Prof. Philip M Gschwend

The overarching goal of Gschwend's research is development of means to predict the fates of organic chemicals in natural and engineered environments. To that end, we pursue studies of specific processes controlling compound fates. We emphasize studies of the sorption, including interactions with colloidal phases. We also emphasize field studies seeking to quantify the distributions of organic compounds so that we can deduce the importance of individual transport or transformation processes.