Environmental Science PhD. Candidate
In the Interdisciplinary Program between
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and
The Department of Earth and Environmental Science
stephen.w.lehner@vanderbilt.edu

B.M. Belmont University, Nashville, TN (Music) 1990
B.S. Middle Tennessee State University (Geology) 2002
M.S. Vanderbilt University (Geochemistry) 2004

PhD Thesis:

Characterization of defect energy levels due to
As, Co, and Ni impurities in pyrite:
A step toward understanding charge transfer kinetics
at the semiconductor/electrolyte interface

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

Igert Fellow for Risk and Reliability Studies, Vanderbilt Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, August 2005- present

Research Grant from the Geological society of America – April 2003

Outstanding Geology Student – 2001 Middle Tennessee State University Geology Dept

Estwing Hammer Award - 2001 Middle Tennessee State University Geology Dept

Synthetic Undoped Pyrite

With my wife and daughter in the North Dakota Badlands

With my daughters, Ava and Erin in Washington DC

Searching for abandoned gold mines in Georgia