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Jennifer Loudon was awarded a 2007-2008 New Jersey Water Resources Research Institute, Student Grant in Aid. "PBDE'S and other Brominated Compounds in a Bioreactor Landfill”.
Bryan Schwab was awarded a 2007-2008 Aresty Undergraduate Research Awards for “Comparison of Microbial Communities in Anaerobic Biodigesters”.
Our research on bioremediation of dioxin and PCB contaminated sediments was featured in a film entitled "The Soil Explorers" made by Partners Video Magazine, a video magazine production of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) that highlights the research sponsored by CSREES. A production team visited the research group on May 1-3, 2007 and filmed laboratory and field activities by faculty (including Lisa Totten, Beth Ravit, Max Häggblom, and Lee Kerkhof), post-docs (Valdis Krumins and Joong-Wook Park) and students involved in the project. The film is available on the CSREES website.
David Babson was awarded a $1000 scholarship from the New Jersey Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America for travel to the Eleventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium in Sardinia Italy, September, 2007. David presented a paper entitled "Development of a Dynamic Energy Balance to Assess Operating Efficiency of the Burlington County Bioreactor Landfill in New Jersey (USA)".
Fang Liu successfully defended her dissertation research on August 22, 2007. She and her committee are pictured (from left to right): Dr. Weilin Huang (RU), Dr. Max Häggblom (RU), Dr. Donna Fennell (Advisor), Fang Liu, Dr. Hans-Hermann Richnow (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany).
Congratulations Fang!
Best
Paper Award, American Society for Engineering Education, Environmental
Engineering Division 2006 was awarded to:
Jones,
S.; Bhandari, A.; Clapp, L.; Fennell,
D.; LaPara, T.; and Tull, K. 2006.
Diversity
in environmental engineering: The good and bad. In Proceedings of the
Annual Conference for the American Society of Engineering Education,
Jennifer
Louden won second place in the poster competition for her poster
entitled "Bioreactor landfill leachate: Initial assessment of
bacterial diversity and toxicity to Danio rerio" at the Hudson
and Delaware Branch SETAC Meeting at Stockton College, April 26-27, 2006.