Stanford University Professor

Richard G. Luthy

Silas H. Palmer Professor
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
Hon. Sci. D. (Environmental Engineering), Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 2005

Dick Luthy is the Silas H. Palmer Professor and former chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. His area of teaching and research is environmental engineering and water quality. His research interests include physicochemical processes and applied aquatic chemistry with application to water reuse and management of contaminates in sediment. Current projects address the role of natural systems to enhance water quality and the potential for water reuse to benefit ecosystem habitats and urban aesthetics. 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. Dick Luthy is a past chair of the National Research Council's Water Science and Technology Board, and a former President of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. He is a registered professional engineer, a Board Certified Environmental Engineer, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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Friends and family members gather at Dick Luthy's house for a bar-b-que on June 26, 2010. The research group joined in a farewell goodbye to Dr. Sungwoo Ahn and Dr. Sarah Rubinfeld.

Yuan Zhuang, Heather Bischel and Eunah Kim visit "Voodoo Doughnut," Portland, Oregon, while attending the SETAC North American 31st Annual Meeting and the NIH Superfund Research Program Annual Meeting.

Visit to Kranji NEWater Factory, Singapore. Darren Sun, a professor at Nanyang Technological University, is holding one of the microfilters in the process, Yunita Tan [a former student in my class, and plant manager] is holding a bottle of NEWater, and I am holding a demonstration reverse osmosis unit.

PhD student Heather Bischel explains her research on emerging contaminants to Senator Barbara Boxer and Jerry Yang. Senator Boxer chairs the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Jerry Yang and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, were the major donors for the Yang & Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building that houses the Environmental Engineering and Science Laboratories. Heather Bischel is also President of the Stanford chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World.

Luthy group hike at Ano Nuevo State Reserve, July 2008. This is on the California coast, directly west from the Stanford campus, and allows a close observation of northern elephant seals in the wildlife protection area.

Birthday party cupcakes and the Luthy Group [photo taken in Dick's office, June 2008].

Gathering at the 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Sciences: Water, Holderness School, New Hampshire. [Front: Yeo-Myoung Cho, Laura MacManus-Spencer (now at Union College, Dept. of Chemistry), Lilli Jannsen; Back: Kurt Rhoads (from the Criddle Group), Heather Bischel, Chris Higgins (soon to be at Colorado School of Mines), Dick Luthy]

Research group hike to Russian Ridge and Borel Hill in the Santa Cruz Mountains behind the Stanford Campus.

Dick Luthy collects sediment samples for laboratory tests with benthic organisms.

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

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.

Jeanne Tomaszewski at the reception following the 2008 Graduation Ceremony.

Heather Bischel studies the uptake of perfluorochemicals [PFCs] into organisms. These surfactant-like fluorocarbon compounds are persistent and found globally in animals and humans.

Lilli Janssen conducts research on the bio-dynamics of benthic organism exposure and uptake of persistent organic contaminants.

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.

Martin Reinhard and Dick Luthy share analytical equipment that is used to assess the environmental fate of chemicals in consumer products and pharmaceuticals.

Yuan Zhuang is interested in novel ways to treat both mercury and PCBs, which are persistent and bioaccumulative contaminants in certain marsh areas.

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.

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 191, MC 4020
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
phone: 650 721-2615
luthy@stanford.edu
fax: 650 725-9720

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	Friends and family members gather at Dick Luthy's house for a bar-b-que on June 26, 2010. The research group joined in a farewell goodbye to Dr. Sungwoo Ahn and Dr. Sarah Rubinfeld.
	Yuan Zhuang, Heather Bischel and Eunah Kim visit "Voodoo Doughnut," Portland, Oregon, while attending the SETAC North American 31st Annual Meeting and the NIH Superfund Research Program Annual Meeting.
	Visit to Kranji NEWater Factory, Singapore. Darren Sun, a professor at Nanyang Technological University, is holding one of the microfilters in the process, Yunita Tan [a former student in my class, and plant manager] is holding a bottle of NEWater, and I am holding a demonstration reverse osmosis unit.
	PhD student Heather Bischel explains her research on emerging contaminants to Senator Barbara Boxer and Jerry Yang. Senator Boxer chairs the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Jerry Yang and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, were the major donors for the Yang & Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building that houses the Environmental Engineering and Science Laboratories. Heather Bischel is also President of the Stanford chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World.
	Luthy group hike at Ano Nuevo State Reserve, July 2008. This is on the California coast, directly west from the Stanford campus, and allows a close observation of northern elephant seals in the wildlife protection area.
	Birthday party cupcakes and the Luthy Group [photo taken in Dick's office, June 2008].
	Gathering at the 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Sciences: Water, Holderness School, New Hampshire. [Front: Yeo-Myoung Cho, Laura MacManus-Spencer (now at Union College, Dept. of Chemistry), Lilli Jannsen; Back: Kurt Rhoads (from the Criddle Group), Heather Bischel, Chris Higgins (soon to be at Colorado School of Mines), Dick Luthy]
	Research group hike to Russian Ridge and Borel Hill in the Santa Cruz Mountains behind the Stanford Campus.
	Dick Luthy collects sediment samples for laboratory tests with benthic organisms.
	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
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.	Jeanne Tomaszewski at the reception following the 2008 Graduation Ceremony.
	Heather Bischel studies the uptake of perfluorochemicals [PFCs] into organisms. These surfactant-like fluorocarbon compounds are persistent and found globally in animals and humans.
	Lilli Janssen conducts research on the bio-dynamics of benthic organism exposure and uptake of persistent organic contaminants.
	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.
	Martin Reinhard and Dick Luthy share analytical equipment that is used to assess the environmental fate of chemicals in consumer products and pharmaceuticals.
	Yuan Zhuang is interested in novel ways to treat both mercury and PCBs, which are persistent and bioaccumulative contaminants in certain marsh areas.
	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.
	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

Links To: Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Last Modified 02/14/08

Links To: Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Last Modified 02/14/08