Catalyst Brothers published their first shot in Chem. Eng. J. (April 2024)

The Brothers (Nurbek and Meiirzhan) have published their 1.5 years of hard work in a high-impact factor journal, CEJ (IF = 15.1), under Prof. Lee's Advice. The paper, "Enhanced reductive removal of aqueous Hg(II) by a novel Pd-Cu-BTC Catalyst," demonstrates an exceptional catalytic material for effective aqueous heavy metal removal, including Hg. This achievement not only highlights the dedication and expertise of Nurbek and Meiirzhan but also represents the commitment of Catalyst Group to advancing scientific knowledge and addressing real-world water and wastewater challenges. 

Yingkar's Hard-work Made it at ACS ES&T Water (July 2023)

The human health risk assessment research started by "the Big Sista Elmira" with Prof. Lee's advice, and a couple of significant research achievements have been published in STOTEN and MRB. Now, the several years of Yingkar's effort and hard work under the Professor's advice finally saw the publication of the Esil River risk assessment research in ACS ES&T Water. The research team is working on the risk assessment of PAH contamination in Almaty City for the next research masterpiece.   

The Proud GEERG Class of 2023 (June 2023)

Karina Turdiyeva (B.S.), Miriam Absalyamova (M.S.), and Dr. Enoch Adotey (Ph.D.) earned their degree from Nazarbayev University. It was quite a long and difficult journey with proud research achievements. The academic sisters and brothers in GEERG thank your endless efforts and research enthusiasm. Good luck to Karina, Miriam, and Dr. Adotey!    

Undergraduate Researcher's Power (June 2023)

Senior student Karina Turdiyeva and Prof. Lee submitted a research paper titled "Comparative analysis and human health risk assessment of contamination with heavy metals of Central Asian Rivers"  to the Heliyon (IF: 3.92, Q1), and it is now in press. She is the first undergraduate student researcher to publish her research results in a Q1 journal as the first author with her advisor in GEERG research history.  The research results can provide a basic understanding of trace heavy metal contaminations of three Kazakhstan rivers and also show cancer and non-cancer risks of the contaminated river waters under different exposure scenarios.   

New year's 1st Paper Publication (Jan. 2023)

CCUS assessment team (Yerdaulet, Akmaral, Nurgabyl, Saniya, Amina) with Prof. Lee submitted a research paper entitled "Resource assessment for green hydrogen production in Kazakhstan" to the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IF: 7.139, Q1) and now is in press. The team made the first great achievement on Kazakhstan's Green hydrogen production potential. The assessment results would provide a basic understanding of green hydrogen production in Kazakhstan and guide the direction of novel alternative energy industries and research fields. 

The first business trip to Almaty Su (Oct. 2022) 

WTP and WWTP LCA Team leader, Alisher, and Prof. Lee visited Almaty Su and Almaty WTP and WWTP for the collection of their data and future collaboration. The WWTP, built in ~1960, uses a classic activated sludge process for the treatment of Almaty wastewater, and its waste sludge is dried in the field and dumped at a landfill (some of them are used for agricultural purposes). The data will be used for the life cycle assessment of WTPs and WWTPs. This is the first BT for GEERG researchers. Next time, it would be Shymkent or some cities in USA or EU for ACS & IWA conferences. Alisher opened the gate....   atiotemporal evaluation of water quality and risk assessment of heavy metals in the Northern Caspian Sea bounded by Kazakhstan

Big Sista's the Caspian Sea risk assessment work accepted in Marine Pollution Bulletin (June 2022) 

Elmira's last risk assessment research paper entitled "Spatiotemporal evaluation of water quality and risk assessment of heavy metals in the Northern Caspian Sea bounded by Kazakhstan" has been finally accepted. She received B.S. and M.S. in CEE, NU, and was the first Risk Assessment team leader (a.k.a "Big Sista") in GEERG. Now, she is working on a Ph.D. research in Energy, Environmental, & Chemical Engineering at the Washington University, St. Louise, USA.  Spatiotemporal evaluation of water quality and risk assessment of heavy metals in the Northern Caspian Sea bounded by Kazakhstan

Congrats to GEERG senior undergraduate researchers: 2022 commencement ceremony (June 2022)

   GEERG senior undergraduate researchers (Saniya, Gaini, Alisher, Aigerim, and Meiirzhan in the photo left) received a B.S. degree from the School of Engineering and Digital Sciences on June 10. Now, they successfully jumped over the first hurdle in their research career. All the GEERG researchers congratulate them on their significant achievements and graduation.   The M.S. student researchers cannot make their photoshoot due to personal issues.   

A sampling tour at Astana Wastewater Treatment Plant  (May 2022)

Risk Assessment (Assem & Yingkar) & WTP/WWTP LCA (Malika & Alisher) Teams visited Astana WTTP May 19. They enjoyed the sampling from the WWTP processes to measure and monitor the variations of micro/nano plastics & pharmaceutical chemicals throughout the year of 2022 for their research tasks.  

Nurbek & Ainash's Final Achievement of the Year (December 2021)

Nurbek and Ainash, the seniors of Catalyst Group are publishing their final achievement of the year, a.k.a, the quadrupled publication.  The paper entitled "Competitive inhibition of catalytic nitrate reduction over Cu-Pd-hematite by groundwater oxyanions" (with GEERG OB, Prof. S. Hamid) has been accepted in the Chemosphere. Their MES Mercury project has just started and seems to aim at exceptionally significant research journals for next year's achievements, although we cannot predict their ambitious plan for next year exactly...

GEERG OB, Prof. S. Bae (Konkuk Univ.) Appointed as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Hazardous Materials (July 2021)

Professor Sungjun Bae (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Konkuk University, Korea), has been proudly appointed as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Hazardous Materials (IF: 10.588) since July 2021.  He was the first Lab Captain of EGRL (former GEERG), received a Ph.D. degree from KAIST (advisor: Prof. Woojin Lee), and was trained at Prof. Thorsten Schaffer's Geochemistry Research Group in KIT (Germany) as a postdoc fellow with the Humboldt Scholarship.   

Three G-EGRL members completed research internship at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) laboratories

Galym Tokazhanov and Elmira Ramazanova worked in our collaborator, Professor Seunghee Han's Lab.

Yerdaulet Abuov worked in the laboratory of Professor Youngjun Park

G-EGRL members participated in INESS 2019 (7-9 August)

International conference on Nanomaterials and Advanced Energy Storage Systems (INESS)

Professor Lee, Nurbek, Olga, Ainash, and Nurlan visited Almaty for INESS  2019 and presented their research works