David L. Sedlak
Associate Professor, CEE
657 Davis Hall
(510) 643-0256
sedlak@ce.berkeley.edu
http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/faculty/faculty.php?name=Sedlak

Research Interests

Professor Sedlak's research interests are related to the fate and transport of pollutants in the aquatic environment. Current research projects focus on the fate of wastewater-derived organic compounds in systems employed for water reuse and the speciation of pollutant metals.

Selected Publications
Weissmahr K.W. and Sedlak D.L. ( 2000) Influence of metal complexation on the degradation of dithiocarbamate fungicides. Environ. Toxicol. & Chem. 19, 820-826.

Voelker B., Sedlak D.L. and Zafiriou O.C. (2000) Chemistry of superoxide radical in seawater: reactions with organic Cu complexes. Environ. Sci Technol. 34,1036-1042.

Sedlak D.L., Gray J.L. and Pinkston K.E. (2000) Understanding microcontaminants in recycled water. Environ. Sci. Technol. 34, 508A-515A.

Abu-Saba K., Flegal A.R. and Sedlak D.L. (2000) Reduction of hexavalent chromium by copper in the presence of superoxide. Marine Chemistry. 69, 33-41.

Bedsworth W.W. and Sedlak D.L. (2001) Determination of metal complexes of ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA) in the presence of organic matter by high performance liquid chromatography. J. Chromatography A, 905, 157-162.

Huang, C.H. and Sedlak, D.L. (2001) Analysis of estrogenic hormones in municipal wastewater effluent and surface water using ELISA and GC/MS/MS. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 20, 133-139.

Mitch W.A. and Sedlak D.L. (2002) Factors affecting the formation of NDMA during chlorination. Environ. Sci. Technol., 36, 588-595.

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