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Phillip Barak Professor Chair, Information Technology Committee (Sep 2006 - current) Interim Assistant Dean (Oct 2006 - May 2007) Professional Soil Scientist, licensed, State of Wisconsin Tel: 608 263-5450 |
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Of current interest:
Report on struvite
crystallization in wastewater treatment plants for nutrient recovery in UW
publications: Grow (CALS glossy), Wisconsin Week (official UW
newspaper), and University Communications
news release and
associated photos.
Struvite crystallization on Langmuir monolayers,
self-assembled monolayers, and cation exchange membranes as a means to recover
and recycle phosphorus from wastewater (municipal sewage and agricultural
manure) as a high-value fertilizer material (US Patent No. 7,182,872; issued 27
Feb 2007.)
M.L. Jackson's Soil Chemical Analysis:
Advanced Course has been rekeyed from the last (1985) edition and
reprinted, with a new introduction and commemorative material. See
GoogleBookSearch
for sample pages and here for ordering
information.
Experiments with ICE's Polyhedral Model Kit, remanufacturing
connectors for more precise assembly of aluminosilicates.
ScientificAmerican.com selected
The Virtual Museum of Minerals and
Molecules as a WINNER of the 2003 Sci/Tech Web Awards. "Each year, our
editors review over a thousand web sites and select the 50 they deem the most
innovative, creative and valuable as science and technology resources for our
readers. This year your web site has been selected as one of the best of its
kind."
College press release,
"Acid Linked
To Soil Aging", 3 Mar 1999
EDUCAUSE/ASA Medal
Award, 26 Oct 1999
Other webpages of interest: |
The Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules: Jmol models of minerals and molecules of interest to soil science and related fields. Plant Nutrition Management: Course Web pages SPECIES--a spreadsheet chemical speciation model 3-D Soil Landscape Models in VRML --illustrations for a manuscript published in Soil Science Local monitoring of Japanese Beetles--citizen scientist at work. |
Soil chemistry of plant nutrients, plant nutrition, and scientific visualization. Ongoing projects:
Barak's Virtual Poster Gallery
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Link to Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Last modified 1 Jul 2009 by Phillip Barak.