Geology & Planetary Science
401 SRCC
4107 O'Hara Street
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

412-624-8873

rcapo@pitt.edu

Degree

PhD in Geochemistry, 1990
University of California at Los Angeles
Curriculum Vitae

Research Areas

• Radiogenic isotope tracking of environmental processes
• Geochemistry of acid mine drainage
• Evolution of soils in arid environments
• Environmental impact and recycling of energy byproducts

Research Web site

Courses Offered

• GEOL 0860 Environmental Geology
  Introduction to environmental geology for beginning majors and non-majors. Offered every fall term.
• GEOL 1515 Environmental Geochemistry
  Cycling, transport, and removal of chemicals from the atmosphere, hydrosphere and terrestrial environments. For upper-level undergraduates. Offered every fall term.
  

Representative Publications

Liu, R. Wolfe, A.L., Dzombak, D.A., Stewart, B.W., and Capo, R.C. (2008). Comparison of dissolution under oxic acid drainage conditions for eight sedimentary and hydrothermal pyrite samples. Environmental Geology, DOI 10.1007/s00254-007-1149-0; 12p.

Wolfe, A.L., Liu, R., Stewart, B.W., Capo, R.C. and Dzombak, D.A. (2007) A method for generating uniform size-segregated pyrite particle fractions. Geochemical Transactions 8:9, DOI:10.1186/1467-4866-8-9.

Homsey, L.K., and Capo, R.C. (2006) Integrating geochemistry and micromorphology to identify feature function at Dust Cave, a Paleoindian through Middle Archaic site in Northwest Alabama. Geoarcheology 21, 237-269.

Kairies, C.L., Capo, R.C., and Watzlaf, G.R. (2005) Chemical and physical properties of iron hydroxide precipitates associated with passively treated coal mine drainage in the bituminous region of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Applied Geochemistry 20, 1445-1460.

Winters, W.R. and Capo, R.C. (2004) Groundwater flow parameterization of an Appalachian coal mine complex. Ground Water 42, 700-710.

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