19 More Faculty News TINGYING XU ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Environmental Geochemistry, Hydrogeochemistry and Metal (Bio) Geochemistry Greetings! 2024 marks my fourth year at OSU, and it’s been a rewarding one for my research group. We’ve stayed busy working on multiple projects funded by the NSF, ACS PRF, EPA, and USDA. I’m thrilled to share that my NSF CAREER grant was selected for funding—this exciting five-year project on fungal manganese oxidation will be featured in an upcoming spotlight article. My group has grown to include two Ph.D. students, one postdoc, and four undergraduates. I’m currently recruiting two additional graduate students to join us. On the teaching side, I offered Environmental Geology and Human Health in Spring 2024 with updated content, and I was encouraged by the positive student feedback. I plan to continue offering it annually and hope it will inspire more undergraduates to join the Geology program. I’m grateful to be part of the BPSoG community and look forward to continued collaboration and discovery. This year, I successfully finished my teaching duties in the department, which spans from teaching non-major freshmen and sophomore physical geology to teaching senior undergraduates and graduate students physical hydrogeology. The new hydrogeology computing lab in the Noble Research Center is starting to take shape, and we are expanding our research capacity by building apparatus for lab-scale1D flow-through column experiment and 2D sand tank experiment. Two new PhD students joined my research group to work on the Enhanced Aquifer Recharge project, and another postdoc is about to join us soon in 2025. We began collecting water and soil samples from the field and started to develop the refined, sitespecific groundwater flow model for the site. I started to serve as the hydrogeology representative in the Joint Technical Program Committee of the Geological Society of America for FY 25 and 26. Looking forward to a more fulfilling year in 2025. YIPENG ZHANG ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Hydrogeology, Basin Scale Numerical Modeling, Groundwater in Geologic Processes and Induced Seismicity spring.2025
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