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Michael graduated from Escanaba Area High School in Escanaba. He also graduated from Bay de Noc Community college in 2007 with an Associate of Applied Science degree in Water Resource Management. Michael’s senior research project was studying the effects of cement powder on soil and water quality. This study helped a cement company based in Marquette, Michigan get a better idea of the quality of their waste product. Michael is an active member of the American Water Works Association – Michigan Section. He plans to find a job in the water treatment field, he currently resides in Escanaba, Michigan.

Michael Kamin
Environmental Management

Environmental Chemistry

HAZWOPER Certification, just one of the many hands-on training opportunities available for our students

Facilities

See for yourself!

The Environmental Chemistry program uses a full compliment of analytical chemical instrumentation. Our undergraduate students use these instruments in both in their laboratory experiences and to support their senior research projects.

Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICPMS)
Cleanroom - dedicated to support trace elemental analysis using ICMPS
New January 2005, Purge and Trap GCMS
Microwave Digester
Gas Chromatographs (FID)
High Performance Liquid Chromatography
60MHz NMR
Graphite Furnace/Flame Ionization Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
Infrared Spectrophotometers
Diode Array UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
Elemental Analyzer
Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
Ion Chromatograph)
HEPA & Perchloric Acid hoods

Students using a clean room for trace elemental analysis using ICMPS

We would enjoy the opportunity to discuss careers in the chemical sciences with you. During a campus visit, be sure to ask to speak with the Environmental Chemistry Department. We would like to show you our excellent facilities and take the time to discuss some of the exciting research projects now underway.

Partnerships

Chemistry Professor Barbara Keller (right) talks with Jim Hettinger (arms folded, center) and Karl Dehn (left) of Battle Creek Unlimited as they tour LSSU's Environmental Research Laboratory. The two were on campus to review LSSU facilities and discuss the possibility of forming a partnership with LSSU for work with a National Center for Food Protection.

Impact in the real world...

Rachel Claucherty-Arnold

What made Rachel's Lake Superior State experience so unique was the practical research she did with top-notch faculty. "I really enjoyed working with environmental chemistry professor Judy Westrick and biologist Deb Stai," Rachel says. "For my senior project, we evaluated a lab method for cultivating a fungus that causes infections in humans." [ more ]

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