Catherine Peters
Department/Program(s):
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
PEI Position: Faculty/Associated Faculty
Title(s): Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Director, Program in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Area(s):
- Carbon Capture and Sequestration
- Carbon Mitigation
- Environmental - Engineering
- Water
Office: E417A Engineering Quad E-Wing
Phone: 609-258-5645
E-Mail: cap@princeton.edu
Research Interests
Environmental chemistry and environmental risk assessment; reactions kinetics; reaction rates for a variety of environmental systems; geochemical reactions important for storage of CO2 in deep saline aquifers; time-scales operative for CO2 storage; contamination of water and soils with organic pollutants; non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
PEI Research/Program Affiliations
- ENV Executive Committee
- Grand Challenges Faculty
Courses
- CEE/ENV/URB 303: Introduction to Environmental Engineering
- CEE 599: Special Topics in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources: Carbon Capture and Geologic Sequestration
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