St. Olaf College
Chair, Department of Environmental Studies
Department of Chemistry
1520 St. Olaf Avenue
Northfield, MN 55057-1098
Office: Regents Hall NS 422
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Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, General Chemistry
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My research focuses on problems related to separations science, the environment, and issues of environmental sustainability. In particular I am interested in the cycling of various organic and inorganic compounds in the environment and how chemical analysis can become a more sustainable endeavor by employing green chemistry principles. To explore and solve these problems my research group employs high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS), gas chromatography (GC), gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), and solid phase microextraction (SPME).
1. Green Chemistry and Chemical Analysis.
2. Anthropogenic Pollutants - Pharmaceuticals in Surface Waters.
3. Retracing the 1838 Undine Expedition of J. N. Nicollet: Changes in Landscape and Water Quality.
4. The Chemistry of Building Materials.
5. Quantitating the Lethal Dose of Diflubenzuron to Selected Invertibrates.
6. Wetland Profiling Using Solid Phase Microextraction
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Ronald McDonald House of the Twin Cities
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"You are glucose. People feed off of you. You are sweet, caring, and a source of energy for everyone around you.
You can inspire others with your creativity and depth, and you can keep people alive when in times of famine.
People love you...or at least the way you taste."
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