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| Maggie Tang |
Tang received her bachelor’s degree in environmental science
from Wuhan University, China and spent her senior year of undergraduate work as
an exchange student at the University of Dundee, Scotland. She stayed one more
year in Dundee for a master’s degree in renewable energy and environmental modelling
and then moved to Pittsburgh to earn her second master's degree from Carnegie
Mellon University in environmental engineering. Based on these two master’s
programs, Tang felt that she needed more experience in both lab and field work,
and with a recommendation from professor David A. Dzombak from CMU, she met her
current advisor, CEES professor Robert W. Nairn.
Tang started her doctoral program in environmental engineering
with Nairn at OU in 2015. Her work consists of looking at the relationships
between metals and nutrients at the sediment layer-water column interface in a
large multi-use reservoir, Grand Lake o’ the Cherokees. She has performed three
sets of green house studies to investigate different parameters’ impact
(biomass, mixing and Mine Drainage Residues (MDRs) addition) on the re-distribution
of nutrients and metals in these microcosms. She is finishing up with a field
mesocosm study focused on the phosphorous removal performances of MDRs which
can help to address the elevated nutrient level in the local lakes with the
beneficial reuse of some mine drainage waste products.
