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Waste Management

Volume 30, Issue 11, November 2010, Pages 2020-2021
Waste Management

Editorial
Emerging contaminants: Nanomaterial fate in landfills

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Debra Reinhart is UCF Pegasus Professor and full Professor of Engineering and has been a member of the UCF faculty since 1989. She is currently the Assistant VP for Research and Commercialization. Dr. Reinhart received her B.S. in Environmental Engineering from UCF and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Reinhart has been teaching and conducting research in the solid and hazardous waste management field for 21 years.

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Debra Reinhart is UCF Pegasus Professor and full Professor of Engineering and has been a member of the UCF faculty since 1989. She is currently the Assistant VP for Research and Commercialization. Dr. Reinhart received her B.S. in Environmental Engineering from UCF and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Reinhart has been teaching and conducting research in the solid and hazardous waste management field for 21 years.

Nicole Berge received her B.S. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of South Carolina, and her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Central Florida. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Carolina.

Swadeshmukul Santra is an Assistant Professor of NanoScience Technology Center, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science Center at the University of Central Florida (Orlando, USA). He received his Ph.D. degree in 1998 in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (Kanpur, India) and pursued postdoctoral studies at the University of Florida, USA in Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering departments. Dr. Santra is a chemist with interdisciplinary research experience and he has been actively working in the field of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology over 10 years.

Stephanie C. Bolyard is a graduate research assistant at the University of Central Florida, where she is studying the fate and transport of engineered nanoparticles in MSW landfills. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Florida and is currently working towards a M.S. in Environmental Engineering with a specialization in solid waste management.

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