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

9502170哈蒙这是一个奖项，以提供支持这一调查要求在响应NSF 94-101，国家科学基金会教师早期职业发展（CAREER）计划，其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。 他的研究目标是将常见的土壤特性与土壤-水系统中非挥发性有机化学品的特定相分布和可及性或可提取性联系起来。 他的第二个目标是评估超临界二氧化碳萃取 作为 一 实验室分析 方法 去污 的 土壤地下水 的 调查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始终关注科学和工程方面的教育进步。 他计划通过在所有学术水平上开发一个可行的研究小组来解决这个问题，并提出与他的研究兴趣，部门和认证问题相一致的课程，并为研究人员和实践工程师开发理论和技术相结合的课程。 这项研究的结果有望改善土壤净化程序的工程设计。 有针对性的结果包括预测土壤特性的相关性 他们的 响应 行为 当 经受 净化程序。 这位调查员的教育计划预计将导致改进的方法，以整合从他的研究中获得的知识的进步到工程师的教育，并继续参与当地大学预科学生和流离失所的国防工作者的推广计划。 ***

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. ***