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Debra Hausladen

Professeure, Faculté de génie
FAC. GÉNIE Civil et bâtiment

Présentation

Sujet de recherche

Drinking Water, Industrial and Urban Contamination of Land, Mining and Petroleum Contamination, Soil and Sediments, Soil Decontamination

Disciplines de recherche

Earth Science, Water and Environment

Mots-clés

Environmental Pollution, Soil biogeochemistry, soil redox processes, Water quality

Intérêts de recherche

groundwater resources, soil redox processes, geogenic contaminants, microbially-mediated redox cycling, organo-mineral interactions, inorganic contaminants, manganese, chromium, uranium, soil carbon cycling

Recherche clinique

Langues parlées et écrites

Anglais, Français

Diplômes

(2019). (Post-doctorate, ). Université de Lausanne.

(2017). (Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy). Stanford University.

(2013). (Master's non-Thesis, Masters of Science). Stanford University.

(2009). (Bachelor's, Bachelor of Arts). Wellesley College.

Expérience académique

Canada Research Chair in Environmental and Soil Biogeochemistry. (2019-). Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.

Postdoctoral Fellow. (2017-2018). Université de Lausanne. Switzerland.

Teaching Assistant. (2017-2018). Université de Lausanne. Switzerland.

Teaching Assistant and Recitation Leader. (2016-2016). Stanford University. United States of America.

Laboratory Instructor. (2016-2016). Stanford University. United States of America.

Teaching Assistant. (2016-2016). Stanford University. United States of America.

Teaching Assistant and Laboratory Instructor. (2012-2012). Stanford University. United States of America.

Research Fellow. (2011-2011). Marine Biological Laboratory. United States of America.

Research Associate. (2009-2010). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. United States of America.

Biogeography research assistant. (2008-2008).

Geochemistry Research Assistant. (2006-2008). Wellesley College. United States of America.

Research Assistant. (2007-2007).

Prix et distinctions

  • Canada Research Chair in Environmental and Soil Biogeochemistry. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). (Prize / Award).
  • Certificate of Achievement in Mentoring in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University. Stanford University. (Prize / Award).
  • International Symposium on Persistent Toxic Substances Best Platform Presentation Award. International Society of Persistent Toxic Substances. (Prize / Award).
  • Soil Science of America Student Talk Award, 1st Place. Soil Science Society of America. (Prize / Award).

Financement

  • Grant. (Awarded). Principal Applicant. Impact of manganese-driven redox processes on groundwater quality and carbon cycling. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Discovery Grant. 167 500 $. (2020-2025)
  • Research Chair. (Awarded). Principal Applicant. Canada Research Chair in Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry. Canada Research Chairs (CRC). 520 000 $. (2019-2024)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Infrastructure d'analyses élémentaires, thermiques et environnementales d'alliages à haute entropie et céramiques techniques pour le stockage d'énergies renouvelables. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Canada Foundation for Innovation - John R. Evans Leaders Fund. 443 482 $. (2023-2024)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Enhancing Sensitivity and Speciation Capability of Mass Spectrometry Platform. (2023-2024)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Principal Applicant. Biogeochemical processes governing metal(loid) mobility in organically capped mine waste. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Établissement de la relève professorale. 126 146 $. (2021-2023)
  • Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Advanced instrumental approaches for charactererization of dissolved organic matter. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). CFI grant. 437 165 $. (2021-2022)
  • Grant. (Completed). Principal Applicant. University Start Up Grant. Université de Sherbrooke. University Start-up Grant. 70 000 $. (2019-2022)
  • Grant. (Completed). Principal Applicant. Biogeochemical controls on contaminant and carbon dynamics in natural and engineered systems. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Canada Foundation for Innovation - John R. Evans Leaders Fund. 254 694 $. (2019-2021)
  • Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Urgent replacement of a sensitive and matrix tolerant ICP-MS for metal(loid) speciation. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Research Tools and Instruments grants program. 149 768 $. (2020-2021)
  • Grant. (Completed). Principal Applicant. Biogeochemical controls on contaminant and carbon dynamics in natural and engineered systems. Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). John R. Evans Leaders Fund. 254 694 $. (2019-2020)
  • Grant. (Completed). Principal Applicant. Influence of Organic Compounds on Reactivity of Biogenic Mn Oxides. Paul Scherrer Institut. Swiss Light Source Proposal for Beamline Access. 100 000 $. (2017-2018)
  • Grant. (Completed). Principal Applicant. Using microfluidics to probe spatial coupling of chromium and manganese cycling. Stanford University (California, USA). McGee Grant. 8 000 $. (2016-2016)
  • Grant. Co-applicant. Dynamics of essential toxins from land to coast during redox transformations of natural organic matter in Northern Quebec. Institut nordique du Quebec. Sentinelle Nord. 298 632 $.
  • (Under Review). Photocatalytic Remediation Improving Mining Economy and Sustainability (PRIMES). (2024)

Publications

Articles de revue

  • Di Battista, Vanessa; Smillovich, Juliana; Hausladen, Debra. (2023). Assessment of the suitability of greensand filtration for Mn removal for private wells. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (Submitted).
  • Hausladen, D.M., and J. Pena. (2023). Organic buffers act as reductants of abiotic and biogenic manganese oxides. Nature Scientific Reports (Published).
  • Bellenger, Gueguen, and Hausladen. (2021). Heavy metals and climate change: A complex story that is still being written. Le Climatoscope (Published).
  • Hausladen D.M., S.H. Fakhreddine, S. Fendorf. (2019). Governing Constraints of Chromium(VI) Formation from Chromium(III)-bearing Minerals in Soils and Sediments. Soil Systems 3 (4), 74. DOI. (Published).
  • Hausladen, D.M., A. Alexander-Ozinskis*, C. McClain, S. Fendorf *Graduate mentee. (2018). Hexavalent Chromium Sources and Distribution in California Groundwater. Environ. Sci. Technol. 52 (15), 8242-8251. (Published).
  • Hausladen, D.M. and S. Fendorf. (2017). Hexavalent Chromium Generation within Naturally Structured Soils and Sediments. Environ. Sci. Technol. 51 (4), 2058-2067. (Published).
  • Janot N., J.S. Lezama Pacheco, D.Q. Pham*, T.M. O’Brien, D.M. Hausladen, V. Noël, K. Maher, S. Fendorf, K.H. Williams, P.E. Long, J.R. Bargar. (2016). Physico-chemical heterogeneity of organic-rich sediments in the Rifle aquier, CO: Impact on uranium biogeochemistry. Environ. Sci. Technol. 50 (15), 46-53. (Published).

Chapitres de livre

  • Hausladen, D.M., A. Lopez, S. Fendorf. Chromium. Seaman, J. and A. Knox.. Trace Elements in Terrestrial Environments (3rd, 35 pg In prep). Springer-Verlag.

Rapports

  • Cristina Cismasu, Debra Hausladen. (2020). Dynamique des métaux et du carbone régissant la qualité de l'eau des sites miniers restaurés : Rapport des travaux de terrain au site minier Eustis. MERN. 10 p.
  • Hausladen, D.M. (2017). Physical and biogeochemical constraints on hexavalent chromium generation within soils and sediments. Stanford University. 158 p.

Documents de travail

  • Qianqian Lia, Céline Guéguenb, and Debra Hausladena. Carbon-driven release of Mn into groundwater: Insight into the colloid formation and mobility of NOM-Mn complexes.
  • Md. Muhyminul Islam, Debra Hausladen. Hydrological and biogeochemical processes controlling heterogeneity in groundwater Mn contamination.

Articles de conférence

  • D. Hausladen, Md. M. Islam. (2023). Hydrological and biogeochemical processes controlling heterogeneity in groundwater Mn contamination: Insights from two lake catchment systems. Goldschmidt Conference. (Published).
  • B. Li, D.M. Hausladen. (2023). Improving conventional household greensand treatment for efficient Mn(II) removal from drinking water. ACA Collections, (Accepted).
  • Hausladen D, Fakhreddine S & Fendorf S. (2020). Moving Beyond Mineral Solubility: Physical and Hydrologic Constraints on Cr(VI) Formation. Goldschmidt Abstracts, DOI. (Published).
  • Hausladen D, Zelano I, Keiluweit M & Peña J. (2019). Abiotic Transformation of Plant-Derived Carbon by Mn Oxides: Breakdown of Cellobiose by δ-MnO2. Goldschmidt Abstracts, 1299. (Published).
  • Pena J, Sentchilo V, Hausladen D & Ayala H. (2018). Relationship between carbon availability and biogenic manganese oxide formation. Goldschmidt Abstracts, (Published).
  • Hausladen, D.M and J. Peña. (2017). Coupled Dynamics of Carbon and Manganese: Influence of Organic Compounds on Reactivity of Biogenic Mn Oxides. Goldschmidt Abstracts, (Published).
  • Janot N., Lezama-Pacheco J.S., Pham D.Q., O'Brien T.M., Hausladen D.M., Williams K.H., Long P.E., Fendorf S. and J.R. Bargar. (2015). Characterization and impact of organic-rich sediments on uranium behavior in the Rifle aquifer, CO. Goldschmidt Abstracts, (Published).
  • Hausladen D.M., M.G. Arredondo*, and S. Fendorf. *undergraduate mentee. (2015). Chromium au Naturel: Chromium(VI) Generation within Structured Soils and Sediments. Goldschmidt Abstracts, (Published).
  • Hausladen, D.M., & Fendorf, S. E. (2015). Surface Reactions Limiting Chromium (VI) Generation from Naturally Derived Chromium (III) Minerals. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts, (Published).
  • Garcia Arredondo*, M., Hausladen, D.M., Ying, S., & Fendorf, S. *undergraduate mentee. (2014). Chromium Mobilization by Microbially-Driven Iron and Manganese Redox Cycling. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts, (Published).
  • Hausladen, D.M., S. Mitsunobu, and S. Fendorf. (2014). Spatial Coupling of Chromium and Manganese Cycling: Visualizing Microbial Communities within Complex Chemical Environments. Goldschmidt Abstracts, (Published).
  • Noemie Janot, Juan S Lezama-Pacheco, Don Q Pham, Debra Hausladen, Morris E Jones, Scott Fendorf, Jose M Cerrato, Daniel E Giammar, Kenneth H Williams, Philip E Long, Cristina Cismasu, Peter S Nico, Gordon E Brown, John R Bargar. (2013). Biogeochemical cycling of organic carbon, uranium, and sulfur in an alluvial aquifer. AMER CHEMICAL SOC, (Published).

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés

  • Chimie I. GCI193. (2021-08-31 à 2021-12-10).(1CR).
  • GCI 194: Chimie II. (2021-01-05 à 2023-04-30).(2CR).
  • Génie de l'environnement. GCI 515. (2020-05-04 à 2023-08-07).(3CR).
  • Soil and Water Chemistry. ESS 156 / ESS 256.
  • The Science of Soils.

Gestion d'évènements

  • Organizer. (2021-2022) Water Research Group Seminars. (Seminar).
  • Session Organizer. (2020) Goldschmidt Conference; Session 13a: Management and Remediation of Water Resources in a Changing Climate: The Influence of Hydrological and Biogeochemical Controls on Water and Sediment Quality. (Conference).
  • Co-organizer. (2016) Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Users’ Conference. (Conference).
  • Co-organizer. (2015) Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Users’ Conference. (Conference).
  • Student Organizer. (2015) Goldschmidt Conference. (Conference).
  • Organizer. Americana Environmental forum and International trade show for environmental technologies - Decoding the water cycle: a source of information for better resource management and public health. (Conference).
  • Co-organizer. GeoMontreal 2024 - Session : Natural and human-accelerated contaminant release from geogenic sources and the challenges posed to groundwater supply. (Conference).

Activités de collaboration internationale

  • Techical Expert. Canada. Groundwater Relief Technical Expert : Providing groundwater expertise to save life and lift people from poverty.
  • Technical Advisor. United States of America. Microvi Biotech.
  • Consultant. Cambodia. Arsenic in Drinking Water Collaboration with Research Development International, Non-profit organization, Phnom Penh, Cambodia on.

Présentations

  • (2023). Comprendre votre eau potable : Hétérogénéité de la qualité des eaux souterraines. Assemblée générale Conservation lac à la truite. Canada
  • (2023). Decoding the Water Cycle: A Source of Information for Better Resource Management and Public Health. Americana Environmental Forum and International trade show for environmental technologies. Canada
  • (2023). Groundwater manganese contamination: Assessing heterogeneity and identifying hydrological and biogeochemical drivers. GeoSaskatoon. Canada
  • Binrui Li. (2023). Improving conventional household greensand treatment for efficient Mn(II) removal from drinking water. Joint Symposium of the International Societies for Environmental Biogeochemistry & Subsurface Microbiology. Banff, Canada
  • (2022). Biogeochemical links between carbon cycling and groundwater quality: coupled dynamics of carbon and naturally occurring contaminants. SETAC Ecotoxicology Colloquium 2022, Chapitre Saint-Laurent. Quebec City, Canada
  • (2022). Du roc au robinet : Quels sont les métaux à surveiller dans votre puits ?. Assemblée générale Conservation lac à la truite. Canada
  • (2022). From microbes to minerals: Biogeochemical processes influencing groundwater quality. Imaging the Hydrology of Tomorrow - RHQ Symposium. Quebec City, Canada
  • (2022). Understanding factors controlling groundwater quality. Yamaska Watershed Water Forum. Granby, Canada
  • (2021). De l'échelle moléculaire à l'échelle du terrain : Comprendre les contrôles de la mobilisation des contaminants géogéniques dans un climat en changement. ACFAS. Sherbrooke, Canada
  • (2020). Moving Beyond Mineral Solubility: Physical and Hydrologic Constraints on Cr(VI) Formation. Goldschmidt. Honolulu, United States of America
  • Hausladen D.M., S. Fendorf. (2019). From rock to tap: Expanding our understanding of hexavalent chromium sources in drinking water. Soils Across Latitudes International Conference. San Diego, United States of America
  • Hausladen, D.M., M. Gyger.*, J. Peña. (2018). Control of organic compounds on Mn-oxide reactivity: Implications for contaminant transport and cycling. Journées Biennales des Géosciences et de l’Environnement. Lausanne, Switzerland
  • (2018). Stability and reactivity of biogenic Mn oxides in the presence of natural organic matter. Interfaces Against Pollution International Conference. La Grande Motte, France
  • Hausladen D.M., M. Keiluweit, and J. Peña. (2018). Transformation of Manganese Oxides by Organic Constituents in Natural and Laboratory Systems. Swiss Geoscience Meeting. Switzerland
  • Hausladen D.M. (2017). Competitive microbial and geochemical processes controlling the fate of chromium. Faculty of Geosciences and Environment Seminar, University of Lausanne. Leysin, Switzerland
  • J. Peña. (2017). Coupled Dynamics of Carbon and Manganese: Influence of Organic Compounds on Reactivity of Biogenic Mn Oxides. Goldschmidt. Paris, France
  • Hausladen D.M., S. Fakhreddine. (2017). Governing Constraints of Chromium(VI) Formation from Chromium(III)-bearing Minerals in Soils and Sediments. Invited Workshop at Technical University of Denmark. Lyngby, Denmark
  • Hausladen D.M., J. Peña. (2017). Influence of organic compounds on the fate of Mn oxide nanoparticles. International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements. Zurich, Switzerland
  • Hausladen, D.M., M.G. Arredondo*, and S. Fendorf. (2015). Chromium au Naturel: Chromium(VI) Generation within Structured Soils and Sediments. Goldschmidt Conference. Prague, Czechia
  • (2015). Spatial coupling of chromium and manganese cycling: Generation of hexavalent chromium within soils and sediments. International Symposium on Persistent Toxic Substances. Riverside, United States of America
  • Fendorf, S. E. (2015). Surface Reactions Limiting Chromium (VI) Generation from Naturally Derived Chromium (III) Minerals. American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, United States of America
  • Hausladen D.M., S. Fendorf. (2015). X-ray microprobe imaging of Cr and Mn in structured soils. Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Users Meeting. Menlo Park, United States of America
  • Hausladen D.M., M.G. Arredondo*, S. Fendorf. (2014). Bacterial Dynamics Controlling Chromium Cycling within Soil Aggregates. ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings Student Award Presentation. Long Beach, United States of America
  • Hausladen D.M., S.C. Ying, S. Fendorf. (2014). Dynamic interplay of microbially mediated oxidation-reduction reactions controlling chromium cycling in soils and sediments. International Symposium on Subsurface Microbiology. Asilomar, United States of America
  • S. Mitsunobu, and S. Fendorf. (2014). Spatial Coupling of Chromium and Manganese Cycling: Visualizing Microbial Communities within Complex Chemical Environments. Goldschmidt Conference. Sacramento, United States of America
  • Hausladen D.M., M.G. Arredondo*, S. Fendorf. (2014). Visualizing spatial distribution of biogenic Mn-oxides within Cr-/Fe-oxide soil aggregates using u-XRF-imaging. Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Users Meeting. Menlo Park, United States of America
  • Hausladen D.M. (2013). Community Matters: How Microbially-Mediated Redox Reactions Impact Chromium Cycling within Soil Aggregates. Institute for Environmental Sciences Seminar, University of Shizuoka. Shizuoka, Japan
  • Hausladen D.M., S.C. Ying, S. Fendorf. (2013). Oxidation of mixed Cr-Fe hydroxides by birnessite. ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings. Tampa, United States of America