Valentine Nzengung
Associate Professor
132 GG Building
(706) 542-2699
vnzengun@uga.edu
Education: Ph.D. - Georgia Institute of Technology
Current Research Interests: Mitigation of environmental pollution using low-cost innovative technologies, Development and evaluation of innovative low-cost technologies for clean up of contaminated groundwater, Management of point and non-point source pollution
in coastal environments and watersheds-including Lake Victoria
in East Africa
Courses Taught: Coastal
Processes and Conservation, Environmental Geology
Selected Publications:
“Sequestration, Phytroeduction, and Phytoxidation
of Halogenated Organic Chemicals by Aquatic and Terrestrial Plants”.with P.M. Jeffers.International Journal of Phytoremediation: Vol. 3, No. 1,
pp. 13-40.
“Biotic Transformation of Perchloroethylene in Homogeneous Dithinite Soulution and in Suspensions
of Dithinite-treated Clay Minerals”. with R.M. Castillo, W.P. Gates, and G.L. Mills. Environmental Science & Technology,
Vol. 35, No. 11, pp. 2244-2251.
Regional Interests: East Africa [Tanzania, Zanzibar], West Africa |