Jay Gan

Department Chair
Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Water Quality Specialist

Environmental fate, risk assessment and regulation of pesticides.
Processes of organic contaminants in ecosystems, including biotic and abiotic degradation, adsorption, bioavailability, aquatic bioaccumulation, and ecotoxicity.
Detoxification and remediation of pesticides.
Evaluation and development of best management practices.
Method development for trace contaminant analysis.

Graduate Students
- Robert Budd (Ph.D., Environmental Science Program)
- Wesley Hunter (Ph.D., Environmental Toxicology Program)
- Weiying Jiang (Ph.D., Environmental Science Program)
- Mae Nillos (Ph.D. student, Environmental Toxicology Program)
Other
- Svetlana Bonderanko - Assistant Project Scientist
- Xinyi Cui - Junior Specialist
- Laura Delgado Moreno - Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Kunde Lin - Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Yu Yang - Junior Specialist
- Katherine Thomason - Undergraduate Assistant
- Teresa Yates - Undergraduate Assistant

Gan, J., P. Zhu, S.D. Aust, and A.T. Lemley. Pesticide Decontamination and Detoxification. American Chemical Society Symposium Series 863, American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2003 (book).
Gan, J., Q. Wang, S.R. Yates, W.C. Koskinen and W.A. Jury. 2002. Dechlorination of chloroacetanilide herbicides by thiosulfate salts. PNAS (USA) 99: 5189-5194.
Bondarenko, S. and J. Gan. 2004. Degradation and adsorption of selected organophosphate and carbamate insecticides in urban stream sediments. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 23, 1809-1814.
Liu, W.P., J. Gan, D. Schlenk and W.A. Jury. 2005. Enantioselectivity in environmental safety of current chiral insecticides. PNAS (USA) 103: 701-706.
Gan, J., S. Bondarenko, F. Ernst, W. Yang, S.B. Ries, and D.L. Sedlak. 2006. Leaching of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in turfgrass soils during wastewater irrigation. J. Environ. Qual. 35: 277-284.
Yang, W.C., F. Spurlock, W.P. Liu, and J. Gan. 2006. Inhibition of aquatic toxicity of synthetic pyrethroids by suspended sediment. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 25: 1913-1919.