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| Title | Professor
School of Natural Sciences
Vice Chancellor of Research & Graduate Studies | | Email | straina@ucmerced.edu | | Office Phone | (209) 228-7964 | | Website | https://snri.ucmerced.edu/snri | | Address | University of California, Merced
5200 North Lake Rd.
S&E Bldg., RM 311F
Merced, CA 95343 |
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Using a wide range of analytical methods (infra-red spectroscopy, electron microsocpy, x-ray absorption spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy), Professor Traina's group studies:
- Chemical transformations of pollutants in soils, surface and ground water
- Linkages between chemical form or speciation of particular pollutants and their relative toxicities in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
- Roles of geoparticle surfaces and bacteria in pollutant fate
Current projects include the study of:
- Contaminants at Department of Energy waste sites (Cr, Pu and U)
- Role of Fe(II) and HSe- in transformations of nitroaromatic pesticides in wetlands
- Fate of pharmaceuticals in the surface waters of National Parks
- Ph.D., 1983 — University of California, Berkeley
- B.S., 1978 — University of California, Berkeley
Biography | Curriculum Vitae
