Jay Gan

Department Chair
Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Water Quality Specialist

• Office: 210 Science Laboratories I
• Phone: (951) 827-2712
• jgan@ucr.edu

Academic Degrees:

• Ph.D., Zhejiang University, China, 1988

Specialization:

• Environmental fate, risk assessment and regulation of pesticides and emerging contaminants.
• Processes of organic contaminants in ecosystems, including biotic and abiotic degradation, adsorption, bioavailability, aquatic bioaccumulation, and ecotoxicity.
• Detoxification and remediation of organic contaminants.
• Evaluation and development of best management practices.
• Method development for trace contaminant analysis.

Research Group:

• Graduate Students

  • Robert Budd (Ph.D., Environmental Science Program)
  • Wesley Hunter (Ph.D., Environmental Toxicology Program)
  • Weiying Jiang (Ph.D., Environmental Science Program)
  • Mae Nillos (Ph.D. student, Environmental Toxicology Program)

• Other

  • Svetlana Bonderanko - Assistant Project Scientist
  • Xinyi Cui - Junior Specialist
  • Laura Delgado Moreno - Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Fredrick Ernst - Staff Research Associate
  • Kunde Lin - Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Katherine Thomason - Undergraduate Assistant

Representative Publications:

• Books

  • Gan, J., P. Zhu, S.D. Aust, and A.T. Lemley. Pesticide Decontamination and Detoxification. American Chemical Society Symposium Series 863, American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2003.
  • Gan, J., F. Spurlock, P. Hendley, and D. Weston. Synthetic Pyrethroids: Occurrence and Effects in Aquatic Environments. American Chemical Society Symposium Series 991, American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2003.

• Journal Articles

  • Gan, J., Q. Wang, S.R. Yates, W.C. Koskinen and W.A. Jury. 2002. Dechlorination of chloroacetanilide herbicides by thiosulfate salts. PNAS (USA) 99: 5189-5194.
  • Liu, W.P., J. Gan, D. Schlenk and W.A. Jury. 2005. Enantioselectivity in environmental safety of current chiral insecticides. PNAS (USA) 103: 701-706.
  • Yang, W.C., F. Spurlock, W.P. Liu, and J. Gan. 2006. Inhibition of aquatic toxicity of synthetic pyrethroids by suspended sediment. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 25: 1913-1919.
  • Xu, Y.P., F. Spurlock, Z.J. Wang, and J. Gan. 2007. Comparison of five methods for measuring sediment toxicity of hydrophobic contaminants. Environ. Sci. Technol. 41: 8394-8399.
  • Hunter, W., Y. Yang, F. Reichenberg, P. Mayer, and J. Gan. 2009. Measuring pyrethroids in sediment porewater using matrix-solid phase microextraction. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 28: 36-43.
  • Budd, R., A. O’Geen, K. Goh, S. Bondarenko, and J. Gan. 2009. Efficacy of constructed wetlands in pesticide removal from tailwaters in the Central Valley, California. Environ. Sci. Technol. 43: 2925-2930.
  • Bondarenko, S., and J. Gan. 2009. Simultaneous determination of free and total concentrations of hydrophobic compounds. Environ. Sci. Technol. 43: 3772-3777.
  • Yang, Y., W. Hunter, S. Tao, and J. Gan. 2009. Microbial availability of different forms of phenanthrene in soils. Environ. Sci. Technol. 43: 1852-1857.
  • Lin, K.D., W.P. Liu, and J. Gan. 2009. Oxidative removal of bisphenol-A with manganese dioxide: Kinetics, products, and pathways. Environ. Sci. Technol. 43: 3860-3864.

Courses Taught:

• ENSC 127 - Fate and Transport of Contaminants in Soil (upper division)
• SWSC 204 - Environmental Organic Chemistry (graduate)

Graduate Program Affiliations and Research Focus Areas:

• Research Focus Areas

  • Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
  • Soil and Water Sciences

• Programs

  • Environmental Sciences
  • Environmental Toxicology

Links:

Cooperative Extension:

• Please visit my PesticideWise website at: www.pw.ucr.edu

• Cooperative Extension Web Page: http://esce.ucr.edu

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