Superfund Research Program

In Situ Sampling Tool for Assessing Bioavailability and Toxicity of Sediments

Project Leaders: Rolf Ulrich Halden, Nancy D. Denslow (University of Florida)
Grant Number: R01ES020889
Funding Period: 2011-2014

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Publications

2022

• Driver E, Gushgari AJ, Steele JC, Bowes DA, Halden RU. 2022. Assessing population-level stress through glucocorticoid hormone monitoring in wastewater. Sci Total Environ 838(2):155961. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155961 PMID:35588803
• Steele JC, Meng X, Venkatesan AK, Halden RU. 2022. Comparative meta-analysis of organic contaminants in sewage sludge from the United States and China. Sci Total Environ 821:doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153423 PMID:35090919 PMCID:PMC8930529

2020

• Driver E, Gushgari AJ, Chen J, Halden RU. 2020. Alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine consumption on a public U.S. university campus determined by wastewater-based epidemiology. Sci Total Environ 727:138492. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138492 PMID:32334214
• Rolsky C, Kelkar VP, Halden RU. 2020. Nationwide mass inventory and degradation assessment of plastic contact lenses in US wastewater. Environ Sci Technol 54:12102-12108. doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c03121 PMID:32869978

2019

• Chen J, Meng X, Bergman A, Halden RU. 2019. Nationwide reconnaissance of five parabens, triclosan, triclocarban and its transformation products in sewage sludge from China. J Hazard Mater 365:502-510. doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2018.11.021 PMID:30466048
• Gushgari AJ, Venkatesan AK, Chen J, Steele JC, Halden RU. 2019. Long-term tracking of opioid consumption in two United States cities using wastewater-based epidemiology approach. Water Res 161:171-180. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2019.06.003 PMID:31195333 PMCID:PMC6613989
• Sadaria AM, Labban CW, Steele JC, Maurer MM, Halden RU. 2019. Retrospective nationwide occurrence of fipronil and its degradates in US wastewater and sewage sludge from 2001-2016. Water Res 155:465-473. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2019.02.045 PMID:30870636
• Venkatesan AK, Chen J, Driver E, Gushgari AJ, Halden RU. 2019. Assessing the Potential To Monitor Plant-Based Diet Trends in Communities Using a Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Approach. ACS Symp Ser 1319:187-198. doi:10.1021/bk-2019-1319.ch010
• Wang Y, Kannan P, Halden RU, Kannan K. 2019. A nationwide survey of 31 organophosphate esters in sewage sludge from the United States. Sci Total Environ 655:446-453. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.224 PMID:30472646 PMCID:PMC6318040

2018

• Dang VD, Kroll KJ, Supowit SD, Halden RU, Denslow ND. 2018. Activated carbon as a means of limiting bioaccumulation of organochlorine pesticides, triclosan, triclocarban, and fipronil from sediments rich in organic matter. Chemosphere 197:627-633. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.01.062 PMID:29407826 PMCID:PMC5811353
• Gushgari AJ, Halden RU. 2018. Critical review of major sources of human exposure to N-nitrosamines. Chemosphere 210:1124-1136. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.07.098 PMID:30208538
• Magee HY, Maurer MM, Cobos A, Pycke BF, Venkatesan AK, Magee D, Scotch M, Halden RU. 2018. US nationwide reconnaissance of ten infrequently monitored antibiotics in municipal biosolids. Sci Total Environ 643:460-467. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.206 PMID:29945081

2017

• Chen J, Pycke BF, Brownawell B, Kinney CA, Furlong ET, Kolpin DW, Halden RU. 2017. Occurrence, temporal variation, and estrogenic burden of five parabens in sewage sludge collected across the United States. Sci Total Environ 593:368-374. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.162 PMID:28346910
• Driver E, Roberts J, Dollar P, Charles M, Hurst P, Halden RU. 2017. Comparative meta-analysis and experimental kinetic investigation of column and batch bottle microcosm treatability studies informing in situ groundwater remedial design. J Hazard Mater 323(PtA):377-385. doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2016.05.008 PMID:27207379 PMCID:PMC5097027
• Geer LA, Pycke BF, Waxenbaum J, Sherer DM, Abulafia O, Halden RU. 2017. Association of birth outcomes with fetal exposure to parabens, triclosan and triclocarban in an immigrant population in Brooklyn, New York. J Hazard Mater 323(PtA):177-183. doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2016.03.028 PMID:27156397 PMCID:PMC5018415
• Halden RU, Lindeman AE, Aiello AE, Andrews D, Arnold WA, Fair P, Fuoco RE, Geer LA, Johnson PI, Lohmann R, McNeill K, Sacks VP, Schettler T, Weber R, Zoeller RT, Blum A. 2017. The Florence Statement on triclosan and triclocarban. Environ Health Perspect 125:13. doi:10.1289/ehp1788 PMID:28632490 PMCID:PMC5644973

2016

• Dang VD, Kroll KJ, Supowit SD, Halden RU, Denslow ND. 2016. Tissue distribution of organochlorine pesticides in largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) from laboratory exposure and a contaminated lake. Environ Pollut 216:877-883. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2016.06.061 PMID:27394080 PMCID:PMC5014564
• Halden RU. 2016. Lessons learned from probing for impacts of triclosan and triclocarban on human microbiomes. mSphere 1(3):e00056-15. doi:10.1128/mSphere.00089-16 PMID:27306705 PMCID:PMC4888884
• Hartmann EM, Hickey RF, Hsu T, Roman CM, Chen J, Schwager R, Kline J, Brown G, Halden RU, Huttenhower C, Green JL. 2016. Antimicrobial chemicals are associated with elevated antibiotic resistance genes in the indoor dust microbiome. Environ Sci Technol 50(18):9807-9815. doi:10.1021/acs.est.6b00262 PMID:27599587 PMCID:PMC5032049
• Heckenbach ME, Romero FN, Green MD, Halden RU. 2016. Meta-analysis of ionic liquid literature and toxicology. Chemosphere 150:266-274. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.02.029 PMID:26907595 PMCID:PMC4789176
• Roll IB, Driver E, Halden RU. 2016. Apparatus and method for time-integrated, active sampling of contaminants in fluids demonstrated by monitoring of hexavalent chromium in groundwater. Sci Total Environ 556:45-52. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.011 PMID:26971208 PMCID:PMC4826302
• Roll IB, Halden RU. 2016. Critical review of factors governing data quality of integrative samplers employed in environmental water monitoring. Water Res 94:200-207. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2016.02.048 PMID:26945963 PMCID:PMC4822337
• Sadaria AM, Supowit SD, Halden RU. 2016. Mass balance assessment for six neonicotinoid insecticides during conventional wastewater and wetland treatment: nationwide reconnaissance in United States wastewater. Environ Sci Technol 50(12):6199-6206. doi:10.1021/acs.est.6b01032 PMID:27196423 PMCID:PMC4930273
• Supowit SD, Roll IB, Dang VD, Kroll KJ, Denslow ND, Halden RU. 2016. Active sampling device for determining pollutants in surface and pore water - the in situ sampler for biphasic water monitoring. Sci Rep 6:21886. doi:10.1038/srep21886 PMID:26905924 PMCID:PMC4764808
• Venkatesan AK, Halden RU. 2016. Modeling the pH-mediated extraction of ionizable organic contaminants to improve the quality of municipal sewage sludge destined for land application. Sci Total Environ 550:736-741. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.01.119 PMID:26849337 PMCID:PMC4769932

2015

• Bruton TA, Pycke BF, Halden RU. 2015. Effect of nanoscale zero-valent iron treatment on biological reductive dechlorination: A review of current understanding and research needs. Crit Rev Environ Sci Technol 45(11):1148-1175. doi:10.1080/10643389.2014.924185
• Geer LA, Pycke BF, Sherer DM, Abulafia O, Halden RU. 2015. Use of amniotic fluid for determining pregnancies at risk of preterm birth and for studying diseases of potential environmental etiology. Environ Res 136:470-481. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2014.09.031 PMID:25460669 PMCID:PMC4279852
• Halden RU. 2015. Epistemology of contaminants of emerging concern and literature meta-analysis. J Hazard Mater 282:2-9. doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2014.08.074 PMID:25294779 PMCID:PMC4253867
• Hartmann EM, Colquhoun DR, Schwab KJ, Halden RU. 2015. Absolute quantification of norovirus capsid protein in food, water, and soil using synthetic peptides with electrospray and MALDI mass spectrometry. J Hazard Mater 286:525-532. doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2014.12.055 PMID:25603302 PMCID:PMC4369174
• Venkatesan AK, Halden RU. 2015. Effective strategies for monitoring and regulating chemical mixtures and contaminants sharing pathways of toxicity. Int J Environ Res Public Health 12(9):10549-10557. doi:10.3390/ijerph120910549 PMID:26343697 PMCID:PMC4586627

2014

• Halden RU. 2014. On the need and speed of regulating triclosan and triclocarban in the United States. Environ Sci Technol 48(7):3603-3611. doi:10.1021/es500495p PMID:24588513 PMCID:PMC3974611
• Pycke BF, Geer LA, Dalloul M, Abulafia O, Jenck AM, Halden RU. 2014. Human fetal exposure to triclosan and triclocarban in an urban population from Brooklyn, New York. Environ Sci Technol 48(15):8831-8838. doi:10.1021/es501100w PMID:24971846 PMCID:PMC4123932
• Pycke BF, Roll IB, Brownawell B, Kinney CA, Furlong ET, Kolpin DW, Halden RU. 2014. Transformation products and human metabolites of triclocarban and triclosan in sewage sludge across the United States. Environ Sci Technol 48:7881-7890. doi:10.1021/es5006362 PMID:24932693 PMCID:PMC4215897
• Venkatesan AK, Halden RU. 2014. Contribution of polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PBDD/Fs) to the toxic equivalency of dioxin-like compounds in archived biosolids from the US EPA's 2001 national sewage sludge survey. Environ Sci Technol 48(18):10843-10849. doi:10.1021/es503110j PMID:25157505 PMCID:PMC4167052
• Venkatesan AK, Halden RU. 2014. Loss and in situ production of perfluoroalkyl chemicals in outdoor biosolids-soil mesocosms. Environ Res 132:321-327. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2014.04.024 PMID:24834828 PMCID:PMC4122524
• Venkatesan AK, Halden RU. 2014. Wastewater treatment plants as chemical observatories to forecast ecological and human health risks of manmade chemicals. Sci Rep 4:3731. doi:10.1038/srep03731 PMID:24429544 PMCID:PMC3893653