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Your Environment. Your Health.

Person Details: Dennis E. Rolston

Superfund Research Program

Dennis E. Rolston

University of California-Davis
Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources
3230 PES
Davis, California 95616
Phone: 530-752-2113
Fax: 530-752-1552
Email: derolston@ucdavis.edu

Projects

Hazardous Waste Sites

Aerojet General Corp.

  • University of California-Davis: Transport, Transformation, and Remediation of Contaminants in the Environment

Edwards Air Force Base

  • University of California-Davis: Transport, Transformation, and Remediation of Contaminants in the Environment

Publications

2011

2007

  • Resurreccion AC, Kawamoto K, Komatsu T, Moldrup P, Ozaki N, Rolston DE. 2007. Gas transport parameters along field transects of a volcanic ash soil. Soil Science 172(1):3-16.

2006

  • Kawamoto K, Moldrup P, Schjonning P, Iversen BV, Komatsu T, Rolston DE. 2006. Gas transport parameters in the vadose zone: gas diffusivity in field and lysimeter soil profiles. Vadose Zone Journal 5:1194-1204.

2005

2004

  • Gamst J, Moldrup P, Rolston DE, Scow KM, Henriksen K, Komatsu T. 2004. Time-dependency of naphthalene sorption in soil: Simple rate-, diffusion-, and isotherm-parameter-based models. Soil Science 169(5):342-354.

2003

  • Altevogt AS, Rolston DE, Venterea RT. 2003. Density and pressure effects on the transport of gas phase chemicals in unsaturated porous media. Water Resour Res 39(3):Art.No.1061.
  • Altevogt AS, Rolston DE, Whitaker S. 2003. New equations for binary gas transport in porous media, Part 1: equation development. Adv Water Resour 26(7):695-715.
  • Altevogt AS, Rolston DE, Whitaker S. 2003. New equations for binary gas transport in porous media, Part 2: experimental validation. Adv Water Resour 26(7):717-723.
  • Moldrup P, Olesen T, Komatsu T, Yoshikawa S, Schjonning P, Rolston DE. 2003. Modeling diffusion and reaction in soils: X. A unifying model for solute and gas diffusivity in unsaturated soil. Soil Science 168(5):321-337.
  • Moldrup P, Yoshikawa S, Olesen T, Komatsu T, Rolston DE. 2003. Air permeability in undisturbed volcanic ash soils: Predictive model test and soil structure fingerprint. Soil Science Society of America Journal 67:32-40.
  • Moldrup P, Yoshikawa S, Olesen T, Komatsu T, Rolston DE. 2003. Gas diffusivity in undisturbed volcanic ash soils: Test of soil-water-characteristic based prediction models. Soil Science Society of America Journal 67:41-51.
  • Tipton DK, Rolston DE, Scow KM. 2003. Transport and biodegradation of perchlorate in soils. J Environ Qual 32(1):40-46. PMID:12549540

2002

  • Gamst J, Hesselsoe M, Olesen T, Roslev P, Rolston DE, Moldrup P, Henriksen K. 2002. Quantificatin of 14C-labeled hydrophoic organic compounds in soil samples by a scintillation fluid extraction method. Soil Science 167(1):25-34.
  • Reichman R, Rolston DE. 2002. Design and performance of a dynamic gas flux chamber. J Environ Qual 31(6):1774-1781. PMID:12469825

2001

  • Gamst J, Olesen T, De Jonge H, Moldrup P, Rolston DE. 2001. Nonsingularity of naphthalene sorption in soil: observations and the two-compartment model. Soil Science Society of America Journal 65(6):1622-1633.
  • Moldrup P, Olesen T, Komatsu T, Schjonning P, Rolston DE. 2001. Tortuosity, diffusivity, and permeability in the soil liquid and gaseous phases. Soil Science Society of America Journal 65(3):613-623.
  • Olesen T, Gamst J, Moldrup P, Komatsu T, Rolston DE. 2001. Diffusion of sorbing organic chemicals in the liquid and gaseous phases of repacked soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal 65:1585-1593.
  • Olesen T, Moldrup P, Yamaguchi T, Rolston DE. 2001. Constant slope impedance factor model for predicting the solute diffusion coefficient in unsaturated soil. Soil Science 166(2):89-96.

2000

  • Chen D, Rolston DE. 2000. Coupling diazinon volatilization and water evaporation in unsaturated soils: II. Diazinon transport. Soil Science 165(9):690-698.
  • Chen D, Rolston DE, Moldrup P. 2000. Coupling diazinon volatilization and water evaporation in unsaturated soils: I. Water transport. Soil Science 165(9):681-689.
  • Chen D, Rolston DE, Yamaguchi T. 2000. Calculating partition coefficients of organic vapors in unsaturated soil and clays. Soil Science 165(3):217-225.
  • El-Farhan YH, Scow KM, Fan S, Rolston DE. 2000. Kinetics of trichloroethylene cometabolism and toluene biodegradation: Model application to soil batch experiments. J Environ Qual 29:778-786.
  • Moldrup P, Olesen T, Gamst J, Schjonning P, Yamaguchi T, Rolston DE. 2000. Predicting the gas diffusion coefficient in repacked soil: Water-induced linear reduction model. Soil Science Society of America Journal 64(5):1588-1594.
  • Moldrup P, Schjonning P, Yamaguchi T, Rolston DE. 2000. Predicting the gas diffusion coefficient in undisturbed soil from soil water characteristics. Soil Science Society of America Journal 64:94-100.
  • Olesen T, Moldrup P, Yamaguchi T, Nissen HH, Rolston DE. 2000. Modified half-cell method for measuring the solute diffusion coefficient in undisturbed, unsaturated soil. Soil Science 165(11):835-840.

1999

  • El-Farhan YH, Rolston DE, Scow KM. 1999. Coupling vapor transport and transformation of volatile organic chemicals. In: Vadose Zone Hydrology; Cutting Across Disciplines. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. pp.235-259.
  • Moldrup P, Olesen T, Yamaguchi T, Schjonning P, Rolston DE. 1999. Modeling diffusion and reaction in soils: IX. The Buckingham-Burdine-Campbell equation for gas diffusivity in undisturbed soil. Soil Science 164(8):542-551.

1998

  • El-Farhan YH, Scow KM, de Jonge LW, Rolston DE. 1998. Coupling transport and biodegradation of toluene and trichloroethylene in unsaturated soils. Water Resour Res 34(3):437-445.

1996

  • Amali S, Rolston DE, Yamaguchi T. 1996. Transient multicomponent gas-phase transport of volatile organic chemicals in porous media. J Environ Qual 25(5):1041-1047.
  • El-Farhan YH, Petersen LW, Rolston DE, Glauz RD. 1996. Analytical solution for two-region diffusion with two well-mixed end chambers. Soil Science Society of America Journal 60(6):1697-1704.
  • Govindaraju RS, Kavvas ML, Jones SE, Rolston DE. 1996. Use of Green-Ampt model for analyzing one-dimensional convective transport in unsaturated soils. Ground Water 178(1-4):337-350.
  • Kavvas ML, Govindaraju RS, Rolston DE, Jones SE. 1996. Stochastic modeling of contaminant transport in field-scale heterogeneous soils. In: Advances in Groundwater Pollution Control and Remediation. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands. pp.47-74.
  • Petersen LW, El-Farhan YH, Moldrup P, Rolston DE, Yamaguchi T. 1996. Transient diffusion, adsorption, and emission of volatile organic vapors in soils with fluctuating low water contents. J Environ Qual 25(5):1054-1063.
  • Petersen LW, Moldrup P, Jacobsen OH, Rolston DE. 1996. Relations between specific surface area and soil physical and chemical properties. Soil Science 161(1):9-21. doi:10.1097/00010694-199601000-00003

1995

  • Busby RD, Lenhard RJ, Rolston DE. 1995. An investigation of saturation-capillary pressure relations in two- and three-fluid systems for several NAPLS in different porous media. Ground Water 33(4):570-578.
  • Petersen LW, Moldrup P, El-Farhan YH, Jacobsen OH, Yamaguchi T, Rolston DE. 1995. The effect of moisture and soil texture on the adsorption of organic vapors. J Environ Qual 24(4):752-759. doi:10.2134/jeq1995.00472425002400040028x
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