John and Susan Mathes Chair of Environmental Engineering, Professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering,  Director of Environmental Research Center for Emerging Contaminants

Location
220 Butler-Carlton Hall
1401 North Pine Street
Rolla, MO 65409

Phone: 573-341-4041
Fax: 573-341-4729
Email:   adams@mst.edu
Website : http://erc.mst.edu/

Education
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, University of Kansas,
M.S. Environmental Engineering, University of Kansas,1988
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Kansas,1983

Professional Registrations
Registered Professional Engineer
State of Kansas

Courses
Sustainability: Population, Energy, Water, and Materials, Chemical Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering, Public Health Engineering, Water Resources and Wastewater Engineering, Physicochemical Operations in Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems

Research Areas/Interests

• Fate, effects and control of antibiotics, endocrine disruptors and other organic compounds in drinking water, groundwater and wastewater treatment processes
• Development of oxidative and adsorption technology for water treatment
• Kinetic modeling of chemical reactions in aqueous systems
• Sustainable water and wastewater treatment in developed and developing nations
  

Honors and Awards

• 2008 Outstanding Teacher Commendations Award, Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly UMR)
• 2008 Engineers Make a World of Difference Award (The Society of American Engineers)
• 2005 ASCE State-of-the-Art Civil Engineering Award (American Society of Civil Engineers) for the paper: Adams, C.,  (2003) Control of Total Chloro-s-Triazines in Conventional Drinking Water Treatment Plants, in Special Edition of Practice Periodical for Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (ASCE), titles Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in the Environment (Guest Ed: C. Adams and A. Bhandari), 7(4), 281-188.
• 2005 Alumni Merit Award, MSM-UMR Alumni Association
• Initiated as a Chapter Honor Member of the Chi Epsilon (National Civil Engineering Honor Society) 2005
•  Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla (2004)
• Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Service to the Association of Environmental
  Engineering and Science Professors 2004
• University of Missouri-Rolla Distinguished Teaching Award 2003, 2004
• ASCE Rudolph Hering Medal winner (American Society of Civil Engineers) for "most valuable contribution to the increase of knowledge in, and to the advancement of, the environmental branch of the engineering profession" for the paper: Adams, C., Wang, Y., Loftin K., Meyer, M., (2002), Removal of Antibiotics form Surface and Distilled Water in Conventional Water Treatment Processes J. Environmental Engineering, 128:3, 253-260.

 Professional Activities

• Member, United States of America National Committee (USANC) of the International Water Association 2008
• Member, Scientific program Committee, IWA Chemical Industriers 2008 Conference, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES) of the Chinese A cademy of Sciences (CAS) and the China University of Petroleum (CUP), Beijing, PRC 2008
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Chongquing University (English Edition) 2008
• Faculty co- leader of UMR Engineers Without Borders Section (with emphasis on safe water and sanitation), 2006-Present
• Member, Board of Scientific Counselors, (BOSC) Subcommittee on Safe Pesticides/Safe Products Research, a Federal Advisory Committee for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (U.S. E.P.A.) Office of Research and Development 2006-Present 
• Member, Project Advisory Committee (PAC) for AwwaRF Project No. 3175 by Weinberg and Kransner, titled: Iodinated Acid and Iodide in Drinking water Supplies: Method Development for ng/L Levels of Detection Relevant for Application in Occurrence Surveys. 2005-Present
• Member, American Water Works Organic Contaminants Control Committee, 2003-Present
• Member, American Water Works Association, Contaminant Candidate List 3 (CCL3) Workgroup 2007-Present
• Associate Editor, Practice Periodical for Hazardous,Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (American Society of Civil Engineers), 2003-Present
• Member, Editorial Board of Ozone Science and Engineering (International Ozone Association), 2002-Present
• Co-Lead with Dr. J. Wang (UMR) in establishing Agreement of Academic Cooperation on Environmental Discipline Between the University of Missouri-Rolla, USA and the Harbin Institute of Technology. People's Republic of China (Signed Nov/Dec 2006) 2006
• Director Pan American group Board of Directors of the International Ozone Association 1994-2007
• Director, International Board of Directors of the International Ozone association 1993-2007

Selected Publications

Auriol, M., Filali-Meknassi, Y., Adams, C., Tyagi, R., Noguerol, T., Pina, B. (2008) Removal of estrogenic activity of natural and synthetic hormones from a municipal wastewater: Efficiency of horseradish peroxidase and laccase from Trametes versicolor, Chemosphere, 70, 445-452.

Patni, A., Ludlow, D., Adams, C. (2008) Characteristics of Ground Granular Activated Carbon for Rapid Small Scale Column Tests, J. Environmental Engineering, 131, 216-221.

Adams, C. (2008) Modeling Fate of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Sewage Treatment, Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste Management, 12, 2-9.

K. Loftin, C. Adams, M. Meyer, and R. Surampalli (2008) Effects of Ionic Strength, Temperature, and pH on Degradation of Selected Antibiotics, Journal of Environmental Quality, 37, 378-386.

Kurwadkar, S., Adams, C., Meyer, M., Kolpin, D. (2007) Effects of Sorbate Speciation on Sorption of Selected Sulfonamides in Three Loamy Soils, J. Agriculture and Food Chemistry, 55, 1370-1376.

Adams, C., Witt, E., Wang, J., Shaver, D., Summers, D., Filali-Meknassi, Y., Shi, H., Luna, R., Anderson, N. (2007) Chemical Quality of Depositional Sediments and Associated Soils in New Orleans and the Louisiana Peninsula following Hurricane Katrina, Environmental Science Technology, 41, 3437-3443.

Daigger, G., Adams, C., Stellar, H. (2007) Diffusion of Oxygen Through Activated Sludge Flocs: Experimental Measurement, Modeling, and Implications for Simultaneous Nitrification and Denitrification, Water Environmental Research, 79, 375-387.

Auriol, M., Filali-Meknassi, Y., Tyagi, R., Adams, C. (2007) Oxidation of Natural and Synthetic Hormones by the Horseradish Peroxidase Enzyme in Wastewater, Chemosphere. (in press; currently available on line)

Filali-Meknassi, Y., Auriol, M., Adams, C., Surampalli, R. (2007) Quantification of Steroid Sex Hormones using Solid-Phase Extraction followed by Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, Water Environment Research, 79 (in press; web preprint at “http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/wef/wer/pre-prints”)

Auriol, M., Filali-Meknassi, Y., Tyagi, Adams, C. (2007) Laccase-catalyzed Conversion of Natural and Synthetic Hormones from a Municipal Wastewater, Water Research. (in press; available on-line)