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DONNA E. FENNELL
 

Education:

  • 1998 – Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

  • 1988 – M.S., Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Cornell University

  • 1985 – B.S. Agricultural Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
     

Positions Held:

  • 2002-present – Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

  • 2001-2002 – Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

  • 1999-2001 – Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

  • 1999 – Research Associate, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

  • 1998-1999 – Postdoctoral Associate, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

  • 1987-1992 – Research Support Specialist, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Cornell University

 

Selected Publications:

  • Fennell, D.E.; Gossett, J.M. Modeling the production of and competition for hydrogen in a dechlorinating culture. Environ. Sci. Technol., 32, 2450-2460. 1998.

  • Fennell, D.E.; Gossett, J.M.; Zinder, S.H. Comparison of butyric acid, ethanol, lactic acid, and propionic acid as hydrogen donors for the reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene. Environ. Sci. Technol., 31, 918-926. 1997.

  • Phillips, D.E. Fennell. Kinetic Phase Separation of the Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion of Sorghum. Master of Science Thesis. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 1985.

 

Recent Publications:

  • Liu, F. and Fennell, D.E. Dechlorination and detoxification of 1,2,3,4,7,8-hexachlorodibenzofuran by a mixed culture containing Dehalococcoides ethenogenes strain 195, in press, Environmental Science and Technology. 2007.

  • Wang, Z.; Huang, W.; Fennell, D.E.; and Peng, P. Kinetics of reductive dechlorination of 1,2,3,4-TCDD in the presence of zero valent zinc, in press, Chemosphere. 2007.

  • Berry, D.; Mainelis, G.; & Fennell, D.E. Effect of an Ionic Air Cleaner on Indoor/Outdoor Particle Ratios in a Residential Environment, Aerosol Science and Technology 41:315-328. 2007.

  • Fennell, D.E.; Nijenhuis, I; Wilson, S.F.; Zinder, S.H.; Häggblom, M.M. Dehalococcoides ethenogenes strain 195 reductively dechlorinates diverse chlorinated aromatic pollutants. Environ. Sci. Technol, 38, 2075-2081. 2004.

  • Fennell, D.E.; Rhee; S. -K.; Ahn, Y.B.; Häggblom, M.M.; Kerkhof, L.J. Detecting the dehalogenating microorganism in a sulfidogenic, 2-bromophenol-utilizing enrichment by T-RFLP fingerprinting of ribosomes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 70, 1169-1175. 2004.

  • Rhee, S.-K.; Fennell, D.E.; Häggblom, M.M.; Kerkhof, L.J. Detection by PCR of reductive dehalogenase motifs in a sulfidogenic 2-bromophenol-degrading consortium enriched from estuarine sediment. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 43, 317-324. 2003.

  • Fennell, D.E.; Carroll, A.B.; Zinder, S.H.; Gossett, J.M. Assessment of indigenous reductive dechlorinating potential at a TCE-contaminated site using microcosms, polymerase chain reaction analysis, and site data. Environ. Sci. Technol., 35, 1830-1839. 2001.

Contact:

 

Donna E. Fennell
Department of Environmental Sciences
14 College Farm Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-932-9800 ext. 6204 (T)
732-932-8644 (F)
fennell@envsci.rutgers.edu

http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~fennell/Fennell/

 

 

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