SOIL PHYSICS LABORATORY
ACTIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS
Effect of land application of wastes on the fate and transport of pathogens in soil
| Collaborators: | Tom Sims, Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Delaware |
| Kali Kniel, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware | |
| Contact: | Yan Jin |
| Funding: | USDA-NRI, Water and Watershed Program |
| Personnel: | Ramesh Attinti (postdoctoral research associate) |
Quantifying the mechanisms of pathogen retention in unsaturated soils
| Collaborators: | Steven Bryant, Department of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences, UT-Austin |
| Contact: | Yan Jin |
| Funding: | USDA-NRI, Water and Watershed Program |
| Personnel: | Yuni Zevi (postdoctoral research associate) |
Mechanisms of colloid retention in porous media
| Collaborators: | Lian-Ping Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware |
| Contact: | Yan Jin |
| Funding: | USDA-NRI, Soil Processes Program |
| Personnel: | Volha (Olga) Lazouskaya (graduate student) |
| Dimin (Rock) Fan (graduate student) | |
| Qiang (Ken) Liu (visiting scientist) |
Removal of viruses from water using zero-valent iron
| Collaborators: | Pei Chiu, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware |
| Kali Kniel, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware | |
| Contact: | Yan Jin |
| Funding: | Delaware Water Resources Research Center, AwwaRFe |
| Personnel: | Liping Zhang (graduate student) |
| Jennifer Handlin (undergraduate researcher) |
Agglomeration, retention, and transport of manufactured nanoparticles in porous media
| Collaborators: | John Xiao, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware |
| Contact: | Yan Jin |
| Funding: | USEPA-STAR |
| Personnel: | Yuni Zevi (postdoctoral research associate) |
| Jundong (Stefnie) Hu (visiting graduate student |
Uptake, translocation, and accumulation of nanoparticles in plants
| Collaborators: | John Xiao, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware |
| Contact: | Yan Jin |
| Funding: | NSF-EPSCoR, DBI |
| Personnel: | Jie (Jodie) Han (graduate student) |
| Soil-it-is (Soil Infrastructure, Interface, & Translocation Processes in Inner Space) |
| (http://www.agrsci.dk/soil-it-is/index.html) |