Project Manager Qualifications and Organization Description
William A. Arnold
Joseph T. and Rose S. Ling Professor and Associate Head
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota
B.S., Chemical Engineering, 1994, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
M.S., Chemical Engineering, 1995, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, 1999, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Dr. William Arnold will be responsible for overall project coordination and supervision and design of the
hydrolysis and photolysis studies. He has been studying the fate of pharmaceutical and pesticide
compounds in aquatic environments for sixteen years. As part of these studies, he has determined the
transformation rates and identified reaction products of numerous compounds. Work has focused on
the phototransformation of pesticides in prairie wetlands, pesticides losses in soils, and antibiotic fate in
surface waters. He has published over twenty peer-reviewed papers on pesticide and pharmaceutical
fate since 2003, and he is the co-author of a textbook on water chemistry published in 2011. Dr. Arnold
is a Resident Fellow of the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment, an Associate Fellow of
the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, and a member of the graduate faculty in Water Resources
Science. He won the Arcadis/Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Frontier in
Research Award in 2012 and the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering George W.
Taylor Award for Distinguished Research in 2011.
Ann Fallon
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota
B.A., Biology, 1972, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
M.S., Biology, 1973, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Ph.D., Biology, 1976, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.
Dr. Ann Fallon will be responsible for supervision and design of the toxicology studies. She has extensive
experience in insect physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology, and she has investigated genetic
processes involved in insecticide resistance. Using mosquitoes as a model system, she has explored
physiological processes related to the insect repellent DEET, and most recently she has developed
improved protocols for ecotoxicological studies with the springtail, Folsomia candida, a standard soil
arthropod used for evaluation of environmental toxins. She has published over 120 papers in peer
reviewed journals and has served on grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health, United
States Department of Agriculture, and National Science Foundation. She is a Distinguished McKnight
University Professor (1999). She received the University of Minnesota Distinguished Women Scholars
Award in Science and Engineering (2009) and a FAME (Faculty Award for Mentorship in Entomology)
Award (2014). Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and US Department of
Agriculture, and she has trained 12 MS and 15 PhD students, as well as numerous undergraduates.
Organization Description
The University of Minnesota is one of the largest, most comprehensive, and most prestigious public
universities in the United States (http://twin-cities.umn.edu/about-us). The laboratories and offices of
the PI contain the necessary fixed and moveable equipment and facilities needed for the proposed
studies.