Rob Root, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, Rob oversees all inorganic contaminant analyses, trains students in inorganic laboratory techniques and examines project data quality control issues. Rob is a geochemist with research interests in molecular-scale mechanisms of biogeochemical cycling of trace metals and metalloids in the environment and mineral weathering reactions at the rock-water interface. He specializes in the use of synchrotron x-ray spectroscopic and microscopic techniques to determine metal(loid) speciation from field and laboratory studies of remediation and bioaccessibility.