Who Am I?

Resumé

My name is Pete Poston, Professor of Chemistry at Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR. I received my Ph.D in Physical-Analytical Chemistry from the University of Utah in 1989 under the mentorship of Prof. Joel M. Harris. I teach General Chemistry, Quantitative Analysis, Instrumental Methods, Computational Chemistry, Chemical Instrumentation, and Experimental Chemistry. My areas of research involve the study of pollutant degradation at surfaces using chemometrics, ATR-FTIR and GC-MS, and the development of chemical sensors using Au-nanoparticles and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy.

In my free time, I love to photograph and hike the spectacular redrock wilderness of the Colorado Plateau - please visit my Colorado Plateau Homepage. And for most of my life I've been fascinated with the history, people, and culture of the Himalayas and Karakoram - browse my Mount Everest Trek (1996), Overland Journey from Kathmandu to Lhasa (2000), and K2 Base Camp Trek (2007) webpages.