Terill Hollweg (terill.hollweg@uconn.edu)

Terill graduated from Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, in May 2004 with a B.S. degree in Marine Science and a minor in Chemistry. She started her M.S. degree with the Mason Lab in July 2004, where she spent a year at University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Lab, in Solomons, MD. In Fall 2005 she transferred to University of Connecticut, at Avery Point, in Groton, CT, to finish her research with the Mason Lab. Her M.S. research is on mercury methylation and methylmercury demethylation in the Chesapeake Bay and mid-Atlantic continental shelf/slope. Presently, she is supported by the EPA STAR Fellowship.

Udonna graduated from the University of Connecticut with a B.S in Chemical Engineering and a minor in Mathematics. He is interested in heavy metal pollution and contaminant transport in the coastal zone. He is currently in the PhD program in the Marine science Department at University of Connecticut

Susan Gichuki (susan.gichuki@huskymail.uconn.edu)

Susan, a Kenyan, obtained a BS degree in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Nairobi in 2003. After completing her degree she worked for Lords HeathCare Ltd prior to coming to the Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut in Spring 2007. Susan is pursuing a PhD degree in chemistry and is interested in studying atmospheric mercury chemistry.

Amina Traore

(amina.traore@uconn.edu)

I graduated for the French High School of Bamako (Mali) in 2001. I have a BS in organic chemistry from University Renee Descarte, Paris V (France) and a MS in geochemistry (2006) from IPGP, Paris VII (Institut de
Physique du Globe de Paris). The subject of my master thesis was : the dissolved organic matter and trace elements (Al, Fe) in the
soil-river continuum, case of the Rio Negro's Basin (Brazil). I am currently in the Ph.D program at UCONN, but I don't have a research project yet.