Environmental Microbiology Faculty at USC

o  Arnold School of Public Health - Department of Environmental Health Sciences

  • Marjorie Aelion, Degradation of environmental pollutant compounds.
  • Alan Decho, Growth and activities of bacteria in biofilms.
o  Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences.
  • Scott Neubauer, Microbial ecology, biogeochemistry.
  • Erik Smith, Microbial ecology.
  • Susan B. Wilde, Harmful algal blooms, cyanobacterial toxins.

o  Biological Sciences
  • Ron Benner, Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology.
  • Madilyn Fletcher, Bacterial attachment to solid surfaces.
  • Rick Lovell, Molecular microbial ecology.
  • Richard Long, Molecular marine microbial ecology and?biogeochemistry, bacteria chemical communications, waterborne pathogens.
  • Jay Pinckney, Marine ecology, benthic microbial processes, phytoplankton ecology.
  • Tammi Richardson, Phytoplankton physiology and ecology; marine food webs.
o  Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • Lee Ferguson, Environmental analytical chemistry, application of proteomics to problems in environmental toxicology.
  • John Ferry, Environmental chemistry.
  • Caryn Outten, Cellular and molecular mechanisms of redox homeostasis.
  • Wayne Outten, Microbial metal metabolism.
  • Tim Shaw, Environmental analytical chemistry.
  • Ben Twining, Trace metal geochemistry, marine microbial ecology.
o  Geological Sciences
o  College of Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • M. Hanif Chaudhry, Computer and physical modeling for environmental hydraulics and water resources.

In accordance with USC Policy ACAF 7.04 the following information is included:
Department: Biological Sciences; Website Maintainer: Richard Vogt vogt@biol.sc.edu
Copyright 2008 by the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina.
This is <URL:http://www.biol.sc.edu/environmental_microbiology/overview.html> last modified 20 February 2007