Jeanne VanBriesen, Professor-Civil and Environmental Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University

Vanbriesen

Contact Info:
Jeanne VanBriesen
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Office: 123G Porter Hall
Phone: 412-268-4603
Fax: 412-268-7813
Email: jeanne@cmu.edu
Website: www.ce.cmu.edu/~jeanne/

Jeanne VanBriesen, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Areas of Interest:

Intermediates in biodegration of anthropogenic compounds (chelates and PCBs), modeling thermodynamics of bacterial growth systems, pathogen detection and control in drinking water and medical applications

Education

Ph.D. 1998, Northwestern University

Select Publications: 

  • Karcher, S.C., Small, M.J., and VanBriesen, J.M., (2004) “Statistical method to evaluate the occurrence of PCB transformations in river sediments with application to Hudson River Data,” Environmental Science and Technology 38:6760-6766.
  • Nowack, B. and VanBriesen, J.M. (editors) Biogeochemistry of Chelating Agents. ACS Books. ACS Symposium Series 910. Oxford University Press for the American Chemical Society, Washington, DC 2005.
  • Xiao, Jinghua and J.M. Vanbriesen, (2006) “Expanded thermodynamic model for microbial yield prediction,” Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 93:1:110-121.
  • Escoriza, M., VanBriesen, J.M., Stewart, S., Maier, J., Treado, P. (2006) “Raman Spectroscopy and Chemical Imaging for quantification of filtered waterborne bacteria,” Journal of Microbiological Methods, 66:1:63-72.
  • Weber, C.L., VanBriesen, J.M., and Small, M.J. (2006) “A Stochastic Regression Approach to Analyzing Thermodynamic Uncertainty in Chemical Speciation Modeling,” Environmental Science and Technology, 40:12: 3872-3878.