Environmental Protection And Enhancement
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Team Overview

Our overall goal is to address issues of environmental pollution and degradation through research and development, and implementation of sound and cost-effective practices, and to disseminate information about the environment to society at large. Clean and safe environments are important to the economies of our nation as well as other countries of the world. Unfortunately, these attributes have come under assault due to large uses of synthetic chemicals to enhance agricultural production for an ever-growing world, and maintain or improve standards of living of increasingly affluent societies. Threats posed to human and ecosystem health by intrusions of chemicals into the environment call for studies on behaviors of chemicals in soil, potentials for, or realities of their movement into bodies of water, remediation and mitigation strategies for existing or future contaminations, and best management practices that reduce dependence on man-made chemicals, or mitigate their environmental impacts. Integrating and implementing these studies and developments will lead to improvement in environment quality, protection or water resources, and overall environmental sustainability. The team's research goal has been established in several priority areas.

Priority Research Areas