1993 Henry Darcy Lecture Series - Mary Jo Baedecker (part 2)
Channel: National Ground Water Association
Date: 30/08/2011

"The Fate of Organic Compounds and Geochemical Processes in Contaminated Aquifers" was the title of the Darcy Lecture presented by Mary Jo Baedecker, Ph.D. Baedecker is a research chemist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Reston, Virginia. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and holds an M.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Kentucky and a Ph.D. in geochemistry from The George Washington University. She spent five years in research of the organic geochemistry of marine sediments at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has been in the research program of the USGS for 17 years. Dr. Baedecker's current interests are in the field of environmental geochemistry, and primary organic and inorganic geochemistry of contaminated aquifers. Her work focuses on understanding the fate of organic compounds on groundwater chemistry and the aquifer matrix. She has worked on waste and petroleum products. Baedecker has written for many scientific publications and is adjunct professor at The George Washington University.
 
Baedecker delivered her lecture at 28 sites across the United States and Canada