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Person Details: Mark L. Brusseau

Superfund Research Program

Mark L. Brusseau

University of Arizona
Department of Environmental Science
FCS Building 312
P.O. Box 210038
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0038
Phone: 520-621-3244
Fax: 520-621-1647
Email: brusseau@ag.arizona.edu

Projects

Research Briefs

Hazardous Waste Sites

Broadway-Pantano Landfill

  • University of Arizona: Research Translation Core

City of Tucson Fuel Depot

  • University of Arizona: Bioavailability, Soil Heterogeneity, and In-Situ Biodegradation of Organic Contaminants
  • University of Arizona: Sequestration Processes for Attenuation and Treatment of Arsenic and other Toxic Elements in Mine Waters

El Camino del Cerro Landfill WQARF Site

  • University of Arizona: Sequestration Processes for Attenuation and Treatment of Arsenic and other Toxic Elements in Mine Waters

GE Moreau Superfund Site

  • University of Arizona: Bioavailability, Soil Heterogeneity, and In-Situ Biodegradation of Organic Contaminants

Motorola, Inc. (52nd Street Plant) Superfund site

  • University of Arizona: Bioavailability, Soil Heterogeneity, and In-Situ Biodegradation of Organic Contaminants
  • University of Arizona: Research Translation Core

Page Ranch Landfill

  • University of Arizona: Sequestration Processes for Attenuation and Treatment of Arsenic and other Toxic Elements in Mine Waters

Park- Euclid, WQARF site

  • University of Arizona: Sequestration Processes for Attenuation and Treatment of Arsenic and other Toxic Elements in Mine Waters

Phoenix-Goodyear Airport (PGA)

  • University of Arizona: Sequestration Processes for Attenuation and Treatment of Arsenic and other Toxic Elements in Mine Waters

Silverbell Landfill WQARF site

  • University of Arizona: Sequestration Processes for Attenuation and Treatment of Arsenic and other Toxic Elements in Mine Waters

Tucson International Airport Area (TIAA) Superfund Site

  • University of Arizona: Research Translation Core
  • University of Arizona: Sequestration Processes for Attenuation and Treatment of Arsenic and other Toxic Elements in Mine Waters

Publications

2023

2022

  • Brusseau ML, Guo B. 2022. PFAS concentrations in soil versus soil porewater: Mass distributions and the impact of adsorption at air-water interfaces. Chemosphere 302:134938. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134938 PMID:35568214
  • Guo B, Zeng J, Brusseau ML, Zhang Y. 2022. A screening model for quantifying PFAS leaching in the vadose zone and mass discharge to groundwater. Adv Water Resour 160:doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2021.104102
  • Hitzelberer M, Khan N, Mohamed R, Brusseau ML, Carroll KC. 2022. PFOS mass flux reduction/mass removal: impacts of a lower-permeability sand lens within otherwise homogeneous systems. Environ Sci Technol 56(19):13675-13685. doi:10.1021/acs.est.2c02193 PMID:36126139 PMCID:PMC9664819
  • Johnson GR, Brusseau ML, Carroll KC, Tick GR, Duncan CM. 2022. Global distributions, source-type dependencies, and concentration ranges of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in groundwater. Sci Total Environ 841:doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156602 PMID:35690215
  • Lyu Y, Wang B, Du X, Guo B, Brusseau ML. 2022. Air-water interfacial adsorption of C4-C10 perfluorocarboxylic acids during transport in unsaturated porous media. Sci Total Environ 831:154905. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154905 PMID:35364184
  • Yan N, Guo Z, Brusseau ML. 2022. Sucralose as an oxidative-attenuation tracer for characterizing the application of in situ chemical oxidation for the treatment of 1,4-dioxane. Environ Sci Process Impacts doi:10.1039/d2em00185c PMID:35796164

2021

2020

  • Araujo JB, Brusseau ML. 2020. Assessing XMT measurement variability of air water interfacial areas in natural porous media. Water Resour Res 56:doi:10.1029/2019WR025470
  • Bridges L, Mohamed R, Khan N, Brusseau ML, Carroll KC. 2020. Comparison of manganese dioxide and permanganate as amendments with persulfate for aqueous 1,4-dioxane oxidation. Water (Basel) 12:16. doi:10.3390/w12113061
  • Brusseau ML. 2020. Simulating PFAS transport influenced by rate-limited multi-process retention. Water Res 168:115179. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2019.115179 PMID:31639593 PMCID:PMC6957125
  • Brusseau ML, Anderson RH, Guo B. 2020. PFAS concentrations in soils: Background levels versus contaminated sites. Sci Total Environ 740(8):140017. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140017
  • Brusseau ML, Lyu Y, Yan N, Guo B. 2020. Low-concentration tracer tests to measure air-water interfacial area in porous media. Chemosphere 250:9. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.126305 PMID:32135438
  • Brusseau ML, Taghap H. 2020. NAPL-water interfacial area as a function of fluid saturation measured with the interfacial partitioning tracer test method. Chemosphere 260:doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127562 PMID:32683025
  • Guo B, Zeng J, Brusseau ML. 2020. A mathematical model for the release, transport, and retention of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the vadose zone. Water Resour Res 56:doi:10.1029/2019WR026667
  • Guo Z, Russo AE, Difilippo EL, Zhang Z, Zheng C, Brusseau ML. 2020. Mathematical modeling of organic liquid dissolution in heterogeneous source zones. J Contam Hydrol 235:doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2020.103716 PMID:32977295 PMCID:PMC7704655
  • Jiang H, Guo B, Brusseau ML. 2020. Characterization of the micro-scale surface roughness effect on immiscible fluids and interfacial areas in porous media using the measurements of interfacial partitioning tracer tests. Adv Water Resour 146:doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103789
  • Jiang H, Guo B, Brusseau ML. 2020. Pore scale modeling of fluid fluid interfacial area in variably saturated porous media containing microscale surface roughness. Water Resour Res 56:doi:10.1029/2019WR025876
  • Khan AZ, Khan S, Ayaz T, Brusseau ML, Khan MA, Nawab J, Muhammad S. 2020. Popular wood and sugarcane bagasse biochars reduced uptake of chromium and lead by lettuce from mine-contaminated soil. Environ Pollut 263:114446. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114446 PMID:32283452 PMCID:PMC7654435
  • Lyu Y, Brusseau ML. 2020. The influence of solution chemistry on air-water interfacial adsorption and transport of PFOA in unsaturated porous media. Sci Total Environ doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136744
  • Meng L, Zuo R, Brusseau ML, Wang J, Liu X, Du C, Zhai Y, Teng Y. 2020. Groundwater pollution containing ammonium, iron and manganese in a riverbank filtration system: Effects of dynamic geochemical conditions and microbial responses. Hydrological Processes 15:doi:10.1002/hyp.13856
  • Pu M, Niu J, Brusseau ML, Sun Y, Zhou C, Deng S, Wan J. 2020. Ferrous metal-organic frameworks with strong electron-donating properties for persulfate activation to effectively degrade aqueous sulfamethoxazole. Chem Eng J 394:15. doi:10.1016/j.cej.2020.125044
  • Sun Y, Gu M, Lyu S, Brusseau ML, Li M, Lyu Y, Xue Y, Qui Z, Sui Q. 2020. Efficient removal of trichloroethene in oxidative environment by anchoring nano FeS on reduced graphene oxide supported nZVI catalyst: The role of FeS on oxidant decomposition and iron leakag. J Hazard Mater 392:doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.122328 PMID:32092655
  • Yan N, Ji Y, Zhang B, Zheng X, Brusseau ML. 2020. Transport of GenX in saturated and unsaturated porous media. Environ Sci Technol 54(19):11876-11885. doi:10.1021/acs.est.9b07790 PMID:32972138 PMCID:PMC7654438

2019

2018

2017

  • Danish M, Gu X, Lu S, Brusseau ML, Ahmad A, Naqvi M, Farooq U, Zaman WQ, Fu X, Miao Z. 2017. An efficient catalytic degradation of trichloroethene in a percarbonate system catalyzed by ultra-fine heterogeneous zeolite supported zero valent iron-nickel bimetallic composite. Appl Catal A Gen 531:177-186. doi:10.1016/j.apcata.2016.11.001 PMID:29104369 PMCID:PMC5665389
  • Duncan CM, Mainhagu J, Lin D, Brusseau ML. 2017. Analysis of trichloroethene vapour in soil-gas samples using solid-sorbent tubes with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Environ Chem 14:495-501. doi:10.1071/EN17161 PMID:30598624 PMCID:PMC6309363
  • Duncan CM, Mainhagu J, Virgone K, Moreno Ramirez D, Brusseau ML. 2017. Application of phytoscreening to three hazardous waste sites in Arizona. Sci Total Environ 609:951-955. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.236 PMID:28783907 PMCID:PMC5600860
  • Farooq U, Danish M, Lu S, Brusseau ML, Naqvi M, Fu X, Zhang X, Sui Q, Qiu Z. 2017. Efficient transformation in characteristics of cations supported-reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites for the destruction of trichloroethane. Appl Catal A Gen 544:10-20. doi:10.1016/j.apcata.2017.07.007 PMID:29353964 PMCID:PMC5772953
  • Fu X, Brusseau ML, Zang X, Farooq U, Qiu Z, Sui Q. 2017. Enhanced effect of HAH on citric acid-chelated Fe(II)-catalyzed percarbonate for trichloroethene degradation. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 24:24318–24326. doi:10.1007/s11356-017-0070-7 PMID:28889360
  • Fu X, Gu X, Lu S, Sharma VK, Brusseau ML, Xue Y, Danish M, Fu GY, Qiu Z, Sui Q. 2017. Benzene oxidation by Fe(III)-activated percarbonate: matrix-constituent effects and degradation pathways. Chem Eng J 309:22-29. PMID:28959136 PMCID:PMC5612506
  • Guo Z, Brusseau ML. 2017. Modified well-field configurations for improved performance of contaminant elution and tracer tests. Water Air Soil Pollut 228:261. doi:10.1007/s11270-017-3432-3
  • Guo Z, Brusseau ML. 2017. The impact of well-field configuration and permeability heterogeneity on contaminant mass removal and plume persistence. J Hazard Mater 333:109-115. doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.03.012 PMID:28342351 PMCID:PMC5426908
  • Guo Z, Brusseau ML. 2017. The impact of well-field configuration on contaminant mass removal and plume persistence for homogeneous versus layered systems. Hydrological Processes 31:4748-4756. doi:10.1002/hyp.11393 PMID:29755199 PMCID:PMC5944865
  • Liu G, Zhong H, Jiang Y, Brusseau ML, Huang J, Shi L, Liu Z, Liu Y, Zeng G. 2017. Effect of low-concentration rhamnolipid biosurfactant on Pseudomonas aeruginosa transport in natural porous media. Water Resour Res 53:361-375. doi:10.1002/2016wr019832 PMID:28943669 PMCID:PMC5607479
  • Lyu Y, Brusseau ML. 2017. Optimizing the gas absorption/chemical reaction method for measuring air-water interfacial area in porous media. Water Air Soil Pollut 228:8-8. doi:10.1007/s11270-017-3637-5
  • Lyu Y, Brusseau ML, El Ouni A, Araujo JB, Su X. 2017. The gas-absorption/chemical-reaction method for measuring air-water interfacial area in natural porous media. Water Resour Res 53:9519-9527. doi:10.1002/2017WR021717 PMID:29662253 PMCID:PMC5898451
  • Pu M, Ma Y, Wan J, Wang Y, Wang J, Brusseau ML. 2017. Activation performance and mechanism of a novel heterogeneous persulfate catalyst: metal-organic frameworkMIL-53(Fe) with Fe-II/Fe-III mixed-valence coordinatively unsaturated iron center. Catal Sci Technol 7:1129-1140. doi:10.1039/C6CY02355J PMID:29104750 PMCID:PMC5665402
  • Rehman Z, Khan S, Brusseau ML, Shah MT. 2017. Lead and cadmium contamination and exposure risk assessment via consumption of vegetables grown in agricultural soils of five-selected regions of Pakistan. Chemosphere 168:1589-1596. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.11.152 PMID:27939659
  • Yan N, Li M, Liu Y, Liu F, Brusseau ML. 2017. Kinetic and thermodynamic studies of chlorinated organic compound degradation by siderite-activated peroxide and persulfate. Water Air Soil Pollut 228:9-9. doi:10.1007/s11270-017-3631-y
  • Zhang X, Gu X, Lu S, Brusseau ML, Xu M, Qiu Z, Fu X, Sui Q. 2017. Application of ascorbic acid to enhance trichioroethene degradation by Fe(III)-activated calcium peroxide. Chem Eng J 325:188-198. doi:10.1016/j.cej.2017.05.004 PMID:29104449 PMCID:PMC5665388
  • Zhong H, Tian Y, Yang Q, Brusseau ML, Yang L, Zeng G. 2017. Degradation of landfill leachate compounds by persulfate for groundwater remediation. Chem Eng J 307:399-407. doi:10.1016/j.cej.2016.08.069 PMID:28584519 PMCID:PMC5456458

2016

  • McDonald K, Carroll KC, Brusseau ML. 2016. Comparison of fluid-fluid interfacial areas measured with X-ray microtomography and interfacial partitioning tracer tests for the same samples. Water Resour Res 52:5393-5399. doi:10.1002/2016wr018775 PMID:28936003 PMCID:PMC5603264
  • Rehman Z, Khan S, Qin K, Brusseau ML, Shah MT, Din I. 2016. Quantification of inorganic arsenic exposure and cancer risk via consumption of vegetables in southern selected districts of Pakistan. Sci Total Environ 550:321-329. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.01.094 PMID:26820935 PMCID:PMC4833018
  • Xue Y, Gu X, Lu S, Miao Z, Brusseau ML, Xu M, Fu X, Zhang X, Qiu Z, Sui Q. 2016. The destruction of benzene by calcium peroxide activated with Fe(II) in water. Chem Eng J 302:187-193. doi:10.1016/j.cej.2016.05.016 PMID:28943778 PMCID:PMC5607478
  • Yan N, Liu F, Chen Y, Brusseau ML. 2016. Influence of groundwater constituents on 1,4-dioxane degradation by a binary oxidant system. Water Air Soil Pollut 227:436. doi:10.1007/s11270-016-3146-y PMID:28943674 PMCID:PMC5603204
  • Zhang X, Gu X, Lu S, Miao Z, Xu M, Fu X, Danish M, Brusseau ML, Qiu Z, Sui Q. 2016. Enhanced degradation of trichloroethene by calcium peroxide activated with Fe(III) in the presence of citric acid. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 10(3):502-512. PMID:28959499 PMCID:PMC5613293
  • Zhong H, El Ouni A, Lin D, Wang B, Brusseau ML. 2016. The two-phase flow IPTT method for measurement of nonwetting-wetting fluid interfacial areas at higher nonwetting saturations in natural porous media. Water Resour Res 52:5506-5515. doi:10.1002/2016WR018783 PMID:28959079 PMCID:PMC5614450
  • Zhong H, Liu G, Jiang Y, Brusseau ML, Liu Z, Liu Y, Zeng G. 2016. Effect of low-concentration rhamnolipid on transport of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 9027 in an ideal porous medium with hydrophilic or hydrophobic surfaces. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 139:244-248. doi:10.1016/j.colsurfb.2015.11.024 PMID:26722821 PMCID:PMC4833015
  • Zhong H, Zhang H, Liu Z, Yang X, Brusseau ML, Zeng G. 2016. Sub-CMC solubilization of dodecane by rhamnolipid in saturated porous media. Sci Rep 6:33266. doi:10.1038/srep33266 PMID:27619361 PMCID:PMC5020404

2015

2014

  • Brusseau ML, Guo Z. 2014. Assessing contaminant-removal conditions and plume persistence through analysis of data from long-term pump-and-treat operations. J Contam Hydrol 164:16-24. doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2014.05.004 PMID:24914523 PMCID:PMC4117718
  • Mainhagu J, Morrison C, Truex M, Oostrom M, Brusseau ML. 2014. Measuring spatial variability of vapor flux to characterize vadose-zone VOC sources: flow-cell experiments. J Contam Hydrol 167:32-43. doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2014.07.007 PMID:25171394 PMCID:PMC4278747
  • Marble JC, Brusseau ML, Carroll KC, Plaschke M, Fuhrig L, Brinker F. 2014. Application of a persistent dissolved-phase reactive treatment zone for mitigation of mass discharge from sources located in lower-permeability sediments. Water Air Soil Pollut 225:2198. doi:10.1007/s11270-014-2198-0 PMID:26300570 PMCID:PMC4540080
  • Matthieu DE, Brusseau ML, Guo Z, Plaschke M, Carroll KC, Brinker F. 2014. Persistence of a groundwater contaminant plume after hydraulic source containment at a chlorinated-solvent contaminated site. Ground Water Monit Remediat 34(4):23-32. PMID:26069436 PMCID:PMC4459649
  • Miao Z, Carreon-Diazconti C, Carroll KC, Brusseau ML. 2014. The impact of biostimulation on the fate of sulfate and associated sulfur dynamics in groundwater. J Contam Hydrol 164:240-250. doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2014.06.010 PMID:25016586 PMCID:PMC4136432
  • Monger GR, Morrison C, Brusseau ML. 2014. Using a gas-phase tracer test to characterize the impact of landfill gas generation on advective-dispersive transport of VOCs in the vadose sone. Water Air Soil Pollut 225:doi:10.1007/s11270-014-2226-0 PMID:26380532 PMCID:PMC4568564
  • Musielak M, Brusseau ML, Marcoux M, Morrison C, Quintard M. 2014. Determination of chlorinated solvent sorption by porous material-application to trichloroethene vapor on cement mortar. Transp Porous Media 104(1):77-90. doi:10.1007/s11242-014-0321-8 PMID:25530647 PMCID:PMC4269331
  • Ramirez-Andreotta M, Brusseau ML, Artiola JF, Maier RM, Gandolfi A. 2014. Building a co-created citizen science program with gardeners neighboring a superfund site: The Gardenroots case study. Chapter 15 in: Public Health: Improving Health via Inter-Professional Collaborations. Nova Science Publishers, pp.183-201.
  • Ramirez-Andreotta M, Brusseau ML, Artiola JF, Maier RM, Gandolfi A. 2014. Environmental research translation: enhancing interactions with communities at contaminated sites. Sci Total Environ 497-498:651-664. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.08.021 PMID:25173762 PMCID:PMC4186773
  • Schnaar GA, Brusseau ML. 2014. Nonideal transport of contaminants in heterogeneous porous media: 11 Testing the experiment condition dependency of the continuous-distribution rate model for sorption-desorption. Water Air Soil Pollut 225:doi:10.1007/s11270-014-2136-1 PMID:26380531 PMCID:PMC4568558

2013

2012

2011

  • Brusseau ML, Carroll KC, Allen T, Baker J, DiGuiseppi W, Hatton J, Morrison C, Russo AE, Berkompas J. 2011. Impact of in situ chemical oxidation on contaminant mass discharge: Linking source-zone and plume-scale characterizations of remediation performance. Environ Sci Technol 45(12):5352-5358. doi:10.1021/es200716s PMID:21615133 PMCID:PMC3157310
  • Brusseau ML, Hatton J, DiGuiseppi W. 2011. Assessing the impact of source-zone remediation efforts at the contaminant-plume scale through analysis of contaminant mass discharge. J Contam Hydrol 126:130-139. doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2011.08.003 PMID:22115080 PMCID:PMC3224343
  • defilippo EL, Brusseau ML. 2011. Assessment of a simple function to evaluate the relationship between mass flux reduction and mass removal for organic-liquid contaminated source zones. J Contam Hydrol 123:104-113. doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2010.12.011 PMID:21262552 PMCID:PMC3061350
  • Difilippo EL, Brusseau ML. 2011. Application of light reflection visualization for measuring organic-liquid saturation for two-phase systems in two-dimensional flow cells. Environ Eng Sci 28:803-809. doi:10.1089/ees.2010.0471 PMID:26457050 PMCID:PMC4598534

2010

2009

2008

2007

  • Brusseau ML, Nelson NT, Zhang Z, Blue JE, Rohrer J, Allen T. 2007. Source-zone characterization of a chlorinated-solvent contaminated Superfund site in Tucson, AZ. J Contam Hydrol 90(1-2):21-40. doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2006.09.004 PMID:17049404
  • Brusseau ML, Peng S, Schnaar GA, Murao A. 2007. Measuring air-water interfacial areas with X-ray microtomography and interfacial partitioning tracer tests. Environ Sci Technol 41(6):1956-61. PMID:17410790
  • Tick GR, McColl C, Yolcubal I, Brusseau ML. 2007. Gas-phase diffusive tracer test for the in-situ measurement of tortuosity in the vadose zone. Water Air Soil Pollut 184:355-62.

2006

  • Brusseau ML, Peng S, Schnaar GA, Costanza-Robinson MS. 2006. Relationships among air-water interfacial area, capillary pressure, and water saturation for a sandy porous medium. Water Resour Res 42(3):W03501.
  • Brusseau ML, Sandrin SK, Li L, Yolcubal I, Jordan FL, Maier RM. 2006. Biodegradation during contaminant transport in porous media: 8. The influence of microbial system variability on transport behavior and parameter determination. Water Resour Res 42(4):W04406.
  • Carroll KC, Artiola JF, Brusseau ML. 2006. Transport of molybdenum in a biosolid-amended alkaline soil. Chemosphere 65(5):778-785. PMID:16674987
  • Schnaar GA, Brusseau ML. 2006. Characterizing pore-scale configuration of organic immiscible liquid in multi-phase systems with synchrotron X-ray microtomography. Vadose Zone Journal 5(2):641-648.
  • Schnaar GA, Brusseau ML. 2006. Characterizing pore-scale dissolution of organic immiscible liquid in natural porous media using synchrotron x-ray microtomography. Environ Sci Technol 40(21):6622-6629. PMID:17144287

2005

  • Dorn JG, Brusseau ML, Maier RM. 2005. Real-time, in situ monitoring of bioactive zone dynamics in heterogeneous systems. Environ Sci Technol 39(22):8898-8905. PMID:16329198
  • Schnaar GA, Brusseau ML. 2005. Pore-scale characterization of organic immiscible-liquid morphology in natural porous media using synchrotron X-ray microtomography. Environ Sci Technol 39(21):8403-8410. PMID:16294880
  • Wang J, Maier RM, Brusseau ML. 2005. Influence of hydroxypropyl-b-cyclodextrin (HPCD) on the bioavailability and biodegradation of pyrene. Chemosphere 60(5):725-728. PMID:15963811
  • Wang J, Patterson B, Bodour AA, Maier RM, Brusseau ML. 2005. Biodegradation during contaminant transport in porous media: 7 Impact of multiple-degrader community dynamics. Environ Toxicol Chem 24(11):2806-2811. PMID:16398116

2004

  • Jordan FL, Sandrin SK, Frye RJ, Brusseau ML, Maier RM. 2004. The influence of system complexity on bacterial transport in saturated porous media. J Contam Hydrol 74(1-4):19-38. PMID:15358485
  • Sandrin SK, Brusseau ML, Piatt JJ, Bodour AA, Blanford WJ, Nelson NT. 2004. Spatial Variability of In Situ Microbial Activity: Biotracer Tests. Ground Water 42(3):374-383. PMID:15161154
  • Srivastava R, Sharma PK, Brusseau ML. 2004. Reactive solute transport in macroscopically homogeneous porous media: analytical solutions for the temporal moments. J Contam Hydrol 69(1-2):27-43. PMID:14972436
  • Zhang Z, Brusseau ML. 2004. Nonideal transport of reactive contaminants in heterogeneous porous media: 7. distributed-domain model incorporating immiscible-liquid dissolution and rate-limited sorption/desorption. J Contam Hydrol 74(1-4):83-103. PMID:15358488

2003

  • Bodour AA, Wang J, Brusseau ML, Maier RM. 2003. Temporal change in culturable phenanthrene degraders in response to long-term exposure to phenanthrene in a soil column system. Environ Microbiol 5(10):888-895. PMID:14510842
  • Brusseau ML, Bronson KM, Ross S, Nelson NT, Carlson TD. 2003. Partitioning tracer tests to characterize immiscible-liquid contamination in the vadose zone beneath a fuel depot. Vadose Zone Journal 2(2):148-153.
  • Carlson TD, Contanza-Robinson MS, Keller J, Wierenga PJ, Brusseau ML. 2003. Intermediate-scale tests of the gas-phase partitioning tracer method for measuring soil-water content. Soil Science Society of America Journal 67(2):483-486.
  • Famisan GB, Brusseau ML. 2003. Biodegradation during contaminant transport in porous media: 6 Impact of sorption on coupled degradation-transport behavior. Environ Toxicol Chem 22(3):510-517. PMID:12627636
  • Johnson GR, Gupta K, Putz DK, Hu Q, Brusseau ML. 2003. The effect of local-scale physical heterogeneity and nonlinear, rate-limited sorption/desorption on contaminant transport in porous media. J Contam Hydrol 64(1-2):35-58. doi:10.1016/S0169-7722(02)00103-1 PMID:12744828
  • Johnson GR, Zhang Z, Brusseau ML. 2003. Characterizing and quantifying the impact of immiscible-liquid dissolution and non-linear, rate-limited sorption/desorption on low-concentration elution tailing. Water Resour Res 39(5):6-1-6-8.
  • Nelson NT, Hu Q, Brusseau ML. 2003. Characterizing the contribution of diffusive mass transfer to solute transport in sedimentary aquifer systems at laboratory and field scales. Ground Water 276(1-4):275-286. doi:10.1016/S0022-1694(03)00061-1
  • Yolcubal I, Dorn JG, Maier RM, Brusseau ML. 2003. The influence of substrate and electron acceptor availability on bioactive zone dynamics in porous media. J Contam Hydrol 66(3-4):219-237. PMID:14568400

2002

  • Brusseau ML, Zhang Z, Nelson NT, Cain RB, Tick GR, Oostrom M. 2002. Dissolution of non-uniformly distributed immiscible liquid: Simulating intermediate-scle experiments using local-scale mass-transfer coefficients. Environ Sci Technol 36(5):1033-1041.
  • Costanza-Robinson MS, Brusseau ML. 2002. Gas-phase advection and dispersion in unsaturated porous media. Water Resour Res 38(4):7-1-7-10.
  • Yolcubal I, Pierce SA, Maier RM, Brusseau ML. 2002. Biodegradation during contaminant transport in porous media: 5. The influence of growth and cell elution on microbial distribution. J Environ Qual 31(6):1824-1830.

2001

  • Blanford WJ, Barackman ML, Boving TB, Klingel EJ, Johnson GR, Brusseau ML. 2001. Cyclodextrin-enhanced vertical flushing of a trichloroethene contaminated aquifer. Ground Water Monit Remediat 21(1):58-66.
  • Li L, Yolcubal I, Sandrin SK, Hu MQ, Brusseau ML. 2001. Biodegradation during contaminant transport in porous media: 3. Apparent condition-dependency of growth-related coefficients. J Contam Hydrol 50(3-4):209-223. doi:10.1016/S0169-7722(01)00111-5 PMID:11523325
  • McCray JE, Bai G, Maier RM, Brusseau ML. 2001. Biosurfactant-enhanced solubilization of NAPL mixtures. J Contam Hydrol 48(1-2):45-68. PMID:11291481

2000

  • Bodour AA, Wang J, Brusseau ML, Maier RM. 2000. Development of an indigenous phenanthrene degrading community during long-term exposure to phenanthrene. In: Proceedings of the Arizona-Nevada Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Meeting, February 19th. Tucson, AZ.
  • Bodour AA, Wang J, Brusseau ML, Maier RM. 2000. The development of an indigenous phenanthrene degrading community during long-term exposure to phenanthrene under saturated flow conditions. In: Proceedings of the 100th General American Society for Microbiology Meeting, May 21-25. Los Angeles, CA.
  • Boving TB, Brusseau ML. 2000. Solubilization and removal of residual trichloroethene from porous media: Comparisons of several solubilization agents. J Contam Hydrol 42:51-67.
  • Brusseau ML, Nelson NT, Oostrom M, Zhang Z, Johnson GR, Wietsma TW. 2000. Influence of heterogeneity and sampling method on aqueous concentrations associated with NAPL dissolution. Environ Sci Technol 34(17):3657-3664.

1999

  • Boving TB, Wang X, Brusseau ML. 1999. Cyclodextrin-enhanced solubilization and removal of residual-phase chlorinated solvents from porous media. Environ Sci Technol 33(5):764-770.
  • Brusseau ML, Hu MQ, Wang J, Maier RM. 1999. Biodegradation during contaminant transport in porous media: 2. The influence of physicochemical factors. Environ Sci Technol 33(1):96-103.
  • Brusseau ML, Hu Q, Nelson NT, Cain RB. 1999. A diffusive tracer-test method for investigating the influence of mass transfer processes on field-scale solute transport. In: Innovative Subsurface Remediation: Field Testing of Physical, Chemical, and Characterization Technologies. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC. pp.chapter18.
  • Brusseau ML, Piatt JJ, Wang J, Hu MQ. 1999. A biotracer test for characterizing the in situ biodegradation potential associated with subsurface systems. In: Innovative Subsurface Remediation: Field Testing of Physical, Chemical, and Characterization Technologies. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC. pp.chapter17.
  • Brusseau ML, Rohrer J, Decker T, Nelson NT, Linderfelt WR. 1999. Contaminant Transport and Fate in a Source Zone of a Chlorinated-Solvent Contaminated Superfund Site: Overview and Initial Results of an Advanced Site Characterization Project. In: Innovative Subsurface Remediation: Field Testing of Physical, Chemical, and Characterization Technologies. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC. pp.chapter19.
  • Brusseau ML, Srivasta R. 1999. Nonideal transport of reactive solutes in heterogenous porous media: 4. Analysis of the Cape Cod natural-gradient field experiment. Water Resour Res 35(4):1113-1125.
  • Brusseau ML, Xie LH. 1999. Biodegradation during contaminant transport in porous media: 1. Mathematical analysis of controlling factors. J Contam Hydrol 37(3-4):269-293.
  • Nelson NT, Brusseau ML, Carlson TD, Costanza MS, Young MH, Johnson GR, Wierenga PJ. 1999. A gas-phase partitioning tracer method for the in situ measurement of soil-water content. Water Resour Res 35(12):3699-3707.
  • Wang J, Brusseau ML. 1999. Cyclopentanol-enhanced solubilization of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by cyclodextrins. In: Proceedings of the American Chemical Society National Meetings, Environmental Chemistry Division. Anaheim, CA. pp.47-50.
  • Wang J, Brusseau ML, Maier RM. 1999. Biodegradation of nonionic organic compounds complexed with cyclodextrins. In: Proceedings of the American Chemical Society National Meetings, Environmental Chemistry Division. Anaheim, CA. pp.416-417.
  • Zhang Z, Brusseau ML. 1999. Nonideal transport of reactive solutes in heterogeneous porous media: 5. Simulating regional-scale behavior of a trichloroethene plume during pump-and-treat remediation. Water Resour Res 35(10):2921-2935.

1998

  • Bai G, Brusseau ML, Maier RM. 1998. Influence of cation type, ionic strength and pH on solubilization and mobilization of residual hydrocarbon by a biosurfactant. J Contam Hydrol 30:265-279.
  • Boving TB, Brusseau ML. 1998. Performance of several solubilization-enhancing agents under comparable laboratory conditions. In: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 1998.
  • Boving TB, Wang X, Brusseau ML. 1998. Use of cyclodextrins for remediation of solvent contaminated porous media. In: Groundwater Quality: Remediation and Protection, Proceedings of an International Conference of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences. Tubingen, Germany.
  • Brusseau ML. 1998. Contaminant transport and fate in a source zone of a chlorinated-solvent contaminated Superfund site: Results of laboratory and field experiments. In: Proceedings of the NIEHS/EPA (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/Environmental Protection Agency) Superfund Basic Research Program Meeting. Berkeley, CA.
  • Brusseau ML. 1998. Nonideal transport of reactive solutes in heterogenous porous media: 3. Analyzing field data with mathematical models. Ground Water 209(1-4):147-165.
  • Brusseau ML. 1998. The impact of heterogeneity on field-scale reactive solute transport: Lessons learned from the Borden and Cape Cod Natural-Gradient Studies. In: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 1998.
  • Brusseau ML. 1998. The use of cyclodextrin for subsurface remediation. In: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 1998.
  • Brusseau ML, Snyder SK. 1998. The influence of couple physical/chemical processes on the transport of biodegradable solutes. Soil Science Society of America Journal
  • Brusseau ML, Wang X, Boving TB. 1998. In Situ remediation of subsurface systems contaminated by mixed wastes. In: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 1998.
  • Brusseau ML, Wierenga PJ. 1998. The use of a weighing lysimeter for conducting intermediate scale in situ remediation experiments. In: Proceedings of the Superfund Basic Research Program: A Decade of Improving Health through Multi-Disciplinary Research. Chapel Hill, NC.
  • Hu MQ, Brusseau ML. 1998. Coupled effects of nonlinear, rate-limited sorption and biodegradation on transport of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) in soil. Environ Toxicol Chem 17(9):1673-1680.
  • Ji W, Brusseau ML. 1998. A general mathematical model for chemical-enhanced flushing of soil contaminated by organic compounds. Water Resour Res 34(7):1635-1648.
  • Lamoreaux RD, Boving TB, Brusseau ML. 1998. Chemically enhanced mass removal of aged and immiscible-liquid phase TCE from aquifer material. In: Proceedings of the NIEHS/EPA (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/Environmental Protection Agency) Superfund Basic Research Program Meeting. Berkeley, CA.
  • Lamoreaux RD, Brusseau ML. 1998. Chemically enhanced mass removal of aged TCE from aquifer material. In: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 1998.
  • Nelson NT, Brusseau ML, Young MH, Carlson TD, Wierenga PJ. 1998. Demonstration of a gas-phase partitioning tracer test for the in situ measurement of soil water content. In: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 1998.
  • Piatt JJ, Brusseau ML. 1998. Biotracer tests for characterizing biodegradation potential in the subsurface. In: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 1998.
  • Snyder SK, Brusseau ML, Jordan FL, Maier RM. 1998. The impact of bacterial cell growth and metabolic lag on the transport and biodegradation of organic compounds. In: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 1998.
  • Snyder SK, Brusseau ML, Jordan FL, Maier RM. 1998. The impact of bacterial cell growth and metabolic lag on the transport and biodegradation of organic compounds. In: Proceedings of the NIEHS/EPA (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/Environmental Protection Agency) Superfund Basic Research Program Meeting. Berkeley, CA.
  • Wang J, Marlowe EM, Maier RM, Brusseau ML. 1998. Cyclodextrin-enhanced biodegradation of phenanthrene. Environ Sci Technol 9(13):1907-1912.
  • Wang X, Brusseau ML. 1998. Pyrophosphate-enhanced dechlorination of tetrachloroethene by the Fenton Reaction. Environ Toxicol Chem 17(9):1689-1694.
  • Zhang Z, Brusseau ML. 1998. Modeling regional-scale transport of trichloroethene in a contaminated aquifer undergoing pump and treat remediation. In: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 1998.

1997

  • Brusseau ML. 1997. The impact of coupled physical, chemical and biological factors on biodegradation: Implications for in situ bioremediation. In: Proceedings of an International Conference on Biotechnology for Soil Remediation. Milan, Italy.
  • Brusseau ML. 1997. Using cyclodextrin for in situ remediation of petroleum contamination. In: Proceedings of the American Chemical Society National Meetings, Environmental Chemistry Division. San Francisco, CA.
  • Brusseau ML, Piatt JJ, Hu MQ, Wang J. 1997. The use of biotracers for measuring biodegradation potential in the subsurface. In: Proceedings of the American Chemical Society National Meetings, Environmental Chemistry Division. San Francisco, CA. pp.250-251.
  • Brusseau ML, Srivastava R. 1997. Nonideal transport of reactive solutes in heterogenous porous media: 2. Quantitative analysis of the Borden Natural-gradient Field Experiment. J Contam Hydrol 28(1-2):115-155.
  • Brusseau ML, Wang X, Wang W. 1997. Simultaneous elution of heavy metals and organic compounds from soil by cyclodextrin. Environ Sci Technol 31(4):1087-1092.
  • Gupta K, Hu MQ, Brusseau ML. 1997. Advanced characterization of a Superfund site: Effect of core-scale heterogeneity on trichloroethene transport. In: Proceedings of the American Chemical Society National Meetings, Environmental Chemistry Division. San Francisco, CA. pp.257-258.
  • Ji W, Brusseau ML, McCray JE. 1997. Modeling of cyclodextrin-enhanced remediation of a NAPL-contaminated aquifer. In: Proceedings of the American Chemical Society National Meetings, Environmental Chemistry Division. San Francisco, CA. pp.251-253.
  • Piatt JJ, Wang J, Brusseau ML. 1997. The effect of scale on the transport of a biodegradable solute. In: Proceedings of the American Chemical Society National Meetings, Environmental Chemistry Division. San Francisco, CA. pp.254-255.
  • Putz DK, Brusseau ML. 1997. Advanced characteristics of a Superfund site: Effect of contact time on transport and removal of trichloroethene. In: Proceedings of the American Chemical Society National Meetings, Environmental Chemistry Division. San Francisco, CA. pp.258-259.

1996

  • Brusseau ML. 1996. Analysis of reactive transport for the Borden Natural-Gradient Experiment. In: Proceedings of the Geological Society of America National Meeting. Denver, CO.
  • Srivastava R, Brusseau ML. 1996. Nonideal transport of reactive solutes in heterogeneous porous media: 1. Numerical model development and moments analysis. J Contam Hydrol 24(2):117-143.
  • Xu L, Brusseau ML. 1996. Semi-analytical solution for solute transport in porous media with multiple spatially variable reaction processes. Water Resour Res 32(7):1985-1991.

1995

  • Brusseau ML. 1995. The effect of nonlinear sorption on transformation of contaminants during transport in porous media. J Contam Hydrol 17:277-291.
  • Srivastava R, Brusseau ML. 1995. Darcy velocity computations in the finite element method for multidimensional randomly heterogenous porous media. Adv Water Resour 18(4):191-201.
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