Lee Green has been at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) since March 2018 and is a chemist in the Applied Research on Industrial and Environmental Systems (ARIES) group at ISTC. Previously, she was a chemist and laboratory manager with the Illinois State Water Survey for 11 years.

• B.A. Biology from Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, 1998.

• Plastic Debris as an Exposure Source for Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Aquatic Biota

Prior Professional Experience

• Analytical Chemist/Laboratory Supervisor, Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, IL
• Analytical Chemist, American Analytical Chemisty Laboratories, Champaign, IL
• Product Specialist/Quality Control, Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, IL

Analytical Skills

• Wet Chemistry Techniques
• Ability to troubleshoot and repair instruments
• Sample processing and preparations
• Instruments:
  • Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS)
  • Flow Injections Analysis (FIA)
  • Gas Chromatography (GC)
  • Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy (GCMS)
  • Ion Chromatography (IC)

• John T. Walker, Tracy Dombek, Lee A. Green, Nina Gartman, and Christopher M.B.Lehmann.  “Stability of Organic Nitrogen in NADP Wet Deposition Samples.”  Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 60 (2012).

• D. Steinman, J. Scott, L. Green, et al., “Persistent organic pollutants, metals, and bacterial community composition associated with microplastics in Muskegon Lake (MI).” Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2020.

• Andrew Turner, John W. Scott, and Lee A. Green.  “Rare earth elements in plastic.”  Science of The Total Environment, Vol. 774, 20 June 2021, 145405.

• John W. Scott, Kathryn G. Gunderson, Lee A. Green, and Alan D. Steinman.  “Perfluoroalkylated Substances (PFAS) Associated with Microplastics in a Lake environment.”  Toxics 2021, 9, 106.