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On Water Pollution

Presenter: 
Geiger, Cherie
When: 
Wednesday, 3 September 2008 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Venue: 
Stardust
Where: 

Address:
1842 E Winter Park Rd.

City:
Orlando
,
Postal Code:
32803

Country:
United States

Water pollution: what is causing it, what can be done about it, and what clean-up strategies are economically and scientifically feasible.

Dr. Cherie Geiger is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Chemistry at UCF, and past president of the Florida Academy of Sciences. Among her areas of current research are new catalyst systems for removing and destroying PCBs from painted surfaces, soils, and sediments; catalysts for removing heavy metals from fresh-water and marine soils and sediments; and synthesis of new screening aerosols that don’t harm the environment. She has won several awards in the past two years including: The Federal laboratory Consortium Commercialization Award, NASA Invention of the Year Award, Government Commercialization of the Year Award, Induction into the Space Act Hall of Fame, and Induction as one of the 2007 Intel Environmental Laureates in the Tech Museum of Innovation.

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Notes from event

Attendance: 26

Slides from event, in MSFT-PPT, PDF, and OpenDocument formats.

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The Nature of Science 7 January, 2009 19:00 – 20:30
Evolution in School 4 February, 2009 19:00 – 20:30
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Measuring Exoplanets from Space 6 May, 2009 19:00 – 20:30
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