Expertise

White's research group is currently working on funded research addressing a diversity of topics: climate change effects on greenhouse gas cycles in lakes, wetlands, and terrestrial soils of Arctic landscapes; plant and soil microbial community response to permafrost thaw; microbial control of reactive nitrogen emissions in agricultural soils; and bioreactor microbial community dynamics in an acid mine drainage treatment system.

  • Environmental Biogeochemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Aquatic Chemistry
  • Limnology
Affiliations

Professor, Biogeochemistry, Indiana University Bloomington

Past Affiliations

Director, Integrated Program in the Environment, Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President, Academic and Research Units, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Environmental Science

Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Affiliate Faculty, Integrated Program in the Environment, Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President, Academic and Research Units, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor Emeritus, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Degrees
PhD, Syracuse University, Civil Engineering, 1984
MS, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Environmental Science, 1979
BA, Gettysburg College, Biology, 1977
Keywords
northern hemisphere environmental engineering waste water treatment water resources engineering water treatment atmospheric sciences microbial processes biogeochemistry colloid & surface chemistry geochemistry geology environmental biology