Molly
Moffe
2002 - 2003
CEIRP Fellow
Research Interest:
Phytoremediation
Hi.
My name is Molly Moffe and this is my first year
as a Fellow. I graduated from Bucknell University
in the spring of 2000, where I completed a BA in
both Chemistry and Environmental Studies. I had
the chance to work on several research projects
while there, including an assessment of a watershed
(chemical, hydrological and biological) that has
been impaired by acid mine drainage. I also had
the opportunity to work with an environmental toxicologist
and was able to examine the effects of automobile
tire leachate on aquatic organisms, including duckweed,
daphnia and minnows. After Bucknell, I worked for
a year at the Center for the Environment at Cornell
University. While there, I worked with large-scale
and small-scale composters and studied how to make
their compost as contaminant-free and pathogen-free
as possible.
I
started my Master's at Cornell University in the fall of
2001. I am studying phytoremediation in the Department of
Biological and Environmental Engineering. I work with plants
and earthworms to determine how they are able to clean up
soils and waters that have been polluted with heavy metals.
I am also in the Cornell Teacher Education Program, where
I am working on my certification in secondary education.
I would like to teach either Chemistry or Earth Science.
I
have an interesting take on being in an engineering program,
in that I was not trained as an engineer. I can appreciate
how all the sciences and math can work together and that
they can not work as separate entities. I would like to be
able to share this with my students, that the sciences are
not separate subjects, and that in order to succeed, appreciating
all the different sciences is necessary. I would also like
to show them that the sciences and humanities are also closely
related and that they need each other to be complete.
