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Geochemistry Laboratory |
Department of Earth & Environmental Science College of Sciences UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249 Phone: (210)-458-5168 Fax: (210)-458-4469 |
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Welcome to the Environmental Geochemistry Laboratory (EGL) at the University of Texas at San
Antonio (UTSA). The EGL is a research
unit within the Earth and Environmental Science (EES) Department at the College of
Sciences (CoS), UTSA. The EGL started in Spring 2001 from the start-up grant offered to
its founding Director, Dr. Dibs Sarkar, then Assistant (now,
Associate) Professor of EES. Further expansion was done by the addition
of an ICP-MS in 2002.
The EGL-BIOGEOCHEMISTRY Lab was started in 2004 within EGL with the start-up grant offered to it's Associate Director, Dr. Rupali Datta, Assistant Professor of EES.
Equipped
with state-of-the art analytical facilities and run by an energetic
group of researchers including graduate and undergraduate students
and post-doctoral scientists, the EGL promotes research, teaching and
outreach activities in environmental quality and remediation, especially
addressing local environmental issues in the San Antonio metropolitan
area. Our primary research emphasis is on biogeochemical processes
regulating the fate of metals, nutrients and organics in soils, sediment,
and water. We are also involved in molecular-genetic studies to dissect
the mechanism of heavy metal detoxification and phytoremediation in
plants.
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