
Environmental Science 7899 – Issues in Environmental Sciences
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Seminar Chair: Gil Bohrer, bohrer.17@osu.edu
Seminar Coordinators: Michelle Smith, straley.23@osu.edu; Yanting Guo, zhao.1093@osu.edu
Course Requirements
This course is graded S/U. Satisfactory participation in this course includes all of the following:
- Attentive and active participation in lectures and discussion.
- Attendance at all classes, with one excused absence. If you must miss more than one class, see Dr. Bohrer.
- Advance reading for any seminars for which it is required
Meeting the ESGP Alumni
Mengling Stuckman, a postdoc for Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education, working at DOE-National Energy Technology Lab (NETL). NETL evaluates environmental impacts and promotes sustainability associated with fossil fuel extraction and usage. I've been involved with three projects: One involved with hydraulic fracturing: to characterize heavy metal release from drill cuttings, the solid wastes containing shale rocks and drilling fluids from initial well drilling for fracturing; the second with CO2 storage: to evaluate the potential of arsenic mobilization from caprocks to seal the injected CO2 in targeted geological formations; the last with fly ash from coal-burning power plants: to characterize and evaluate feasibility to recover rare earth elements from fly ash and other coal-derived by-products from power plants.
Yang Xing graduated from ESGP in 2012. He studied firefly ecology under Dr. Richard Moore. After half year as Post Doc at OARDC in Wooster and half year as volunteer for a nonprofit he joined EnviroFlight, LLC. as the Research and Development Manager in 2013. Yang is in charge of designing and conducting research projects related to Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens).