Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Science
Northern Arizona University
Box 5698
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5698
Office telephone:  928-523-7077
Home telephone:  928-526-6064
Cellular telephone:  928-699-4157
Email:  Richard.Foust@nau.edu

Academic Record

• University of California, Irvine, Postdoctoral Research Associate, 1971-72
• University of California, Santa Barbara, Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, 1971
• Penn State University, B.S., Chemistry, 1967

Scholarly Interests

• Biogeochemistry of environmental arsenic; fate and behavior of trace metals in the environment

Academic Appointments

• Visiting Professor, Chemistry Department and Barnett Institute of Chemical Analysis and Materials Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, Fall Quarter, 1995
• Fulbright Academic Specialist, University of Qatar, Doha, Qatar, 1994
• Visiting Professor, Tabbin Institute for Metallurgical Studies, Cairo, Egypt, 1992
• Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Environmental Chemistry Group, summers 1992, 1993
• Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Northern Arizona University, 1987–present
• Associate Professor of Chemistry, Northern Arizona University, 1975-87
• Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Northern Arizona University, 1972-1975

Administrative Experience

Program Officer, Chemistry Division, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, 2004-2006. I managed the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program (REU), the Undergraduate Research Collaboratives Program (URC) and the Research Sites for Educators in Chemistry Program (RSEC). As a member of the Special Projects Cluster I managed unsolicited proposals for workshops and conferences from scientific societies and national academies. I also managed chemistry division’s MPS Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the Informal Science and Education Program (IPSE). I was the MPS Directorate representative to the HBCU-UP program and assisted in soliciting and reviewing proposals for the HBCU-UP Targeted Infusion Program.

Director, John & Sophie Ottens’ Native American Student Research Awards Program, 2003-2004. The John and Sophie Ottens’ program provides scholarships to outstanding first- and second-year Native American students, encouraging them to participate in undergraduate research with a faculty member. As the first director of this program, I was responsible for recruiting and selecting qualified Native American students, and for identifying faculty mentors to work with these individuals.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions, 1990-2008. The HBCU/MI Environmental Technology Consortium consists of seventeen institutions with large ethnic minority enrollments (HBCUs, HSIs and MSIs). The consortium was formed in response for a need to train environmental professionals, and it was funded through a cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy. I worked with representatives from other consortium institutions to develop the Environmental Pre-College Analytical Chemistry Program (EMPAC) which operated sites at 10 consortium schools. I led the effort to develop 13 college-level courses that were used to train and update DOE employees through DOE’s Technical Qualifications Program. I helped to arrange a meeting between Secretary of Energy Federico Peña and presidents from the consortium schools, and I co-authored, with Dr. Ramesh Chawla, Howard University, the successful proposal to continue funding for the HBCU/MI ETC. I have served as NAU’s representative to the HBCU/MI ETC Steering Committee since 1998.

Radiation Safety Officer, Northern Arizona University, 1985-1990, 2000-2004. I established the radiation safety program at Northern Arizona University in 1985 and served two terms as the Radiation Safety Officer. I established a faculty advisory committee that reviewed research protocols and provided guidance to the Radiation Safety Office. I developed a course to train research students and new faculty members in the proper procedures for working with radioactive substances in research, and my office maintained records of all radioisotope purchases and inventories. My office also developed a program that educated custodial and university craftsmen about the potential hazards of working in the vicinity of radioactive materials.

Director, Ralph M. Bilby Research Center, Northern Arizona University, 1981-1990. The mission of the Ralph M. Bilby Research Center is to support and encourage original research by Northern Arizona University’s faculty, graduate and undergraduate students. As the first director of the Bilby Research Center I formed a faculty advisory committee to develop a list of goals and objectives, and to prioritize campus research needs, both immediate and long-term. An integral component of the BRC is an analytical support laboratory which houses major analytical instrumentation, available for use by researchers from all colleges and departments on campus. The BRC staff includes three technicians and a laboratory manager to maintain instrumentation and assist with data collection, a technical editor, a science illustrator and a science photographer. I worked with the Arizona state legislature to secure permanent state funding for the Bilby Research Center and its staff. I was the PI of a successful proposal to the U.S. Department of Education that provided funding for a university research greenhouse complex. To raise NAU’s profile in research, I organized a series of international scientific conferences. The Dynamics of Extinction conference, August 1983, was featured on the cover of Science and is considered a landmark in the field of paleontology. Three BRC organized conferences resulted in monographs by major publishers.

Director, Environmental Science Program, Northern Arizona University, 1978-82. NAU’s Environmental Science Program began in 1972, the result of a campus-wide effort to develop new interdisciplinary programs. The environmental science major consisted of six unique environmental science courses and included existing classes from traditional academic units. As director for the new program, I was responsible for negotiating with faculty to teach the classes, and deans and department chairs to have courses offered. I recommend that the environmental sciences program be moved from the College of Public and Environmental Services, in a 1981 reorganization, to the College of Arts and Sciences. The program evolved into the Center for Environmental Sciences, and currently has 180 undergraduate majors, and  graduates over 30 B.S. majors and 8 M.S. students annually. In 2005-2006 the Center for Environmental Sciences was second in the college, behind the department of Biological Sciences, in extramural funding. NAU’s Center for Environmental Sciences was recently honored with a Doris Duke Environmental Fellowship, placing the program in the elite company of Yale University, Duke University, the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Michigan.

Cairo, Egypt. I worked with faculty from Clark Atlanta University and Florida International University to train Egyptian technicians in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sampling protocol and chemical analysis methods for air and water testing. Support for this project was through the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the data collected supported a World Bank Project to evaluate the environmental quality of the Helwan district of Cairo, Egypt. April-June, 1992.

University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt. The Environmental Science Workshop was coordinated by Northeastern University and funded by the National Science Foundation. The workshop was held to develop a framework for environmental regulations in Egypt. December, 1993.

University of Qatar, Doha, Qatar. I was chosen to represent the United States to provide guidance with environmental clean-up to the Gulf States, following the first Gulf war. My visit was orchestrated by the U.S. Department of State, through the Fulbright Academic Specialist Program. May, 1994.

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I was an invited keynote speaker to the first meeting of the Saudi Environmental Society. The meeting was convened by Prince Majed Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and coordinated by King Faud Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. June, 1997.

Honors

• Faculty Advisor Award, Northern Arizona University, 1996.
• Fulbright Academic Specialist Appointment, 1994.
• Faculty Fellows, Northern Arizona University, 1989-90.
• National Science Teachers Association Search for Excellence in Science Education, Arizona winner, Energy Education, 1984.
• Danforth Foundation Associate, 1980-85.
• University of California Regents Fellowship, 1970-72.

Selected Publications and Presentations in Higher Education

• “A Web-Based Environmental Chemistry Course for Both On-Campus and Distributed Learning Students,” R. D. Foust, Jr., Symposium on Digital Resources for Environmental Chemistry, American Chemical Society 231st National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 13, 2006.
• “Undergraduate Research Collaboratives: Turning Undergraduates into Investigators,” R. L. Kuczkowski, R. D. Foust, Jr., C. A. Bessel, R. L. Christensen, K. McCarron and A. B. Ellis, Bridges, 10, Office of Science and Technology at the Embassy of Austria in Washington DC, June, 2006.
• “NSF’s Undergraduate Research Collaborative Program,” R. D. Foust, Jr., Council on Undergraduate Research Annual Meeting, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, June 2006.
• “Support of Undergraduate Research in the Chemical Sciences through National Science Foundation Programs,” R. D. Foust, Jr., Council on Undergraduate Research Annual Meeting, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, June 2006.
• “Support of Undergraduate Research in the Chemical Sciences through National Science Foundation Programs,” R. D. Foust, Jr. American Chemical Society 230th National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 25, 2006.
• “Community Colleges:  Role Models and Partners,” R. D. Foust, Jr., K. Fame, J. Hehn and J. Wesemann, American Association of Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2006.
• “Funding Opportunities in Chemistry for Young Investigators from the National Science Foundation : Landing that First Grant,” A.B. Ellis, R.D. Foust, Jr., and C.D. Pibel, in Federal Grants: Funding for Young Investigators Symposium presented before the Younger Chemists Committee Division, American Chemical Society 230th National Meeting, Washington DC, August 30, 2005. Paper No. YCC 0011.
• “How do We Provide Research Opportunities for the Non-Traditional Undergraduate Student?,” R.D. Foust, Jr., American Chemical Society 229th National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 16, 2005. Paper No. CHED 1356.
• “Funding Opportunities in the Sciences at the National Science Foundation,” T. Brady, R. D. Foust, Jr. and J. Tupas, Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, October, 2005.
• “Web-Assisted Learning in Chemistry,” R. D. Foust, Jr., Chem. Educator, 2001, 6, 306-306.
• &lquot;The Benefits of using Web-Based Enhancements in an Environmental Chemistry Class,&rquot; R. D. Foust, Jr., B. Cruickshank, A. O. Curley, M. Stringer and J. Olander, The Chemical Educator, 1999, 4, 1-10.
• “Using the Internet to Support an Off-Campus Environmental Chemistry Class,” R. D. Foust, Jr., M. Stringer and B. Cruickshank, Pacific Conference On Chemistry and Spectroscopy, Irvine, CA, October 25, 1997.
• “Environmental Site Characterization:  A Senior Capstone Experience for Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Engineering Students,” R. D. Foust, Jr. and Wilbert Odem, 212th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Orlando, FL, August, 1996.  Paper No. CHED 0105.

Selected Scientific Publications, Reports and Presentations

• R.D. Foust Jr., M. Brandstrom, G. Evans, P. Nez, D. Waupoose, and E. Hillman, (2007) “Source Identification for Groundwater Arsenic in the Verde Valley, Central Arizona, USA.” In Arsenic in soil and groundwater environments: biogeochemical interactions, P. Bhattacharya, A. B. Mukherjee, J. Bundschuh, R. Zevenhoven, R. H. Loeppert (Editors) Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, Trace Metals and other Contaminants in the Environment, Vol. 9, 85-100.
• G. Evans, J. Evans, A. Redman, N. Johnson and R. D. Foust, Jr., “Unexpected Beneficial Effects of Arsenic on Corn Roots Grown in Culture,” Environ. Chem. 2005, 2, 167-170.
• R. D. Foust, Jr., P. Mohapatra, A. M. Compton and J. Reifel,“Surface Water and Groundwater Arsenic Concentrations in the Verde Valley in Central Arizona,” Applied Geochemistry, 19 (2004) 251-255.
• R. D. Foust, Jr., M. S. Costanza-Robinson, A. M. Compton-Obrien, R. C. Prince, I. J. Pickering and G. N. George, “Biogeochemical Transformations of Arsenic in Montezuma Well, Arizona:  A Model Study for the Behavior of Arsenic in the Environment,”7th Intern. Conf. on the Biogeochem. Of Trace Elements, Upsala, Sweden, 2003.
• R. D. Foust, Jr., “Interpreting Environmental Data: The Emerging Role of Multivariate Statistics and Computer Data Analysis,” in Principals of Environmental Sampling and Analysis—Two decades later, Symposium presented before the Division of Environmental Chemistry, American Chemical Society 224th National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 22, 2002.
• J. U. Kuhn, K. Givler and R. D. Foust, Jr., “Determination of Atmospheric Lead Deposition Sources at a Coal-Fired Power Plant Through Isotope Ratio Measurements,”2000 International chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December, 2000.
• C. Crabill, R. Donald, J. Shelling, R. Foust and G. Southam, “The Impact of Sediment Fecal Coliform Reservoirs on Seasonal Water Quality in Oak Creek, AZ,”Wat. Res., 33, 2163-2171 (1999).
• E. A. Kneisel, N. A. Ciszkowski, W. J. Bowyer, F. S. Walker, T. G. Huntsberger and R. D. Foust, Jr., “Identifying Clay Sources of Prehistoric Pottery Using Atomic Spectroscopy,” Microchemical Journal, 56, 40-46 (1997).
• R. D. Foust, Jr., “Static Headspace-Gas Chromatography, Theory and Practice” by B. Kolb and L. S. Ettre, reviewed in J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 12029.
• K. M. Clancy, R. D. Foust, T. G. Huntsberger, J. G. Whitaker and D. M. Whitaker, “A Technique for Using Micorencapsulated Terpenes in Lepidopteran Artificial Diets,”Journal of Chemical Ecology, 18, 543-560 (1992).
• R.D. Foust, Jr., J.R. Ambler and L.D. Turner, “Trace Element Analysis of Pueblo II Kayenta Anasazi Sherds,” In Archaeological Chemistry IV, R.O. Allen, Ed., Advances in Chemistry Series, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1989, pp. 125-143.

Books Authored

• Environmental Quality in the Sedona/Verde Valley Area, R.D. Foust, Jr., J. Byrkit and C. Avery, Background Report for Sedona Forum VII, The Sedona Academy, Sedona, AZ, pp. 1-219, 1991.
• Arizona Energy Activities, R.D. Foust, Jr. and Bill W. Tillery, Educational Programs Division, Arizona Public Service Company, Phoenix, AZ, pp. 1-380, 1985.
• Arizona Energy Guide, R.D. Foust, Jr. (ed.), Educational Programs Division, Arizona Public Service Company, Phoenix, AZ, pp. 1-402, 1978.

Selected Extramural Funding

I have had 32 years of continuous extramural funding (1974-2006) from numerous federal and state agencies as well as private foundations (e.g., the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Interior, the U.S. Department of Education, the State of Arizona, Arizona Public Service Co. and the Salt River Project). The following list shows several of my more significant awards:

• “Evaluating the Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Phosphate Mediating Bacteria in Arsenic Tolerant Plants,” Collaborative Project with Tuskegee University funded through U.S. Department of Energy Collaborative Projects Initiative administered through the HBCU/MI Consortium, 2003-2008.  Cooperative Agreement No. DE-FC02-02-EW15254.  Award Amount: $250,000.
• “NSF-REU Site Director’s Workshop, National Science Foundation, 2003-2004, Award No. DBI-0334352.  Award Amount: $89,632.
• “NSF REU Site:  Mother Earth Gives Life,” National Science Foundation, 2003-2006, Award No. DBI-0244221. , Award Amount: $201,321.
• “Acquisition of a High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer for Research in Chemistry and Earth Sciences,”co-PI with Michael Ketterer, PI, National Science Foundation, 2002-2004, Award No. CHE-0116804, Award Amount: $407,620.
• “Web Page Support for Distance Learning Environmental Classes,” U.S. Department of Energy through the HBCU/MI Consortium, Clark Atlanta University, 1999-2000, Cooperative Agreement No. DE-FC04-90AL66158, Award Amount: $56,796.45.
• “DOE Technical Qualifications Program:  Course Development and Implementation,” U.S. Department of Energy through the HBCU/MI Consortium, Clark Atlanta University, 1996-99, Cooperative Agreement No. DE-FC04-90AL66158, Award Amount: $1,139,441.
• “Northern Arizona University Honors Analytical Chemistry Program,” Associated Western Universities EMPAC Program, 1996, Award Amount:  $21,000.
• “Improved Methods for Metals Analysis in Soils,” Research Corporation Partners in Science Program, 1995-96, Award Amount: $14,000.
• “Implementation of Best Management Practices to Protect the Water Quality of Oak Creek Canyon—An EPA 319(h) Demonstration Project,” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, Co-PI with G. Southam and P. Trotta, 1993-1998, Award Amount: $425,000.
• “Environmental Chemistry Laboratory Improvement Program,” Hewlett-Packard Co., Philanthropy Programs, Palo Alto, CA, 1991.  Award Amount: $58,215.20.
• “Undergraduate Environmental Chemistry Laboratory Improvements,” National Science Foundation, Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Program, 1990-93. Award Amount: $45,151.
• “A Greenhouse to Support Ecological Research at Northern Arizona University,” U.S. Department of Education, CFDA No. 84172, 1987-89.  Award Amount: $500,000.

Selected Professional Service Activities

• Reviewer for the following Journals:  Environmental Science and Technology, The Chemical Educator, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Water, Air and Soil Pollution, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Chemosphere, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Environmental Times, and Environmental Pollution.
• Advisory Committee Member, Native American Cancer Research Partnership, a collaborative research program between NAU and the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, funded by the National Institutes of Health, 2001-2004.
• Organizer and Program Chairman, Arizona Nevada Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Chemistry Section, Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ, April 2004.
• Organizer and Program Chairman, Arizona Nevada Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Chemistry Section, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, April 2003.
• Advisory Committee Member, W.W. Norton & Company’s effort to produce a conceptually-based freshman chemistry textbook. 1996-2001.
• Transportability Assessment Group, National Science Foundation Undergraduate Analytical Chemistry Curriculum Development Project, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, July, 1996-98.
• Organizer and Program Chairman, Symposium on Web Assisted Learning in Chemistry, Chemical Education Division, 221st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Diego, CA, April, 2001.
• Organizer and Program Chairman, Symposium on Environmental Chemistry, Chemical Education Division, 212th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Orlando, FL, August, 1996.
• Organizer and Program Chairman, Symposium on Pre-College Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Education Division, 209th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA, April, 1995.
• Preserving Arizona's Environmental Heritage, 59th Arizona Town Hall, Grand Canyon, AZ, October 27-30, 1991.
• Environmental Science Curriculum Development Workshop, HBCU/MI Hazardous Waste Management and Environmental Restoration Consortium, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, June 5-7, 1991.
• Workshop on Undergraduate Curricula for Environmental Science, member of Steering Committee, 42nd AIBS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, August 4-8, 1991.
• Environmental Quality in the Sedona/Verde Valley Area, 7th Sedona Town Hall, Prescott, AZ, February 21-25, 1991.
• Air Quality in Arizona, 52nd Arizona Town Hall, Sedona, AZ, May 22-25, 1988.
• The Ecology of Social Behavior in Animals, Conference Organizing Committee, Northern Ari­ona University, Flagstaff, AZ, June 1986.
• Society of Western Analytical Professors Annual Conference, Organizing Committee, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, January 1986.
• U.S. Department of Agriculture, Biological Stress Program, Review Panel, Washington, DC, 1985.
• Salt River Project, Educational Advisory Board, Phoenix, AZ, 1984-88.
• Second American Conference on Ice Nucleating Bacteria, Organizing Committee, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, June 1984.
• Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of College Science Teaching, 1983-86.
• American Energy Week, Arizona Coordinator, 1982.
• Dynamics of Extinction Conference, Organizing and Program Committee, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, August 1983.
• National Science Teachers Association, Western Regional Meeting, Program Committee, San Diego, CA, November 1983.
• Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Program Committee, Flagstaff, AZ, April 1983.
• A New Ecology: Novel Approaches to Interactive Systems, Organizing Committee, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 1982.
• Energy Education Committee, Arizona Office of Economic Planning and Development, 1982-88.  Chairperson of Energy Curriculum Subcommittee, 1982-84.

Selected University, College and Department Service Activities

• University Service
  • Graduate Committee, 1981-1987
  • Graduate College Strategic Planning Committee, 1999-2000.
  • Faculty Senate Select Committee on Distributed Learning, 2000-01.
  • Bio-hazardous Materials Committee, 2001-2004.
  • Hazardous Materials Committee, 2000-2001.
  • Honor’s Council, 1979-83.
  • Radioisotope User & Safety Committee, 1983-2004, 2006-07
  • University Committee to Coordinate Environmental Programs on Campus, 1996-98.
  • Bio-Sciences/Chemistry Building Committee, 1996-97.
• College Service
  • College of Arts and Sciences Development Officer Search Committee, 2000.
  • College of Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1998-2000.
  • College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 1996-97, 2006-07.
  • College of Arts and Sciences representative to Committee to Implement an Engineering M.S. Degree Program at NAU, 1996-97.
  • College of Arts and Sciences Health Professions Curriculum Review Committee, 1993-95.
• Department Service
  • Chemistry Department Committee on Faculty Status, 1993-2006 (Chair, 1996-97, 1999-2000).
  • Chemistry Department Faculty Search Committee, 1997-98.
  • Chemistry Department Seminar Chairman, 2001-2004.
  • Center for Environmental Sciences & Education, Committee on Scholarships and Awards, 1997-98.
  • Center for Environmental Sciences & Education, Committee on Faculty Status, 1995-2004 (Chair 1995-2004).
  • Chemistry Department Graduate Committee, 1990-96.
  • Chemistry Department Faculty Search Committee, 1994-95.
  • Center for Environmental Sciences & Education Faculty Search Committee, Environmental Microbiologist, 1992-93.

Major Teaching Experience

Northern Arizona University has always been a predominately undergraduate institution where faculty and administrator interaction with students is an institutional commitment. As a faculty member I have advised over 150 undergraduate students who earned bachelor’s degrees in chemistry, environmental chemistry or environmental sciences. Approximately one-third of these students went on to earn advanced degrees. In addition to advising students, I have worked with over 70 students on undergraduate research projects, with 20 of these students sharing co-authorship on published papers. Students from my research group have presented over 100 posters and oral presentations at local, regional and national scientific meetings. Although most of my teaching has been to traditional, on-campus classes, I have developed distributed learning classes and offered them via video-taped lectures, by satellite and as an exclusively web-based class. Courses that I have taught include the following:

• General Chemistry I & II
• Chem-Physics I & II (a team-taught course with the physics department)
• Analytical Chemistry
• Instrumental Analysis
• Environmental Chemistry
• Environmental Analytical Chemistry
• Honors Environmental Science

Selected Graduate Student Master’s Theses Directed

I have directed the thesis research for 29 students who have earned master’s degrees from Northern Arizona University. Twenty-seven of these students earned their degrees through the chemistry department, and two degrees were awarded through the Center for Environmental Sciences and Policy. I also supervised seven non-thesis M.S. students and served on three biological sciences Ph.D. committees. NAU has an exchange program with Dresden Technical University, Germany, and I have directed the Diplomrbeit research for three DTU students. The following list is a representative sampling of the M.S. thesis projects I have supervised:

• Bidabad, Mahmoud, M.S. thesis, “Removal of Uranium from Soil Digests by Ion Exchange Chromatography,” 1995.
• Carver, Nell, M.S. thesis, “Trace Metal Concentrations of Hack Canyon Wash and Kanab Creek, Arizona, 1999.
• Compton-O’Brien, Anne-Marie, M.S. thesis, “Biogeochemistry of Arsenic in Montezuma Well, Arizona,” 2001.
• Evans, Grant, M. S. thesis, “Mycorrhizal Fungi Can Alter Arsenic Distribution in Sunflower and Corn, 2005.
• Fort, Heather, M.S. thesis, Cadmium, Chromium and Zinc Content of Selected Plants and Soils in the Area Surrounding the Navajo Generating Station at Page, Arizona,” 1978 (co-directed with William Gaud).
• Germ, John C., M.S. thesis, “Chemistry of Effervescing Groundwater from Municipal Wells, Flagstaff, Arizona,” 1975.
• Kuhn, Jens-Uwe, M.S. thesis, “Source Identification for Lead in the Environment around the Mohave Power Plant, Laughlin, Nevada,” 2000.
• Liebe, Dirk, Diplomrbeit, “The use of 234U/238U Activity Ratio at the Characterization of Springs and Surface Streams in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona,” 2002.
• Mihay, Martin, M.S. thesis” Comparison of Analytical Methods of the Analysis of Ceramic Artifacts,” 2000.
• Mohapatra, Prabhudatta, M.S. thesis, “A Study of the Chemistry of Natural Water in the Verde River Watershed,” 1991.
• Rabotyagova, Olena Sergiyivna, M.S. thesis, “The Mechanisms of Arsenic Toxicity and Metabolism among Different Organisms and a TEM Study of the Leech Motobedella Montezuma, 2004.
• Røstead, Astrid P., M.S. thesis, “Biogeochemical Characterization of Coal Slurry and Tracking of Selenium in the Black Mesa Pipeline,” 1997.
• Schlenstedt, Kornelia, Diplomrbeit, “Arsenic-75 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Environmental Samples, 2003.  Co-directed with Dr. Cynthia Hartzell.
• Senanayake, Jeevanthie, M.S. thesis, “Evidence for Arsenic in the Diet of the Southern Sinagua of the Verde Valley,” 2005.
• Snelling, Julie, M.S. thesis, “Variation of Water Chemistry from Non-Point Source Pollution at Pine Flats in Oak Creek,” 1996.
• Hongdong, Tan, M.S. thesis, "A Baseline Study of the Chemistry of Natural Water in Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona," 1994.

• American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS
• Council on Undergraduate Research, CUR
• Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, SACNAS
• Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, NAU Chapter President, 1982-83, NAU Club Treasurer, 1979-81, NAU Chapter Secretary, 1988-90.
• Arizona Science Teachers Association, President, 1982-83; Regional Director, 1979-81.
• International Society of Chemical Ecology
• American Chemical Society
• Arizona Nevada Academy of Sciences