Clay Minerals Socity

45th Annual Meeting of the Clay Minerals Society

April 5-10, 2008
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Workshop Presenters

Hailiang Dong, miami University and Tom DiChristina, Georgia Institute of Technology. Mechanisms of electron transfer from dissimilatory iron reducing bacteria to clays and clay minerals.

Jinwook Kim, Naval Research Laboratory. Environmental-cell TEM and EELS to study clay mineral reactions and redox chemistry.

Joseph Stucki, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. The use of Mossbauer, FTIR and UV-Vis spectroscopy to study clay mineral redox processes.

Thomas Hofstetter, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Reduction of organic contaminants by ferrous iron species in clay minerals.

Yuri Gorby, J. Craig Venter Institute. Role of bacterial nanowires in transferring electrons from bacteria to clay minerals.

Fabienne Favre, HES-SO, HEFr, Switzerland. Impact of clay structural iron reduction at field scale: assessment and challenges.

Joel Kostka, Florida State University and Joseph Stucki, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Identification and quantification of metal-reducing bacteria that catalyze redox reactions in radionuclide-contaminated subsurface soils

Laurent Charlet, University of Grenoble – I, France. Clay-Fe(II)-(Se, As, Hg) ternary system reactivity.

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