AWRI Environmental Chemistry
Richard R. Rediske, Ph.D.
Senior Program Manager
202 Lake Michigan Center
740 West Shoreline Drive
Muskegon, MI 49441
(616) 331-3047
redisker@gvsu.edu
AWRI / Teaching Activities:
- Provide technical oversight for the environmental chemistry program
- Conduct research dealing the fate and transport of chemicals in the environment, sediment toxicity, ecological effects of contaminants, and chemical/biological processing of nutrients in watersheds
- Principal Investigator for sediment quality investigations
- Teach Environmental Toxicology (Winter)
- See project page for more information
Expertise:
- Fate and transport of heavy metals and organic chemicals in the aquatic environment
- Hazardous waste site assessment and remediation
- Biogeochemical cycling and processing in watersheds
- Environmental toxicology
- Analytical Chemistry
- Public speaking for professional and lay audiences
General Information:
- Resume [PDF]
- Ph.D., Environmental health Sciences, 1986 - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- M.S., Water Resources Science, 1975 - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- B.S., Biology, 1974 - Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
- Research Fellow. Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Visiting Scientist. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI
- Adjunct Instructor. School of Natural Resources. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Member of the American Chemical Society, American Society of Testing Materials, Water and Environment Federation, and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry


