E-mail suaja@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Telephone: (718) 951-5405 

Research Interests

• relative clay minerals stabilities
• sorption of trace and toxic metals by clay minerals
• surface chemistry of clay minerals
• thermodynamic properties of minerals
• industrial minerals

• Aja S.U. and Small J.S. (1999) The solubility of a low-Fe clinochlore between 25 and 175 °C. European J. Mineralogy (In press).
• Aja S.U. (1998)The sorption of the rare earth element, Nd, onto kaolinite at 25 °C. Clays & Clay Minerals. 46, 103-109.
• Aja S.U. (1995) Thermodynamic properties of some 2:1 layer clay minerals from solution equilibration data. European J. Mineral. 7, 325-333.
• Aja S.U., Wood S.A. and Williams-Jones A. E. (1997) The solubility of some alkali-bearing Zr minerals in hydrothermal solutions. Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 432, 69-74.
• Sinitsyn V. A., Aja S. U., Kulik D. A. and Wood S.A. (1999) Acid/base surface chemistry and sorption of some lanthanides on K+-saturated Marblehead illite: I. Results of an experimental investigation. Geochim. Cosmochim Acta (Under review).

Teaching Responsibility

• Science in Modern Life - Geology
• Introductory Environmental Geology
• Environmental Mineralogy
• Biogeochemistry of Soils
• Environmental Geochemistry
• Global Biogeochemical Change

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