Professor William H. Casey is interested in the reactions between water, rock and minerals. Many weathering phenomena involve reactions with water on mineral surfaces, something which can be mimicked in the laboratory by studying the aqueous chemistry of metal aquo clusters by heteronuclear NMR and MS. Other interests include crystal growth, general cluster chemistry, bio-inorganic chemistry, and chemistry from an environmental aspect.
Aubrey Alvarenga joins the Casey group as an undergraduate researcher in 2017!
Kahargyan "Gyan" Nugraha joins the Casey group as an undergraduate researcher in 2016!
Caitlyn Fields rejoins the Casey group as a Junior Research Specialist in 2016. She is excited to work with us again, as she tackles new and exciting chemistry.
Mary Collins visits the Casey group and becomes an honorary member in 2015. She is a Post-Doctoral scholar at LBNL and finished her PhD at the University of Oregon.
Lily Gordon joined the Casey group in October 2015. She works with Chris Colla and Dr. Anna Oliveri on projects for the Energy Frontiers Research Center (EFRC) and Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry (CSMC).
Joseph Callahan joined the Casey group in October 2015. He works with Dr. Anna Oliveri on projects for the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry (CSMC).
Noushin Akhavantabib joined the Casey group in June 2015. She works with Dr. Anna Oliveri and Elaine Villena on projects for the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry (CSMC).
Anna Oliveri joined the Casey group in 2015. She hopes to use her strong spectroscopic and inorganic experience as a geochemist in the Casey group.
Elaine Villena joined the Casey group in late 2014. She is currently working on aqueous cluster synthesis under the auspices of the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry.
Gerry Ochoa joined the Casey lab in late 2014 as a chemistry graduate student. Gerry is interested in using NMR to characterize aqueous systems at very high pressure, up to 20 kbar. He is using our in-house built NMR probe (The Potato Cannon).
Corey Pilgrim joined the Casey lab in 2014 as a chemistry graduate student. Corey hopes to study uranium and the transuranics in aqueous solutions, using NMR to explore ligand exchange rates.
Lizhi Tao joined the Casey lab in 2013 as a graduate student pursuing a PhD.
Jungho Son joined the Casey group in December 2011 after years of postdoctoral work in organoborane based main group ambiphilic molecules (frustrated Lewis pair) and nanoscale oxide materials.
Chris Colla is a graduate student in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences focusing his research on isotope and uranium geochemistry.
The Casey laboratory specialises broadly in aqueous chemistry related to the environmental and geological sciences. More ...