Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

Adjunct Professor Leonid Germanovich Works at the Bottom of the Ocean

Dr. Leonid Germanovich recently joined EEES as an adjunct professor following his retirement from Georgia Tech, where he was a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.  Not one to relax in retirement, Dr. Germanovich has maintained a very active research program that includes collaboration with EEES Professor Larry Murdoch.  His research is […]

AWWA Keeps our Lake Shore Clean

The Clemson student chapter of the American Water Works Association (CUAWWA) conducted their annual lake shore clean-up last week on Lake Hartwell. The group removed about 12 bags of trash from the lake shore in one evening. In addition to keeping our lake clean, the organization also focuses on providing students with networking opportunities in […]

Renewed project could protect environment for millennia

A team that has included more than 85 researchers from three South Carolina universities is receiving $2 million to continue investigating how buried nuclear waste would react with soil and groundwater if it were to leak into the environment. It’s a project that researchers said could help ensure safe disposal of nuclear waste, ideally for […]

Article by Cates Featured in Chemical & Engineering News

EEES faculty member Dr. Ezra Cates is developing a novel water treatment process to address one of the most difficult to degrade “emerging contaminants,” perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).  Cates and his students recently published an article in one of the top journals for Environmental Engineering (Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.8b00395) describing the use […]