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Welcome to the homepage of John Little
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 John C. Little
Title : Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Program Area : Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Address : 405 Durham Hall
E-mail : jcl(at)vt.edu
Telephone : (540) 231-8737
Professional Registration : P.E. (Chemical Engineering) California, 1992
Personal Homepage : http://www.jcl.cee.vt.edu/
Alternate URL for this homepage : http://www.cee.vt.edu/people/little.html
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| Areas of Interest : |
| | - Primary interests are cross-media mass transfer and process dynamics in environmental systems. Current focus on emissions of volatile and semi-volatile compounds from building materials and consumer products, hypolimnetic oxygenation of stratified lakes and reservoirs, and exposure to chemical contaminants in drinking water via ingestion, inhalation, and dermal sorption.
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| Education : |
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- B.Sc. (Chemical Engineering), University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1985
- M.Sc. (Physical Chemistry), University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1984
- M.S. (Environmental Engineering), University of California, Berkeley, 1988
- Ph.D. (Environmental Engineering), University of California, Berkeley, 1990
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| Work Experience : |
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- Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, Aug 2004 – present
- Visiting Scientist, Limnological Research Center, Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), Kastanienbaum, Switzerland, Jan 2000 – Dec 2000
- Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, Aug 1998 – Jul 2004
- Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, Aug 1993 – Jul 1998
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Indoor Environment Program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, Jan 1991 – Jun 1993
- Project Engineer, Binnie & Partners, Environmental Engineering Consultants, Johannesburg, South Africa, Jan 1985 – Jun 1987
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| Professional Honors, Awards, and Recognitions : |
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- National Science Foundation Career Award, 1996
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| Courses Taught : |
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- Environmental Engineering Design II
- Hazardous Waste Management
- Introduction to Environmental Engineering
- Water and Wastewater Treatment Design
- Environmental Engineering Principles
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| Selected Research Projects : |
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- Little, J. C. and Marand, E. Developing a Standard Reference VOC Source, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 9/01/06 – 2/28/08, $199,928.
- Little, J. C. and Marand, E. Developing Barrier Layers to Minimize Volatile Emissions from Structural Insulated Panels, National Science Foundation, 4/01/06 – 3/31/09, $375,000.
- Little, J. C. and Marr, L. C. Emission of Phthalates from Vinyl Flooring and Interaction with Fine Particles, National Science Foundation, 9/01/05 – 8/31/08, $396,392.
- Hochella, M. F., Filz, G. M., Foti, R. J., Little, J. C. and Winkel, B. S. IGERT: EIGER – Exploring Interfaces through Graduate Education and Research, National Science Foundation, 7/01/05 – 6/30/10, $3,101,844.
- Little, J. C. Hypolimnetic Oxygenation: Coupling Bubble-Plume and Reservoir Models, National Science Foundation, 8/01/02 – 7/31/07, $215,325.
- Little, J. C. and Filz, G. M. An Interdisciplinary Program in Environmental Biogeochemistry, Department of Education and Virginia Tech, 8/16/01 – 8/15/07, $1,129,688.
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| Selected Publications : |
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- Singleton, V. L., Gantzer, P. and Little, J. C. “Linear Bubble Plume Model for Hypolimnetic Oxygenation – Full-Scale Validation and Sensitivity Analysis,” Water Resources Research, 43, 2007, W02405.
- Singleton, V. L. and Little, J. C. “Designing Hypolimnetic Aeration and Oxygenation Systems – A Review,” Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 40, 2006, pp. 7512-7520.
- Leung, S. M., Little, J. C. Holst, T., and Love, N. G. “Air/Water Oxygen Transfer in a Biological Aerated Filter,” Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 132, 2006, pp. 181-189.
- Xu, Y. and Little, J. C. “Predicting Emissions of SVOCs from Polymeric Materials and Their Interaction with Airborne Particles,” Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 40, 2006, pp. 456-461.
- McGinnis, D. F., Lorke, A., Wüest, A., Stöckli, A. and Little, J. C. “Interaction between a Bubble Plume and the Near Field in a Stratified Lake,” Water Resources Research, Vol. 40, 2004, W10206.
- Kim, E., Little, J. C. and Chiu, N. “Estimating Exposure to Chemical Contaminants in Drinking Water,” Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 38, 2004, pp. 1799-1806.
- Cox, S. S., Little, J. C. and Hodgson, A. T. "Predicting the Emission Rate of Volatile Organic Compounds from Vinyl Flooring," Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 36, 2002, pp. 709-714.
- Cox, S. S., Zhao, D. and Little, J. C. “Measuring Partition and Diffusion Coefficients for Volatile Organic Compounds in Vinyl Flooring,” Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 35, 2001, pp. 3823-3830.
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