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President, Southern California Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Knauss Sea Grant Fellow for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Knauss Sea Grant Fellow

Using performance reference compound-corrected polyethylene passive samplers and caged bivalves to measure hydrophobic contaminants of concern in urban coastal seawaters

Passive sampling methods for contaminated sediments: Scientific rationale supporting use of freely dissolved concentrations

 Investigating desorption of native pyrene from sediment on minute- to month-timescales by time-gated fluorescence Spectroscopy

Polyethylene devices: Passive samplers for measuring dissolved hydrophobic organic compounds in aquatic environments

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Phone: 310.338.5186 
Email: Rachel.Adams@lmu.edu 
Office: Life Science Building 314 

Rachel Adams teaches environmental engineering, environmental and aquatic chemistry, environmental engineering & science laboratory, contaminant fate and transport.  Her research focuses on the use of passive samplers and bivalves for studying ultra-trace levels of organic and metal pollutants in the aquatic environment including Southern California waters.  She also works on water sustainability projects including an undergraduate-led water conservation project and a clean water project in El Salvador.  Before joining LMU, she worked on air and water quality projects as an environmental engineering consultant and served as a Knauss Sea Grant Marine Policy Fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Marine Pollution Control Branch.  Rachel received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the Parson’s Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  She has been awarded external research grants from Sea Grant and the Metropolitan Water District and most recently an Office of Naval Research Sabbatical Grant. She has served as the President for the Southern California Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry.  She has authored and presented many research papers including the 1st runner-up Technology Paper of the Year from the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

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