in groundwater, erosion caused by
off-road vehicles at James Creek, and metals draining out of abandoned mines in
the Lefthand Creek watershed.
[2] From a paper by Ralph W. Veatch, Jr., SEI,
2006.
[3] From a talk given by Cornell University professor
Anthony Ingraffea at Luzerne County Community College in Nanticoke,
Pennsylvania, in 2010, and displayed at click here=20130417_PRNLv1_art_1&utm_source=prmrnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130417-DNLHL.
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