Rachel G.
Adams, Assistant
Professor
Phone: (310) 338-5186
E-mail:
radams@lmu.edu
Education
- B.S. in Chemical
Engineering, University of Michigan, 1994
- M.S. in Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2000
- Ph.D., in Civil and
Environmental Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2002
Expertise & Research Interests
Teaches classes in aquatic
chemistry, water and wastewater treatment, inland waters,
environmental systems (laboratory class), and analytical methods.
Before her graduate studies, Dr. Adams worked on several air and
water quality projects as an environmental engineer for Radian
International. After finishing her Ph.D., she was a Knauss Sea
Grant Marine Policy Fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. While there, she worked on improving methods for the
evaluation of dredged material proposed for ocean and inland
disposal. Dr. Adams’ research focuses on the cycling of
organic pollutants like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in natural waters. She has
developed a sampler for measuring dissolved pollutants, which she
most recently used to study the importance of sediment resuspension
on the transport of PAHs and PCBs in the lower Hudson
Estuary.