Julia Perdrial

Associate Professor of Geochemistry

Director of Geosciences

Julia.Perdrial@uvm.edu
(802) 656-0665
Julia.Perdrial@uvm.edu
+18026560665

Delehanty Hall, Room 321
180 Colchester Avenue
Burlington, VT 05401
United States
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Alma mater(s)
  • PhD in Physics, Chemistry and Biology of the Environment, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (2008)
  • M.S. University of Heidelberg 2004
  • B.S. University of Heidelberg 2001

BIO

I research the highly complex processes that connect land and natural waters and play a fundamental role in sustaining life on Earth. The part of land that sustains all life is now often termed the Critical Zone (CZ), which is a powerful framework for interdisciplinary science and education contexts where I use my background in geosciences, mineralogy, biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology, as well as my deep interest in education to study how climate change, pollution, and inequity impacts water quality and water security. My work is collaborative, and I enjoy working with partners from different backgrounds, perspectives and epistemologies to tackle challenges in land and water research and education. In our everyday work we use field observations, experiments, and data science, integrate our findings in STEM education, grapple with living into our values of diversity, equity, and community and look to team science for help with all of it. My teaching integrates this interdisciplinary setting (e.g. GEOL1040) and uses hands-on approaches to understand Deep Earth and mineralogical processes (e.g. GEOL2105&3105), surface environmental dynamics (e.g. GEOL2405&3405), and land water interactions (e.g. GEOL4405 & GEOL5405).

 

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Area(s) of expertise

Collaborative research on land -interactions that integrates laboratory, field and data-based investigations to investigate the Earth surface (i.e. Critical Zone) resilience, including carbon and nutrient dynamics, catchment hydrology and biogeochemistry, biotic and abiotic primary and secondary mineral alteration and weathering, clay mineralogy, and general environmental geochemistry.

Bio

I research the highly complex processes that connect land and natural waters and play a fundamental role in sustaining life on Earth. The part of land that sustains all life is now often termed the Critical Zone (CZ), which is a powerful framework for interdisciplinary science and education contexts where I use my background in geosciences, mineralogy, biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology, as well as my deep interest in education to study how climate change, pollution, and inequity impacts water quality and water security. My work is collaborative, and I enjoy working with partners from different backgrounds, perspectives and epistemologies to tackle challenges in land and water research and education. In our everyday work we use field observations, experiments, and data science, integrate our findings in STEM education, grapple with living into our values of diversity, equity, and community and look to team science for help with all of it. My teaching integrates this interdisciplinary setting (e.g. GEOL1040) and uses hands-on approaches to understand Deep Earth and mineralogical processes (e.g. GEOL2105&3105), surface environmental dynamics (e.g. GEOL2405&3405), and land water interactions (e.g. GEOL4405 & GEOL5405).

 

Fall 2023 Syllabus:

Fall 2022 Syllabus:

Courses

Publications

Google Scholar Profile

Areas of Expertise

Collaborative research on land -interactions that integrates laboratory, field and data-based investigations to investigate the Earth surface (i.e. Critical Zone) resilience, including carbon and nutrient dynamics, catchment hydrology and biogeochemistry, biotic and abiotic primary and secondary mineral alteration and weathering, clay mineralogy, and general environmental geochemistry.

Office Hours

321 Delehanty Hall Mondays 2-3pm and Wednesdays 3:30-4:30 in person or remote; Tuesdays 1-2pm remote only