Neil C. Sturchio
Research Interests
Aerial view of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne
National Laboratory (35 km west of UIC)
Atomic force microscopy images of orthoclase (001) surface
reacting with flowing pH 12.9 solution |
My current research activities are concentrated in several areas, mainly involving assorted basic and applied geochemical and isotopic studies of mineral-water systems in the field and laboratory, over a wide range of scales from atomic to continental. These activities involve many collaborators. Ongoing studies include: (1) geochemical and isotopic studies of groundwaters and paleoclimate in Egypt; (2) development of applications of krypton-81 in hydrologic studies of continental and submarine groundwaters; (3) geochemical and isotopic studies of nitrate and other contaminants in the Illinois River waterway and associated wetlands; (4) chemical and isotopic studies of travertines in central Italy; (5) investigations of various chlorinated organics and perchlorate behavior in field and laboratory settings, for determination of characteristic isotopic compositions of natural and anthropogenic chlorine compounds and the isotope effects of their microbial degradation; and (6) synchrotron radiation studies of mineral-fluid interfaces at the Advanced Photon Source .
Personal
Information
Environmental Isotope
Geochemistry Laboratory |
Selected recent publications (2005-2008):
Patterson L. J., Sturchio N. C., Kennedy B. M., van Soest M.C., Sultan M.I., Lu Z.T., Lehmann B. E., Purtschert R., El Kaliouby B., Dawood Y., and Abdallah A.M, 2005. Cosmogenic, radiogenic, and stable isotopic constraints on groundwater residence time in the Nubian Aquifer, Western Desert of Egypt. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 6(1), Q01005, doi:10.1029/2004GC000779.
Park C., P. Fenter, N. C. Sturchio, and J. R. Regalbuto, 2005. Probing Outer-Sphere Adsorption of Aqueous Metal Complexes at the Oxide-Water Interface with Resonant Anomalous X-ray Reflectivity. Physical Review Letters 94, 076104.
Bohlke J.K., Sturchio N.C., Gu B., Horita J., Brown G.M., Jackson A., Batista J., Hatzinger P., 2005. Perchlorate isotope forensics. Analytical Chemistry 77, 7838-7842.
Sturchio N.C., Bohlke J.K., Gu B., Horita J., Brown G.M., Beloso A., Hatzinger P., Jackson A., and Batista J., 2006. Stable isotopic compositions of chlorine and oxygen in synthetic and natural perchlorates Ch. 5, pp. 93-109. In: Gu B. and Coates J.D., Eds., Perchlorate: Environmental Occurrence, Interactions and Treatment. Springer, New York.
Park C., Fenter P., Nagy K. L., and Sturchio N. C., 2006. Hydration and distribution of ions at the mica-water interface. Physical Review Letters 97, 016101.
An Li, Karl J. Rockne, Neil Sturchio, William J. Mills, Wenlu Song, Justin C. Ford, Dave R. Buckley, 2006. Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in the Sediments of the Great Lakes. 4. Influencing Factors, Trends, and Implications. Environ. Sci. Technol. 40,7528-7534.
Sturchio N.C., Beloso A.D., Jr., Böhlke J.K., Streger S.H., Heraty L.J., and Hatzinger P.B., 2007. Oxygen and Chlorine Isotopic Fractionation During Perchlorate Biodegradation: Laboratory Results and Implications for Forensics and Natural Attenuation Studies. Environmental Science and Technology 41, 2796-2802.
Fenter P., Zhang Z., Park C., Sturchio N.C., Hu X.M., and Higgins S.R., 2007. Structure and Reactivity of the Dolomite (104)-Water Interface: New Insights into the Dolomite Problem. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71, 566-579.
M. Sultan, E. Yan, N. Sturchio, A. Wagdy, K. Abdel Gelil, R. Becker, N. Manocha, and A. Milewski, 2007. Natural discharge: A key to sustainable utilization of fossil groundwater. Journal of Hydrology 335, 25– 36.
Thomas B. Hofstetter, Christopher M. Reddy, Linnea J. Heraty, Neil C. Sturchio and Michael Berg, 2007. Carbon and chlorine isotope effects during abiotic reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated ethanes. Environmental Science and Technology 41, 4662-4668.
Fenter, P., Park, C. and Sturchio, N. C., 2008. Adsorption of Rb+ and Sr2+ at the Orthoclase (001)-Solution Interface. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72, 1848-1863.
M. Sultan, N. Sturchio, S. Al Sefry, A. Milewski, R. Becker, I. Nasr, Z. Sagintayev, 2008. Geochemical, Isotopic, and Remote Sensing Constraints on the Origin and Evolution of the Rub Al Khali Aquifer System, Arabian Peninsula. J. Hydrology 356, 70-83.
Hatzinger, Paul; Bohlke, John Karl; Sturchio, Neil; Gu, Baohua; Heraty, Linnea; Borden, Robert, 2008. Fractionation of Stable Isotopes in Perchlorate and Nitrate during In Situ Biodegradation in a Sandy Aquifer. Environmental Science and Technology (in review).
Seyfferth A.L., Sturchio N.C., Parker D.R., 2008. Is perchlorate metabolized or retranslocated within lettuce leaves? A stable-isotope approach. Environmental Science and Technology (in press).
Yokochi R., Heraty L.J., Sturchio N.C., 2008. Method for purification of krypton from environmental samples for radiokrypton analysis. Analytical Chemistry (in press).
Park C., Fenter P., Sturchio N.C., Nagy K.L., 2008. Thermodynamics, interfacial structure, and pH hysteresis of Rb+ and Sr2+ adsorption at the muscovite (001)-solution interface. Langmuir (in press).
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