Ian Bourg

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Website: https://www.princeton.edu/cee/people/display_person/?netid=bourg

Office: E-Quad, E416

Phone: 609-258-4541

Research interests: Geochemical and mass transport properties of porous media, including clay mineral surface geochemistry; geologic carbon sequestration; kinetic isotope effects in aqueous systems; liquid water at interfaces; coupling between geochemistry, geomechanics, and mass fluxes in porous media.

News

  • Four engineering students named Goldwater Scholars

  • Matrix of fluorescent particles with pores that open and close

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

  • Large aggregates of glucose shown in green; bacteria grow around them, labeled in red

    Carbon-chomping soil bacteria may pose hidden climate risk

  • Graphic image with words Junior Faculty Awards 2020

    Junior faculty awards recognize outstanding teaching and research

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    Engineering faculty take on ‘Grand Challenges’ in the environment

  • NSF CAREER AWARDS

    Seven engineering faculty receive NSF CAREER awards

Research

  • Energy and Environment

  • Materials Science and Engineering

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

  • Princeton campus and Guyot Hall

    High Meadows Environmental Institute

  • 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

  • Professor and student work together in lab setting.

    Chemical and Biological Engineering