Overview
The Aqueous Geochemistry and Mineralogy Group, led by Prof. Jeff Catalano, studies the geochemistry and mineralogy of terrestrial and planetary aquatic systems. Our group investigates processes that control the distribution and cycling of major and trace elements in the environment. These processes are controlled by chemical interactions between aqueous solutions and minerals, organic matter, and organisms. The goal of the group is to understand geochemical phenomena such as biogeochemical element cycling, contaminant fate, and mineral weathering on Earth and Mars. To accomplish these goals we apply laboratory-based analytical and microscopy tools and synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopic and scattering methods to investigate natural and model systems.
News
March 9-13, 2012: Prof. Catalano and graduate students Alison Beehr and Margaret Anne Gray Hinkle had beamtime at the Advanced Photon Source
January 27, 2012: Prof. Catalano gave an invited seminar at Saint Louis University
January 10 & 11, 2012: Prof. Catalano participated in X-ray Interface Science workshop at the Advanced Photon Source
December 20, 2011: Graduate student Andrew Frierdich just had a paper accepted in Environmental Science & Technology (Link)
December 6 & 7, 2011: Prof. Catalano and graduate student Alison Beehr presented their research at the AGU Fall Meeting 2011 in San Francisco, CA
November 8, 2011: The AGM group welcomes new postdoc Fabien Maillot!
November 1, 2011: Graduate student Andrew Frierdich had a paper published in Geology (Link)
October 20-23, 2011: Prof. Catalano and graduate students Alison Beehr and Margaret Anne Gray Hinkle had beamtime at the Advanced Photon Source
October 15, 2011: Prof. Catalano had a paper published in Environmental Science & Technology (Link)
August 31, 2011: Graduate student Andrew Frierdich presented his research at the Fall 2011 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Denver, CO
August 15-19, 2011: Prof. Catalano and graduate student Andrew Frierdich presented their research at the 2011 Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, Czech Republic
July 21, 2011: Former postdoc Yun Luo had a paper published in Energy & Fuels (Link)
July 7-11, 2011: Prof. Catalano and graduate students Alison Beehr and Margaret Anne Gray Hinkle had beamtime at the Advanced Photon Source
