EESI Centers

Center for Environmental Kinetics Analysis (CEKA)

Susan L. Brantley, Director

The Center for Environmental Kinetics Analysis (CEKA) is a joint research and education initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Penn State . Funding for the initiative is provided by the NSF Divisions of Chemistry and Earth Sciences under the Environmental Molecular Science Institute Program (CHE-0431328). DOE partners are supported by the DOE Office of Science, Division of Environmental Remediation Sciences.

CEKA has opportunities for post docs and graduate students as well as a summer research experience for undergraduates. The initiative will deliver public outreach through museum exhibits, K-12 outreach through teaching modules, and professional outreach through short courses.

The goals of CEKA are:

To train a cohort of talented and diverse students to work on environmental problems at multiple scales
To collect and synthesize molecular data in a coherent framework that will allow the environmental community to predict the time evolution of complex environmental problems over various temporal and spatial scales
To develop and promote the use of new experimental techniques in environmental kinetics
To develop and promote the use of new modeling tools to conceptualize reaction kinetics in environmental systems
To communicate our understanding of issues related to environmental kinetics and issues of scale to the broader scientific community and to the public.

For more information about CEKA, please contact:

Susan L. Brantley
Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
The Pennsylvania State University
2217 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building , 225B
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814.865.1619
Email: brantley@essc.psu.edu
Web site: http://www.ceka.psu.edu