Spring 2001

January 11, 2001, 5:00-6:30, Thursday, Dr. Hui-Ming Hung, Postdoctoral Associate, "The ice nucleation in our new apparatus," research.

January 16, 2001, 5:00-6:30, Tuesday, Ms. Young-Shin Jun, Ph.D. student, "Environmental Chemistry of Aluminum-Organic Complexes (George F. Vance, Frank J. Stevenson, and Frank J. Sikora, from The Environmental Chemistry of Aluminum, Lewis Publishers, 169-220, 1996)," literature.

January 23, 2001, 5:00-6:30, Tuesday, Mr. Tod Perry, Research Assistant (Mitchell Group), "Microbial Interactions with Limestone Materials, Part I," research.

January 30, 2001, 5:00-6:30, Tuesday, Dr. Franz Geiger, Postdoctoral Associate (Molina Group, MIT), "Water adsorption onto NaCl Studied Using Phase Modulated Ellipsometry," research.

February 1, 2001, 5:00-6:30, Thursday, Mr. Tod Perry, Research Assistant (Mitchell Group), "Microbial Interactions with Limestone Materials, Part II," research.

February 5, 2001, 5:00-6:30, Monday, Dr. Jim Shine, Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering), "Contaminant Speciation in Aquatic Sediments - Effects on Bioavailability and Implications for Sediment Quality Guidelines," research.

February 12, 2001, 5:00-6:30, Monday, Dr. Chris McNamara, Postdoctoral Associate (Mitchell Group), "The influence of DOC from maple leaves on bacterial populations in biofilms on the leaf surface," research.

February 20, 2001, 5:00-6:30, Tuesday, Dr. Sherry Samson, Postdoctoral Associate, "Dissolution of Pentelic marble at alkaline pH (Malvina G. Orkoula and Petros G. Koutsoukos, Langmuir 16:7263-7267, 2000)," literature.

February 26, 2001, 4:00-5:30, Monday, Mr. Owen Duckworth, Ph.D. student, "AFM Studies of Carbonate Dissolution: Past and Future Investigations," research and literature.

March 5, 2001, 4:00-5:30, Monday, Dr. Hui-Ming Hung, Postdoctoral Associate, "The homogeneous ice nucleation in ammonium sulfate aerosol particles-comparison with other studies," research.

March 12, 2001, 4:00-5:30, Monday, Ms. Young-Shin Jun, Ph.D. student, "Reactions of Extracellular Organic Ligands with Dissolved Metal Ions and Mineral Surfaces (A.T. Stone, Geoumicrobiology: Interactions Between Microbes and Minerals, Ed. J.F.Banfield and K.H. Nealson, pp.309-344, 1997)," literature.

April 9, 2001, 4:00-5:30, Monday, Dr. Sherry Samson, Postdoctoral Associate, "Fumarate, maleate, and succinate adsorption on hydrous d-Al2O3. 1. Comparison of the adsorption maxima and their significance (Hsi-Liang Yao and Hsuan-Hsien Yeh, Langmuir 12:2981-2988, 1996)," literature.

April 16, 2001, 4:00-5:30, Monday, Dr. Akiko Fillinger, Postdoctoral Associate, "Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Phase Transition of Atmospheric Particles," research.

April 23, 2001, 4:00-5:30, Monday, Dr. Hui-Ming Hung, Postdoctoral Associate, "Atmospheric Aerosols as Prebiotic Chemical Reactors (Dobson, C. M.; Ellison, G. B.; and Vaida, V.; PNAS, 11864-11868 (97), 2000)," literature.

April 30, 2001, 4:00-5:30, Monday, Ms. Young-Shin Jun, Ph.D. student, "The Dissolution of Manganese Oxides Promoted by Various Organic Chemicals," summer research proposal.

May 7, 2001, 4:00-5:30, Monday, Mr. Owen Duckworth, Ph.D. student, "Determination of Step Velocities and Microscopic Dissolution Rates by AFM. I," research.

May 14, 2001, 4:00-5:30, Monday, Dr. Sherry Samson, Postdoctoral Associate, "Ligand-Promoted Hematite Dissolution," research or literature.

May 25, 2001, 2:00-2:20, Friday, Ms. Robin A Lockwood, Undergraduate student, "The Dissolution of Calcite studied for Several Organic Ligands," research.

May 25, 2001, 3:00-4:30, Friday, Mr. Owen Duckworth, Ph.D. student, "Determination of Step Velocities and Microscopic Dissolution Rates by AFM. II," research.

June 8, 2001, 2:00-3:15, Friday, Dr. Hui-Ming Hung, Postdoctoral Associate,, "The hetergeneous ice nucleation in ammonium sulfate aerosol particles containing metal oxide," research.

June 15, 2001, 5:00-6:30, Friday, Dr. Akiko Fillinger, Postdoctoral Associate, "Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Phase Transition of Atmospheric Particles II," research.

June 25, 2001, 5:00-6:30. Monday, Dr. Sherry Samson, Postdoctoral Associate, "The Effect of Temperature on Oxalate-Promoted Hematite Dissolution," research.