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Rainer Lohmann

Office 132, Horn

lohmann@gso.uri.edu

401-874-6612

Educational Background

Ph.D., Environmental Chemistry M.S., Chemical Engineering B.S., Biochemistry

Lancaster University, Lancaster England EHICS, Strasbourg France Ruhr-Universitaet, Bochum Germany

1999 1996 1993

Areas of Specialization

Research

Use of passive samplers to detect activities and gradients of organic pollutants; Use of persistent organic compounds as tracers for biogeochemical cycles; Atmospheric chemistry of aromatic compounds; Global mass balances of black carbon and persistent organic pollutants

Teaching

OCG 480/580 Introduction to Marine Pollution; OCG 494 Special Problems/ Independent Study in Oceanography research; OCG 523 Organic Geochemistry; OCG 693-Special Studies: Marine Organic Chemistry; OCG 631 - Seminar in Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry.

Outreach

Mentor for undergraduate research: - SURFO mentor for Ilana Cohen (Brandeis), 2005; - R/V Endeavor advisor for Kate Rossi-Snook (Roger Williams University), 2006; ARMADA teacher mentor: Gioya DeSouza-Fennelly - Roosevelt Middle School (New York, NY)) - Black Carbon transport on an East-West Atlantic Transect.

Students

Monike Truemper Eric Morgan Carey Friedman Lin Zhang Pam Luey

M.S. M.S. Ph.D. Ph.D. M.S.

2005 2007 Candidate Candidate Candidate

Publications:

1. Nizzetto, L.; Lohmann, R.*; Gioia, R.; Jahnke, A.; Temme, C.; Dachs, J.; Herckes, P.; Di Guardo, A.; Jones, K.C. PAHs in air and seawater along a North-South Atlantic transect: trends, processes and possible sources" Environmental Science and Technology, in press.

2. Lohmann, R.*, Breivik, K., Dachs, J., Muir, D.G. Global fate of POPs - current and future research directions. Environmental Pollution 2007, 150, 150-165.

3. Adams, R.G.; Lohmann, R.; Fernandez, L.A.; MacFarlane, J.K.; Gschwend, P.M. Polyethylene Devices: Passive Samplers for measuring dissoled hydrophobic organic compounds in aquatic environments. Environmental Science and Technology 2007, 41, 1317-1323.

4.Lohmann, R.; Jurado, E.; Pilson, M.Q.; Dachs, J. Estimating the importance of subduction for the marine sink of PCBs. Geophysical Research Letters 2006, 33 (12): Art. No. L12607.

5. Lohmann, R.; MacFarlane, J.K.; Gschwend, P.M. On the Importance of Black Carbon to Sorption of PAHs, PCBs and PCDDs in Boston and New York Harbor Sediments. Environmental Science and Technology 2005, 39, 141-148.

6. Jurado, E.; Jaward, F.M.; Lohmann, R.; Jones, K.C.; Simo, R.; Dachs, J. Atmospheric dry deposition of persistent organic pollutants to the Atlantic and inferences for the global Oceans. Environmental Science and Technology 2004, 38, 5505-5513.

7. Lohmann, R.; Burgess, R.M.; Cantwell, M.G.; Ryba, S.A.; MacFarlane, J.K.; Gschwend, P.M. Dependency of Polychlorinated Biphenyl and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Bioaccumulation in Mya arenaria on Both Water Column and Sediment Bed Chemical Activities. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2004, 23, 2551-2562.

8. Lohmann, R.; Lammel, G. Adsorptive and absorptive contributions to the gas particle partitioning of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: State of knowledge and recommended parameterisation for modelling. Critical review - Environmental Science and Technology 2004, 38, 3793-3803.

Presentations:

Lohmann, R.: Process-based studies and parameters, POPs in oceans: measurement, understanding, cycling; Barcelona, June 2007

Lohmann, R.; Morgan,E.: Detecting fluxes of PAHs in an estuary using passive samplers, EU-SETAC, Porto, May 2007.

Lohmann, R.: Marine chemistry of POPs along the Atlantic Ocean, Distinguished Speaker Series, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Oct., 2006

Lohmann, R.; Jurado, E.; Dachs, J.; Lohmann, U.; Jones, K.C.: Quantifying the importance of the atmospheric sink for pcdd/fs relative to other global loss processes. American Chemical Society Meeting San Francisco, August 2006.

Lohmann, R, Hand,I, Schulz-Bull, D. Nizetto L, DiGuardo A, Gioia R, Jones KC, Xie Z, Caba A, Temme C: POPs transport and partitioning on a transect from Northern Europe to the high Arctic. SETAC Baltimore, November 2005.

Lohmann, R., Lammel, G.: Importance of black carbon adsorption for the gas particle partitioning of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. American Chemical Society Meeting Washington (DC), August 2005.

Lohmann, R., Burgess, R.M., Cantwell, M.G., Ryba, S.A., Gschwend, P.M.: Temporal gradients in the sediment-water exchange of persistent organic pollutants. DFG workshop on Biogeochemical gradients, Tuebingen, Germany, June 2005.

Lohmann, R. Does adsorption to black carbon dominate the partitioning of persistent organic pollutants? NA-SETAC, Austin (USA), Nov. 2003.