Students in Dixon Group - December, 2007
Current Students
Name  Project Type Tentative
Graduation
Date
Monique Bastitas
Use of HPLC-ACD to determine monosaccharide composition of oligosaccharides (joint with Dr. Peavy)
B.A., Biochemistry 5/09
Deby Harris
Use of FIA-ACD for as an improved surrogate measure of total dissolved solids in water
B.B, Chemistry
5/08
Noah Kiedrowski
HPLC method development for quantifying glycoprotein oligosaccharides (joint with Dr. Peavy) M.S., Biological Sciences
5/09
Lillian Jaquinod
Use of HPLC-ACD to determine fatty acids and triglycerides M.S., Chemistry
12/08
Chun-chieh Lin
Use of HPLC with multiple detectors for determination of methoxyphenols in wood smoke M.S., Chemistry 5/08
Eldridge Walker
Development of an FIA-ACD Method for Determination of Hexane Extractable Material
B.S., Chemistry 5/09

Past Students
Name  Project(s) Type Graduation Date
Meenal Abhyankar Examination of tracers of forest fire smoke during August 2002 smoke episode
M.S., Chemistry
8/07
Gregor Baltzell HPLC method development for analysis of carbohydrates
and dicarboxylic acids and Chemical instrumentation electronics lab
B.S., Chemistry 5/03?
Tom Boyce
HPLC method development for quantifying glycoprotein oligosaccharides
B.S., Chemistry 5/07
Dinesh Chand Method development for analysis of PBDEs in fish (Project at California Dept. of  Toxic Substances Control)
M.S., Chemistry 5/05
Jennifer Cruz
Determination of Monosaccharide Concentrations in Winter Central Valley Aerosol Samples
M.S., Chemistry

Jessica Dean Chemical instrumentation electronics lab B.S., Chemistry 5/03
Karen Goodwin Development of HPLC detectors based on aerosol charging B.S., Chemistry 12/06
John Harris  Methodology for Remediation of Lead Contaminated Soils
Open University N.A.
Tiffany Hester Testing and Use of Methods Used to Determine Concentrations
of Potassium in Aerosol Samples from Biomass Combustion
B.A., Chemistry
(Forensic Chem.)
12/02
Matt Jauregui Development of Methods to Segregate Atmospheric Aerosol
Mass using Solid Phase Extraction
B.S., Chemistry 5/03
Mui Lay
Testing of a new HPLC detector using aerosol photoionization
B.A., Chemistry
(Forensic Chem.)
5/07
Max Louie
Use of HPLC with UVD for detection of methoxyphenols from wood smoke
B.A., Chemistry
(Forensic Chem.)
5/07
Allan Morrison Development of HPLC detectors based on aerosol charging M.S., Chemistry
Mohammad Naeem Chemical instrumentation electronics lab M.S., Electrical
Engineering

Kelley Paxton FIA -ACD development work B.S., Chemistry 12/02
Cuom Pham ACD Instrument Development B.S., Chemistry 12/00
Jonathon Pollack Development of Flow Injection Analysis Methods for Determination of Mass Concentrations in Atmospheric Aerosols B.S., Chemistry 5/03
Andro Rios Development of methods for analysis of polymeric carbohydrates B.S., Chemistry 5/05
Lori Thomas
Work toward the analysis of levoglucosan in urine
B.A., Chemistry (Forensic Chem.) 5/07
Edgar Vidrio
Kinetics of the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of levoglucosan
Development of HPLC detectors based on aerosol charging
B.A., Chemistry (Forensic Chem.) 5/05
Kizzy Whitfield An initial study of the kinetics of acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of levoglucosan B.S., Chemistry 5/03
Roger Wong
Development of HPLC detectors based on aerosol charging B.A., Chemistry
(Biochem.)
5/04