Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry

Year Joined RCNJ: 2018

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7752
• Email: cmiller7@ramapo.edu
• Office: G-414
• Office Hours: Tue./Fri. 11:45am-12:45pm; Wed. 9:00am-10:00am

Education:

• B.S. Widener University
• Ph.D University of Maryland, College Park

Courses Offered:

• Intro to Environmental Science
• Environmental Chemistry: Lecture and lab
• General Chemistry I
• World of Chemistry
• Environmental Toxicology

Research Interest:

• Mercury biogeochemical cycling
• Trace metal contaminants
• Microplastic

Recent Publications:

Brooks, S., Miller, C., Riscassi, A., Lowe, K., Dickson, J., Schwartz, G. (2021) Increasing
Temperature and Flow Management Alter Mercury Dynamics in East Fork Poplar Creek. Hydrological
Processes. Available online. DOI 10.1002/hyp.14344.

Abdelmageed, Y, Miller, C, Sanders, C , Egbo, T , Johs, A , Robertson, BK. (2021) Assessing
microbial communities related to mercury transformations in contaminated streambank soil. Water Air
Soil Pollut. 232: 31.

Christensen, G., Gionfriddo, C., King, A., Moberly, J., Miller, C., Somenahally, A., Callister, S.,
Brewer, H., Podar, M., Brown, S., Palumbo, A., Brandt, C., Wymore, A., Brooks, S., Hwang, C.,
Fields, M., Wall, J., Gilmour, C., Elias, D. (2019) Determining the Reliability of Measuring
Mercury Cycling Gene Abundance with Correlations with Mercury and Methylmercury Concentrations.
Environ. Sci. Technol.53:8649-8663.

Demer, J., Blum. J., Brooks, S., Donovan, P., Riscassi, A., Miller, C., Zheng, W., Gu, B. (2018) Hg
isotopes reveal in-stream processing and legacy inputs in East Fork Poplar Creek, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, USA. Enviro. Sci.: Process Impacts. 20:686-707.

Christensen, G., Somenahally, A., Moberly, J., Miller, C., King, A., Gilmour, C., Brown, S.,
Podar, M., Brandt, C., Brooks, S., Palumbo, A., Wall, J., Elias, D. (2017) Carbon Amendments
Alter Microbial Community Structure and Net Mercury Methylation Potential in Sediments. Applied and
Environmental Microbiology. DOI 10.1128/AEM.01049-17.

Riscassi, A., Miller, C., Brooks, B. (2016) Seasonal and flow-driven dynamics of particulate and
dissolved mercury and methylmercury in a stream impacted by an industrial mercury source. Environ.
Tox. and Chem. 35:1386-1400.

Miller, C., Watson, D., Lester, B., Howe, J., Philips, D., Liang, L., Pierce, E. (2015). Formation
of soluble mercury oxide coatings: transformation of elemental mercury in soil. Environ. Sci. Technol.
49:12105-12111.

Mathews, T., Looney, B., Bryan, L., Smith, J., Miller, C., Southworth, G., Peterson, M. (2015). The
effects of a stannous chloride-based water treatment system in a mercury contaminated stream.
Chemosphere 138: 190-196

Gu, B., Mishra, B., Miller, C., Wang, W., Lai, B., Brooks, B., Kemner, K., Liang, L. (2014) X-ray
fluorescence mapping of mercury on suspended mineral particles and diatoms in a
contaminated freshwater system. Biogeosciences. 11: 1-6.

Watson, D., Miller, C., Lester, B., Lowe, K., Southworth, G., Bogle, M.A., Liang, L., and Pierce,
E. (2014) Mercury source zone identification using soil vapor sampling and analysis. Front.
Environ. Sci Eng. 9: 596-604.

Riscassi, A. Miller, C., Brooks, B. (2014) Impact of collection container material and holding
times on sample integrity for mercury and methylmercury in water. Limnol. Oceangr. Methods.
12:407-420.

Miller, C., Watson, D., Lester, B., Lowe, K., Pierce, E., Liang, L. (2013) Characterization of
soils from an
industrial complex contaminated with elemental mercury. Envir. Res. 125: 20-29.