Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1977
M.S., University of Wisconsin, 1973
B.E.S., The Johns Hopkins University, 1971
Email: jjp@egr.duke.edu

RECENT GRADUATE STUDENT PROJECTS
 

Burnett, T. Beach Cusp Formation. (Duke Ph.D. 1998)

Yum, K.-J. Model for the Biodegradation of 2,4-Dichlorophenol in Woodchip Bioreactors Using White Rot Fungus. (Duke Ph.D. 1997)

Sperry, J.M. Competition between Zinc and Nickel in Compacted Clay Soils. Duke University, Durham, N.C. (Duke Ph.D. 1997)

Smith, J.K. The Adaptation of Production Frontiers to Measure the Environmental Performance of Industrial Processes. Duke University, Durham, N.C. (Duke Ph.D. 1996)

Karvazy, K. Ozone Formation from Agricultural Wastes. (Duke M.S. 1998)

Rammon, D. NO Flux from Wastewater-Amended Soil. (Duke M.S. 1998)

Eddings, J. Nitric Oxide Emissions from Sludge-Amended Soil. (Duke M.S. 1998)

Rogers, S. Chemical Pollution in Aquatic Systems.(Duke M.S. 1997)

Ormeci, B. Nitric Oxide Emissions from Agricultural Land to the Lower Levels of the Troposphere: Laboratory Study and Analysis. (Duke M.S. 1996)

Abu-Jaber, H.H. Water Resources Management and Planning in arid Countries: Case Study - The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. (Duke M.S. 1996)

Cooper, J. Three Dimensional Porespace Modeling Using Dynamic Preogramming. (Duke M.S. 1996) 

  
J. JEFFREY PEIRCE

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION

J. Jeffrey Peirce's current research activities combine his interests in mechanics, microbiology and chemistry to study selected aspects of particle-fluid interactions in environmental engineering and water resources. Laboratory studies of non-water liquids passing through selected porous media are leading to solutions of hazardous waste treatment and storage problems. Expanded use of his laboratory test chambers permits a focus on the biogeochemical processes in waste-amended soils responsible for the production of nitric oxide as a precursor to ozone formation in the lower levels of the troposphere. Dynamic programming techniques permit the analysis of pore spaces within those soils.

Dr. Peirce received his Ph.D.(1977) and M.S.(1973) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his B.E.S. in Engineering Mechanics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1971. He has been a professor of environmental engineering at Duke for the past 19 years, where he has directed more than $1,800,000 in research sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Governor's Office of the State of North Carolina, as well as selected industries. He has taught a wide range of of courses on water, air, and land pollution and control, has published more than 50 scholarly papers in refereed journals, made more than 60 research presentations at professional conferences and universities, and has served as major professor for 52 graduate degrees at Duke with an emphasis on the design, construction, and use of experimental devices to observe and measure movement of fluids through porous material. In 1984 Dr. Peirce was in the first group of researchers to receive the Presidential Young Investigator Award in Environmental Engineering from the National Science Foundation.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Peirce, J.J., R. Weiner, and P.A. Vesilind, Environmental Pollution and Control, Fourth Edition. Butterworth-Heineman, Boston (1998).

Yum, K.J. (Duke Ph.D. 1997) and J.J. Peirce,"Biodegradation of Chlorophenols in Immobilized-Cell Reactors Using White-Rot Fungus on Wood Chips." Water Environment Research. 70(2), 121-129 (1998).

Yum, K.J. (Duke Ph.D. 1997) and J.J. Peirce,"Continuous-Flow Wood Chip Reactor for Biodegradation of 2,4-DCP." Journal of Environmental Engineering. 124(2), 184-190 (1998).

Yum, K.J. (Duke Ph.D. 1997) and J.J. Peirce,"Statistical Determination of Steady State Condition in Bioremediation Tests." Biotechnology Letters. 19(8), 763-769 (1997).

Broome, T.H. and J.J. Peirce,"The Heroic Engineer." Journal of Engineering Education. 86(1), 51-55 (1997).

Sperry, J.M. (Duke M.S. 1996), J.J. Peirce and S. Yu (Duke M.S. 1994), "Evaluating Coagulating Systems for Use as Invasive Barriers in the Subsurface." Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Materials. 32(4), 499-513 (1996).

Eggleston, J., S.A. Rojstaczer and J.J. Peirce,"Identification of Hydraulic Conductivity Structure in Sand and Gravel Aquifers:The Cape Cod Data Set." Water Resources Research 32(5), 1209-1222 (1996).

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