Dr. Terri L. Woods

Dr. Terri L. Woods - Associate Professor
Office	Graham 103
Off.Hrs.	MW: 12:15-2:45
Phone	252-328-6014
Aqueous Geochemistry
Ph.D.	University of South Florida (1988)
M.S.	University of Arizona (1978)
B.S.	University of Delaware (1975)

Dr. Woods may be reached via Email : woodst@ecu.edu

Career Summary

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Current Research Interests

I continue to interpret the thousands of concentrations for chemical constituents in groundwater that my students and I have accumulated over the past 10 years. Some of the results of the groundwater/coastal ocean interaction project – mainly relating to carbon isotopes - from around Wilmington, NC were published in Limnology and Oceanography [2003, v. 48(3), pp. 957-970]. The work of a graduate student and I on the petrology and mineralogy of the Castle Hayne aquifer was published in Southeastern Geology [v. 43, p. 113-135] in 2005. However, most of my research effort is currently expended on the Reverse Osmosis project - “Ecological Assessment of Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Plant Discharge Sites, Present and Proposed, in Coastal Waters of Northeastern Albemarle Sound”. This project was begun by Roger Rulifson (ICMR and Biology) and he subcontracted the water quality and sediment evaluation work to me. From July, 2005 through June, 2006 we collected approximately 40 samples every two weeks to be analyzed for major elements and nutrients. In 2005-2006, I employed six undergraduate Geology and Geography majors and 3 Geology graduate students (“The Pasquotank Posse”) to work on the project. Roger, his biology Ph.D. student, and I presented preliminary results from the project at a conference in Athens, Greece in August, 2006. We have also submitted the final reports on the pre-construction studies to the two counties getting ready to build new RO plants. One of my graduate students, Jennifer Smith, is finishing up her research project describing the current state of our results. Two other graduate students are working on comparisons of the results from this RO research into river chemistry to results for other streams in northeastern North Carolina.

Click here to view a summary of the current progress on the Reverse Osmosis project.

Click here to view the final pre-construction report for the Pasquotank County site.

Selected Publications

1992 - Woods, T.L. and R.M.Garrels, Calculated solution-solid relations in the low temperature system CaO-MgO-FeO-CO₂-H₂O: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 56, p. 3031-3043.

1993 - McNeil, M.B., Amos, A.L., and T.L.Woods, Adherence of sulfide mineral layers produced by corrosion of copper alloys: Corrosion, v. 49, p. 755-758.

1995 - Sutton, L.C. and T.L.Woods, Geochemistry of ground water from the Castle Hayne aquifer in Northeastern North Carolina: Southeastern Geology, v. 35, p. 93-119.

2000 - Woods, T.L., Fullagar, P.D., Spruill, R.K., and L.C.Sutton, Strontium isotopes and major elements as tracers of ground water evolution: Example from the Upper Castle Hayne aquifer of North Carolina: Ground Water, v. 38, p. 762-771.

2003 – Gramling, C.M., McCorkle, D.C., Mulligan, A.E., and T.L. Woods, A carbon isotope method to quantify groundwater discharge at the land-sea interface: Limnology and Oceanography, v. 48 (3), p. 957-970.

Aqueous Geochemistry

Career Summary

Current Research Interests

Selected Publications

2005 – Mehlhop, D.L.T., Woods, T.L., and D.W. Neal, Lithology and mineral chemistry of the Castle Hayne Limestone – An important Coastal Plain Aquifer in North Carolina: Southeastern Geology, v. 43, p. 113-135.