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Welcome to PSU |
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Dr.
Robert Fuller
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Education:
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PhD, Duke University, Environmental Science |
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MS, University of Tennessee, Ecology |
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BS, University of California Santa Barbara, Botany |
| CHE 308 | Environmental Chemistry
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- The study of chemical phenomena in the environment. Focus on
natural chemical processes in water, air and soil systems; chemical contaminants that
pollute these systems; principles of chemical kinetics and equilibria applied to
quantitative description of the chemistry of natural systems. Prerequisite: CHE 240
or CHE 241.
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| ENV 370 | Introduction to Soil Science - (4 credits with lab) - Basic introduction to all aspects of soils, with particular reference to environmental concerns. Taught as part of the Applied Environmental Science Program at Miner Center each fall. Download Soil leaching experiment exercise: Soils Cubed |
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| ENV 437 | Instrumentation in Water Quality Analysis
- (4 credits with lab) - Introduction to and
hands-on use of analytical instrumentation used to measure organic and inorganic chemicals
in water including nutrients and toxics. Covers atomic absorption
spectrophotometry, graphite furnace, UV/Vis spectrophotometry, ion chromatography, high
performance liquid chromatography, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, potentiometric
titrations. Utilizes research instruments in the labs of the Lake Champlain Research Institute.
Download: Polynomial Regression |
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| ENV 304L | Ecology Lab
- You must have a computer equipped with Excel 2000
to download these files. They will launch in Excel and you can save
them to disk. Download Saranac River Data
Set to Excel - Download
Excel Notes (courtesy Dr. Mihuc) on Download
Rugar Woods Stuff: |
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basic interpretation for the lab data sets would be that if the presence
of filter feeders increased below the impoundment (either in absolute
abundance or in relative abundance) it was most likely due to flow regime
and food availability in the drift. You could also do a simple
family richness index (counting the number of families represented in each
site) and in theory there might have been more families represented in the
upper site (species richness would, of course, be a much better index). Note: Dr. Wu has had to call off this week's lab (11/15). In the interests of keeping the labs together, I will also call off Thursday's lab. Your Cemetery lab reports will be due Tuesday, the day before Thanksgiving break. |
- Forest soils - biogeochemical cycling of nutrients in forest ecosystems
- Fate and transport of pollutants in the environment: PCBs and trace metals
- Biogeochemistry of agroecosystems: phosphorus and nitrogen pollution
| Fatty acids as
food web biomarkers in aquatic ecosystems (with Dr. Mihuc) Students: Trevor Carpenter, Jon Wanlass |
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| Chemistry
of Natural Waters in the Northwest Lake Champlain Basin (with
Dr. Romanawicz) Students: Matt Valentine, Katie Wynne |
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| Effects
of disturbance on nutrient cycling in the Flat Rock Pine Barrens Ecosystem Students: Stacy Davis, Quentin Gahan, Stuart Douglas, Kevin Brussee |
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| Research
Experience for Undergraduates A new six week summer course in undergraduate research, taught at the Miner Center/Flat Rock Field Lab, sponsored by the National Science Foundation
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If you are
interested in participating in any of these independent study research projects, please contact me at the link below:
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Contact Dr. Fuller at: Robert.Fuller@Plattsburgh.edu
