Barbara A. Balko, Associate Professor

Barbara A. Balko

Department of Chemistry
Lewis & Clark College
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR 97219
Phone: (503) 768-7534, FAX: (503) 768-7369

Email: balko@lclark.edu
http://www.lclark.edu/~balko

· An Electrochemical Investigation of the Enhanced Reactivity of Clays in Contact with Iron Metal

(read an article about this research from the “Lewis & Clark Chronicle”)

(read an article about this research from the “Lewis & Clark Chronicle”)

1999 - present	Associate Professor of Chemistry, Lewis & Clark College. Courses taught include Physical Chemistry , Inorganic/Physical Chemistry Lab, Perspectives in Environmental Chemistry, Accelerated General Chemistry, General Chemistry, Electronic Instrumentation, and Inventing America.
2000 - 2001	Sabbatical Guest, Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Began a study on the interaction of clay and iron metal.
1993 - 1999	Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Lewis & Clark College.
1996-1997	Sabbatical Guest, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute. Collaborated on mechanistic studies of groundwater remediation with zero-valent metals.
1991-1993	Post Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon. Geraldine L. Richmond, Advisor. Measured the photoluminescence intensity and rate of decay from an n-GaAs electrode with a time-correlated single photon counting technique to investigate corrosion-induced surface states
1984 - 1991	Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley. Yuan T. Lee, Advisor. Used a crossed molecular beams machine to determine the product angular and translational energy distributions for reactions with energetic D atoms. In addition, studied the 193 nm photodissociation of acetylene and ethylene using photofragment translational spectroscopy.