Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

Research of Ersan, Ladner, and Karanfil featured on cover of Environmental Science & Technology Letters

EEES doctoral student Mahmut Selim Ersan and his advisors (Professors David Ladner and Tanju Karanfil) were recently honored by having their research featured on the cover of Environmental Science & Technology Letters. The citation for the article is listed below. Congratulations on your excellent work. Ersan, M.S.; Ladner, D.A.; Karanfil, T. “N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) Precursors Leach […]

Alum Nading (2010, MS) earns PE license

Will Nading earned his M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering and Science in 2010. This was noteworthy because his undergraduate degree was in financial analysis. Will worked hard to take all of the necessary courses to gain admission to the EES Master’s degree program, in which he followed the Process Engineering focus area. After graduation, Will […]

Molz served as invited and keynote speaker

Professor Fred Molz served as one of three invited speakers at the Chapman Conference entitled “The MADE Challenge for Groundwater Transport in Highly Heterogeneous Aquifers: Insights from 30 Years of Modeling and Characterization at the Field Scale and Promising Future Directions.” Chapman Conferences are sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and are designed to […]

Moysey Wins the 2015 Prince Award

Dr. Stephen Moysey received the 2015 Philip Prince Award for Innovation in Teaching at Clemson University. Named after Clemson President Emeritus Philip Prince, this prestigious award recognizes professors who utilize and synthesize creative and unique teaching methods for their students.  Dr. Moysey received the award at the Faculty Convocation on August 18, 2015. Dr. Moysey […]

Alum Sivey (MS ’05) named Endowed Professor

John Sivey, who received his Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and Science in 2005, and went on to pursue his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, was recently appointed the Jess and Mildred Fisher Endowed Professor for 2015—2018 at Towson University in Towson, Maryland.  Sivey received his Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and Science […]

Kiekhaefer selected for national TA award

Becca Kiekhaefer, an M.S. candidate in the Hydrogeology program, was selected by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) as one of this year’s winners of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. NAGT recognizes outstanding teaching assistants in geoscience education with up to 30 awards annually. Both undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants are eligible for the […]

Adjunct Looney received the Donald A. Orth Lifetime Award of Merit

Dr. Brian Looney, an adjunct professor in EEES, received the Donald A. Orth Lifetime Award of Merit from the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL). During his tenure at SRNL, Looney developed and deployed numerous environmental characterization, remediation, and monitoring technologies. He has advanced a conceptual framework that defines environmental target zones based on their chemical […]

Engineers Without Borders wins CU Organization of the Year

CU’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders wins CU Organization of the Year The Clemson University chapter of Engineers Without Borders (CU-EWB), advised by Dr. Mark Schlautman, was awarded Clemson University Organization of the Year by ODK. ODK is a national honors society that places an emphasis on leadership, and the Clemson chapter each year gives […]

Castle researches wetlands to clean Canadian mining water

Dr. James Castle in EEES, along with his colleague Dr. John Rodgers in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, will let the politicians and interest groups fight over the efficacy of extracting oil from tar sands while they and their graduate students toil away in a basement laboratory solving a much more vexing problem: […]

Dr Terry Walker – a pioneer in sustainability

Dr. Terry Walker is a professor of Biosystems Engineering (BE) with over 20 years of experience in sustainable bioprocessing. He obtained his Ph.D. in BE in 1997 from the University of Tennessee in cooperation with the Chemical Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was an assistant professor at Louisiana State University from 1997 […]