Member Profile
Natalie Mladenov
About Me
I am an environmental engineer and tenure track faculty member at Kansas State University. As an IGERT student at the University of Colorado, iI studied natural organic matter transformations in the pristine setting of the Okavango Delta, a large recharge wetland system in Botswana. Since then I have studied the sources, transformations, and reactivity of NOM in a wide range of environments, from the atmosphere to groundwater. I use optical spectroscopic techniques, such as UV-vis absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopy, in combination with experimental manipulations to better understand how NOM interacts in polluted and pristine environments and to discriminate the sources of organic aerosols. I am currently involved in two main research projects, one that investigates the influence of organic matter in atmospheric deposition on alpine microbial communities and another that seeks to understand the role of NOM in arsenic mobilization in contaminated aquifers of southeast Asia.
