Biography

Wenming Dong is currently a Research Scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 original research articles and reports. His research focuses on hydro-biogeochemical processes and factors controlling the release, speciation, transformation and transport of contaminants, heavy metals and nutrients in terrestrial watershed and subsurface environments. His current research interests and topics include (1) investigating hydro-geochemical controls on release and speciation of metals and nutrients in terrestrial watershed and groundwater systems, and the impact of dissolved natural organic matter (NOM) and minerals on adsorption-desorption, precipitation-dissolution and redox processes, (2) developing and validating geochemical methods and technologies for extraction of critical metals, and characterization and analyses of water, soil, sediment and rock samples using multiple instrumentation, (3) developing surface and aqueous complexation models and applications, as well as methodologies for immobilization of contaminants plumes.