Session: It's About Interfaces: Plant-Soil-Microbe Interactions that Influence Contaminant Cycling in the Critical Zone

Tuesday, November 3, 2009: 12:55 PM-3:15 PM

Convention Center, Room 334, Third Floor

Organizer:

David McNear Jr.

12:55 PM

1:00 PM

Impact of Biochar Amendment On the Bioavailability of Agriculturally Important Chemicals in Soil.
Joseph Pignatello, Connecticut Agric. Exp. Stn.; Jason White, Connecticut Agric. Exp. Stn.; Wade Elmer, Connecticut Agric. Exp. Stn.

Audio File Recorded presentation

1:15 PM

Transformation of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons On Synthetic Green Rusts.
Chunming Su, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Richard T. Wilkin, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Audio File Recorded presentation

1:30 PM

Enhanced Uptake and Biotransformation of 2, 4, 6-Trinitrotoluene by Vetiver Grass (Chrysopogon zizanioides) From Soil.
Padmini Das, Montclair State Univ.; Dibyendu Sarkar, Montclair State Univ.; Pravin Punamiya, Montclair State Univ.; Konstantinos C. Makris, Cyprus International Inst. of the Environment-Harvard School of Public Health; Rupali Datta, Michigan Technological Univ.

Audio File Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

Solid Phase Speciation of Tungsten in Contaminated Soils.
Mark Chappell, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Anthony J. Bednar, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Christian McGrath, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Charles A. Weiss Jr., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Audio File Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

Break

2:15 PM

Prediction of Cadmium Uptake by Brown Rice and Derivation of Soil-Plant Transfer Models to Improve Soil Protection Guidelines.
P.F.A.M. Romkens, Alterra; G.F. Koopmans, Alterra

Audio File Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

Geogenic Nickel Speciation in Serpentine Soils and Its Relationship to Nickel Uptake in Hyperaccumulator Plants.
Matthew Siebecker, Univ. of Delaware; Tiziana Centofanti, USDA-ARS; Rufus Chaney, USDA-ARS; Donald Sparks, Univ. of Delaware

Audio File Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

Reactivity and Availability of Subnano-Sized Zero-Valent Iron Present in Smectite Interlayers.
Hanzhong Jia, Michigan State Univ.

Audio File Recorded presentation

3:00 PM

Manganese Uptake, Distribution and Speciation in the Ni Hyperaccumulator Alyssum Murale.
David McNear Jr., Univ. of Kentucky

3:15 PM

Adjourn

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