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Your Environment. Your Health.

Project Publications: University of Arizona: Transport of Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants in the Vadose Zone

Superfund Research Program

Transport of Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants in the Vadose Zone

Project Leader: Roger Bales
Grant Number: P42ES004940
Funding Period: 1995 - 2000

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Publications

2000

  • Bruant RG, Conklin MH. 2000. Adsorption behavior of binary benzene/methyl-substituted benzene mixtures at the air/water interface. In: Proceedings of "El Dia Del Agua" Research Symposium. The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
  • Bruant RG, Conklin MH. 2000. Adsorption of hydrophobic organic contaminants at the air/water interface. In: Proceedings of "El Dia Del Agua" Research Symposium. The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

1999

  • Bruant RG, Conklin MH. 1999. Adsorption behavior of binary benzene/methyl-substituted benzene mixtures at the air/water interface. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 80(46):F311.
  • Padilla IY, Yeh TJ, Conklin MH. 1999. The effect of water content on solute transport in unsaturated porous media. Water Resour Res 35(11):3303-3313. doi:10.1029/1999WR900171
  • Yu C. 1999. The application of time domain reflectometry in solute transport experiments. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arizona.
  • Yu C, Warrick AW, Conklin MH. 1999. A moment method for analyzing breakthrough curves of step inputs. Water Resour Res 35(11):3567-3572.
  • Yu C, Warrick AW, Conklin MH. 1999. Derived functions of time domain reflectometry for soil moisture measurement. Water Resour Res 35(6):1789-1796. doi:10.1029/1999WR900025

1998

  • Bruant RG, Conklin MH. 1998. Adsorption of hydrophobic organic contaminants at the air/water interface. In: Proceedings of the 1998 Gordon Research Conference, Chemistry at Interfaces. Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, NH.
  • Bruant RG, Conklin MH. 1998. Adsorption of hydrophobic organic contaminants at the air/water interface. In: Proceedings of the United States/Mexico Conference on Hazardous Waste Management and Technologies. Tucson, AZ.
  • Bruant RG, Conklin MH. 1998. Adsorption of hydrophobic organic contaminants at the air/water interface. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 79(17):S86.
  • Padilla IY. 1998. Transport of nonreactive and volatile solutes in unsaturated porous media under wetting and draining conditions. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arizona.
  • Padilla IY, Conklin MH, Yeh TJ. 1998. The effect of water content on transport of trichloroethylene in unsaturated porous media. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 79(45):
  • Padilla IY, Conklin MH, Yeh TJ. 1998. Transport behavior of volatile organic compounds in unsaturated porous media under wetting and drying conditions for different water contents. In: Proceedings of the Superfund Basic Research Program: A Decade of Improving Health through Multi-Disciplinary Research. Chapel Hill, NC.
  • Silva JA, Conklin MH. 1998. Potential importance of pore-filling on distributions of VOCs in unsaturated, low organic content porous media. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 79(17):S115.

1997

  • Bruant RG, Conklin MH. 1997. Concentration dependent surface tension for aqueous solutions of alkyl substituted benzenes. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 78:F291.

1996

  • Corley TL, Farrell J, Hong B, Conklin MH. 1996. VOC accumulation and pore filling in unsaturated porous media. Environ Sci Technol 30(10):2884-2891.
  • Padilla IY, Conklin MH, Yeh TJ. 1996. The effect of soil wetting and drying processes on the transport behavior of volatile organic compounds in unsaturated porous media. In: Proceedings of the Hazardous Substance Research Center (HSRC) / Waste-Management Education & Research Consortium Joint Conference on the Environment.
  • Padilla IY, Conklin MH, Yeh TJ. 1996. Transport behavior of volatile organic compounds in unsaturated porous media under wetting and drying conditions for different water contents. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 77(46):F275.
  • Yu C, Conklin MH. 1996. Experimental observation of tetrachloroethene transport behavior in an unsaturated sand column. In: Proceedings of the Hazardous Substance Research Center (HSRC) / Waste-Management Education & Research Consortium Joint Conference on the Environment.
  • Yu C, Warrick AW, Conklin MH, Zreda M, Young MH. 1996. Simplified calibration of time domain reflectometry for soil moisture measurement. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 77(46):F284.

1995

  • Conklin MH, Corley TL, Roberts PA, Davis J, van de Water JG. 1995. Nonequilibrium processes affecting forced ventilation of benzene and xylene in a desert soil. Water Resour Res 31(5):1355-1365. doi:10.1029/95WR00004
  • Yu C, Conklin MH. 1995. Effect of trichloroethene on the aqueous solubility of chlorobenzenes. Toxicol Sci 49:73-84.
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