Derek Peak
Associate Professor
Environmental Soil Chemistry
Office: AGRIC 5D04
Phone: 306 966-6806
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Current Research Group Members
Gourango Kar, Ph.D Student
"P Speciation in Saskatchewan soils receiving a variety of manure-amendments"
Sarker Mahmoud, Ph.D Student
"In situ kinetics of sulfate adsorption on iron oxides monitored via ATR-FTIR"
Jordan Hamilton, M.Sc. Student
"Synchrotron-based Speciation of Zn in a smelter-contaminated soil undergoing revegetation"
Courtney Phillips, M.Sc. Student
"Probing copper(II)-ligand interactions in aqueous systems in situ using soft x-rays and ATR-FTIR"
Research Group Alumni
Dr. James Dynes, Post-doctoral Fellow 2010. "Copper (II) reaction with short range order aluminum oxides formed in the presence of tannate."
Abhishek Mandal, M.Sc. 2008. "Arsenite and Arsenate sorption on nanometer-sized CaCO3 minerals"
Gourango Kar, M.Sc. 2007. "P Speciation in Biosolids-amended Soils"
Peta-Gaye Burnett M.Sc. 2006. "Thermophilic microorganisms for removal of trace metals from waste effluents"
Dani Xu M.Sc. 2006. "Probing boron reactivity with soil minerals and soil organic matter with FT Raman and FTIR spectroscopy"
Guiyin Zhang Post Doctoral Fellow. 2006. "ATR-FTIR spectroscopic studies of oxyanion reactivity on iron oxides"