Ph.D., Environmental Systems Engineering, 1982 – Clemson University, S. Carolina
M.S., Environmental Systems Engineering, 1976 – Clemson University
B.S., Oceanographic Technology, 1975 – Florida Institute of Technology, School of Marine and Environmental Science
Professional Experience
Interim Director, NSF/IGERT Center for Multiphase Environmental Research, 2003-07
Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, WSU, 1999-present
Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, WSU, 1990-99
Senior Process Engineer, Environmental Engineering, RMT, Inc, 1989-90
Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, WSU, 1983-89
Research Interests
Physical and chemical wastewater treatment process: adsorption phenomena, metal partitioning, precipitation, facilitated metal transport mechanisms, vapor extraction of chlorinated solvents
Adsorption and desorption of hazardous organics and metals on soil and activated carbon
Removal of metals from industrial waste streams
Fate and transport of highway runoff contaminants
Teaching
Introduction to Environmental Engineering
Water and Wastewater Treatment Design
Environmental Measurements
Engineering Ethics
Physicochemical Water and Wastewater Treatment
Publications
Nelson, S., David R Yonge and Michael E Barber (2009) “The effects of road salts on heavy metal mobility in two eastern Washington soils”. Journal of Environmental Engineering ASCE, 135 pp. 505-510.
Lancaster, C., Beutel, M., Yonge, D. (2009). “Evaluation of roadside infiltration to manage stormwater runoff in arid eastern Washington”, Environmental Engineering Science, 26, pp. 935-940.
Puzon, G.J., Tokala, R., Zhang, H., D.R. Yonge, B.M. Peyton, L. Xun, (2008) “Subsurface Mobility of Organo-Cr(III) Complexes Formed During Biological Reduction of Cr(VI)”, Chemosphere,70, 2054-2059.
Rumburg, B., Mount, G., Filipy, J., Lamb, B., Westberg, H., Yonge, D., Kincaid, R., Johnson, K. (2008). Measurement and modeling of atmospheric flux of ammonia from dairy milking cow housing, Atmospheric Environment, 42, pp. 3364-3379.
Rumburg, B., Mount, G., Yonge, D., Lamb, B., Westberg, H., Neger, M., Filipy, J., Kincaid, R., Johnson, K. (2008). Measurements and modeling of atmospheric flux of ammonia from an anaerobic dairy waste lagoon, Atmospheric Environment, 42, pp. 3380-3393.
Tokala, R., D.R. Yonge, G. J. Puzon, V. Siravswamy, L. Xun, B.M. Peyton, (2007) “Subsurface Mobility of Organo-Cr(III) Complexes Formed During Biological Reduction of Cr(VI)”, J Environ Engr, ASCE, 134(2), 87-92.
Alam, M., Hossain, M. A., Yonge, D. R., Peyton, B. M., and Petersen, J. N. (2006). “Bioreduction of Hexavalent Chromium in Flow-Through Quartz Sand Columns.” Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, 132(3), 358-366.
