Research activities have focused on the sources, fate and analysis of chemicals in environmental systems. Recent research projects have included transport of radionuclides in aquifers and chemical tracers of human wastewater sources.
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EE&S 847 Advanced Environmental Chemistry
ENSP 200 Introduction to Environmental Science
Coates, J. T. and Elzerman, A. W., 1986, Desorption Kinetics for Selected PCB Congeners from River Sediment, J. Contam. Hydr., 1:191 210.
Elzerman, A. W. and Coates, J.T., 1987, Hydrophobic Organic Compounds on Sediments: Equilibria and Kinetics of Sorption, in R.A. Hites and S.J. Eisenreich (eds.) Sources and Fates of Aquatic Pollutants, American Chemical Society Advances in Chemistry Series #216, ACS, Washington, DC, pp.- 263 318.
Dunnivant, F. M. and Elzerman, A.W., 1987, Determination of PCBs in Sediments using Sonication Extraction and Capillary Column GC/EC Detection with Internal Standard Calibration, J. Assoc. Offic. Anal. Chem. 71:551 555.
Dunnivant, F. M., Coates, J. T. and Elzerman, A. W., 1988, Experimentally Determined Henry's Law Constants for 17 PCB Congeners, Environ. Sci. Technol., 22:448 453.
Dunnivant, F. M. and Elzerman, A.W., 1988, Aqueous Solubility and Henry's Law Constant Data for PCB Congeners for Evaluation of Quantitative Structure Property Relationships (QSPRs), Chemosphere, 17:525 541
Macalady, D. L., Langmuir, D., Grundl, T. and Elzerman, A. W., 1990, Use of Model-Generated Ion Activities to Compute Eh and Ferric Oxyhydroxide Solubilities in Anaerobic Systems, in R. L. Bassett and D. Melchior (eds.), Chemical Modeling of Aqueous Systems II, American Chemical Society Advances in Chemistry Series #416, ACS, Washington, DC, pp.-350 367.
Shorten, C. V., Elzerman, A. W. and Mills, G. L., 1990, Methods for the Determination of PAH Desorption Kinetics in Coal Fines and Coal Contaminated Sediments, Chemosphere, 20:137 159.
Dunnivant, F. M., Elzerman, A. W., Jurs, P. J. and Hasan, M., 1992, Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships (QSPRs) Prediction of Aqueous Solubilities for Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), Environ. Sci. Technol., 26:1567-1573.
Farley, K. J., Germann, G. G. and Elzerman, A. W., 1994, Differential Weathering of PCB Congeners in Lake Hartwell, South Carolina, in Environmental Chemistry of Lakes and Reservoirs, L. Baker (ed.), American Chemical Society Advances in Chemistry Series #237, ACS, Washington, DC, pp.- 575-600.
Newman, M. E., Elzerman, A. W. and Looney, B. B., 1993, Facilitated Transport of Selected Metals in Laboratory Soil Columns, J. Contam. Hydrol., 14:233-246.
Bryce, A. L., Kornicker, W. A., Elzerman, A. W. and Clark, S. B., 1994, Nickel Adsorption to Hydrous Ferric Oxide in the Presence of EDTA: Effects of Component Addition Sequence, Environ. Sci. and Technol., 28:2353-2359.
Lee, C.M., Anderson, B., and Elzerman, A.W., 1999, "Photochemical Oxidation of Terbufos" Environ. Toxicol. and Chem., 18(7):1349-1353.
Burnett, W. C. and Elzerman, A. W., 2001, Nuclide migration and the environmental radiochemistry of Florida phosphogypsum, J. Env. Radioactivity, 54:27-51.
Fjeld, R. A., DeVol, T. A., Goff, R. W., Blevins, M. D., Brown, D. D., Ince, S. M., and Elzerman, A. W., 2001, Characterization of the mobilities of selected actinides and fission/activation products in laboratory columns containing basalt and sedimentary interbed from the Snake River Plain, Nuclear Technology 135:92-108.
Fjeld, R.A., Coates, J.T., Elzerman, A.W., Navratil, J.D., 2002, Mobilities of Uranium Species in Sedimentary Interbed From the Snake River Plain, in Merkel, B. et. al, eds., Uranium in the Environment, Springer-Verlag
Hull, L.C., Grossman, C., Fjeld, R. A. and Elzerman, A. W., 2004, A Hybrid empirical/theoretical approach to modeling uranium adsorption" Appl. Geochem. 19:721-736.