| Dr. Volz's research interests are primarily focused on how industrial and municipal toxins and carcinogens move through the air, water, soil and groundwater to reach people and how to block this movement. He teaches both Exposure Assessment and Fate and Transport of Environmental Contaminants in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH).
Dr. Volz is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the Center for Healthy Environments and Communities that specializes in conducting community-based participatory environmental research projects, principally in Southwestern Pennsylvania. He was Director of the 2004 CRESP Independent Amchitka Expedition to determine radionuclide concentrations in marine biota from underground nuclear test shots fired in the Aleutian Islands. Dr. Volz is the PI for the Allegheny River Stewardship Project of 2008-2010, a Heinz Endowment funded community based participatory environmental research and outreach program that will test several hypothesis concerning identification of sources of pollution by sampling of fish, sediment and water in different locations of the Allegheny River.
Dr. Volz is also the Co-Principal Investigator for a project with the Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh to explore associations between autism exacerbations and exposure to coal fired plant emissions and wastes. Dr. Volz is a member of the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network’s Water Quality subgroup. Dr. Volz was elected to the Omicron Chapter, Delta Omega Honor Society, National Public Health Honor Society in 2006. |
