DAVID L. SEDLAK

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- Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

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Mailing Address: Civil and Environmental Engineering 657 Davis Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1710 Email: sedlak@ce.berkeley.edu

Phone: (510) 643-0256 Fax: (510) 642-7483

Teaching and Research

Professor Sedlak teaches graduate courses in environmental chemistry, water quality engineering and ecological engineering. He also teaches an introductory class in environmental engineering.  He is the lead graduate advisor for the environmental engineering program.

Professor Sedlak plans to teach the classes listed below in the coming year.  Full descriptions of these classes can be seen in the on-line course catalog.

Semester	Course No.	Course Title	Meeting Times
Fall 2008	CE 115	Water Chemistry	Tu/Th 11-12:30
Spring 2009	CE 111	Environmental Engineering	MWF 11-12
Spring 2009	CE 217	Evironmental Chemical Kinetics	MWF 1-2

Professor Sedlak's research interests are related to the fate and transport of pollutants in the aquatic environment. Recent developments, descriptions of representative projects and publications are listed below.

Examples of Ongoing Research Projects

• The Fate of Hormones in the Aquatic Environment
• The Fate of Wastewater-Derived Contaminants in Effluent-Dominated Waters
• Oxidation of Contaminants by Iron Nanoparticles in the Presence of Oxygen

Some Recent Publications

[The underlined text will lead you to the abstract for the paper.  The DOI will lead you to the full paper if you are viewing this page from a site that has a license for the journal where the paper was published.]

• Lim M.H.., Snyder S.A. and Sedlak D.L. (2008) Use of biodegradable dissolved organic carbon (BDOC) to assess the potential for transformation of wastewater-derived contaminants in surface waters.  Water Research, 42, 2943-2952.  DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2008.03.008
• Lee C., Keenan C.R. and Sedlak D.L. (2008) Polyoxometalate-enhanced oxidation of organic compounds by nanoparticulate zero-valent iron and ferrous oxygen in the presence of oxygen. Environ. Sci. Technol., 42, 4921-4926. DOI: 10.1021/es800317j
• Keenan C.R. and Sedlak D.L. (2008) Factors affecting the yield of oxidants fromthe reaction of nanoparticulate zero-valent iron and oxygen. Environ. Sci. Technol., 42, 1262-1267.  DOI: 10.1021/es7025664  
• Kolodziej E.P. and Sedlak D.L. (2007) Rangeland grazing as a source of steroid hormones in surface waters.  Environ. Sci. Technol., 41, 3514-3520.   DOI: 10.1021/es063050y 
• Fono L.J., Kolodziej E.P. and Sedlak D.L. (2006) Attenuation of wastewater-derived contaminants in an effluent-dominated river.  Environ. Sci. Technol., 40, 7257-7262. DOI:10.1021/es061308e
• Fono L.J. and Sedlak D.L. (2005) Use of the chiral pharmaceutical propranolol to identify sewage discharges into surface waters.  Environ. Sci. Technol., 39, 9244-9252.  DOI: 10.1021/es047965t
• Hsu-Kim H. and Sedlak D.L. (2005) Similarities between inorganic sulfide and the strong Hg(II)-complexing ligands in municipal wastewater effluent. Environ. Sci. Technol 39(11):4035-4041.  DOI : 10.1021/es050013i
• Mehrotra A.S. and Sedlak D.L. (2005) Decrease in net mercury methylation rates following iron amendment to anoxic wetland sediment slurries.  Environ. Sci. Technol. 39, 2564-2570.  DOI: 10.1021/es049096d
• Gray J.L. and Sedlak D.L. (2005) The fate of estrogenic hormones in an engineered treatment wetland with dense macrophytes. Water Environ. Res.,77, 24-31.  
• Pehlivanoglu E., and Sedlak D.L. (2004) Bioavailability of wastewater-derived organic nitrogen to the alga Selenastrum Capricornutum. Water Research, 38(14-15): 3189-3196. DOI:10.1016/j.watres.2004.04.027
• Mitch W.A. and Sedlak D.L. (2004) Characterization and fate of NDMA precursors in municipal wastewater treatment plants. Environ. Sci. Technol., 38, 1445-1454.

Links

• IWA/GRA Micropol and Ecohazard Conference
• Complete Curriculum Vitae
  
• Environmental Engineering Group
• Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• UC Berkeley

Recent Graduates

• Bill Bedsworth (Bridgespan Group, San Francisco)
• Lorien Fono (Carollo Engineers, Walnut Creek, CA)
• James Gray (Postdoc, USGS Boulder, CO)
• Helen Hsu (Assistant Professor,  Duke University)
• Ed Kolodziej (Assistant Professor, University of Nevada-Reno)
• Mong Hoo Lim (Deputy Director of Water Supply Plants, Singapore Public Utilities Board)
• Anna Mehrotra (Consultant, CDM Pittsburgh, PA)
• William Mitch (Associate Professor, Yale University)-
• Elif Pehlivanoglu-Mantas (Assistant Professor, Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, Turkey)
• Karen Pinkston (US Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
• Alavanja Ridge (US Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
• Laurel Schaider (Postdoc/Harvard University)

The Current Group

A photo of what was left of the group after a wet hike to Yosemite Falls in 2007.

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