DR. DANIEL BAIN

Position: Assistant Professor
Degree: Ph.D. (2004)
Institution: Johns Hopkins University

Specialty: Human driven hydrological, landscape, and geo-chemical change in urban and fluvial systems; Development of non-traditional stable isotopes as probes of human systems
Research Group(s): Hydrology; Geochemistry

Office: SRCC-414
Phone: 412-624-8766
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Research Interests:

Dr. Bain's research on historic land use change in the Baltimore region focuses on the impacts on fluvial systems and trace metal cycling. Included in this work is research on urban fluvial systems, understanding Baltimore's industrial past, and understanding the associated environmental legacy. His research also includes measurement of non-traditional stable isotopes, which allow an understanding of metal cycling in the environment. For example, the study of isotopic systematics of chromium (Cr) during oxidation by manganese oxides is important for understanding human and ecosystem exposure to the toxic hexavalent Cr species.

Recent/Significant Publications:

Bain, D. J., and G. S. Brush. 2008. Gradients, Property Templates, and Land Use Change. Professional Geographer 60(2)

Bain, D. J., and G. S. Brush. 2005. Early chromite mining and agricultural clearance: Opportunities for the investigation of agricultural sediment dynamics in the Eastern Piedmont (USA). American Journal of Science 305:957-981.

Bain, D. J., and G. S. Brush. 2004. Placing the pieces: Reconstructing the original property mosaic in a warrant and patent watershed. Landscape Ecology 19:843-856.

Groffman, P. M., D. J. Bain, L. E. Band, K. T. Belt, G. S. Brush, J. M. Grove, R. V. Pouyat, I. C. Yesilonis, and W. C. Zipperer. 2003. Down by the riverside: urban riparian ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1:315-321.