Paul P Schwab

Dir NRES/Pre-Envir Stud/Prof of Agry

Department: Agronomy
Phone: 765.496.3602
Office: Lilly 3-440 C
E-mail: pschwab@purdue.edu
Personal Web Page

Area of Expertise: Environmental Soil Chemistry; Director for the Natural Resources and Environmental Science (NRES) Program
Curriculum Vitae

NRES Web site | Pre-ES Web site

Research Areas:
Fate and transport of organic contaminants in soils
Chemistry of heavy metals in the soil environment

Teaching:
AGRY 555 - Soil and Plant Analysis
AGRY 598D - Chemistry of Metals in Soils
AGRY 598B – Environmental Geotechnology

Professional Experience:
1981-1983, Research Scientist, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Richland, WA
1983-1989, Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
1989-1994, Associate Professor, Kansas State University
1994-1997, Professor, Kansas State University
1998-present, Professor, Purdue University
2008-present, Director, Natural Resources and Environmental Science Program, Purdue University

Education:
B.S., 1976, Colorado School of Mines, Mineral Engineering – Chemistry
M.S., 1978, Colorado State University, Agronomy
Ph.D., 1981, Colorado State University, Soil Chemistry

Date joined staff: January 1998

- Recent Publications

Schwab, A. P., J. Hickey, J. G. Hunter, & M. K. Banks (2006). Characteristics of blast furnace slag leachate produced under reduced and oxidized conditions. Accepted in Journal of Environmental Science and Health.

Banks, M. K., A. P. Schwab, & C. Henderson (2006). Leaching and Reduction of Chromium in Soil as Affected by Soil Organic Content and Plants. Chemosphere, 62, 255-264.

Spriggs, T., M. K. Banks, & A. P. Schwab (2006). Reduction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the rooting zone of trees during phytoremediation of manufactured gas plant impacted soil. Journal of Environmental Quality.

Schwab, A. P., K. Lewis, & M. K. Banks (2006). Lead stabilization by phosphate amendments in soil impacted by paint residue. Journal of Environmental Science and Health.

Schwab, A. P., K. Lewis, & M. K. Banks (2006). Biosolids amended soils: Part II. chemical lability as a measure of contaminant bioaccessability in biosolids amended soils. Water Environment Research.

Schwab, A. P., W. Kyle, & M. K. Banks (2006). Heritability of phytoremediation potential for the alfalfa cultivar riley in petroleum contaminated soil. Water, Air and Soil Pollut.

Schwab, A. P. (2005). Department of Energy SBIR.

Schwab, A. P. (2005). NRI Soils and Soil Biology.

Schwab, A. P., Y. He, & M. K. Banks (2005). Influence of organic acids on retention of lead in soil. Chemosphere, 61(856-866).

Euliss, K. W., A. P. Schwab, & M. K. Banks (2005). Silica content of plants as an indirect measure of transpiration rate. Ecological Engineering, 25, 343-348.