Honors, Awards, Community Service
Awards
- Grace Schwartz — AEESP/Mary Ann Liebert Award for Publication Excellence in Environmental Engineering Science
- Grace Schwartz — NextProf Science 2019 Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Natalia Neal-Walthall (Duke University) — Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Award "Examining the Effects of Hg Concentration in the Water Column on MeHg Production and Retention in Biofilms"
Professional Society Fellows
- Mircea Podar — Fellow American Academy of Microbiology
- Baohua Gu — Fellow Geochemistry Society
- Baohua Gu — Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Baohua Gu — Fellow Geological Society of America
- Baohua Gu — European Association of Geochemistry
Associate/Academic Journal Editors
- Baohua Gu — Environmental Engineering Science (Regional Editor)
- Dwayne Elias — PLoS One
- Dwayne Elias —Frontiers in Microbiology
- Eric Pierce — Applied Geochemistry
- Eric Pierce — Nature partner journal: Materials Degradation
Community Service
- Scott Brooks — South River Science Team Remedial Options Team (2012 — present)
- Jerry Parks — Scientific Advisory Committee for Biosciences Division at SLAC National Accelerator (Oct. 2015).
- Eric Pierce — 2017 ICMGP Local Organizing Committee
- Eric Pierce — 2018 Environmental Sciences: Water Gordon Research Conference Discussion Leader
Conference Sessions Organized
- 2015 AGU Fall Meeting Session: Mercury Biogeochemistry, Genomics and Environmental Change II
- 2016 26th Goldschmidt Conference Session: Microbiological and Geochemical Controls on Trace Metal Speciation, Transformation, and Transport
- 2017 ICMGP Session: Mercury methylation: microbial and geochemical constraints
- 2018 AGU Fall Meeting Session: Coupled Dynamics of Physical, Biological, Geomorphic, Hydrologic, and Chemical Processes in the Hyporheic Zone over a Range of Spatial and Temporal Scales
- 2019 AGU Fall Meeting Session: “Groundwater- Surface Water Interactions: Identifying and Integrating Physical, Biological, Geomorphic, and Chemical Patterns and Processes Across
Systems and Scales
- 2021 Goldschmidt Virtual Conference Session: “(Bio)mineralization: Geochemical, Industrial, and Engineering
Perspectives
- 2021 AGU Fall Meeting Session: Mercury Biogeochemistry and Environmental Change I.