Nicolas Perdrial - Nico Perdrial

Associate Professor
Director of the X-Ray Laboratory
Department of Geography & Geosciences
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405
USA

e-mail: [email protected]

PhD. (Physics, Chemistry and Biology of the Environment) Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. 2007.
MS. (Sedimentology & Geochemistry) Université de Paris XI - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France. 2003.
BS. (Biology and Geology) Université de Nantes, France - Laboratoire de Planétologie & Géodynamique. 2001.

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I am Nico Perdrial, associate professor of Geosciences at University of Vermont Geography & Geosciences and the director of the X-Ray laboratory.

In my environmental mineralogy and Chemistry laboratory, my students apply molecular-scale tools to address environmental challenges related to soil quality, paleoenvironments and planetary surfaces. My research focuses on applying all kinds of state-of-the-art tools spanning from the atomic scale to the field scale combined with aqueous geochemistry to help better understand environmental challenges and surface processes. Using a combination of nanoscale (HRTEM, XAS, XRM), microscale (SEM, XRD, CT) and macroscale (XRF, GIS) probing techniques and data analysis tools, I explore solutions to field-based environmental issues. My current research investigates legacy contamination (Pb, P), paleoenvironments (Greenland) and planetary surfaces (Gale Crater).