Faculty - Phillip M. Gschwend

Education

• 1973 B.S., California Institute of Technology
• 1979 Ph.D., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Research Interests

• Environmental organic chemistry; volatilization; sorption; transformation processes; modeling fates of organic pollutants; roles of colloids.
• see textbook:  Environmental Organic Chemistry by RP Schwarzenbach, PM Gschwend, & DM Imboden, 2nd edition, Wiley-Interscience, 2003.

Selected Publications

1. MacKay, A.A. and P.M. Gschwend. Enhanced concentrations of PAHs in groundwater at a coal tar site. Environ. Sci. Technol., 35, 1320-1328, 2001.
2. Gustafsson, O., C. Long, J.K. MacFarlane, and P.M. Gschwend. Fate of linear alkyl benzenes (LABs) released to the coastal environment near Boston Harbor . Environ. Sci. Technol., 35, 2040-2048, 2001.
3. Johnson CR, Hellerich LA, Nikolaidis NP, and Gschwend PM. Colloid mobilization in the field using citrate to remediate chromium.Ground Water 39(6): 895-903, 2001.
4. Accardi-Dey, A. and P.M. Gschwend. Assessing the combined roles of natural organic matter and black carbon as sorbents in sediments. Environ. Sci. Technol., 36, 21-29, 2002.
5. Accardi-Dey, A. and P.M. Gschwend. Reinterpreting literature sorption data considering both absorption into organic carbon and adsorption onto black carbon. Environ. Sci. Technol., 37, 99-106, 2003.

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