Michael Serfes

Room 250 Wright Geological Laboratory
(732) 445-2044
mserfes@rci.rutgers.edu

Education

• Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Geological Sciences, Ph.D. 2005
• Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, Geological Sciences, MS. 1984
• University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, Earth Sciences, BA. 1981

Teaching

• Geology 101

Research Interests

• Ground water chemistry and contamination
• Land use impacts to shallow ground-water quality
• Arsenic sources, mobilization and transport mechanisms, in ground-water of the Newark Basin in New Jersey

Recent Publications

• Serfes, M.E., and Bousenberry, R., (2007), New Jerseys Ground Water Quality Monitoring Network: Status of shallow ground water quality, New Jersey Geological Survey Informational Circular, p 4
• Serfes, M. E., 2005, Arsenic occurrence, sources, mobilization, transport and prediction in the major bedrock aquifers of the Newark Basin: Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 122 pp. A copy can be found at: http://geology.rutgers.edu/students.shtml under Recent Graduate Students.
• Serfes, M.E., Spayd, S.E., Herman, G.C., 2005, Arsenic in New Jersey Ground Water: Chapter 13, American Chemical Society (ACS) Symposium Series volume Advances in Arsenic Research: Integration of Experimental and Observational Studies and Implications for Mitigation edited by Peggy A. ODay, Dimitrios