Nelson Green (cv.nelson.green.2015.oct — pdf)
ngreen@gatech.edu | 913.731.4491 | linkedin.com/in/nelsongreen
Objective
To join an analytical research team with broad interest in water, energy and environmental topics including, but not limited to, innovative solutions in separations and molecular characterization.
Summary
Studied dissolved organic matter from various environments, frequently marine DOM, for its role in carbon cycle and aquatic chemistry.
- Designed coupled reverse osmosis and electrodialysis system for DOM recovery in field studies.
- Programmed efficient algorithm for assigning molecular formulae to mass spectra of DOM.
- Ph. D. dissertation: Coupled reverse osmosis and electrodialysis for the investigation of dissolved organic matter in seawater (advisors: Amyn Teja and E. Michael Perdue, expected Fall 2015)
Supervised the start-up of analytical laboratory, research of undergraduates, and collection of international reference samples of DOM.
Education
2015** Ph. D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. Minor in Geochemistry. GPA: 3.46 / 4.0; **planned graduation.
2007 B. S. in Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. Honors certificate. GPA: 3.72 / 4.0
Work Experiences
2013/07 – 2012/01 Research Assistant, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
- Designed research lab; set-up lab equipment; trained three student researchers.
- Developed efficient algorithm for assigning formula to mass spectra (CHOFIT).
- Twice led collection of international reference samples (Suwannee & Mississippi River).
2012/12 – 2007/08 Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
- Designed coupled RO/ED system; deployed RO/ED to five field studies.
- Collaborated in analyzing samples by advanced chemical methods (FT-ICR-MS, NMR).
- Mentored three student in developing MS and PARAFAC (MATLAB) analysis programs.
2006/08 – 2006/05 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
- Developed and tested soot collection device.
Field Missions
2013 Minneapolis, MN
Collection of international reference sample from the Mississippi River
2013 Savannah, GA
RO/ED of estaurine transect samples along the Satilla River
2012 Fargo, GA
Collection of international reference sample from the Suwannee River
2011 Lewes, DE
RO/ED of Delaware Bay samples; supporting NSF collaborators
2010 Grand Isle, LA
RO/ED of Barataria Bay samples; NSF RAPID for Deepwater Horizon
2010 Beaufort, NC
RO/ED of Cape Hatteras samples aboard R/V Savannah
2009 Kailua-Kona, HI
RO/ED of oceanic samples; Intercomparison of isolation methods
2008 Cape Verde
RO/ED of oceanic samples aboard R/V Oceanus
Papers
2015 Green NW; Perdue EM. Fast graphically-inspired algorithm for assignment of molecular formulae in ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry. 87(10), 5086-5094.
2015 Perdue EM; Green NW. Isobaric molecular formulae of C, H, and O: A view from the negative quadrants of van Krevelen space. Analytical Chemistry. 87(10), 5079-5085.
2015 Helms JR; Mao J; Chen H; Perdue EM; Green NW; Hatcher PG; Mopper K; Stubbins A. Spectroscopic characterization of oceanic dissolved organic matter isolated by reverse osmosis coupled with electrodialysis. Marine Chemistry. In Press.
2015 Green NW; McInnis D; Hertkorn N; Maurice PA; Perdue EM. Suwannee River natural organic matter: isolation of the 2R101N reference sample by reverse osmosis. Environmental Engineering Science. 32(1), 38-44.
2014 Chen H; Stubbins A; Perdue EM; Green NW; Mopper K; Hatcher PG. Ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometric differentiation of dissolved organic matter isolated by coupled reverse osmosis-electrodialysis from various major oceanic water masses. Marine Chemistry. 164, 48-59.
2014 Green NW; Perdue EM; Aiken GR; Butler K; Chen H; Dittmar T; Niggemann J; Stubbins A. An intercomparison of three methods for the large-scale isolation of oceanic dissolved organic matter. Marine Chemistry. 161, 14-19.
2013 Helms JR; Stubbins A; Perdue EM; Green NW; Chen H; Mopper K. Photochemical bleaching of oceanic dissolved organic matter and its effects on absorption spectral slope and fluorescence. Marine Chemistry. 155, 81-91.
2013 Zhang Y; Green NW; Perdue EM. Acid-base properties of dissolved organic matter from pristine and oil-impacted marshes of Barataria Bay, Louisiana. Marine Chemistry. 155, 42-49.
2011 Bianchi TS; Cook RL; Perdue EM; Kolic PE; Green NW; Zhang Y; Smith RW; Kolker AS; Ameen A; King G; Ojwang L; Schneider C; Normand A; Hetland R. Impacts of diverted freshwater on dissolved organic matter and microbial communities in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, U.S.A. Marine Environmental Research. 72(5), 248-257.
Talks
2013 Green NW; Zhang Y; Sleighter RL; Hatcher PG; Cook RL; Bianchi TS; Perdue EM. FTICR mass spectroscopic analysis of dissolved organic matter that was isolated by coupled reverse osmosis/electrodialysis from pristine and oil-impacted sites in Barataria Bay, Lousiana. American Chemical Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
2011 Green N; Chen H; Niggemann; Butler K; Stubbins A; Dittmar T; Aiken GR; Perdue EM. Inter-comparision of methods for isolation of marine dissolved organic matter from the North Pacific at Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA. School of Earth and Atmospheric Science Graduate Student Symposium. Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, GA.
2011 Green N; Chen H; Niggemann J; Butler K; Stubbins A; Dittmar T; Aiken GR; Perdue EM. Intercomparison of methods for isolation of marine dissolved organic matter from the North Pacific at Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA. Humic Science & Technology XIV Conference. Boston, MA.
2010 Green N. RO/ED Method for Isolating Dissolved Organic Matter from Seawater. School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 4th Year Colloquium. Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, GA.
2009 Green N; Perdue EM; Teja AS. Recovery of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) From Seawater Using Reverse Osmosis and Electrodialysis (RO/ED). American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting. Nashville, TN.
2009 Green NW; Shantz A; Chen H; Teja AS; Mao JD; Mopper K; Hatcher PG; Stubbins AP; Perdue EM. Poster — Isolation of marine DOM using coupled reverse osmosis and electrodialysis. Unknown Knowns & Known Unknowns: Chemical Oceanography in a Changing World. Savannah, GA.
Teaching
2011 Lab Instructor Introduction to Environmental Science
2010 Lab Instructor Geochemistry
2009 Assistant Thermodynamic II
2008 Assistant Thermodynamic II
2007 Lab Instructor Computational Techniques in Chemical Engineering
Skills
Lab
Pilot Reverse Osmosis; Electrodialysis; Cation exchange; Filtration; Centrifugation; Environmental sampling (CTD, rivers); Process measurement
Bench High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC); Ion chromatography (IC);UV-vis spectroscopy; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Total organic carbon (TOC); Total dissolved nitrogen (TDN); Conductivity; Acidity (pH); vapor pressure osmometry (vpo); Atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS); Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES); Colorimetry; Gravimetry; Potentiometry
Collaboration Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR-MS); 13C NMR
Computer
Analysis Chromeleon (HPLC); CHOFIT (developed for ft-icr-ms formula assignment); PARAFAC (Fluorescence); Principal component analysis (PCA); Clustering (HCA)
Programming Visual BASIC; Pascal; MATLAB; R; C++
Simulation MINTEQ; STELLA; HYSYS/Aspen
General MS Office; HTML; CSS
Honors
Presidential Fellowship Georgia Institute of Technology 2007-2011
Putnam Scholar Kansas State University 2003-2007
Omega Chi Epsilon Kansas State University 2007
Steel Ring Kansas State Unveristy 2007
Courses
Global Biogeochemical Cycles; Organic Geochemistry; Aqueous Geochemistry; Advanced Process Systems Engineering; Biochemical Engineering (undergrad)
Memberships
IHSS International Humic Substances Society 2010-Present
AXE Alpha Chi Sigma 2006-Present
AICHE American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2006-2014
ACS American Chemical Society 2008-2014
SIAM Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2011-2012
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