Linda S. Lee Professor Area: Environmental Chemistry Mailing Address: Department of Agronomy Lilly Hall of Life Sciences 915 W. State Street Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2054  < Faculty Listing             < Faculty by Expertise

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Education
     University of Florida     1/90 - 6/93      Ph.D. (Soil Chemistry and Contaminant Hydrology)
     University of Florida     8/86 - 4/89      M.S. (Environmental Engineering Sciences)
     University of Florida     9/77 - 12/83    B.S. (Chemistry)

Professional Experience

     2007 - current     COA pre-Environmental Studies Program, Co-Chair (Pre-ES) 
     2006 - current     Ecological Science & Engineering (ESE) IGP, Co-Chair  (ESE-IGP)
     2005 - current     Discovery Park Center for the Environment, Associate Director (C4E)
     2001 - current     Purdue University, Department of Agronomy, Professor
     1997 - 2001       Purdue University, Department of Agronomy, Associate Professor
     1993 - 1997       Purdue University, Department of Agronomy, Assistant Professor
     1984 - 1993       University of Florida, Soil Science Department, Chemist/Senior Chemist

Membership in Academic, Professional, and Scholarly Societies & Related Activities
American Chemical Society (ACS)
American Society of Agronomy (ASA)
Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (SETAC)
Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) 
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC)
Evaluating the Physical and Biological Availability of Pesticides and Pharmaceuticals in Agricultural Contexts (W10-82)
Discovery Park Center for the Environment (C4E)
PFOA Peer Consultant

Awards
Chemist Certification, American Chemical Society (1984); Frederick B. Smith Scholarship, University of Florida (1991); Certificate of Merit, American Chemical Society (1991); University of Florida Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Award (1992); Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies, Soil & Water Science, University of Florida (1993); Emil Truog Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation, Soil Science Society of America (1994); Gamma Sigma Delta Research Award of Merit (2001); Purdue University Faculty Scholar (2001-2006); SSAJ Citation for Excellence in Manuscript Review (2003); ASA Fellow (2003); SSSA Fellow (2004); Gamma Sigma Delta Award of Merit (2005). 

Research Emphasis
Research emphasis is on developing a mechanistic understanding of the processes that govern environmental fate and remediation of contaminants for use in decision tools and management guidelines for industrial and agricultural settings.  Current research projects include the fate of emerging contaminants including pharmaceuticals (trenbolone, estrogens, human and veterinary antibiotics) and perfluorinated telomer compounds in soils, sediments, streams, and biosolids; and plume control of chlorinated solvent contamination.

Current Research Projects

Publications

Patents
Provisional Patent: DECONTAMINATING SOILS AND SEDIMENTS WITH ZERO-VALENT METAL NANOPARTICLES 

Current Graduate Students (chair or co-chair)
Nadia Carmosini (Ph.D.)
Bushra Khan (Ph.D.)
Laurel Royer (Ph.D.)

Recent Graduate Students or Post Docs
Dr. Perre Burns
Dr. Xinjian Huang
Dr. Seunghun Hyun
Monica Jackson
Dr. Jennifer Kolbe
Dr. Hui Li
Dr. Maurilio Oliveira
Dr. Yongkoo Seol
Troy Strock
Dr. Tianbo Xu

Other Research Personnel
Janice Bang (undergraduate)
Zach Myers (undergraduate)
Stephen Sassman (Analytical Chemist)
Stephanie Watson (undergraduate)

Primary Teaching

AGRY 544  Environmental Organic Chemistry:  A graduate course covering the fundamental processes responsible for the environmental fate of organic contaminants including the transfer of organic chemicals between air, water, and organic liquids (such as, gasoline, coal tar, oils), sorption onto solids (such as, soils, sediments, and subsurface materials), and an introduction to biotic and abiotic transformations.  The thermodynamic basis for the environmental behavior of contaminants is taught as well as methods for estimating this behavior from various physical and chemical properties.

AGRY385  Environmental Soil Chemistry. An introductory course covering environmental soil chemistry concepts in the framework most applicable to metal, nutrient, and organic chemical contamination of soil and water resources through traditional lectures, environmental case studies, laboratory exercises, and computer simulation modules.

Revised:  March, 2008