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Center for Urban Environments Selects Year-Three Research Projects

The Center for Hazardous Substances in Urban Environments, which focuses on typical environmental problems in the Northeast United States, has funded five projects for year three. The topics and principal investigators are:

  • "Transport of Hazardous Substances Between Brownfields and the Surrounding Urban Atmosphere":
    Joel Baker, Robert Mason, and John Ondov (University of Maryland)
  • "Co-Contaminant Effects on Risk Assessment and Remediation Activities Involving Urban Sediments and Soils: Phase II"
    William Ball and Edward Bouwer (Johns Hopkins University) and Allison Mackay (University of Connecticut)
  • "Seasonal Controls of Arsenic Transport Across the Groundwater-Surface Water Interface at a Closed Landfill Site"
    Allison MacKay and Barth Smets (Univerity of Connecticut) and Howard Fairbrother (Johns Hopkins University)
  • "Large Eddy Simulation of Dispersion in Urban Areas": Marc Parlange and Charles Meneveau (Johns Hopkins University)
  • "Solubilization of Particulate-Bound Ni(II) and Zn(II)"
    Alan Stone (Johns Hopkins University)
For more information about the center's research program, go to http://www.jhu.edu/hsrc/research.htm.

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