个人简介

B.S., 1990, University of Illinois-Urbana M.S., 1993, University of North Carolina Ph.D., 1996, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Postdoctoral Fellow, 1996–1998 University of Texas-Austin. Michael J. Mungo Award for Undergraduate Teaching, 2012

研究领域

Analytical/Environmental

Environmental chemistry; fate and transport of organic chemicals in the environment; water chemistry; photochemically driven oxidation; photocatalysis; trace organic analysis; combinatorial chemistry; free radical chemistry. Introduction: My research is broadly centered on studying the fate of organic chemicals in the environment. This includes man-made chemicals like pollutants, pharmaceuticals and pesticides; and also naturally occurring chemicals like biotoxins, signaling molecules and various plant products. My group applies advanced analytical techniques to learn how these chemicals are transformed in or removed from the environment. Analytical approaches: Environmental analyses need to be fast, sensitive and selective. We use whatever analytical tools we need to, but most often work with gas or liquid chromatographs with mass spectrometric or spectroscopic detectors. We also use absorbance or fluorescence spectroscopy (steady state and time resolved); various electrochemical techniques, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. Experimental approaches: Environmental chemists spend time in the field making measurements and in the laboratory testing explanations for their field work. My group has done field work measuring the fate and distribution of organic chemicals, nanoparticles, transition metals, and oxidants like hydrogen peroxide or the hydroxyl radical. We quantify the relationships between those analytes in the laboratory with sophisticated environmental modeling techniques. We use robotic systems to generate solutions modeling hundreds of different environmental conditions simultaneously, a process called combinatorial environmental chemistry. These solutions are spiked with a variety of probe molecules and contaminants, and then subjected to weathering processes in the laboratory. This allows us to rapidly interrogate environmental systems for their ability to promote photodegradation, free radical oxidation, complexation of transition metals, etc. Coupling this approach with field monitoring is one of the surest ways to make sound predictions about what will happen to pollutants as they are processed by environmental systems.

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Murphy, S. A.; Solomon, B. M.; Meng, S.; Copeland, J. M.; Shaw, T. J.; Ferry, J. L. Geochemical Production of Reactive Oxygen Species From Biogeochemically Reduced Fe. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2014, 48, (7), 3815-3821. Scott, G. I.; Fulton, M. H.; DeLorenzo, M. E.; Wirth, E. F.; Key, P. B.; Pennington, P. L.; Kennedy, D. M.; Porter, D.; Chandler, G. T.; Scott, C. H.; Ferry, J. L., The Environmental Sensitivity Index and Oil and Hazardous Materials Impact Assessments: Linking Prespill Contingency Planning and Ecological Risk Assessment. J Coastal Res 2013, 100-113. Ferry, J.; Burns, J.; Shaw, T.; Craig, P. S. Methods of treating a water sample or a substrate to remove organic compounds. US20130022720A1, 2013. Burns, J. M.; Pennington, P. L.; Sisco, P. N.; Frey, R.; Kashiwada, S.; Fulton, M. H.; Scott, G. I.; Decho, A. W.; Murphy, C. J.; Shaw, T. J.; Ferry, J. L. Surface charge controls the fate of Au nanorods in saline estuaries. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2013, 47, (22), 12844-12851. Nevius, Brian A.; Chen, Yung Pin; Ferry, John L.; Decho, Alan W. Surface-functionalization effects on uptake of fluorescent polystyrene nanoparticles by model biofilms, Ecotoxicology 2012, 21(8), 2205-2213. Burns, Justina M.; Cooper, William J.; Ferry, John L.; King, D. Whitney; DiMento, Brian P.; McNeill, Kristopher; Miller, Christopher J.; Miller, William L.; Peake, Barrie M.; Rusak, Steven A., Methods for reactive oxygen species (ROS) detection in aqueous environments, Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries 2012, 74(4), 683-734. Decho, A. W.; Frey, R. L.; Ferry, J. L., Chemical Challenges to Bacterial AHL Signaling in the Environment. Chemical Reviews (Washington, DC, U.S.) 2011, 111, (1), 86-99. Burns, J. M.; Craig, P. S.; Shaw, T. J.; Ferry, J. L., Short-Term Fe Cycling during Fe(II) Oxidation: Exploring Joint Oxidation and Precipitation with a Combinatorial System. Environmental Science & Technology 2011, 45, (7), 2663-2669. Burns, J. M.; Craig, P. S.; Shaw, T. J.; Ferry, J. L., Combinatorial Parameter Space As an Empirical Tool for Predicting Water Chemistry: Fe(II) Oxidation Across a Watershed. Environmental Science & Technology 2011, 45, (9), 4023-4029. Frey, R. L.; He, L. J.; Cui, Y. L.; Decho, A. W.; Kawaguchi, T.; Ferguson, P. L.; Ferry, J. L., Reaction of N-Acylhomoserine Lactones with Hydroxyl Radicals: Rates, Products, and Effects on Signaling Activity. Environmental Science & Technology 2010, 44, (19), 7465-7469.