Johan C. Varekamp

George I. Seney Professor of Geology, Earth and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Biographical Sketch

My research field is Geochemistry, with applications in a wide variety of geologic directions. Most of my work is analytical, with extensive
field work for sample collection, and I make some diversions into modeling. The E&ES department maintains facilities for the analyses of
waters and rocks, including XRF, XRD, ICP-AES (PE-Plasma400), IC (a 2001 Dionex 600), and Hg by dedicated AAS (including a
2002 Milestone Hg analyzer). I am in the process of setting up a g-ray counting facility, predominantly for 137Cs and 210Pb analyses. We
have a LICOR infrared CO2 analyzer, which we are running for atmospheric CO2 monitoring and in experiments on CO2 absorption kinetics. I will resurrect the precipitation network in the state of Connecticut in 2002.

I have an interest in the application of the sciences in society and I am one of the initiators and currently the co-director of the Environmental Studies Certificate Program at Wesleyan University.