Research:

To understand the sources, flows, and fates of natural and human derived materials in the biosphere, to develop integrated methods of energy and food system sustainability and equitable distribution, to recover and create environmental systems that provide habitat and biogeochemical functioning similar to pristine natural systems.

Recent Publications:

Catallo, W. J. , T. F. Shupe, Jay L. Comeaux, and T. Junk. 2009.  Transformation of Carbohydrate Biomass to Volatile and Semi-Volatile Products in Hydrothermal (HT) Systems: Pathway Studies.  In press.

Obanda, D., T.F. Shupe, W.J. Catallo.  2008.  Resistance of Trichoderma harzianum to triazole based wood preservatives - Proposed biotransformation pathyways. Holzforschung 62:613-619

Catallo W. J., J. L. Comeaux, and T. Junk. 2008. Effects of static vs. tidal hydraulic conditions on degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons in coastal wetland sediments. Handbook of Environmental Chemistry (O. Huizinger, Editor-in-Chief, Springer, Volume 5T “Contaminated Sediments” edited by T.A. Kassim and D. Barceló.

Kennedy, C. H., V. L. Wilson, and W. J. Catallo. 2008.  Budadiene Soot Alters Protein Expression for DNA Repair in Exposed Normal Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells. Cell Biol. Toxicol. (Springer): doi 10.1007/s10565-008-9100-z.

Catallo W. J. and J. L. Comeaux. 2008. Comprehensive Hydrothermal treatment of municipal sewage sludge.  Waste Management, 28(11):2213-29.

Patent:

United States Patent #7,365,236. Catallo, W. J. 2008. Generation of a creosote-like mixture, or recovery of metals, or both from preserved wood in supercritical water.