Associate Dean, Research & Graduate Education
Bourns College of Engineering

Professor
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Cooperating Faculty Member, Environmental Sciences

	Office:   454 Engineering IIl
	Phone:  (951) 827-3197

	Fax:      (951) 827-3188
	E-mail:  mark.matsumoto@ucr.edu

Education:
Ph.D.	Civil Engineering	University of California, Davis	1982
M.S.	Civil Engineering	University of California, Davis	1980
B.S.	Civil Engineering	University of California, Irvine	1977

Research Interests:

The development, design, and analysis of engineered systems to improve and/or protect the quality of the environment has been the focus of my research throughout my career. Over the past 25 years I have conducted various investigations involving land treatment systems for municipal and industrial wastewater; sludge treatment and co-disposal with solid wastes by land spreading and composting, primary effluent filtration, and fed-batch biological treatment of hazardous wastes. While I maintain an on-going interest in the traditional areas of municipal water and wastewater treatment, my more recent efforts have been related to the remediation of contaminated soils to minimize detrimental effects to underlying groundwater. I have been working on remediation related to heavy metals (particularly lead, cadmium, and arsenic), and more recently perchlorate remediation. The overall goal has been to develop a systems approach, which can be used for in situ and ex situ soil and groundwater remediation. Current work at UCR also involves a research project investigating the reliability of reactive barriers in preventing migration of mixed contaminant plumes from hazardous waste sites.

Current Projects:

Perchlorate Remediation in the Vadose Zone and Underlying Groundwater

In situ Treatment of a Mixed Cr(VI) and TCE Contaminated Groundwater

Wellhead Treatment of a Perchlorate Contaminated Groundwater using a ZVI-based bioreactor

Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting

Development of Regenerable Subsurface ZVI Treatment Zone

2008-09 Courses Taught:

Fall:

CHE 114, Fluid Mechanics

Winter:

None

Spring:

ENVE 121, Biological Unit Processes

Selected Publications:

Lao, U.L., M. Sun, M.R. Matsumoto, A. Mulchandani, W. Chen (2007) Genetic Engineering of
Self-Assembled Protein Hydrogel Based on Elastin-Like Sequences with Metal Binding Functionality,
Biomacromolecules, 8, 3736-3739.

Y Yu, X., C. Amrhein, M.A. Deshusses, and M.R. Matsumoto (2007), Perchlorate Reduction by
Autotrophic Bacteria Attached to Zero-Valent Iron in a Flow-Through Reactor, Environmental
Science and Technology, 41(3), 990-997.

Yu, X., C. Amrhein, Y. Zhang and M.R. Matsumoto (2006), Factors Influencing Arsenite Removal
by Zero-Valent Iron, Journal of Environmental Engineering, 132(11):1459-1469.

Yu, X., C. Amrhein, M.A. Deshusses, and M.R. Matsumoto (2006) Perchlorate Reduction by
Autotrophic Bacteria in the Presence of Zero-Valent Iron, Environmental Science and
Technology, 40(4):1328-1334.

Kostal, J., G. Prabhukumar, U.L. Lao, A. Chen, M. Matsumoto, A. Mulchandani, W. Chen (2005),
Customizable Biopolymers for Heavy Metal Remediation, Journal of Nanoparticle Research,
7(4-5):517-523.

Kang, S.-T., A. Subramani, E.M.V. Hoek, M.A. Deshusses and M.R. Matsumoto (2004). Direct
observation of biofouling in cross-flow microfiltration: mechanisms of deposition and release.
Journal of Membrane Science. 244(1-2):151-165.

Prabhukumar, G., M. Matsumoto, W. Chen, and A. Mulchandani (2004) Cadmium Removal from
Contaminated Soil by Tunable Biopolymers. Environmental Science and Technology.
38(11):3148-3152.

Candelaria, L.M. and M.R. Matsumoto (2000)  “Effects of organic contaminants (NAPLs) on the
permeability of soil-bentonite slurry wall material,” Transport in Porous Media, 38:43-56.

Raub, L., C. Amrhein and M.R. Matsumoto (2001)  “The effects of ozonated irrigation water on soil
physical properties,” Ozone Science and Engineering, 23(1):65-76

Wistrom, A.O., T. Edvardsson, and M.R. Matsumoto (2003) Evaluation of a single-residence biological
wastewater treatment system with thermal biosolids destruction. Environmental Technology.
24(5):561-572.

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