Research Chemist, USDA Agricultural Research Service
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Cathleen Hapeman is a research chemist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service. She works in the Environmental Management and Byproduct Utilization Laboratory at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, where she served for eight years as Research Leader of the Environmental Quality Lab. She has been involved in basic and applied research concerning the fate of pollutants, combining an expertise in chemical and environmental processes with practical experience of agricultural practices and acquired regulatory knowledge. Her current research examines pollutant fate and transport at the agriculture-urban interface and as a function of land use changes, such as conservation practices and bioenergy production. Her projects include investigating how agricultural land use changes affect air and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay region, evaluating the effectiveness of natural resource conservation practices within the Choptank River Watershed, and determining atmospheric loadings of organic pollutants in South Florida. Dr. Hapeman received her Ph.D. in mechanistic organic photochemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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