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- Ph.D., Hydrology, 1999 University of Arizona - Tucson
- M.A., Geology,University of Tübingen, (Germany)
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- Environmental Hydrogeology (click
here for a list of instrumentation)
- Fate and Transport of Organic
and Inorganic Contaminants
- Innovative Remediation Technologies
- Water Treatment by Riverbank Filtration
(RBF)
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| Overall funding
received during past five years: $2.2
Mio, ($1.7 Mio as PI). Sources of funding
include Department of Defense (ESTCP),
EPA, WERF, Department of Transportation
(URITC), NATO, CICEET, WERF, World Bank,
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- Development of Quantitative Tools
to Determine the Expected Performance
of Unit Processes in Wastewater
Soil Treatment Units (2008-2009).
The Water Environment Research Foundation
(WERF), Co-PI ($210,000)
- Establishing a Joint Center for
Water Quality and Aquifer Remediation
in Coastal Areas - Exploratory Meeting
in Goa, India. (2008). The Indo-US
Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF),
PI ($13,000)
- Clean Water by Riverbank Filtration
- A Demonstration of a Novel Site
Selection and Implementation Strategy
in Southern India (2007-2009) The
World Bank – Developing Marketplace
Program, PI ($190,000) [Google
Earth Coverage] [Presentation
I] [Presentation
II]
- Evaluation of Riverbank Filtration
for Protection of Jordanian Surface
and Ground Water Resources. (2005-2010)
NATO Program for Security through
Science, PI (EURO 281,000).
- Is the URI Drinking Water Well
Field Under the Direct Influence
of Surface Water? Rhode Island Water
Resources Council. (2007-2008),
PI ($21,000)
DRAFT Report
- Innovative Wood-Based stormwater
runoff treatment technology. (2005-2007),
Cooperative Institute for Coastal
and Estuarine Environmental Technology
(CICEET), ($191,642)
- Highway Flares and Runoff: a Potential
Source of Perchlorate to Surface
Water?! (2004-2005), RI Transportation
Center, Co-PI, ($123,320)
- Revision of Rhode Island’s Stormwater
Manual. (2005-2006). Coastal Resources
Management Council (CRMC) ($75,000)
- Monitoring of a Stormwater BMP
at Mettatuxet Beach, Narragansett,
RI. (2003-2006), Coastal Resources
Management Council (CRMC) ($30,002)
- Fingerprinting Sources of Bacterial
Input into Small Residential Watersheds:
Narrow River, RI: an Example. (2001-2004),
RI Agricultural Experiment Station
($45,000)
- Porous Pavement and Water Quality:
Investigation of a Newly Constructed
Parking Lot and its Potential Impact
on Subsurface Water, (2003-2005)
RI Transportation Ctr. ($122,000)
- Cyclodextrin Enhanced In-situ
Removal of Organic Contaminants
from Ground-water at Department
of Defense Sites. (2001-2004), DoD
– ESTCP program ($864,000)
- Enhancing the Chemical Retention
Capacity of a Roadway Runoff Retention
Pond System using Wood Filters.
(2002-2004), RI Transportation Center,
($117,688).
- Stormwater Treatment with Vortex
Structures (2001-2004), RI AquaFund,
($21,000)
- Testing Geophysical Methods at
the Picillo Superfund site, RI.
(2002-2003). U.S. EPA, Co-PI, ($55,000)
- A Preliminary Web Portal for RI
Water Resources. (2003-2004), RI
Water Research Center, ($17,285)
- Chemical Retention Capacity of
a Newly Constructed Retention Pond.
(2001-2003), RI Transportation Center,
($75,492).
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| Selected Publications and Papers: |
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- Huang, L.Y., Z.Y. Ou, T.B. Boving,
J. Tyson and B. Xing. 2009. Sorption
of copper by chemically modified
aspen wood fibers. Chemosphere,
76(8): 1056-1061.
- Boving, T.B., Cady+, P., Choudri,
B.S., Hawaldar, K., Blanford, W.,
2010: Improving Water Quality by
Riverbank Filtration – Experiences
in India and Jordan (Full Paper).
In: Proceedings of the 2nd International
Perspective on Current and Future
State of Water Resources and the
Environment. American Society of
Chemical Engineers (ASCE) / Association
of environmental and water resources
engineers and scientistsConference
(EWRI), Chennai, India.
- Boving, T.B., Stolt, M.H., Augenstern+,
J., Brosnan, B., 2008: Investigation
of the University of Rhode Island,
Kingston RI, Porous Pavement Parking
Lot. Environmental Geology. Volume
55, Number 3 / August, 2008
- Boving, T.B., Blanford, W.J. McCray,
J.E., Divine, C. E., Brusseau, M.L.,
2008: "Comparison of Line-Drive
and Push-Pull Flushing Schemes",
Groundwater Monitoring and Remediation.
28(1), 75-86.
- Boving, T.B. and Rowell, R., Environmental
Performance of Lignocellulosic Materials
for Cleaning Water. In: Rowell,
R. and Jorge, F.C.: Sustainable
Development in the Forest Products
Industry. (Invited contribution,
Status: to be published in 2010).
- Frohlich, R.K., Barosh, P.J.,
Boving, T.B., 2008: Investigating
changes of geoelectrical resistivity
to identify groundwater pollution
with electrical characteristics
of the saturated zone affected by
hazardous organic waste. J. Applied
Geophysics, 64 (2008) 25-36.
- Boving, T.B., Klement+, J., Rowell,
R., Xing, B., 2008: Effectiveness
of wood and bark in removing organic
and inorganic contaminants from
aqueous solutions. Mol. Cryst. Liq.
Cryst., 483, 339-347.
- Myrtinnen+, A., Boving, T.B.,
Kolditz, O., 2008: Modeling of an
MTBE Plume at Pascoag, Rhode Island.
Environ. Geology. Online First (since
06/02/2008)
- Boving, T.B., Neary+, K., 2007:
Attenuation of Polycyclic Aromatic
Hydrocarbons from Urban Stormwater
Runoff by Wood Filters. J. Contaminant
Hydrology. 91(1-2):43-57.
- Boving, T.B., McCray, J.E. (Eds.),
2007: Preface to special issue on
Urban Hydrology, J. of Contaminant
Hydrology. 91(1-2):1-4.
- McCray, J.E., Boving, T.B., 2007.
Urban Watershed Hydrology, J. Amer.
Water Resour. Assoc., 43(4), 839-840.
- Boving, T.B., Barnett, S.M., Perez+,
G., Blanford, W.J. McCray, J.E.,
2007: Remediation with Cyclodextrin:
Recovery of the Remedial Agent by
Membrane Filtration. Remediation
J., Summer 2007, 21-36.
- Huang, L., Boving, T.B., Xing,
B., 2006 Characterization and PAH
Sorption of Aspen Wood Fibers. Environ
Sci Technol. 40:3279-3284
- Blanford W. J., Boving T. B. 2006.
Aquifer Monitoring Shows Complex-Sugar
Flushing Increases Potential for
Enhanced Biodegradation. In: US
EPA Technology News and Trends.
p. 2-4.
- Boving, T.B., Neary+, K., 2005:
Testing the Efficiency of a Stormwater
Runoff Treatment Structure with
Anthropogenic Tracers. Environmental
and Engineering Geoscience. Vol.
XII, No. 2, May 2006, pp. 115–124.
- Boving, T.B., Devine, C., Park,
J., 2005: Field Tests Show Enhanced
Bioremediation following Cyclodextrin
Flushing. In: EPA Technology News
and Trends. July 2005 (19), pgs.
4-5.
- Boving, T.B., 2005: Innovative
Contaminated Groundwater Remediation
Technologies. In J. Lehr, J. Keeley,
J. Lehr, T. Kingery III, (eds.),
Water Encyclopedia: Ground Water,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken,
New Jersey, 2005, pp. 438-442.
- McNally, C., DeProspo Philo, L.,
Boving. T.B., 2005: Porous Pavement
and Groundwater Quality Technical
Bulletin. In: University of Rhode
Island Cooperative Extension – Nonpoint
Education for Municipal Officials,
available at www.uri.edu/ce/wq,
9 pgs.
- Boving, T.B., 2005: Organic Compounds
in Groundwater. In: J. Lehr, J.
Keeley, J. Lehr, T. Kingery III,
(eds.), Water Encyclopedia: Ground
Water, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
Hoboken, New Jersey, 2005, pp. 337-340.
- Boving, T.B., Stolt, M., Augenstern+,
J., 2004: Investigation of the University
of Rhode Island, Kingston RI, Porous
Pavement Parking Lot and its impact
on Subsurface Water Quality. In:
Proceedings of the International
Association of Hydrologists, XXXIII
Annual meeting, Zacatecas, Mexico,
4 pg., ISBN: 970-32-1749-4.
- Kashiyama+, N., Boving, T.B.,
2004: Henry’s law constants of cyclodextrin-TCE
systems at various concentration
and temperature conditions. Environmental
Science and Technology, 38(16):4439-4444.
- Divine, C.E., McCray, J.E., Wolf,
L.M., Blanford, W.J., Blitzer+,
D.J., Boving, T.B., 2004: Partition
tracer test, DNAPL characterization,
remediation assessment, source zone
investigation. Remediation Journal,
14(2), 7-31.
- Boving, T.B., Zhang+, W., 2004:
Removal of aqueous phase Polynuclear
aromatic hydrocarbons using aspen
wood fibers. Chemosphere, 54, 831-839.
- Boving, T.B., Meritt+, D.L., Boothroyd,
J.C., 2004: Fingerprinting sources
of bacterial input into a small
residential watershed: Fate of fluorescent
whitening agents (invited). Environmental
Geology, 46(2):228-232
- McCray, J.E., Thyne, G.D., Boving,
T.B., 2003: Editorial: Contaminant
characterization, transport, and
remediation in complex multiphase
systems. Preface from guest editors.
Vadose Zone Journal, 2(2), 115.
- Boving, T.B., Blue, J., 2002:
Long-term contaminant trends at
the Picillo Farm Superfund Site
in Rhode Island . Remediation Journal,
12 (2), 177128.
- Boving, T.B., Grathwohl, P., 2001:
Tracer Diffusion Coefficients in
Sedimentary Rocks: Correlation to
Porosity and Hydraulic Conductivity.
J. Contaminant Hydrology, 53, 85-100
- Boving, T.B., Brusseau, M.L 2000:
Solubilization and removal of residual
trichloroethene from porous media:
comparison of several solubilization
agents. J. Contaminant Hydrology,
42(1), 51-67
- Boving, T.B., McCray, J.E., 2000:
Cyclodextrin-Enhanced Remediation
of Organic and Metal Contaminants
in Porous Media and Groundwater.
Remediation Journal, Spring 2000,
59-83.
- McCray, J.E., Boving, T.B., Brusseau,
M.L. 2000: Enhanced solubilization
of organic compounds with implications
for aquifer remediation. Ground
Water Monitoring and Remediation,
20 (1), 94-103.
- Boving, T.B., Wang, X., Brusseau,
M.L., 1999: Cyclodextrin-enhanced
solubilization and removal of residual
chlorinated solvents from porous
media. Environmental Science and
Technology, 33(5), 764-770
- Boving, T.B., Wang, X., Ji, W.,
Brusseau, M.L. 1998: Use of cyclodextrin
for remediation of solvent contaminated
porous media. In: Proceedings of
the International Conference on
Groundwater Quality, International
Association of Hydrologic Science
(IAHS), Tübingen, Germany, Sept.21-25,
1998, pg. 437-442
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| Professional Organizations: |
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- American Geophysical Union
- American Chemical Society
- Geological Society of America
- American Society of Civil Engineers
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