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• Main Author: Javed Iqbal
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Ashton; Patience; sami
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.625.3271; http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0708103-181831/unrestricted/Iqbal_thesis.pdf

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am cordially grateful to my major professor Dr. Ralph J. Portier for his academic, technical, scientific and morale support during my study, which allowed me reach this stage. I am very thankful to Dr. Ed Overton and Dr. Vince Wilson for their help, supervision, and serving on my thesis defense committee. I am grateful to Dr. Caroline Metosh-Dickey for her valuable suggestions, supervision and help in my research work. I am very thankful to Mr. Just Christopher for his indispensable cooperation, which made this work possible. I am thankful to Dr. Robert Wong for his technical support in GC/MS analysis. I am also thankful to Scott Miles, and Buffy Ashton for their help in GC/MS analysis. I am thankful to Charlotte St. Romain for her encouraging morale support. I am cordially thankful to Sami Ullah, PhD student Wetlands Biogeochemistry, for his valuable suggestions, support, advice and cooperation during my studies at LSU. Thanks are also extended to my family for their encouragement and patience. Last but not the least I am thankful to all students and colleagues of the Department of Environmental