Catherine Peters

George J. Magee Professor of Geosciences and Geological Engineering, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of the Program in Geological Engineering

Website: http://www.princeton.edu/~cap/

Office: E-Quad, E-417

Phone: 609-258-5645

Research interests: Environmental chemistry and environmental risk assessment; reactions kinetics; reaction rates for a variety of environmental systems; geochemical reactions important for storage of CO2 in deep saline aquifers; time-scales operative for CO2 storage; contamination of water and soils with organic pollutants; non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

News

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    Artificial leaves, floating breakwaters and musical memories are among recipients of 2021 innovation grants

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    Engineering faculty take on ‘Grand Challenges’ in the environment

  • Anu Ramaswami portrait

    Ramaswami, researcher of urban sustainability, appointed inaugural director of Chadha Center for Global India

  • Photo of Catherine Peters

    Future cities will need a holistic vision ‘for the benefit of the entire society’

  • Readying for graduation, Princeton engineering students reflect on their senior thesis experience

  • Photo of a sewer plant

    Sewers could help clean the atmosphere

Research

  • Energy and Environment

Affiliations

  • Three students look closely at a model of an architectural structure.

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Princeton campus and Guyot Hall

    High Meadows Environmental Institute

  • Geosciences

  • Faculty member, seated at end of row of colleagues, leads panel discussion.

    Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

  • Researchers, dressed in white suits, work in "clean room" lab under yellow light.

    Princeton Materials Institute

  • Program in Sustainable Energy