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  1. Biocides in Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids: A Critical Review of Their Usage, Mobility, Degradation, and Toxicity

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, January 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  2. Simultaneous Reduction of Arsenic(V) and Uranium(VI) by Mackinawite: Role of Uranyl Arsenate Precipitate Formation

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, December 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  3. Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing Flowback and Produced Waters Using Accurate Mass: Identification of Ethoxylated Surfactants

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, October 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  4. Impact of organic carbon and iron bioavailability on the magnetic susceptibility of soils

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, March 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Thomas Borch

  5. Biodegradability of pharmaceutical compounds in agricultural soils irrigated with treated wastewater

    Article • Environmental Pollution, February 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Thomas Borch

  6. Direct photodegradation of lamotrigine (an antiepileptic) in simulated sunlight – pH influenced rates and products

    Article • Environmental Science Processes & Impacts, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Thomas Borch

  7. Effect of biogeochemical redox processes on the fate and transport of As and U at an abandoned uranium mine site: an X-ray absorption spectroscopy study

    Article • Environmental Chemistry, January 2014, CSIRO Publishing

    Professor Thomas Borch

  8. Dissimilatory Reduction and Transformation of Ferrihydrite-Humic Acid Coprecipitates

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, December 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  9. Direct Photodegradation of Androstenedione and Testosterone in Natural Sunlight: Inhibition by Dissolved Organic Matter and Reduction of Endocrine Disrupting Potential

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, July 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  10. Too Much Nitrogen?

    Article • Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation, January 2013, Water Environment Federation

    Professor Thomas Borch

  11. Influence of humic acid imposed changes of ferrihydrite aggregation on microbial Fe(III) reduction

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, May 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Thomas Borch

  12. Steroid Hormone Runoff from Agricultural Test Plots Applied with Municipal Biosolids

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, March 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  13. Determination of contaminant levels and remediation efficacy in groundwater at a former in situ recovery uranium mine

    Article • Journal of Environmental Monitoring, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Thomas Borch

  14. Schwertmannite and Fe oxides formed by biological low-pH Fe(II) oxidation versus abiotic neutralization: Impact on trace metal sequestration

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Thomas Borch

  15. Microbial Iron Cycling in Acidic Geothermal Springs of Yellowstone National Park: Integrating Molecular Surveys, Geochemical Processes, and Isolation of Novel Fe-Active Microorganisms

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2012, Frontiers

    Professor Thomas Borch, Dr Susannah Green Tringe

  16. Artificial Sweetener Sucralose in U.S. Drinking Water Systems

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, October 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  17. Determination of hexamethylphosphoramide and other highly polar phosphoramides in water samples using reversed-phase liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

    Article • Journal of Chromatography A, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Thomas Borch

  18. Testosterone-Mineralizing Culture Enriched from Swine Manure: Characterization of Degradation Pathways and Microbial Community Composition

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, August 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  19. Arsenic redox transformation by humic substances and Fe minerals

    Article • Applied Geochemistry, June 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Thomas Borch

  20. Prediction of Contaminant Persistence in Aqueous Phase: A Quantum Chemical Approach

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, March 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  21. Multiple mechanisms of uranium immobilization by Cellulomonas sp. strain ES6

    Article • Biotechnology and Bioengineering, October 2010, Wiley

    Rajesh Sani, Professor Thomas Borch

  22. Quantum Chemical Prediction of Redox Reactivity and Degradation Pathways for Aqueous Phase Contaminants: An Example with HMPA

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, August 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  23. Arsenic repartitioning during biogenic sulfidization and transformation of ferrihydrite

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, February 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Thomas Borch

  24. How electron flow controls contaminant dynamics

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, January 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  25. Biogeochemical Redox Processes and their Impact on Contaminant Dynamics

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, January 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  26. Redox Transformation of Arsenic by Fe(II)-Activated Goethite (α-FeOOH)

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, January 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  27. Degradation Kinetics of Testosterone by Manure-Borne Bacteria: Influence of Temperature, pH, Glucose Amendments, and Dissolved Oxygen

    Article • Journal of Environmental Quality, January 2010, American Society of Agronomy

    Professor Thomas Borch

  28. Heavy Metal–Mineral Associations in Coeur d’Alene River Sediments: A Synchrotron-Based Analysis

    Article • Water Air & Soil Pollution, December 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rajesh Sani, Professor Thomas Borch

  29. Evaluation of Characterization Techniques for Iron Pipe Corrosion Products and Iron Oxide Thin Films

    Article • Journal of Environmental Engineering, October 2008, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  30. Chapter 12 Phosphate Interactions with Iron (Hydr)oxides: Mineralization Pathways and Phosphorus Retention upon Bioreduction

    Article • January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Thomas Borch

  31. Phosphate Imposed Limitations on Biological Reduction and Alteration of Ferrihydrite

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, January 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  32. Chromate Reduction and Retention Processes within Arid Subsurface Environments

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, October 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  33. Impact of Ferrihydrite and Anthraquinone-2,6-Disulfonate on the Reductive Transformation of 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene by a Gram-Positive Fermenting Bacterium

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, September 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch

  34. Use of reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography–diode array detection for complete separation of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene metabolites and EPA Method 8330 explosives: influence of temperature and an ion-pair reagent

    Article • Journal of Chromatography A, January 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Thomas Borch

  35. Biodegradation of chlorinated solvents in a water unsaturated topsoil

    Article • Chemosphere, April 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Thomas Borch

  36. Catalysis of PAH Biodegradation by Humic Acid Shown in Synchrotron Infrared Studies

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, March 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Thomas Borch