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Jay R. Turner

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Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering

Expertise: environmental engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, environmental reaction engineering, environmental chemical analysis, air pollutant sampling and characterization, stationary source air pollution, aerosol science and technology

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Jay Turner
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Jay R. Turner, associate professor in chemical engineering with a joint appointment in civil engineering, focuses his research on such topics as environmental reaction engineering and environmental chemical analysis. He is the Principal Investigator for both the Midwest Fine Particulate Matter Supersite and the National Decentralized Water Resources Capacity Development Project. Besides this, Turner is also the Education Co-Director for the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis (NSF Engineering Research Center). In recognition of his outstanding teaching abilities, Turner has won the "Professor of the Year" award from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Washington University four times since 1993.

WUSTL Contact Information:
Work:(314) 935-5480
Fax:(314) 935-5464
E-mail:jrturner@seas.wustl.edu
Address:Campus Box 1180
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130

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Environmental engineer identifies troublesome bioaerosol (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/4979.html)

April 7, 2005 --
A WUSTL researcher has identified a bacterium as the pathogen living on bubbles in hot water environments.
A WUSTL researcher has identified a bacterium as the pathogen living on bubbles in hot water environments.
A team of researchers, led by an environmental engineer at Washington University in St. Louis, has applied a molecular approach to identify the biological particles in aerosol responsible for making employees of a Colorado hospital therapeutic pool ill. They found: when the bubble bursts, the bacteria disperse, and lifeguards get pneumonia-like symptoms.


Money down the drain?

Tap water just as safe as bottled, says environmental engineer (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/956.html)

Aug. 5, 2004 --
Bottled water or tap? A WUSTL environmental engineer specializing in aquatic chemistry sees no difference between the two in terms of health..
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Bottled water or tap? A WUSTL environmental engineer specializing in aquatic chemistry sees no difference between the two in terms of health.
Paying extra for bottled water? You may be wasting your money, says an expert in aquatic chemistry. Daniel Giammar, Ph.D., a faculty member in the Environmental Engineering Science Program at Washington University in St. Louis, says that tap water is just as safe to drink as bottled water. He also says that the pricey bottled water you value so highly might well be nothing more than repackaged tap water. "The tap water we drink meets very strict standards that are designed to protect our health," Giammar says. "These are developed over many years of study and they all include fairly large factors of safety. Any differences between tap and bottled water, in terms of health, are negligible."



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