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1. Nelson W. Green
EMAIL nelson.green@gmail.com
ngreen@gatech.edu
PHONE (913)-731-4491
HOME 32070 Valley View Drive
Paola, Kansas 66071
EDUCATION
PhD, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Geochemistry minor
GPA 3.46/4.0
Dissertation - Coupled Reverse Osmosis and Electrodialysis for the Investigation
of Dissolved Organic Matter in Seawater.
Aug.
2015
o Refined membrane separation processes (RO and ED) for field research on
dissolved organic matter (DOM) in seawater.
o Collaborated in studies characterizing marine DOM by NMR and mass
spectrometry.
o Accelerated chemical formulae assignment by factor of 3 with novel moiety-
based algorithm.
BS, Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University 2007
Honors certificate
WORK
Research Assistant, Dept. of Chemistry, Ball State University 2012-
2013
o Assisted advisor in the design and equipping of aquatic chemistry laboratory
(>300k capital expenditures for HPLC, TOC, and other lab equipment).
o Led efforts to concentrate river-to-ocean transect
o Dissertation research;
o Advised two CRISP students in electrodialysis project (poster).
Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
2007-
2011
o Advised two REU students in formula assigning software project.
o Advised undergraduate in PARAFAC modeling project.
o Led laboratory for Aqueous Geochemistry.
o Instructed Introduction to Environmental Science laboratory.
o Assisted with Thermodynamics 2 (2x).
Teaching Assistant, Kansas State University
o Instructed lab in Excel VBA programming for chemical engineers.
2007
SURF Research Fellow, National Instistitute of Standards and Technology
o Designed collection device for soot characterization.
2006
TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS
Laboratory Process Reverse Osmosis; Electrodialysis; Cation exchange; Filtration;
Centrifugation; Environmental sampling (water)
Instruments High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC); UV-vis
spectroscopy; Fluorescence Spectroscopy; Total Organic Carbon (TOC); Total

2. Dissolved Nitrogen (TDN); Process meters; conductivity; Acidity (pH); Vapor
Pressure Osmometry (VPO); Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS); Inductively
Coupled Plasma (ICP-OES); Wet lab techniques (colorimetric, potentiometric,
gravimetric); Labjack (DAQ)
Computational Analysis Chromeleon (HPLC); CHOFIT (helped develop for MS
formulae assignment); PARAFAC (Fluorescence); Principal Components Analysis
(PCA), Hiarchial Cluster Analysis (HCA)
Programming Visual BASIC; Pascal; MATLAB; R; C++
Simulation MINTEQ, STELLA, HYSYS/Aspen
General Excel; Word
Field Ocean cruises •Sampled the Mauritanian upwelling near Cape Verde on the
R/V Oceanus for 10 days in 2008. •Sampled Atlantic water near Cape Hatteras on the
R/V Savannah for 14 days in 2010.
Expeditions •Conducted an intercomparison study at the Natural Energy Laboratory
Hawaii Authority (NELHA) in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii for 4 weeks in 2009. •Conducted a
NSF RAPID project sampling Barataria Bay, Louisiana in response to the Deepwater
Horizon disaster for two weeks in 2010. •Collaborated in sampling the Delaware
estuary for two weeks in 2010. •Sampled the Satilla River estuary for two weeks in
2012.
Special expeditions • Concentrated 38,000 liters of Suwannee River (Georgia) water
to be used as an international reference material (IHSS), in twoweeks in 2012.
•Concentrated 140,000 liters of Mississippi River (Minnesota) water to be used as an
international reference material (IHSS), in six weeks in 2013.
HONORS & AFFILIATIONS
Presidential Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology
Putnam Scholar, Kansas State University (KSU)
International Humic Substances Society
Alpha Chi Sigma, KSU
Omega Chi Epsilon, KSU
American Chemical Society
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Steel Ring, KSU
Engineering Ambassadors, KSU
2007-2011
2003-2007
2010-
2006-
2007-
2008-2014
2006-2014
2011
2007
2005-2007
PUBLICATIONS
1. Green, N.W., Perdue, E.M. Fast graphically-inspired algorithm for assignment of
molecular formulae in ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry. Submitted to
Analytical Chemistry.
2. Perdue, E.M, Green, N.W. Isobaric molecular formulae of C, H, and O – A view
from the negative quadrants of van Krevelen space. Submitted to Analytical
Chemistry.
3. Green, N.W., McInnis D., Hertkorn, N., Maurice, P.A., Perdue, E.M. Suwannee
River natural organic matter: Isolation of the 2R101N reference sample by reverse
osmosis. Environmental Engineering Science, 2014, 32, 1-7.
4. Chen, H., Stubbins, A., Perdue, E.M., Green, N.W., Helms, J.R., Mopper, K.,
Hatcher, P.G. Ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometric differentiation of dissolved

3. organic matter isolated by coupled reverse osmosis-electrodialysis from various
major oceanic water masses. Marine Chemistry, 2014, 164, 48-59.
5. Green, N.W., Perdue, E.M., Aiken, G.R., Butler, K., Chen, H., Dittmar, T.,
Niggemann, J., Stubbins, A. An intercomparison of three methods for the large-
scale isolation of oceanic dissolved organic matter. Marine Chemistry, 2014, 161,
14-19.
6. Helms, J.R., Stubbins, A., Perdue, E.M., Green, N.W., Chen, H., Mopper, K.
Photochemical bleaching of oceanic dissolved organic matter and its effects on
absorption spectral slope and fluorescence. Marine Chemistry, 2013, 155, 81-91.
7. Zhang, Y., Green, N.W., Perdue, E.M. Acid-base properties of dissolved organic
matter from pristine and oil-impacted marshes of Barataria Bay, Louisiana.
Marine Chemistry, 2013, 155, 42-49.
8. Bianchi, T.S., Cook, R.L., Perdue, E.M., Kolic, P.E., Green, N., Zhang, Y., Smith,
R.W., Kolker, A.S., Ameen, A., King, G., Ojwang, L., Schneider, C., Normand, A.,
Hetland, R. Impacts of diverted freshwater on dissolved organic matter and
microbial communities in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, U.S.A. Marine Environmental
Research, 2011, 72, 248-257.
9. Helms, J.R., Mao, J., Chen, H., Perdue, E.M., Green, N.W., Hatcher, P.G.,
Mopper, K., Stubbins, A. Spectroscopic characterization of oceanic dissolved
organic matter isolated by reverse osmosis coupled with electrodialysis:
Implications for oceanic carbon cycling. Accepted by Marine Chemistry.
10.Driver, S.J., Green, N.W., Perdue, E.M. Characteristics of the reference sample
of upper Mississippi River dissolved organic matter. In preparation.
PRESENTATIONS
Green, N.W., Zhang, Y., Sleighter, R.L., Hatcher, P.G., Cook, R.L., Bianchi, T.S., Perdue,
E.M. FTICR mass spectroscopic analysis of dissolved organic matter that was isolated by
coupled reverse osmosis/electrodialysis from pristine and oil-impacted sites in Barataria
Bay, Louisiana. American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 2013.
Green, N., Chen, H., Niggemann, J., Butler, K., Stubbins, A., Dittmar, T., Aiken, G.R.,
Perdue, E.M. Inter-comparison of methods for isolation of marine dissolved organic matter
from the North Pacific at Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA. School of Earth and Atmospheric
Sciences Graduate Student Symposium, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2011.
Green, N., Chen, H., Niggemann, J., Butler, K., Stubbins, A., Dittmar, T., Aiken, G.R.,
Perdue, E.M. Intercomparison of methods for isolation of marine dissolved organic matter
from the North Pacific at Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA. Humic Science & Technology XIV
Conference, Boston, MA, March 2011.
Green, N. RO/ED Method for Isolating Dissolved Organic Matter from Seawater” School of
ChBE 4th Year Colloquium, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 2010.
Green, N., Perdue, E.M., Teja, A.S. Recovery of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) From
Seawater Using Reverse Osmosis and Electrodialysis (RO/ED). American Institute of
Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 2009.
Green, N.W., Shantz, A., Chen, H., Teja, A.S., Mao, J.D., Mopper, K., Hatcher, P.G.,
Stubbin, A.P, Perdue, E.M. Isolation of marine DOM using coupled reverse osmosis and
electrodialysis (poster). Unknown Knowns & Known Unknowns: Chemical Oceanography in
a Changing World, Savannah, GA, February 2009.

4. COURSES
 Advanced Process Systems Engineering
 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
 Organic Geochemistry
 Aqueous Geochemistry
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
 Coupled Reverse Osmosis and Electrodialysis Separations of Organic Matter in Seawater
 Enhanced Removal of Silica and Boron by Electrodialysis
 Scale-up of Laboratory/Field Methods for Reference Sample Collection
 Source and Transformation of Natural Organic Matter
 Fate of Terrestrial Organic Matter in Estuaries
 Current and Emerging Analyses of Environmental Samples
 Algorithm Development for Ultrahigh Resolution Mass Spectrometry
 Multiple Chemical Analyses for Characterization of Natural Organic Matter