Member of the Faculty
Ph.D. Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Graduate School, CUNY
Ph.D. SUNY Stony Brook
Office SB E-204
Telephone: (718) 997-3073
Fax: (718) 997-3299

Research Interests

Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry. My research explores the behavior of inorganic and organic contaminants in aqueous geochemical settings such as soils, sediments and aquifers. The mechanisms and kinetics of contaminant interactions with common mineral phases determine the mobility and bioaccessibility of these species in natural systems. Understanding these processes has important implications for predicting the fate of contaminant species in the environment.

Specific Interests Include:

1. Competitive interactions of biologically essential and toxic metals with biomimetic minerals
2. The role of naturally occurring soil organics in contaminant-mineral interactions
3. Hydrothermal mineralization for recovery of inorganics from polluted waters
4. Temperature effects of contaminant-mineral interactions

A list of courses taught:

Undergraduate

• GEOL 270 Geochemistry of the Global Environment

Graduate

• GEOL 799.3 Environmental Geochemistry
• GEOL 766 Techniques in Analytical Geochemistry

Selected Publications

Rouff A.A., S. Rabe, M. Nachtegaal and F. Vogel. X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Study of the Effect of Protonation on Disorder and Multiple Scattering in Phosphate Solutions and Solids. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 113, 6895-6903.

Vogel F., M.H. Waldner, A.A. Rouff and S. Rabe (2007) Synthetic Natural Gas from Biomass by Catalytic Conversion in Supercritical Water. Green Chemistry, 9, 616-619.

Rouff A.A., E.J. Elzinga, R.J. Reeder and N.S. Fisher (2005) The Influence of pH on the Kinetics, Reversibility, and Mechanisms of Pb(II) Sorption at the Calcite-Water Interface. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69, 5183-5196.

Rouff A.A., E.J. Elzinga, R.J. Reeder and N.S. Fisher (2004) X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic  Evidence for the Formation of Pb(II) Inner-Sphere Adsorption Complexes and Precipitates at the Calcite-Water Interface. Environmental Science & Technology, 38, 1700-1707.

Elzinga, E.J., A.A. Rouff and R.J. Reeder (2006) The Long-Term Fate of Cu2+, Zn2+, and Pb2+Adsorption Complexes at the Calcite Surface: An X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 2715-2725.