Thomas M. Holsen

Principal Investigator
Clarkson University

BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

Thomas M. Holsen is currently a professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Clarkson University and co-director of the Clarkson Center for the Environment. He obtained a PhD degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1988. His primary research interests include the transport, transformations and fate of hydrophobic organic chemicals, mercury, metals, and ions in a wide array of environmental systems. Recently he has been investigating atmospheric inputs of persistent organic chemicals and mercury to Lake Ontario, the atmospheric deposition and emission of mercury from forested ecosystems, and investigating the transport, deposition and sources of pollutants in New York State. He is currently co-PI of the Environmental Manufacturing Management program at Clarkson University, an NSF IGERT. He was a reviewer of several congressionally mandated reports on the importance of atmospheric deposition to the Great Waters, was a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board, and recently testified at a Congressional briefing on the POPs negotiations. He has published extensively on the absolute and relative importance of atmospheric deposition of toxic substances in and their cycling within several large ecosystems. He regularly teaches a graduate course on the transport of pollutants in the environment. He has over 75 publications and has successfully supervised research projects from industrial sources and State and Federal Agencies.

RELATED PUBLICATIONS

Lai, S.O., Holsen, T.M., Han, Y.J., Hopke, P.K., Yi, S.M., Blanchard, P., Pagano, J.J., Milligan, M.S. Estimation of Mercury Loadings to Lake Ontario: Results from the Lake Ontario Atmospheric Deposition Study (LOADS), submitted to Environ. Sci Technol. Oct 2005

Gao, N., Armatas, N.G., Shanley, J.B., Kamman, N.C., Miller, E.K., Keeler, G. J., Scherbatskoy, T., Holsen, T.M., Young, T., McIlroy, L., Drake, S., Olsen, B., Cady, C., Mass Balance Assessment for Mercury in Lake Champlain, Environ. Sci. Technol.; 2005; ASAP Web Release Date: 30-Nov-2005;

Han, Y.J., Holsen, T.M., Hopke, P.K., Yi, S.M. Comparison between Back-trajectory Based Modeling and Lagrangian Backward Dispersion Modeling For Locating Sources of Reactive Gaseous Mercury (2005) Environ. Sci. Tech. 39, 1715-1723

Han, Y.J., Holsen, T.M. Lai, S.O., Hopke, P.K., Yi, S.M., Liu, W., Pagano, J., Falanga, L., Milligan, M., Andolina, C., Atmospheric Gaseous Mercury Concentrations in New York State: Relationships with Meteorological Data and Other Pollutants (2004) Atmos. Environ. 38, 6431-6446

Liu, W., P.K. Hopke, Y.-J. Han, S.-M. Yi, T.M. Holsen, S. Cybart, K. Kozlowski, M. Milligan Application of receptor modeling to atmospheric constituents at Potsdam and Stockton, NY (2003) Atmos. Environ. 37:36, 4997-5007

Hopke, P.K., Liu, W., Han, Y.J., Yi, S.M, , Holsen, T.M., Cybart, S., Milligan, M. Measured Summertime Concentrations of Particulate Components, Hg and Speciated PAHs at Rural Sites in New York State, (2003) Environ Poll, 123, 413-425.