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Internet Resources for Environmental Chemistry
Programs within the American Chemical Society that support environmental chemistry and chemical education.
1. ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry Home Page
Environmental, Chemistry & Hazardous Materials Information & Resources
1. JCE December2000 (Volume 77 Number 12)
2. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
More Internet Resources:
1. Department of Defense Petroleum Hydrocarbon Cleanup Demonstration
-University of California
2. The National Centre for Environmental Toxicology Environmental Chemistry
3. Virtual Library: Science: Chemistry: Environmental Chemistry Resources
- From A-W, all articles pertain to environmental chemistry with full text articles
4. Chemistry Division: Environmental Chemistry and Sensor Chemistry
Books:
1. A Comparison Of The Transport And Fate Of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Congeners In Three
Great Lakes Food Webs
Authors: Heather A. Morrison, D. Michael Whittle, and G. Douglas Haffner}
Abstract: A food web bioaccumulation model was used to compare transport and fate of polychorinated biphenyls (PCB) congeners in three food webs in the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America. The model was used to quantify the contribution of sediment-derived and freely dissolved PCBs to the body burden of aquatic biota. In eastern Lake Erie (OH, USA), almost 100% of the chemical body burden of biota originates from sediment. Furthermore, as sediment becomes the predominant source of contaminant to aquatic biota, the concentration of PCB congeners in biota tends to equilibrium with bottom sediment.
2. Particles on Leaves
Author: Dr. David L. Johnson
Abstract: David Johnson has a particular interest in the development of analytical techniques for the determination of the chemical and physical forms of heavy metals in soils, and atmospheric and aquatic samples. A technique employed for this study was automated scanning electron microscopy/image analysis techniques.
3. Global Sulfur Cycles
Author: David J. Kieber
Abstract: This research program focuses on the study of the transformations of organic matter in atmospheric and aquatic environments. General areas of interest include organic-metal interactions, atmospheric transformations of organic matter and their impact on surface water biogeochemistry and development of trace analytical techniques suitable for environmental analyses.
4. CO2 Gas
Author: Michael L. Sorey, Christopher D. Farrar, Terrance M. Gerlach, Kenneth A. Mcgee, William C. Evans
Abstract: Scientists have monitored geologic unrest in Long Valley Caldera and at adjacent Mammoth Mountain, California. After many earthquakes in 1989, they discovered large volumes carbon dioxide (CO2) gas was seeping from beneath this volcano. The U.S. Geological Survey continues to study the CO2 emissions to protect the public from this hazard.
5. Mercury Studies in the Florida Everglades
Author: David Krabbenhoft
Abstract: Public concern for wildlife and human health problems due to mercury (Hg) toxicity has increased substantially since the mid-1980´s. These concerns are manifested primarily by the issuance of fish consumption advisories in the majority of U.S. states, Canada, and several European countries because of high levels of mercury in game fish.
6. Tree Swallows as indicators of mercury bioaccumulation in the North Fork of the Holston River, Virginia
Author: Tom Custer
Abstract: The primary objective of this investigation was to determine the bioavailability of environmental contaminants of this river.
7. Measuring Pesticides and How they Transform in the Environment
Author: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Abstract: The Toxic Substances Hydrology (Toxics) Program develops methods to measure a variety of pesticides and their degradates, and assesses their environmental transport. Degradates are the product of environmental transformation of the parent pesticide and can have similar properties.
8. Use of tracer injections and synoptic sampling to measure metal loading from acid mine drainage
Author: Briant A. Kimball
Abstract: The significance of a given metal source depends on the toxicity of a particular metal, how much of the metal enters the stream, and whether or not the metal remains in the stream in a toxic form. This discussion deals with accounting for how much metal enters the stream and whether it stays in the stream. The amount of metal entering the stream is called the mass loading and is calculated as the product of metal concentration and stream discharge. The overall effect of high metal concentrations on streams and aquatic organisms is unclear without discharge measurements.
9. Simulating Transport of Volatile Organic Compounds
Author: Matthew A. Lahvis and Arthur L. Baehr
Abstract: Subsurface spills of gasoline and other petroleum products are a common environmental problem throughout the industrialized world. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that 40 percent of the more than 200,000 retail service stations in the United States have had accidental releases of petroleum hydrocarbons to the subsurface (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1991). Restoration of a contaminated aquifer to regulatory standards is a technically difficult problem even when best engineering strategies are applied.
URLs of some important people in the environmental chemistry field.