News

New paper on the linkages of deforestation and mercury loadings from artisanal gold mining

Check out a new paper published in ES&T on study led by Hsu-Kim lab alum Dr. Sarah Diringer and collaborating PhD student Axel Berky. Sarah and Axel combined satellite imagery, soil erosion models, and water quality data from the field to evaluate...

Faye presents her work at the Superfund Research Program Annual Meeting

The total level of mercury in hair is often used as a biomarker for dietary methylmercury exposure for individuals. However, if a person could be exposed to both methylmercury and inorganic mercury, such as those living near artisinal gold mining areas,...

Methylation Potential of Mercury Associated with Iron Sulfides

Congratulations to Nelson for publishing a new ES&T paper examining different forms of Hg-iron sulfide particles! His study compared Hg that is coprecipiated with FeS and Hg that is sorbed to FeS, and the differences with respect to local Hg-sulfur...

Tour of the new Pratt Engineering building and our future lab!

Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has a new building currently under construction, and when it's done (ca. November 2020), the Hsu-Kim lab will be moving there. We can't wait! So this morning we got a tour of the site and a view of our new lab on the...

CLU-IN Webinar on Mercury Biogeochemistry and Remediation

This week Helen presented a webinar of the group's latest mercury research activities for the EPA's Hazardous Waste Clean-up Information (CLU-IN) Web Site! Hear what the Hsu-Kim lab team as well as Upal Ghosh's team at UMBC have been up to lately in...

Talia wins the DOE Graduate Student Research Award!

Congrats to Talia for winning the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award! Talia will be spending this summer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working in the groups of Dr. Dwayne Elias and Dr. Eric Pierce. She will be learning...

Liquid membranes for rare earths separations

Congratulations to Ryan for publishing his paper on the separation of rare earth metals from coal ash leachates! Ryan's research compared liquid membrane separation technologies with conventional solvent extraction methods for concentrating rare earth...

AEESP/Mary Ann Liebert Award for Publication Excellence

Congratulations to Grace Schwartz, Duke CEE PhD graduate and alumnus of the Hsu-Kim lab, for winning the 2018 AEESP/Mary Ann Liebert best paper award for her 2018 paper in Environmental Engineering Science! This award was selected by editorial leadership...

Yttrium speciation in coal fly ash - What does this mean for recovering rare earth elements from coal ash?

Ross's paper on yttrium speciation in coal fly ash was just published in Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts (ESPI)! His study examined the chemical forms of yttrium and other rare earth elements in coal fly ash by using bulk scale and micro...

ES:Water GRC

Just finished a great meeting at the Environmental Science: Water Gordon Research Conference last week in Holderness, New Hampshire. We had a great lineup of speakers, caught up with old colleagues, made new friends and forged new collaborations. Thanks...

Bass Connections in Madre de Dios, Peru

The first of this summer's Bass Connections team in Madre de Dios (Peru) got off to a great start earlier this month. The team includes Duke students Axel Berky, Emily Robie, Jamie Harris, Emma Palmer, and Eliza LeTourneau, and is traveling around this...

Graduation for Ross!

Congrats to Ross for completing his Ph.D. this semester! We wish you the best in your future endeavors!

FEMMES Capstone!

Another successful capstone event on February 17th for the FEMMES group (Females Exceling More in Math, Engineering, and Science) https://www.facebook.com/workingatduke/posts/10156296553962664 And thanks to CEE PhD students Faye Koenigsmark, Savannah...

Reunion at the Chinese Chemical Society's environmental chemistry conference

A lab group reunion with CJ, Tong and Helen at the National Environmental Chemistry Conference in Hangzhou!  

Congrats to Ross for the Utku Award!

Congratulations to Ross Taggart for winning the 2016 Duke University Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Utku Award, awarded to the best peer-reviewed journal papers authored by CEE doctoral students and published before the completion of...