Richard Carbonaro has extensive experience in the field of fate and transport of metals and other contaminants in soils and sediments. He has managed research projects related to water quality monitoring of urban pollutants, transport modeling of metals in sediments, unit-world modeling of metals in lakes for toxicity assessment, and partitioning of metals onto organic carbon. His doctoral work focused on the environmental fate and transformations of chromium in the environment. Carbonaro is also experienced in developing, modifying, and using mathematical solute transport models for both steady state and time-variable conditions.