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Patricia Maurice (pmaurice@nd.edu) is a Professor Emerita in the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. \u00a0She enjoys traveling, hiking, writing, quilting, and spending time with friends and family. \u00a0Patricia currently serves as Editor in Chief of Wiley’s Encyclopedia of Water: Science, Technology, and Society, and on a variety of international panels and advisory boards. \u00a0She has (co)authored over 120 published scientific articles\/book chapters and is the sole author of the 2009 textbook \u00a0Environmental Surfaces and Interfaces from the Nanoscale to the Global Scale (Wiley). Patricia is also the author of several children’s books, the first of which, Poems to Grow By, is currently available at LULU.com.\"\"<\/p>\n\n\n

PATRICIA A. MAURICE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences<\/em>, <\/strong>University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research focuses on interactions of minerals, metals, organic matter, nanoparticles and bacteria at the molecular scale to the watershed scale<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994             Ph.D. in Aqueous and Surface Geochemistry, Dept. of Applied Earth Sciences, Stanford University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1985              M.S. Geology\/Geophysics, Dartmouth College        <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1982              B.A., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMPLOYMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017-2022       Editor-in-Chief, The Water Encyclopedia, Wiley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016-               Professor emerita,  CEEES, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2003-15           Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sciences, University of Notre Dame\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Associate Chair, 2011-2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                        Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering 2008-2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                        Director, Center for Environmental Science and Technology 2003-2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                        Faculty Fellow, Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                        Faculty Fellow, Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000-2003       Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994-2000       Assistant then Associate Professor, Dept. of Geology, Kent State University, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                        Honors College Faculty member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fall, 1998        Visiting scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratories <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1985-1989 Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, New Jersey District<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (> 130 total)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hering, J.G., Green, S. A., Heckmann, L., Katehi L. P.B., Maurice, P.A., and Young, S. A. 2022. A call for an alliance between female academic leaders and early career researchers to improve the academic STEM System. Elephant in the Lab. 4 May 2022. doi:10.5281\/zenodo.6514731<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maurice, P.A. 2021. How to stop the hemorrhaging of senior women in STEM. 500womenscientistsfribourgen.ch. December 10, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maurice, P.A. 2020. Encyclopedia of Water: Science, Technology, and Society, 5 Volume set, Wiley. Editor (and author of 6 chapters).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Werellepath, K., Kuhn, K., Maurice, P.A., and Bunker, B. 2019. Nanoparticle size effects on Cadmium uptake on hematite. Environmental Engineering Science, 8, 883-891.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maurice, P.A. 2016. The Baby-Before-Tenure Question. The Chronicle of Higher Education.  August, 2016 edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maurice. P.A. and Peterson, B. 2015. How to be an ethical engineer in an often unethical world. J. Catholic Higher Education<\/em> 34: 173-193.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Green, N.W., McInnis, D.M., Hertkorn, N., Maurice, P.A., and Perdue, E.M. 2015. Suwannee River natural organic matter: isolation of the 2R101N reference sample by reverse osmosis. Environmental Engineering Science <\/em>32, 38.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kuhn, K.M., Neubauer, E., Hofmann, T., von der Kammer, F., Aiken, G.R., and Maurice, P.A. 2015. Concentrations and distributions of metals associated with dissolved organic matter from the Suwannee River (GA, USA). Environmental Engineering<\/em> Science<\/em>, 32 (1), 54-65.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kuhn, K.,  Neubauer, E., Hofman, T., von der Kammer, F., and Maurice, P.A. 2014. Accessibility of humic-associated Fe to a microbial siderophore: implications for Bioavailability, Environmental Science & Technology<\/em>. 48: 1015-1022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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McInnis, D., Bolster, D., and Maurice, P.A. 2014. Natural Organic Matter Transport Modeling with a Continuous Time Random Walk Approach. Environmental Engineering Science<\/em>, 31: 98-106.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dehner, C., Morales-Soto, N., Behera, R.K., Shrout, J., Theil, E.C., Maurice, P.A. and Dubois, J.L., 2013. Ferritin and ferrihydrite nanoparticles as iron sources for Pseudomonas aeruginosa<\/em>. J. of Biological Inorganic Chemistry<\/em>. 18, 3, 371-381.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seders-Dietrich, L., McInnis, D., Bolster, D., and Maurice, P.A. 2013. Effect of polydispersity on natural organic matter transport: An experimental and modeling study. Water Research, <\/em>47, 7, 2231-2240.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kuhn, K., Dubois, J.L., and Maurice, P.A. 2013. Strategies of aerobic microbial Fe acquisition from Fe-bearing montmorillonite clay. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta<\/em>, 117, 191-201.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kuhn, K., Dehner, C.A., Dubois, J. L., and Maurice, P.A. 2012. Iron acquisition from natural organic matter by an aerobic Pseudomonas mendocina <\/em>bacterium: siderophores and cellular iron status. Geomicrobiol.<\/em> 29, 9, 780-791.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Barton, L.E., Grant, K., Quicksall, A.N., and Maurice, P.A. 2012. Effects of hematite nanoparticle size on siderophore-mediated dissolution.  Geomicrobiology<\/em>, 29, 4, 314-322. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Barton, L.E., Grant, K.E., Kosel, T., Quicksall, A.N., and Maurice, P.A. 2011 Size dependent Pb sorption to nanohematite in the presence and absence of a microbial siderophore: effects of experimental design on sorption edges. ES&T<\/em> 45, 3231-3237.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dehner, C.A., Barton, L.E., Maurice, P.A., and Dubois, J.L. 2011. Size-dependent\u00a0bioavailability of hematite (a-Fe2<\/sub>O3<\/sub>) nanoparticles to a common aerobic bacterium.\u00a0ES&T,<\/em>\u00a045, 977-983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schindler, M., Hawthorne, F.C., Mandaliev, P., Burns, P.C., and Maurice, P.A. 2011. An  integrated study of uranym mineral dissolution processes: etch pit formation, effects of cations in solution, and secondary precipitation. Radiochimica Acta<\/em> 99, 2, 79-94.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dehner, C. A.,  Awaya, J.D., Maurice, P.A., and DuBois, J.L. 2010. Use of sideropohores, oxalate, and reductants for iron mobilization from the mineral hematite by the obligate aerobe Pseudomonas mendocina.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology<\/em>, 76, 2041-2048.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maurice, P.A. 2009. Environmental Surfaces and Interfaces from the Nanoscale to the Global Scale. A textbook.  John Wiley & Sons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hochella, M.F., Jr., Lower, S.K., Maurice, P.A., Penn, R.L., Sahai, N., Sparks, D.L., and Twining, B.S. 2008 Nanominerals, mineral nanoparticles, and Earth chemistry. Science<\/em> 319: 1631-1635.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorary Chair, Humic Science & Technology Conference, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviewer Award, 2009 ES&T <\/em>for outstanding technical reviews<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certificate of \u2018outstanding service\u2019 to the National Research Council committee on <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Integrated Observatories for Hydrologic and Related Sciences, 2007 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presidential Award<\/em>, University of Notre Dame, 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow, University of Notre Dame, 2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johns Hopkins University Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, L.F. Bissell full scholarship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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