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<body> <table border="0" width="100%" height="251"> <tr> <td width="29%" height="262"><img src="../downey.gif" width="176" height="176"></td> <td width="9%" height="262"></td> <td width="38%" height="245"><font size="4" face="MS Sans Serif">Dr. Daniel M. Downey</font> <p><font size="3" face="MS Sans Serif">Analytical, Nuclear, and Environmental Chemistry</font></p> <p><font face="MS Sans Serif"><font size="2">Professor of Analytical, Nuclear, and Environmental Chemistry<br> <a href="http://www.jmu.edu">James Madison University<br> </a>email: <a href="mailto:downeydm@jmu.edu">downeydm@jmu.edu</a><br> phone: 540-568-6635<br> fax: 540-568-7938 </font></font></td> </tr> </table> <p><font face="MS Sans Serif"><b>Research Interests: </b>Dr. Downey’s research is primarily in the area of environmental analytical chemistry. He is also interested in the analytical use of radioactive materials and in chemical separations. For more than ten years, he and his students have worked on acid deposition (acid rain) projects. The most important projects have involved mitigating acidity in streams and lakes to protect and enhance fisheries and other aquatic life. An example of this type work may be found in the recent project of liming the streams in the St. Mary’s Wilderness in Augusta County, Virginia (<a href="http://csm.jmu.edu/st.marys">http://csm.jmu.edu/st.marys</a>). Projects have also been done on the impacts of gypsy moth defoliation on stream water chemistry, the fate and analysis of herbicides and pesticides, aquatic water chemistry habitat information for amphibians and threatened and enlarged species and other environmentally oriented projects. With his students who have worked on these projects, these research studies have been described in 67 papers presented at regional and national conferences and 50 publications in various journals. Funding has been obtained from the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the National Science Foundation and the USDA - Forest Service and other agencies. Instrumentation acquired for his work includes:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="MS Sans Serif">Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometer <font size="2">(</font><a href="http://csm.jmu.edu/csm/Resources/Chemistry_Resources/ICP-MS/icp-ms.html">http://csm.jmu.edu/csm/Resources/Chemistry_Resources/ICP-MS/icp-ms.html</a><font size="2">)</font></font></li> <li><font face="MS Sans Serif">Ion Chromatography</font></li> <li><font face="MS Sans Serif">Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometer</font></li> <li><font face="MS Sans Serif">Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometer</font></li> <li><font face="MS Sans Serif">High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph</font></li> <li><font face="MS Sans Serif">Gas Chromatograph</font></li> <li><font face="MS Sans Serif">Nuclear Spectrometry Laboratory</font></li> </ul> <p> </p> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="33%" align="center"><font size="3" face="MS Sans Serif"><a href="file:///A:/downey/DDvitae.htm">curriculum vitae</a></font></td> <td width="33%" align="center"><font size="3" face="MS Sans Serif"><a href="file:///A:/downey/DDcourses.htm">courses</a></font></td> <td width="34%" align="center"><font size="3" face="MS Sans Serif"><a href="http://www.jmu.edu/chemistry" target="_blank">chemistry</a></font></td> </tr> </table> <hr> <p align="right"><font face="MS Sans Serif"><i>l<font size="2">ast updated 07/05/03 <br> </font></i><font size="2">Department of Chemistry<br> James Madison University<br> Harrisonburg, VA 22807</font></font></p> <p> </p> </body>