Thomas Duster

Dr. Tom Duster
Assistant Teaching Professor • Associate Director of Graduate Programs
Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences
thomas.duster@ucdenver.edu

Mailing Address:
Dept. of Geography & Environmental Sciences
Campus Box 172
P.O. Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364

Physical Location:
Auraria Campus
North Classroom Building
Room 3518-B

Fields of Interest:

Water quality and treatment; fate, transport, and removal of dissolved metals and radionuclides; western water and soil management; community-based scientific boards; visual teaching tools

Biography

Dr. Thomas Duster is an Assistant Teaching Professor and the Associate Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver. He has expertise in water and soil geochemistry, as well as community-based water management and visual teaching tools. Before joining CU Denver, he served as an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow and staff scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder. His extensive professional background also includes many years as an environmental consultant working on soil and water issues in California and Wyoming. Tom holds a PhD in Environmental Geoscience from the University of Notre Dame, an MSc in Environmental Biogeochemistry from Newcastle University, and a BS in Aquatic Wildlife Biology from the University of Montana. 

Education

PhD, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences | University of Notre Dame | 2013
MSc, Environmental Biogeochemistry | Newcastle University (England) | 2004
BS, Aquatic Wildlife Biology | University of Montana | 2001

Duster, T. A., Szymanowski, J. E. S., & Fein, J. B. (2017). Experimental Measurements and Surface Complexation Modeling of U(VI) Adsorption onto Multilayered Graphene Oxide: The Importance of Adsorbate–Adsorbent Ratios. Environmental Science & Technology, 51(15), 8510-8518. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b05776 

Duster, T. A., Na, C., Bolster, D., & Fein, J. B. (2017). Transport of Single-Layered Graphene Oxide Nanosheets through Quartz and Iron Oxide–Coated Sand Columns. Journal of Environmental Engineering (New York, N.Y.), 143(2). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001156 

Duster, T. A. (2016). An Integrated Approach to Standard Methods, Materials, and Databases for the Measurements Used To Develop Surface Complexation Models. Environmental Science & Technology, 50(14), 7274-7275. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b02669 

Showalter, A. R., Duster, T. A., Szymanowski, J. E. S., Na, C., Fein, J. B., Bunker, B. A. (2017). An X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy Study of Metal Sorption to Graphene Oxide. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 508, 75-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2017.08.040 

Duster, T. A., Szymanowski, J. E. S., Na, C., Showalter, A. R., Bunker, B. A., & Fein, J. B. (2015). Surface Complexation Modeling of Proton and Metal Sorption onto Graphene Oxide. Colloids and Surfaces. A, Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 466, 28-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2014.10.049 

Duster, T. A., & Fein, J. B. (2014). Comparison of the Aggregation Behavior of TiO2 Nanoparticles Exposed to Fulvic Acid and Bacillus subtilis Exudates. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 225(11), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-014-2189-1 

ENVS 5410: Aquatic Chemistry
BIOL/ENVS 4/5780: Aquatic Ecology
ENVS/GEOG 4/5740: Soil Science & Geography
ENVS 1044/1045: Introduction to Environmental Science
GEOL 1073/1074: Physical Geology