Environmental science, element tracing

Watmough, S.A., Hutchinson, T. C., and Evans, R. D. (1998). Development of solid calibration standards for trace elemental analyses of tree rings by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. Environmental Science and Technology 32 2185-2190. 

Kaakinen, J. W., Jorden, R. M. Lawasani, M. H. West, R. E. 1975. Trace element behavior in coal-fired power plant. Environmental Science and Technology, 9, 862-869. 

Applications of activation analysis in the environmental sciences are routine. Determinations of the trace element content of urban atmospheres, lakes, streams,... 

Belzile, N., Lecomte, P. and Tessier, A. (1989) Testing readsorption of trace elements during partial chemical extractions of bottom sediments. Environmental Science and Technology, 23(8), 1015-20. 

Harrington, J.M., Laforce, M.J., Rember, W.C. et al. (1998) Phase associations and mobilization of iron and trace elements in Coeur d Alene Lake, Idaho. Environmental Science and Technology, 32(5), 650-56. 

Helmke, P.A., Koons, R.D., Schomberg, P.J. and Iskandar, I.K. (1977) Determination of trace element contamination of sediments by multielement analysis of clay-size fraction. Environmental Science and Technology, 11(10), 984-89. 

Rice, K.C. (1999) Trace-element concentrations in streambed sediment across the conterminous United States. Environmental Science and Technology, 33(15), 2499-504. 

Taylor, H.E. and Shiller, A.M. (1995) Mississippi River methods comparison study implications for water quality monitoring of dissolved trace elements. Environmental Science and Technology, 29(5), 1313-17. 

Michalke, B. and Schramel, E (1999a) Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on trace element speciation in biomedical, nutritional and environmental sciences. Fresenius J. Anal. Chem., 363, 605. 

C. Martin, M. Gomez, M. A. Palacios, C. Camara, Evaluation of different types of hydrolysis of proteins for selenium speciation in yeast. Poster presentation at the II. International Conference on Trace Element Speciation in Biomedical, Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, Munich, 7-10 May 2001. 

C. J. Cappon, Speciation of selected trace elements in edible seafood, in J. O. Nriagu, M. S. Simmons (eds), Food Contamination from Environmental Sources, Advances in Environmental Science and Technology, J. O. Nriagu (ed.), Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1990, pp. 145-194. 

Chai, Z., Mao, X., Hu, Z., Zhang, Z., Chen, C., Feng, W., Hu, S., Ouyang, H. Overview of the methodology of nuclear analytical techniques for speciation studies of trace elements in the biological and environmental sciences. Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 372,407-411 (2002)... 

Clarke, M. B., and Helz, G. R., 2000, Metal-thiometalate transport of biologically active trace elements in sulfidic environments. 1. Experimental evidence for copper thioarsenite complexing Environmental Science Technology, v. 34, p. 1477-1482. 

Sweet CW, Vermette SJ. 1993. Sources of toxic trace elements in urban air in Illinois. Environmental Science and Technology. 27 2502-2510. 

Chemistry of the soil solution provides useful information on soil processes that are important to both agricultural and environmental sciences. Data on the concentrations of trace elements in a real soil solution are valuable for predicting the availability of those elements, as well as any toxic effects that they might have on crops and on their biological activities in soils. 

Of key importance in studies of samples and processes relevant to low temperature geochemistry and environmental science is determination of the phases present, phase associations, and the concentration and chemical speciation of inorganic and organic contaminants and pollutants or of trace elements in the case of pristine systems. 

Sutton S, Rivers M (1999) Hard X-ray synchrotron microprobe techniques and applications. In Schulze DG, Stucki JW, Bertsch PM (eds) Synchrotron X-ray Methods in Clay Science, Clay Minerals Society Workshop Lectures 9. The Clay Minerals Society, Boulder, Colorado, p 146-163 Sutton SR, Rivers ML, Bajt S, Jones (1993) Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microprobe analysis with bending magnets and insertion devices. Nucl Instrum Methods Phys Res Sect 75 553-558 Sutton SR, Rivers ML, Bajt S, Jones K, Smith TV (1994) Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microprobe a microanalytical instrument for trace element studies in geochemistry, cosmochemistiy, and the soil and environmental sciences. Nucl Instrum Methods Phys Res Sect A 347 412-416 Sveijensky DA (1994) Zero-point-of-charge prediction from crystal chemistry and solvation theory. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 58 3123-3129... 

Sciences de TUnivers. His research interests focus on environmental mineralogy and biogeochemistry of metal contaminants and trace elements using X-ray structural techniques. In the mid-80s, he initiated a new research program on the structure and surface reactivity of poorly crystallized Fe oxides. In the early 90s, this program was extended to Mn oxides, and specifically to minerals of the bimessite family. In the mid-90s, he pioneered the application of synchrotron techniques to determination of the speciation of heavy metals in natural systems. In the last two years, he was a key developer of an X-ray microprobe at the Advanced Light Source of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory dedicated to the study of complex environmental materials. He is also co-lead PI of the French Absorption spectroscopy beamline in Material and Environmental sciences (FAME) at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble. 

Tanizaki Y., Shimokawa T., Nakamura M. (1992), Physiochemical speciation of trace elements in rivet waters by size fractionation. Environmental Science Technology, 26, 7, 1433-1444. 

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