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Thomas C. Harmon
Associate Professor
5732G Boelter Hall
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
tharmon@ucla.edu
Phone: (310)206-3735

EDUCATION
B.S., (1985), The Johns Hopkins University
M.S., (1986), Stanford University
Ph.D., (1992), Stanford University

AWARDS AND HONORS

Faculty Career Development Award, UCLA, 1995
American Geophysical Union Horton Research Grant, 1988

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My general research interests involve the fate and transport of contaminants in natural and engineered environmental systems. These interests include equilibria and mass transfer issues associated with adsorption/desorption, dissolution and volatilization of contaminants in soils, sediments, groundwater and in the context of physical, chemical and biological processes.

My research comprises both experimental and computational aspects. Specific current research topics include the following: (1) Applying networked sensing to environmental monitoring problems (see more). Measuring and modeling dense nonaqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) dissolution rates; (2) Assessing source zones using inverse modeling; (3) Demonstrating an in situ thermal desorption process for the removing semi- and nonvolatile organic contaminants from soils, (4) Developing environmental instructional software using multimedia and interactive database software. For more details and contacts on these projects, check out our research group page.