CAREER: Equilibria and Mass Transfer Characteristics of Nonvolatile Organic Chemicals in Unsaturated Soils

9502170哈蒙这一奖项是为了响应国家科学基金会94-101国家科学基金会教师早期职业发展(职业)计划，为这位研究人员提供所要求的支持，该计划的目的是鼓励学术教师作为教育工作者和研究人员的早期发展。他的研究目的是将常见的土壤特性与土壤-水系统中非挥发性有机化合物的特定相分布和可获得性或可萃取性联系起来。他的第二个目标是评估超临界二氧化碳萃取作为一种基于实验室的分析方法来净化土壤地下水。这位研究人员的教育计划包括一些活动，这些活动将帮助他在职业生涯中保持对科学和工程教育进步的关注。他计划通过在所有学术水平建立一个可行的研究小组来解决这一问题，并提供与他的研究兴趣、部门和认证问题相一致的课程，并为研究人员和实习工程师开发整合理论和技术的课程。这位研究人员的研究成果有望改进土壤净化程序的工程设计。目标结果包括土壤性质的相关性，以预测其在接受去污程序时的反应行为。这位研究员的教育计划预计将改进将他从研究中获得的先进知识整合到工程师教育中的方法，并继续参与针对当地预科学生和流离失所的国防工作者的外联计划。***

9502170 Harmon This is an award to provide the support this investigator requested in response to NSF 94-101, the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program which has the intent of encouraging the early development of academic faculty as educators and researchers. The objective of his research is to link common soil characteristics to the specific phase distribution and accessibility or extractability of nonvolatile organic chemicals in soil-water systems. His secondary objective is to evaluate supercritical carbon dioxide extraction as a laboratory-based analytical method for decontamination of soil groundwater. The investigator's education plan involves activities that will help him to maintain a career-long focus on educational advances in science and engineering. He plans to address this by developing a viable research group at all academic levels and presenting courses that are consistent with his research interests, departmental and accreditation issues and developing courses that integrate theory and technology for researchers and practicing engineers. Results of this investigator's research are expected to improve the engineering design of procedures to decontaminate soil. Targeted results include correlations of soil properties to predict their responsive behavior when subjected to decontamination procedures. This investigator's educational plan is expected to result in improved approaches to integration of advances in knowledge gained from his research into the education of engineers and to continue his participation in outreach programs for local pre-college students and displaced defense workers. ***