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Dr. Josie Setzler
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Josie Setzler

Office: (419) 448-2204
jsetzler@heidelberg.edu		 Dr. Setzler has been a faculty member at Heidelberg College from 1978 to 1992 and returned in 1997. She received her Ph.D. in chemistry in 1997 from the University of Toledo where she was awarded the Robert R. Buell Memorial Achievement Award and the Sigma Xi Research Presentation Award. Her doctoral research with Hua Guo focused on theoretical studies of photoinitiated chemical reaction dynamics on insulator surfaces. She also holds a Master of Science Degree from the University of Michigan (1977) and a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Toledo (1975).

Dr. Setzler maintains a half-time position that involves teaching in the chemistry and water resource programs and research work with the Water Quality Lab. Her courses include Water Pollution and Analysis (WTR 205/CHM 205) and Physical Chemistry I and II (CHM 307/308). She has also developed a graduate education workshop (EDU 560) to involve middle and high school teachers with interdisciplinary river studies and water quality analysis.

In community work, she serves as Board President for the local affiliate (Seneca, Sandusky, and Wyandot Counties) of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). NAMI is an advocacy organization uniting the families and friends of people suffering from severe mental illness in order to seek equitable services and break the societal stigma suffered by the mentally ill. The Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Seneca, Sandusky, and Wyandot Counties funds NAMI's work in the local community. In the fall of 2001 Dr. Setzler was master of ceremonies for a local NAMI-sponsored mental illness awareness symposium that attracted 180 participants from surrounding communities.

Students with chemistry or water resource majors may do independent research with Dr. Setzler on projects that employ the inductively-coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer (ICP-AE) owned by the Water Quality Laboratory. Possible projects include:
  • Matrix effects of river water on the accuracy of metals determinations ICP-AE: Investigation of the effect of high total solids on the determination of Ca, Mg, Na, and K. (In collaboration with Jack Kramer and Ellen Ewing of the WQL)
  • Use of ICP-AE to determine zinc concentrations in storm runoff from a Heidelberg College parking lot into Rock Creek and comparison with published studies (In collaboration with Jack Kramer and Ellen Ewing of the WQL and Dan Esterline)
Publications:
  • J. Setzler, J. Bechtel, H. Guo and G. C. Schatz, J. Chem. Phys., 107, 9176 (1997). A further theoretical exploration of the surface-aligned photo-initiated H + CO2 reaction: Surface motion and temperature dependence.
  • J. V. Setzler, H. Guo, and G. C. Schatz, J. Phys. Chem., B101, 5352 (1997). Photo-initiated chemical reactions dynamics between aligned adsorbates on solid surfaces: H + CO2.
  • J. V. Setzler, Z.-H. Huang and H. Guo, J. Chem. Phys., 103, 4300 (1995) Theoretical modeling of photodissociation dynamics of CH3I on MgO(001)
  • H. Guo and J. Setzler, Heterogeneous Chem. Rev. (invited review), 2, 17 (1995). Photodissociation dynamics of adsorbed molecules on insulator surfaces.

Contact Information

National Center for Water Quality Research
Heidelberg College
310 E. Market St.
Tiffin, OH 44883-2462
telephone: (419) 448-2198
facsimile: (419) 448-2345
Internet: ncwqr@heidelberg.edu

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