Gregory V. Lowry
Associate Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
119 Porter Hall
Pitsburgh, PA 15213-3890

glowry@cmu.edu
(412) 268-2948 (office)
(412) 268-7813 (fax)
(412) 268-7300 (dept.)

      Dr. Lowry is an associate professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.  He teaches Environmental Engineering, Water Quality Engineering, Environmental Fate and Transport of Organic Compounds in Aquatic Systems, and Environmental Sampling and Sample Characterization.  His research interest is broadly defined as transport and reaction in porous media, with a focus on the fundamental physical/geochemical processes affecting the fate of inorganic and synthetic organic contaminants and engineered nanomaterials in the environment.  He is primarily an experimentalist and works on a variety of application-oriented research projects developing novel environmental technologies for restoring contaminated sediments and groundwater.  His current projects include in situ sediment management using innovative sediment caps, DNAPL source zone remediation through delivery of reactive nanoparticles to the NAPL-water interface, and CO2 capture, sequestration, and monitoring.  The primary goal of most projects is to provide economical engineering solutions to specific relatively well-defined environmental problems, but each step of engineering development also provides the opportunity to make fundamental scientific contributions in the areas of contaminant transport and fate.

Curriculum Vitae

Graduate Students

Courses
Environmental Issues of Nanotechnology

Environmental Engineering

Environmental Sampling and Analysis

Physiochemical Processes of Organic Pollutants in Aquatic Systems

Water Quality Engineering

Water Quality Engineering Laboratory

Current Research Projects
Determining the Fate of Nanoparticles and their Surface Coatings in the Environment

NIRT: Targeted Delivery and Microbial Interactions of Polymer-Functionalized Nanoparticles for Groundwater Contaminant Source-Zone Remediation

Fundamental Study of the Delivery of Nanoiron to DNAPL Source Zones in Naturally Heterogeneous Field Systems

Predicting and Validating the Performance of AC-amended Sediment Caps

Effect of CO2 and Brine Solutions on Well Cement at in situ P&T

 

Past Projects

Optimizing Subsurface Transport of Reactive Nanoparticles

Red Mud Neutralization/Treatment Using Fly Ash and CO2

Developing Reactive Metallic Nanoparticles for DNAPL Degradation
Sequestering CO2 from Air as Metal Carbonates

Geochemical CO2 Sequestration Using Industrial Wastes

In Situ Sediment Remediation using "active" Sediment Capping

Catalytic Destruction of Chlorinated Organics

Bibliography
Journal Articles
Conference Proceedings
Conferences and Invited Talks
Other Publications

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