Research Highlights

2008

• Ethanol Improves Bioreduction Of Uranium By Altering Microbial Community
• Novel SERS Technique For Rapid, Low Cost Uranium Monitoring In The Environment
• Spectroscopic Analysis of Aerosolized Drugs
• Streams Are Effective Nitrate Filters In The Landscape: A Synthesis Of Results From Field 15N Experiments Across Biomes And Land Uses
• The 2007 Eastern US Spring Freeze: Increased Cold Damage in a Warming World?

2007

• Assessing Pulmonary Toxicity of Nanomaterials
• Biases of CO2 Storage In Eddy Flux Measurements in a Forest Pertinent to Vertical Configurations of a Profile System and CO2 Density Averaging
• Chemical Warfare Agent Degradation and Decontamination
• Effects of Climate Change on Energy Production and Use in the United States
• Emission of Radionuclides in Nuclear Medicine: Book published by the Society of Nuclear Medicine
• Fate and Transport of Sr²⁺ in Partially-Saturated, Heterogeneous Hanford Sediments
• Fate of Chemical Warfare Agents in the Environment
• For the First Time, Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Is Made Capable of Detecting Radioactive Technetium (Tc)
• Global and Regional Drivers of Accelerating CO2 Emissions
• Hydrologic Variability and Forest Phenology Have Large Effects On Stream Biological Processes
• Modeling Study of Atmospheric CO2 To Be Used To Study Global Warming and Support NASA Satelitte Mission
• National Research Council Report on Submarine Air Contaminants
• New Analysis of Nitrogen Uptake By Forests In Elevated CO2 Challenges Assumptions In Biogeochemical Models
• Provisional Advisory Levels (PALs) for Priority Terrorist Chemicals Developed
• Significant Amounts of Corn Stover Could Be Sustainably Collected in the US for Bioenergy
• Subsurface Stewardship Sciences

2006

• AmeriFlux Observational and Modeling Studies Reveal the Importance of Including Biomass Heat and Biochemical Energy in Land Surface Models Used to Predict Future Climate
• Artificial Neural Networks Allow Researchers to Relate Groundwater Geochemistry to Microbial Community Structure
• Cloud Amount and Surface Solar Radiation in China Have Changed Significantly Over the Last Half Century
• Depth Profiles of Forest Soil C Isotope Ratios Are Related to Soil C Turnover Times
• Field-Scale Evaluation of Biostimulation for Remediation of Uranium-Contaminated Groundwater
• Hydropower Without Dams: The Potential for Hydrokinetic and Wave Energy Technologies
• Income Distribution Impact of Climate Change Mitigation Policy in the Susquehanna River Basin (SRB) Economy
• Molecular Dynamics of the Shewanella oneidensis Response to Chromate Stress
• Monthly Estimates of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Fossil-Fuel Consumption in Brazil During the Late 1990s and Early 2000s
• Multiple Design Criteria Improve Environmental Microarray Probe Selection and Specificity
• Nitrogen Uptake But Not Nitrogen-Use Efficiency Increases In A CO2-Enriched Forest
• Passive Samplers for Chromatographic Analyses of Gases in Groundwater Reveal High Concentrations of Hydrogen
• Research in Military Aircraft Emissions
• Sequencing the Populus Genome: A Model Organism for Bioenergy and Carbon Sequestration Research
• Successful Field Experiment: Direct Injection of CO2 Hydrate Particles in the Ocean
• The Response of Shewanella oneidensis to Strontium Stress Suggests Link Between Iron Metabolism and Microbe-mediated Metal Precipitation
• Unique Field Experiment Emphasizes the Sensitivity of Forest Water Use to Drought

2005

• A New Look at Natural Humics on Uranium Stability and Mobility
• ARM Thumbnail Browser –A new way to browse and order ARM data files
• Ecosystem Models May Help Forecast Coastal Forest Recovery Following Hurricanes
• Enriched Background Isotope Study (EBIS)
• Estimating the Impact of Recent Climate Change on Soil Carbon Sequestration
• Genetic Analysis in Populus Reveals Potential to Enhance Soil Carbon Sequestration
• Identifying Critical Thresholds for Acute Responses of Plants to Water Stress (TARP)
• Invasive Plant Management on the Oak Ridge Reservation
• Jizhong Zhou Elected Fellow of American Society of Microbiology
• Net Environmental Benefit Analysis: A New Assessment Methodology
• Patenting in the Emerging Genetic Information and Medical Treatment Industry: Access and Anticommons
• PELCAPs: Permeable Environmental Leaching Capsules for In Situ Evaluation of Contaminant Immobilization in Soil
• Reducing Uncertainties About Vulnerabilities to Global Environmental Change
• Sequencing of the Populus Rhizosphere
• Simulations of Forest Response to Climatic Change Must Learn from Experimental Results
• Throughfall Displacement Experiment (TDE)
• Towards a Predictive Relationship between Sediment Mineralogy and Contaminant Mobility
• Using Clustered Climate Regimes to Analyze and Compare Predictions from Fully Coupled General Circulation Models
• Year-by-year, state-by state per-capita carbon dioxide emissions for the USA

Revised: 8/13/08