Campus news and events

News Releases

Contact: Jason Marton
jason.marton@tamuk.edu or 361-593-4143

Research combating the "Dirty Bomb" topic of free public lecture September 29

Dr. Thomas McGehee, professor of geology at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, will discuss his research work on containing the radioactive elements of a “dirty bomb” attack at noon Thursday, Sept. 29, in room 140 of Manning Hall, on the A&M-Kingsville campus.

The title of the free public presentation, the first in the Fall Physics/Geosciences Brown Bag Lecture Series, is “Fixation of Simulants and Contaminants of a Dirty Bomb Attack: KCl, CsCl, Amendments (Bi and Fe), U, and New Emulsion Studies.”

McGehee has been a faculty member in the A&M-Kingsville geosciences program since 1989. He holds a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Texas at Dallas, and is licensed by the state of Texas as a professional geologist.

In addition to his faculty duties, McGehee has been a groundwater numerical modeler with the Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Mississippi for eight years. Last summer, McGehee joined a team of ERDC research specialists to look at responses to the explosion of a “dirty bomb” by terrorists on American soil. In particular, he has studied the problem of how to contain the radioactive debris to minimize further contamination.

This page last updated 28 September, 2005