Dr. Braida’s research advances knowledge in Environmental sustainability, Industrial ecology, Life Cycle Assessment applications, Remediation and fate & transport of heavy metals and organic pollutants in soil, sediment and water environments, Remedial technologies for contaminated wastewater and groundwater, and Environmental compatibility of consumer products (fate and biotransformation of consumer products when placed in the environment).
He conducts research at the Center for Environmental Systems (CES), which is dedicated to applied, interdisciplinary research for the solution of pressing, real-world environmental problems.
Dr. Braida is a member of various professional societies, such as the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), National Groundwater Association (NGWA), American Chemical Society (ACS), Water Environmental Federation (WEF), International Society of Industrial Ecology (ISIE), American Geophysical Union (AGU), Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the Interstae Technology Regulatory Council (ITRC). Green and sustainable remediation team. He has contribution to multiple conference proceedings and a variety of journal articles. |
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Sen Tuna G., Braida W., Ogundipe A., Strickland D.. (2012). Assessing tungsten transport in the vadose zone: From dissolution studies to soil columns, Chemosphere, Elsevier. 86 1001-1007
Karachalios A., Wazne M., Betancur J.N., Christodoulatos C., Braida W., O’Connor G. (2011). Immobilization of Cu, Pb and W in mixed munitions firing range contaminated soils by various amendments, Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management, ASCE. 15 (3), 151-159
Xu Z., Hao J., Braida W., Strickland D., Li F., and Meng X.. (2011). Surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy of explosive 2,4 dinitroanisole using modified silver nanoparticles, Langmuir, ACS. 27 13773-13779
A. Ogundipe, J. Pavlov, W. Braida*, A. Koutsospyros, G. Sen, C. Christodoulatos, G. O’Connor. (2009). Evaluation of analytical methods to address tungsten speciation, GNEST, 11 (3), 308-317. http://www.gnest.org/Journal/Articles_in_press.asp
N. Strigul N, C. Galdun, L. Vaccari, T. Ryan, W. Braida, C. Christodoulatos. (2009). Influence of Speciation on Tungsten Toxicity, Desalination, Elsevier. 248 869-870
A. Ogundipe, W. Braida*, C. Christodoulatos, A. Koutsospyros, G. O’Connor. (2009). Effects of other metals on the dissolution of tungsten, Land Contamination and Reclamation, 17 (1), 101-110
N. Xu, C. Christodoulatos, A. Koutsospyros, W. Braida*. (2009). Competitive sorption of tungstate, molybdate, and phosphate mixtures onto goethite, Land Contamination and Reclamation, 17 (1), 45-57
Pavlov J., Braida W., Ogundipe A., O’Connor G., Attlygalle. (2009). Generation and detection of gaseous W12O41-. and other tungstate anions by laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry, J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 20, 1782-1789. doi:10.1016/j.jasms.2009.05.015
R. Doshi, M. Wazne, C. Christodoulatos, G. O’Connor, and W. Braida. (2008). Nanoaluminum: transport through sand columns and environmental effects on plants and soil communities, Journal of Environmental Research, 106 296-303
W. Braida, C. Christodoulatos, A. Ogundipe, D. Dermatas, and G. O’Connor. (2007). Electrokinetic treatment of firing ranges containing tungsten contaminated soils, Journal of Hazardous Materials , 149 562-567
N. Strigul, C. Christodoulatos, W. Balas, and S. Nicolich. (2006). The assessment of 2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitro-
2,4,6,8,10,12-hexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20) degradability in soil, Environmental Pollution, 139 353-361
N. Strigul, A. Koutsospyros, C. Christodoulatos, D.Dermatas and W. Braida. (2005). Effects of tungsten on environmental systems, Chemosphere, 61 248-258
N. Xu, C. Christodoulatos and W. Braida. (2005). Adsorption of molybdate and tetrathiomolybdate onto pyrite and goethite: Effect of pH and competitive anions, Chemosphere
D. Dermatas, C. Christodoulatos, N. Strigul, N. Panikov, M. Los, S. Larson and W. Braida. (2004). Solubility, sorption and soil respiration effects of tungsten and tungsten alloys, Environmental Forensics, 5 5-13
J. White, J.J. Pignatello and W. Braida. (2004). Indices for bioavailability and biotranformation potential of contaminants in soils, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 23 (7), 1585-1591
C. Ersu, K.P. Chao, S.K. Ong and W. Braida. (2004). Ultrafiltration of ink and latex wastewater using cellulose membranes, Desalination, 164 63-70
J.J. Pignatello, Y. Lu, P. Ravikovitch, A. Neimark, B. Xing and W. Braida. (2003). Sorption hysteresis of benzene in charcoal particles, Environmental Science and Technology, 37 409-417
J.C. White, J.J. Pignatello, F. Ferrandino, D. Zhao and W. Braida. (2002). Concentration dependent kinetics of pollutants desorption from soils, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 21 (12), 2573-2580
D. Zhao, J.J. Pignatello, J.C. White, F. Ferrandino and W. Braida. (2001). Dual-mode modeling of concentration-dependence and competitive sorption/desorption kinetics of hydrophobic compounds in soils, Water Resources Research, 37 (8), 2205-2212
J.J. Pignatello, J.C. White, F. Ferrandino and W. Braida. (2001). Influence of solute concentration on the sorption kinetics of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soils, Environmental Science and Technology, Uptake rates. 35 2765-2772
S.K. Ong and W. Braida. (2001). Air sparging effectiveness: laboratory characterization of the air channel mass transfer zone for VOC volatilization, Journal of Hazardous Materials, B87 241-258
S.K. Ong and W. Braida. (2000). Decomposition of nitrite under various pH and aeration conditions, Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 118 (1/2), 13-26
W.J. Braida and S.K. Ong. (2000). Modeling of air sparging of VOC-contaminated soil columns, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 41 385-402
S.K. Ong and W. Braida. (1998). Air sparging: air-water mass transfer coefficients, Water Resources Research, 32 (12), 3245-3253
S.K. Ong, W.L. Smith and J.W. McCabe. (1998). Fate of absorbable organic halides (AOXs) from bleached laundering in septic tanks, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 17 (3), 398-403
Koutsospyros A., Pavlov J., Fawcett J., Stricknal D., Smolinski B., Braida* W.. Degradation of high energetic and insensitive munitions compounds by Fe/Cu, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.03.048
N. Xu, C. Christodoulatos and W. Braida. (2006). Modeling the Competitive Effect of Phosphate, Sulfate, Silicate, and Tungstate Anions on the Adsorption of Molybdate onto Goethite, Chemosphere, 64 1325-1333
A. Ogundipe, B. Greenberg, C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas and W. Braida (2006). Morphological characterization and spectroscopic studies of the corrosion behaviour of tungsten heavy alloys, Corrosion Science, 48 3281-3297
A. Koutsospyros, C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas, N. Strigul and W. Braida (2006). A review of Tungsten: from environmental obscurity to scrutiny, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 136 1-9
W. Braida and S.K. Ong (2000). Fate of nonaqueous phase liquids under air sparging conditions, Transport in Porous Media, 38 (1/2), 29-42
A. Koutsospyros, N. Strigul, W. Braida and C. Christodoulatos. (Feb 2011). Tungsten: Environmental pollution and health effects, Encyclopedia of Public Health, Volume 5, Elsevier. 418-426
A. Ogundipe, W. Braida. (Oct 18, 2008). The environmental engineering curriculum and sustainability, American Society of Engineering Education, Fall 2008 Mid Atlantic Section Conference. Beth McGrath and Keith Sheppard
C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas, N. Strigul and W. Braida. ( June 28-July 1st, 2004.). Munitions grade tungsten: environmental behavior, In e-Proceedings of Protection and Restoration of the Environment VII, Mykonos, Greece. C. Moutzouris, C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas, A. Koutsospyros, C. Skanavis, and A. Stamou (Eds.)
C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas, K. Oza, M. Los and W. Braida. (Jan 5-8, 2004). Tungsten effects on firing ranges’ lead contaminated soils, In e-Proceedings of the Sustainable Range management Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana. Bruce Alleman and Steven Downes (Eds.)
C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas, S. Larson, M. Los and W. Braida. (Mar 15-18, 2004). Tungsten-lead interactions in Pb contaminated firing ranges’ soils, In Proceedings of the 14th West Coast Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments and Water, San Diego, CA. 28
N. Strigul, C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas, N. Panikov and W. Braida. (Feb 10-12, 2004). Environmental effects of tungsten in soil systems, Picatinny’s Heavy Metals Workshop, Stevens Institute of Technology
D. Dermatas, C. Christodoulatos, K. Oza, M. Los and W. Braida. (Feb 10-12, 2004). Tungsten effects on firing ranges’ lead contaminated soils, Picatinny’s Heavy Metals Workshop, Stevens Institute of Technology
C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas, M. Los and W. Braida. (Feb 10-12, 2004). Tungsten: solubility, sorption and environmental impact, Picatinny’s Heavy Metals Workshop, Stevens institute of Technology
Christodoulatos, C., Dermatas, D., Oza, K., and Los, M... (Feb 10-12, 2004). Treatment of tungsten contaminated water using Ti-based sorbent: column studies, Picatinny’s Heavy Metals Workshop, Stevens institute of Technology.
C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas, S. Larson, M. Los and W. Braida. (Oct 20-23, 2003.). Effect of Tungsten on Leaching of Lead from Contaminated Soils, In Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments and Water, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA. 67
N. Strigul, C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas, N. Panikov, A. Koutsospyros and W. Braida. (Nov 9-13, 2003.). Environmental effects of munitions grade tungsten, In e-Proceedings of SETAC 24th Annual Meeting in North America, Austin, Texas
K. Oza, A. Koutsospyros, C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas and W. Braida. (Nov 9-13, 2003.). Environmental mobility of munitions grade tungsten and tungsten alloys, In e-Proceedings of SETAC 24th Annual Meeting in North America, Austin, Texas
C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas, K. Oza, S. Larson, M. Los and W. Braida. (Dec 2-4, 2003). Interactions between tungsten and lead in firing range contaminated soils, In Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium & Workshop (SERDP/ESTCP), Washington DC
Christodoulatos C., Dermatas D., and Strigul N... (Mar 17-20, 2003). Environmental effects of tungsten from tungsten alloy based ammunition, In Proceedings of the 13th West Coast Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments and Water, San Diego, CA
Christodoulatos C., Dermatas D., and Korfiatis, G.P... (Mar 17-20, 2003). Fate and transport of tungsten from tungsten alloy based ammunition, In Proceedings of the 13th West Coast Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments and Water, San Diego, CA
C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas, G.P. Korfiatis, N. Panikov, N. Strigul, A. Koutsospyros and W. Braida. (Jul 1-5, 2002). Environmental Effects of Tungsten Based Ammunition, In Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Protection and Restoration of the Environment, Skiathos Island, Greece. A.G. Kumgolos, A.B. Liakopoulos G.P. Korfiatis, A. Koutsospyros, K.L. Katsifarakis, A.C. Demetracoupoulos (Eds.), 855-862
G. Hudak. ( 2002). Handbook on Sediment Quality, W. Braida, Prepared by A Treatise on Sediment Quality Task Force of the Water Environmental Federation, Water Environmental Federation
W. Braida, A. Koutsospyros, C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas. (2006). Dealing with potential regulations for tungsten bearing compounds, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tungsten, Refractory & Hardmetals. Animesh Bose and Robert Dowding, Metal Powder Industry Federation, Princeton, NJ. ISBN 0-9762057-4-2 452-460
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