Civil and Environmental Engineering

Thomas M. Young
Professor

Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
2001 Engineering III
Phone: (530) 754-9399
Fax: (530) 752-7872

E-Mail: tyoung@ucdavis.edu

Education

Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Michigan, 1996
M.P.P., Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, 1987
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University, 1985

Research Interests

Professor Young's research centers on physical-chemical processes important in:

treating contaminated water, groundwater, and soil and
controlling the fate and transport of contaminants in the environment.

The majority of his research has been in the area of environmental sorption processes. He has a strong interest in the application of engineering to environmental policy-making, having obtained a master's degree in public policy, a Ph.D. in environmental engineering and worked as a regulator for the US Environmental Protection Agency prior to joining the UCD faculty.

[Publications ] [Laboratory Facilities ]

Current Research Group

Graduate Students and Their Projects

Wei-Hsiang Chen PhD Candidate Civil & Environmental Engineering "Diuron in California's Water Supply: Transformations and Associated Risks"	Tessa Fojut PhD Candidate Agricultural & Environmental Chemistry
Isabel Faria PhD Candidate Agricultural & Environmental Chemistry "Chlorobenzene mixtures in soil: impact of aging, competition and biodegradation on risk assessment"	Erica McKenzie MS/PhD Candidate Civil & Environmental Engineering
Brant Jorgenson PhD Candidate Agricultural & Environmental Chemistry "Wash-off Efficiency of Urban/Residential Use Insecticides"	Ben Giudice PhD Candidate Civil & Environmental Engineering "The reproductive and population-level impact of environmental endocrine disruption on the invasive gastropod Potamopyrgus antipodarum"
Jon Leatherbarrow PhD Candidate Civil & Environmental Engineering "The size-resolved elemental composition of suspended particles in highway stormwater runoff: Implications for stormwater treatment"	Daekyun Kim PhD Candidate Agricultural & Environmental Chemistry "Photolysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on soot surfaces"
Temitope Ogunyoku MS/PhD Candidate Civil & Environmental Engineering "Antimicrobial chemicals in biosolid-amended soils: persistence and effects"	Masakazu Kanematsu PhD Candidate Civil & Environmental Engineering
Lin Shan MS Candidate Civil & Environmental Engineering

Postdoctoral Scholars

Hyun-Min Hwang

Staff Research Associates

Ozlem Tuli
Chris Alaimo

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Classes:

Environmental Analysis of Aqueous Systems (ECI 140)
Water Quality Management (ECI 148A)

Graduate Classes:

Pilot Plant Laboratory (ECI 246)
Water and Waste Treatment (ECI 243A)
Applied Environmental Chemistry: Inorganic (ECI 245A)
Applied Environmental Chemistry: Organic (ECI 245B)

Former Graduate Students (and current locations if known)

Naoko Watanabe, Ph.D., 2006, Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis
Andrew Sayers-Fay, Ph.D., 2006, Robertson Bryan, Elk Grove, CA
Dae-Young Ju, Ph.D., 2004, Ministry of the Environment, Seoul, South Korea
Angela Moore, Ph.D., 2003, Guilford College, North Carolina
Kurt Ohlinger, Ph.D., 1999, (co-advised with Ed Schroeder) California State University, Sacramento, CA

Carol Wong, M.S., 2007, UC Davis Law School
Jon Money, M.S., 2006, Sacramento County
Chris van Lienden, M.S., 2006, RMC Water and Environment, Rancho Cordova, CA
Hilary Lee Read, M.S., 2005, ERM Southwest, Austin, TX
J.J. Baum, M.S., 2002, US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento, CA
Cori DeLeon, M.S., 2002, County of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
Cara Stachowitz , M.S., 2002, Carollo Engineering, Walnut Creek, CA
Jennifer Vaughn, M.S., 2001, Watercourse Engineering

Susanne Loebmann, M.S., 2000, ERM West, Sacramento, CA
Jennifer Nakayama-Curry, M.S., 2000, San Diego County Water Authority, San Diego, CA

Cara Hinrichs, M.S., 1999, Montgomery-Watson, San Jose, CA

Deborah Apodaca, M.S., 1998, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Steve Caswell, M.S., 1998, Carollo Engineering, Sacramento, CA
Paulette Chang, M.S., 1998, Hawaii Pacific Engineers, Honolulu, HI
Garrett Leong, M.S., 1997, Brown and Caldwell, Honolulu, HI

Former Postdoctoral Scholars (and their current locations if known)

Gorkem Sirin, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
Seema Datta, UC Davis
Xinjiang Huang, DuPont Crop Protection, Newark, DE
Xiaqiao Lu
Venki Uddameri, Texas A&M Kingsville