Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Civil and Environmental Engineering |
BS, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, l967
MS, Ocean Engineering, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, 1969
MS, Civil Engineering (Environmental Engineering), University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1974
Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Environmental Engineering), University of California, Berkeley, CA 1976
Dick Luthy's area of teaching and research is environmental engineering and water quality. His research interests include physicochemical processes and applied aquatic chemistry with application to waste reduction and treatment, and remediation of contaminated soil and sediment. Current projects address the phase partitioning, treatment, and fate of persistent hydrophobic organic compounds. His research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to understand the environmental behavior and availability of organic contaminants and the application of these approaches to the control of contaminant bioavailability and the improvement of water and sediment quality.
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Research group hike to Russian Ridge and Borel Hill in the Santa Cruz Mountains behind the Stanford Campus. |
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Dick Luthy collects sediment samples for laboratory tests with benthic organisms. |
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Janet Thompson of the US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, and PhD student Yeo-Myoung Cho collect clams deployed in a test plot of sediment amended with activated carbon. The clams serve as an indicator of whether PCBs are absorbed by benthic biota. http://www.stanford.edu/group/luthygroup/ESTCP.htm |
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PhD student Jeanne Tomaszewski inspects one of the test plots in a field demonstration of mixing of activated carbon into sediment at South Basin adjacent to Hunters Point, San Francisco Bay. |
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Heather Bischel studies the uptake of perfluorochemicals [PFCs] into organisms. These surfactant-like fluorocarbon compounds are persistent and found globally in animals and humans. |
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Lilli Janssen conducts research on the bio-dynamics of benthic organism exposure and uptake of persistent organic contaminants. |
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Jeanne Tomaszewski and Sungwoo Ahn deploy polyethylene samplers to measure pore water concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyl compounds [PCBs] in sediment. This approach is proving to be a simple and sensitive way to monitor pore water. |
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Martin Reinhard and Dick Luthy share analytical equipment that is used to assess the environmental fate of chemicals in consumer products and pharmaceuticals. |
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Sarah Rubinfeld studies the transport and fate of fragrance compounds in discharges to San Francisco Bay. |
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Yuan Zhuang is interested in novel ways to treat both mercury and PCBs, which are persistent and bioaccumulative contaminants in certain marsh areas. |
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Dick Luthy, Christine Shoemaker of Cornell University, Perry McCarty, and Jim Leckie attend the Stockholm Water Conference in August 2007 in recognition of Perry McCarty's receipt of the 2007 Stockholm Water Prize. |
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A team of students, faculty, university staff, and architects participated in the design of a new Green Dorm at Stanford. The dorm will include a laboratory and will demonstrate advanced concepts to achieve a zero-carbon building through combined heat and power, as well as water-wise use and recycle, and long-lived structures and new materials for sustainable building design. http://soe.stanford.edu/research/greendorm.html |
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building
473 Via Ortega, Room 313B, MC 4020
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
phone: 650 723-3921
luthy@stanford.edu
fax: 650 725-8662
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