Café Scientifique Orlando / "On Water Pollution" (omnibus) September 3, 2008

Water pollution: what is causing it, what can be done about it, and what clean-up strategies are economically and scientifically feasible.

Dr. Cherie Geiger is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Chemistry at UCF, and past president of the Florida Academy of Sciences. Among her areas of current research are new catalyst systems for removing and destroying PCBs from painted surfaces, soils, and sediments; catalysts for removing heavy metals from fresh-water and marine soils and sediments; and synthesis of new screening aerosols that don’t harm the environment. She has won several awards in the past two years including: The Federal laboratory Consortium Commercialization Award, NASA Invention of the Year Award, Government Commercialization of the Year Award, Induction into the Space Act Hall of Fame, and Induction as one of the 2007 Intel Environmental Laureates in the Tech Museum of Innovation.

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