Noel
R. Urban
Associate Professor
Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering
Telephone: (906)487-3640
Fax: (906) 487-2943
E-mail: nurban@mtu.edu
Education
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1987
M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1984
B.S. Environmental Engineering, Syracuse University, 1979
B.A. Russian Language and Culture,
Courses
CE3501 Environmental Engineering Fundamentals (not available)
CE3502 Environmental Monitoring,
Measurements and Data Analysis Spring 2008 (not yet)
CE4505 Surface Water Quality Engineering Fall 2007
CE4501 Environmental Engineering
Chemical Processes Lab (not available)
CE4905
Senior Design (not available)
CE5508 Biogeochemical
Processes (not available)
CE5991 Environmental Engineering
Seminar Fall 2006 (not available)
Research Interests
Environmental cycles of major and
trace elements; sediment diagenesis and stratigraphy; chemistry of natural
organic matter; wetland biogeochemistry; environmental impact and fate of
pollutants; influence of organisms on the chemical environment; role of
chemical environment in controlling populations.
Past Research Projects
Retention of
sulfur in lake sediments
Effects
of copper mining on wetlands, lakes, and terrestrial ecosystems
Wetland
Research
Carbon Cycling in
Phosphorus cycling in
Release of copper from stamp sands
into
Sediment-water exchange of nutrients in reservoirs
Use of naturally-occurring radionuclides as tracers of biogeochemical processes in L. Superior
Current
Research Projects
Sedimentation in
Recovery of sediments in
Recent publications
Schultz, P., Urban NR, 2007, Effects of bacterial dynamics on organic
matter decomposition and
nutrient release from sediments: A modeling
study, Ecol. Modeling,
doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel. 2007.06.026
Urban, NR, MT Auer, SA Green, D Apul, L Bub, KD Elenbaas, X Lu, 2005,
Carbon cycling in
L. Superior, J. Geophys. Res., 110(C6):
doi: 10.1029/2003JC002230 C06S90
Urban, NR, Apul,
D.S.,
J.
Urban, NR, Y Chai, J Jeong, 2004, The benthic
nepheloid layer (BNL) north of the Keweenaw
Peninsula in
J.
Urban, NR, X. Lu, Y. Chai, D. Apul, 2004, Sediment trap studies in
into
resuspension, cross-margin transport and carbon cycling, J.
Chai, Y, NR Urban, 2004, 210Po and 210Pb
distributions and disequilibria in the near-shore
region of
Russ, ME, Ostrom, NE, Ostrom, PH, Gandhi, H, Urban, NR, 2004, Temporal
and spatial variations
in R:P ratios in
109(C10), DOI:10.1029/2003JC001890, C10S12
Churchill, JH,
Ralph, EA, Cates, AM, Budd, JR, Urban, NR, 2002, Observations of a negatively
buoyant
river plume in a large lake, Limnol. Oceanogr. 48(2): 884-894
Urban,
NR, Monte, AE, 2001, Sulfur burial in and release from the sediments of
Urban, NR, Sampson, CJ, Brezonik, PL, Baker, LA, 2001, Sulfur cycling in the
water
column of
Urban,
NR, Ernst, K, Bernasconi, S, 1999, Incorporation of sulfur into organic
matter during early diagenesis of lake
sediments, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 63(6):837-853
Jeong, J, Urban, NR, Green, SA, 1999, Release of Copper from Mine Tailings on
the Keweenaw
Peninsula, J.
Urban, NR, Dinkel, C, Wehrli, B, 1997, Solute transfer across the sediment
surface of a
eutrophic lake:
Web Links
Research:
Coastal Ocean Program
Trout Lake
Limnological Station
Long-term Ecological Research Program
NSF
NADP/NTN
Scientific Organizations
American Society for Limnology
& Oceanography
American Geophysical Union
American Chemical Society
IAGLR
Environmental Literature, Information, etc.
Elsevier
Publications Table of Contents
Environmental Encyclopedia,
MSDS info
NOAA's Drought Information Center
NOAA Public Affairs
USDA News
USGS Streamflow Conditions
Great Lakes
Water Quality Trading Program
Great Lakes Information and Related Links
Great Lakes Commision
Great Lakes Information Network
Great Lakes Islands
Great Lakes Environmental Research
Laboratory
Great Lakes Laboratory
for Fisheries and Aquatic Studies, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada
Centre for Inland Waters
Great Lakes National Program Office,
U.S.EPA
Great Lakes Information
Management Resource
Great Lakes Buoy
Data
Great Lakes Surface
Temperatures
Coastal
Engineering
KITES Project
(L. Superior)
Michigan Sea
Grant
Maintained by N.R. Urban
Last updated September 2004