Research Interests for J. Jeffrey Peirce

Environmental engineering, cyberinfrastructure networks, sensors, geotropospheric interactions, engineering systems optimization. Professor Jeffrey Peirce has been a member of the environmental engineering faculty in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University for 28 years. He received his BES from the Johns Hopkins University in engineering mechanics in 1971 and he received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in environmental engineering in 1977. While at Duke he has published 75 peer reviewed journal manuscripts and given 116 professional presentations throughout the US, Europe and Scandinavia. His current research efforts focus on (1) the development of cyberinfrastructures to network university researchers, industrial representatives, public policy experts, public interests groups, and K-12 educators in the study of pollution and pollution control in the Neuse River of Eastern North Carolina; and, (2) the interactions between soil and the atmosphere with a focus on nitric oxide production and transformation in the soil and subsequent transport to the lower troposphere. During his research activities he has mentored 13 Ph.D. degrees and 51 M.S. degrees at Duke. Professor Peirce has received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation and teaching awards from the American Association of Engineering Education and the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke.

Keywords:

environmental engineering, cyberinfrastucture networks, sensors

Current projects:

Planning a National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure for the Neuse River Basin in North Carolina

Areas of Interest:

regional environmental pollution and control
networking environmental sensors
geotroposphere interaction
engineering systems optimization

Recent Publications

1. Cho, Ki Don and Peirce, J. Jeffrey, Nitric oxide emission and soil microbial activities in toluene contaminated soil, Journal of Environmental Engineering, vol. 133 no. 2 (2007), pp. 237 - 244 [(ASCE)0733-9372(2007)133:2(237)] [abs]
2. Cho, Ki Don and Peirce, J. Jeffrey, Nitric oxide emissions as a surrogate indicator of toluene contaminated soil, Environmental Engineering Science, vol. 23 no. 2 (2006), pp. 372 - 382 [372] [abs]
3. Peirce, J. Jeffrey, Introduction to the geotroposphere, Environmental Engineering Science, vol. 22 no. 1 (2005), pp. 1 - 8 [abs]
4. Cho, Ki Don and Peirce, J. Jeffrey, Nitric oxide emissions from the soil to lower levels of the troposphere, Environmental Engineering Science, vol. 22 no. 1 (2005), pp. 46 - 57 [abs]
5. Tabachow, Ross M. and Stock, Chase and Peirce, J. Jeffrey, Options for centralized management of swine waste, Journal of Environmental Engineering, vol. 128 no. 5 (2002), pp. 476 - 478 [(ASCE)0733-9372(2002)128:5(476)] [abs]