Research Opportunities Available For Undergraduates and Masters Students!

Please contact Dr. Giebel if you are interested in working on projects involving environmental pollutants, microplastics, the soil microbiome, and at the intersection of the environment and human health.

Research in the Giebel Lab is motivated by the following questions: Can sources of organic contaminants to the environment be differentiated? Are there ‘hot-zones’ in the environment where organic contaminants accumulate? Under what environmental conditions are organic contaminants degraded and over what timescales? Can independent and/or simultaneous degradation products be identified and used as a proxy for natural attenuation?

Explore recent research projects in the areas of Environmental Forensics and Terrestrial Plastics, or view educational materials and resources developed by our lab for use by middle and high school students.

Principal Investigator Brian Giebel is also the Director of the Advanced Laboratory for Chemical and Isotopic Signatures (ALCIS)  at the CUNY ASRC, designed to support characterizations of molecular, elemental, and isotopic signatures of materials in modern and paleo-earth systems.