Groundwater Contamination and
Remediation
Education:
Ph.D., Geology, University of Chicago, 1989
A.B., Geology, Hope College, 1984
Experience:
Hope College (1994-present)
Amoco Oil Company (1992-1994)
Amoco Production Company (1989-1992)
Areas of expertise: Experimental Geochemistry
Environmental Geology
Grants
and awards:
HHMI, 2005, $10,000, Identification,
Quantification
and Fate of
Antibiotics and Estrogens in Surface
and Ground
Water, with M.D. Seymour
NSF, 1999, $132,728, Evaluation
of the Effectiveness of Air Sparging Techniques in Non-homogeneous Natural Sediments, with K.S. Murray and K. RathfelderKey
publications and presentations:
-O’Meara, T.A., Seymour, M.D., and Peterson, J.W., (2005),
Experimental Investigation of Cephapirin Adsorption
to
Sands:
Implications for Transport of Antibiotics in Groundwater:
Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT
-Peterson, J.W. and Murray, K.S., (2003), Grain-size
heterogeneity
and subsurface
stratification in air sparging: laboratory experiments-
field
implications. Environmental and
Engineering Geoscience Journal,
vol IX, No.1, pp.71-82.
-Peterson, J.W., Murray, K.S., Tulu, Y.E., Peuler, B.D.
and Wilkens,
D.A., (2001),
Air-flow geometry in air-sparging of fine-grained sands,
Hydrogeology Journal, v. 9, p. 168-176.
Current project:
Fate and transport of antibiotics in groundwater
Jonathan
W. Peterson
Geological
& Environmental Sciences
Phone:
616-395-7133
FAX: 616-395-7125
Email:
peterson@hope.edu
control
soil
Dairy operations can be a source of beta lactam
antibiotic
contamination in groundwater. Batch experiments are currently
underway to determine distribution coefficients
between
geologic materials and water for commonly used
antibiotics.
LC/MS is an analytical
technique that can
quantitatively detect
small concentrations
of antibiotics in water.
Measured distribution coefficients are an indication of
antibiotic
mobility in groundwater aquifers.