{"id":365,"date":"2020-07-09T16:56:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/?page_id=365"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:59:06","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080\">Mission<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-513 alignright\" style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2024\/05\/ColorBoxes-Green-infrastructure-1-300x161.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2024\/05\/ColorBoxes-Green-infrastructure-1-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2024\/05\/ColorBoxes-Green-infrastructure-1-1024x548.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2024\/05\/ColorBoxes-Green-infrastructure-1-768x411.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2024\/05\/ColorBoxes-Green-infrastructure-1-1536x823.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2024\/05\/ColorBoxes-Green-infrastructure-1-2048x1097.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left\">Develop tools and solutions to protect human &amp; ecosystem health<\/h4>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080\">Research Focus<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Provide a better understanding of contaminant fate in natural and engineered aquatic environments and develop more efficient solutions for surface and groundwater remediation.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000080\">Research Interests<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>\u2013 Green infrastructure for urban runoff quality control, e.g., bioretention cells and bioswales.<br \/>\n\u2013 Constructed wetlands for the treatment of various kinds of wastewater, i.e., municipal, agricultural, and industrial effluents.<br \/>\n\u2013 Traditional and novel applications and method development in Compound Specific Isotope Analysis (CSIA).<br \/>\n\u2013 Groundwater remediation: radioactive pollution (e.g., Sr-90) and industrial chemicals (e.g., chloronitrobenzenes, chloroanilines).<br \/>\n\u2013 Passive sampling.<br \/>\n\u2013 Chemical and microbially-mediated reaction pathways of organic contaminants.<br \/>\n\u2013 Microplastics and tire-wear particles fate and detection methods.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u2013 Emissions of particles and chemicals from tire-based pavements.<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-546\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide3-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide3-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide3-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide3-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide3-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide3.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-547\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide4-e1777658249534-300x151.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide4-e1777658249534-300x151.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide4-e1777658249534-1024x516.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide4-e1777658249534-768x387.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide4-e1777658249534-1536x774.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide4-e1777658249534.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-548\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide5-e1777658197263-300x152.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide5-e1777658197263-300x152.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide5-e1777658197263-1024x518.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide5-e1777658197263-768x389.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide5-e1777658197263-1536x778.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/passeport-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1147\/2026\/05\/Slide5-e1777658197263.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Develop tools and solutions to protect human &amp; 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