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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

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