Student Publications

Dissertations

• Dr. Jennifer Callanan (2008). “Long Term Impacts of Forest Fires on Soil Chemical Properties as a Result of Mineral Alteration, and its Implications for Forest Fire Management Practices.” (Advisor: Dr. Greg Pope)
• Dr. Naushad Kollikkathara (2008). “Integrated System Dynamic Study and Prognosis on Municipal Solid Waste Management for Northern New Jersey Urban Area.” (Advisor: Dr. Huan Feng)
• Dr. Victor Owueme (2008). “Characterization and Assessment Of Contaminated Sediments in Lower Passaic River, New Jersey.” (Advisor: Dr. Huan Feng)
• Dr. S. Mark Yidana (2008). “Management of Groundwater for Productive Uses in the Afram Plains Area, Ghana.” (Advisor: Dr. Duke Ophori)

Book

• Olsen, Kevin (2008) A Great Conveniency, a Maritime History of the Passaic river, Hackensack River, and Newark Bay. American History Imprints, Franklin, TN, (ISBN-10: 0975366777, 260 pp.)

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• Callanan J.R., Pope, G.A., Gorring, M.L., and Feng, H. Effects of High intensity forest fire on clay mineralogy. Geoderma, in review.
  
• Chopping, M., Su, L., Laliberte, A., Rango, A., Peters, D.P.C., Kollikkathara, N. (2006). Mapping shrub abundance in desert grasslands using geometric-optical modeling and multiangle remote sensing with CHRIS/Proba, Remote Sens. Environ. 104(1): 62-73.
• Datta, R., Sarkar, D., Punamiya, P., and Nagar, R. (2007). Response to Letter to the editor re: Datta et al., 2006 (Boyce et al.). Sci Total Environ. 388: 376-378.
• Duke U. Ophori, Matthew Gorring, Olsen K., Ese Orhua, Jeffrey Hope (2007) A Preliminary Analysis of Groundwater Chemistry in Shallow Boreholes, Ughelli, Nigeria. Journal of Environmental Hydrology, 15: 1-8.
• Feng H., Onwueme V., Jaslanek W. J., Stern E. A., Jones K.W. (2005) Application of Geographical Information System (GIS) to Lower Passaic River Sediment Pollution Study, New Jersey, USA. In: URBAN DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE – Science, Exposure, Policies, And Technologies. pp. 275-282. Science Press USA Inc., Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, USA.
• Kollikkathara N., Feng H., Stern E. (2008). A Purview of Waste Management Evolution: Special Emphasis on USA. Waste Management (In press)
• Makris, K.C., Datta, R., Sarkar, D., Sakya, K. and Das, P. (2007). Chaotropic effects on 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene uptake by wheat ( Triticum aestivum ) Plant and Soil , 295(1-2): 229-237.
• Makris, K.C., Punamiya, P., Sarkar, D. and Datta, R. (2008). Novel Colorimetric method overcoming phosphorus interference during trace arsenic analysis in soil solutions. The Analyst, 133: 191-196.
• Makris, K.C., Quazi, S., Punamiya, P., Sarkar, D. and Datta, R. (2008). Fate of Arsenic in Swine waste of concentrated animal feeding operation. Journal of Environmental Quality 37: 1626-33.
• Makris, K.C., S.S. Andra, M. Hardy, D. Sarkar, R. Datta, S.B.H. Bach, and C.P. Mullens. Nitrous oxide supersaturation at the liquid/air interface of animal waste. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (in review).
• Makris, K.C., Sarkar, D., Salazar, J., Punamiya, P. and Datta, R. (2007). Alternative Amendment Technology for Phosphorus in Poultry Litter. Soil Sciences (Submitted)
• NJDEP (2004). New Jersey Stormwater Best Management Practices Manual. New Jersey
  Dept of Environmental Protection, Division of Watershed Management. (Witherell, B —
  Contracted Research Assistant).
• Nwachukwu, M.A. (2004). Alluvial Mining and the Sedimentary Cycle; A steam Sediment analysis review, Vol. 316 Transaction 2004, Soc. for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, USA.
• Nwachukwu, M.A. (2004). Physical analysis in economic evaluation of Ekwe clay deposit, Int'l Association of the Advancement of modeling & Simulation techniques in enterprises, AMSE Journal, France
• Nwachukwu, M.A. (2004); SP and VES Responses over PB-ZN and associated sulfide mineralization zone of Izzi area Nigeria. Global Journal of Geological Science, 2:261-68
• Olsen, Kevin. A Big Stink Down at the Tracks, Federal Preemption and Local Control Over Railroad Solid Waste Transloading Facilities in New Jersey. Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management (in review).
• Olsen, Kevin. Laboratory Robotics Instruction for Undergraduates at Montclair State University.” Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation (in press).
• Olsen, Kevin (2007). Multiple Wavelength Ultraviolet Determinations of Nitrate Concentrations: A Demonstration Project From October 2005 to July 2006. Air, Water, and Soil Pollution. 187: 195-202.
• Onwueme V., Feng H. (2006) Risk characterization of contaminants in Passaic River sediments, New Jersey. Middle States Geographer, 39: 13-25.
• Onwueme V., Feng H., Chopping M., Jaslanek W. J., and Stern E. A. (2005) Heavy Metal Contaminated Sediments of Lower Passaic River, New Jersey, USA. In: URBAN DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE—Science, Exposure, Policies, and Technologies. pp. 34-43. Science Press USA Inc., Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, USA.
• Schneider, L and C. Billings (2007). Real-time monitoring and computerization for microbial inactivation using C x T. Journal AWWA, 99(10): 81-95.
• Xeflide, Seth and Ophori, Duke. An assessment of the time dependence structure of streams in New Jersey. Environmental Geology (in press).
• Xeflide, Seth and Ophori, Duke. Stochastic modeling of monthly rainfall in New Jersey, USA. Environmental Geology (in press).
• Xeflide, Seth and Ophori, Duke (2008). Return period analysis as a tool for urban flood prediction in the Accra plains, southern Ghana. Journal of Environmental Hydrology, 16(15): 1-8.
• Xeflide, Seth and Ophori, Duke (2007). Characterization and frequency analysis of one day annual maximum and two to five consecutive days maximum rainfall of Accra,Ghana. ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences. 2 (5): 27-31.
• Yidana S.M., Ophori D.U. Groundwater availability in the shallow aquifers of the southern Voltaian System: A simulation and chemical analysis. Environmental Geology (in press, published online as: DOI:10.1007/s00254-007-1114-y).
• Yidana S.M., Ophori D.U. (2008). Groundwater resources management in the Afra Plains Area, Ghana. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 12(5): 339-347.
• Yidana S.M., Ophori D.U., B. Banoeng-Yakubo B. (2008). Groundwater quality evaluation for productive uses – The Afram Plains Area, Ghana. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 134(2): 222-227.
• Yidana S.M., Ophori D.U., Banoeng-Yakubo B. (2008). Hydrogeological and hydrochemical characterization of the Voltaian Basin: The Afram Plains Area, Ghana. Environmental Geology, 53: 1213-1223.
• Yidana S.M., Ophori DU., Banoeng-Yakubo B. (2008). A multivariate statistical analysis of surface water chemistry data – The Ankobra Basin, Ghana. Journal of Environmental Management, 86: 80-87.
• Yidana S.M., Ophori D.U., Obeng B. (2007). Hydrochemical analysis of groundwater from the Keta Basin, Ghana. Journal of Environmental Hydrology, 15: 1-11.
• Yidana S.M., Ophori D.U., Banoeng-Yakubo B. (2007). Irrigation water resource management for sustainable agriculture – The Ankobra Basin, Ghana. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 133(6): 609-615.

Abstracts

• Barber, S., Patel, M., Datta, R., Sarkar, D. & Punamiya, P. (2008) Effect of Glomus mosseae on lead uptake by the Vetiveria Zizanioides. American Association of Petroleum Geologists. (AAPG, April 19-23 San Antonio TX).
• Chopping M., Su L., Kollikkathara N., Urena L. (2007). Advances in Mapping Woody Plant Canopies using the NASA MISR Instrument on Terra. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 23-27 July 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
• Das, P., Datta, R., Sarkar, D., Makris, K.C., Ovuegbe, E., and Punamiya, P. (2007) Chemically-Catalyzed Uptake of 2, 4, 6-Trinitrotoluene by Vetiver Grass (Vetiveria Zizanioides) In Soil. Geological Society of America Abstracts.
• Das, P., Makris, K.C., Datta, R., Sarkar, D. and Punamiya, P. (2008). Urea-Catalyzed Extractability of 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene from Contaminated Soils. American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
• Das, P., Makris, K.C., Sarkar, D., Datta, R. and Punamiya, P. (2008) TNT adsorption in chemically variant soils: Preliminary studies. Agronomy Abstracts.
• Feng H., Onwueme V., Jaslanek W. J., Stern E. A. (2004). Lower Passaic river Sediment Contamination Study: Using GIS as a Visualization Tool. Abstract of poster presented at Passaic River Symposium “Who’s Doing What?” June 9, 2004. Montclair, New Jersey.
• Feng H., Onwueme V., Jaslanek W. J., Stern E. A. (2004). Lower Passaic River Sediment Pollution Study, New Jersey, USA. Abstract of talk presented at the International Conference on Urban Dimensions of Environmental Change: Science, Exposures, Policies, and Technologies. May 25-28, 2004, Shanghai, CHINA.
• Feng H., Onwueme V., Jaslanek W. J., Stern E. A., Jones K. W., Barrett K. (2005). Mapping Temporal and Spatial Distribution of ContaminantsIn Lower Passaic River Sediments. Abstract of poster presented at The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), North America 26th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland–Nov 2005.
• Ferdinand, A., Taylor, R. 2006. New Jersey Sitemart: Utilization Of GPS Enabled Camera And Equipment In Field Verification Of Potential Brownfields In Orange, NJ. Brownfields 2006, The National Brownfields Conference, Boston, MA
• Ferdinand, Amy V., 2007. Brownfields and Urban Redevelopment - NJ Site Mart: Utilization of GPS Enabled Camera and Equipment For In-Situ Verification of 100 Potential Brownfield Sites in Orange, New Jersey. First Annual CSAM Student Research Symposium May 2007.
• Ferdinand, Amy V., 2008. Geospatial Analysis of Brownfields by GIS and Remote Sensing for Social Risk Assessment: The effect of appearance on the value of developable sites. American Assoc of Geographers 2008 Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Hardy, Michael et al., 2007. A Packed Bed Reactor System to Treat Chromium Contaminated Shipyard Stormwater. ASA/CSSA/SSSA Annual Conference.
• Hardy, Michael et al., 2008. Removal of Heavy Metals from Acid Mine Drainage Using Water Treatment Residuals. AAPG Annual Conference.
• Hardy, Michael et al., 2008. Water Treatment Residuals Remove Copper, Lead, and Zinc from Acidic Wastewater GSA/ASA/CSSA/SSSA Annual Conference.
• Kollikkathara N., Feng H. (2007). Integrated Waste Prognosis and Assessment. Sigma Xi First Annual Student Research Symposium, May 2007, Montclair, NJ.
• Kollikkathara N., Feng H., Yamakawa H. (2008). Integrated Solid Waste Management through Prognosis and Systems Dynamics Modeling. AAG 2008 Annual Meeting, Boston.
• Kollikkathara N., Ferdinand A., Reynolds E., Yousuf S., Letang S., Mbaya P., Hung S., Taylor R. (2006). Site Assessment and Remediation using Site Mart: A Study of Brownfields of Paterson City, NJ. AAG 2006 Annual Meeting, Chicago.
• Kruge M.A., Olsen K., and Stern E.A. “Organic Geochemical Investigation of a Highly Contaminated Urban Waterway: The Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, New York, USA,” 23nd International Meeting On Organic Geochemistry, Torquay, UK, Abstracts. (2007).
• LeTang, Shevon, 2007. "Let nature do the work! Applying the technology of natural processes to contaminated land." Student research Symposium at Montclair State University, May 2007.
• Nwachukwu, M. A. (2008), Environmental sanitation enforcement and compliance best management strategies for Nigeria; INECE 8th International conference Cape Town, South Africa-Track A
• Nwachukwu, M.A. (2007), Environmental sanitation best management practice for Imo state, Nigeria; Guest lecturer; Environmental Stakeholders’ Forum.
• Olsen K., Kruge M.A, Prezant R., Stern E., Yu D., “Characterization of Highly Contaminated Sediment from the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, New York”. Meadowlands Environmental Research Symposium, June 2007.
• Olsen, Kevin, 2006. Winter on the Preakness Brook, Land Use and Nitrate Concentrations for October 2005 to July 2006, Poster presentation at the Second Passaic River Symposium, October 2006.
• Olsen, Kevin. “Jamaica Bay as New York City’s Conflicted backyard: Recreation and Refuse, Transportation and Trash, Wetlands and Wastelands,” October 2008 Drew University Symposium on Industrial Archaeology.
• Onwueme V., Feng H. (2006). Risk Characterization of contaminants in Passaic River Sediments, New Jersey. Abstract of talk presented at Association of American Geographers - Middle States Division 2006 Meeting. New Brunswick, New Jersey. October 13-14, 2006.
• Onwueme V., Feng H., Chopping M., Stern E. A. (2004). Heavy Metal Contaminated Sediments of Lower Passaic River, New Jersey USA. Abstract of talk presented at the international Conference on Urban Dimensions of Environmental Change: Science, Exposures, Policies, and Technologies. May 25-28, 2004, Shanghai, CHINA.
• Onwueme V., Jaslanek W. J., Feng H. (2004). Trends and Spatial Distributions of Contaminant Concentrations and Compositions in Surface Sediment of Passaic River, New Jersey. Abstract of poster presented at Atlantic Estuarine Research Society (AERS) Fall 2004 Meeting, New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, Lyndhurst, NJ. October 14-16, 2004.
• Panchoor, D., Punamiya, P., Therapong, C., Datta, R. and Sarkar, D. (2006). Effect of Arsenical Pesticides on Antioxidant Enzymes in Rice: A Comparative Greenhouse Study using Organic and Inorganic Arsenical Pesticides. Agronomy Abstracts. (ASA-CSSA-SSSA , Nov 12-16 ,Indianapolis, IN).
• Patel, M., Datta, R., Punamiya, P. and Sarkar, D (2007) Arsenic Distribution and Localization in the Fronds of the Hyperaccumulator Fern Pteris vittata. Agronomy Abstracts. (ASA-CSSA-SSSA , Nov 4-8 ,New Orleans, LA).
• Patel, M., Datta, R., Punamiya, P., Sarkar, D. and Sahi, S. (2008) Antioxidative responses and arsenic localization in the arsenic-hyperaccumulator Chinese brake fern (Pteris vittata L.)Agronomy Abstracts. (ASA Southern Branch Annual Meeting February 3-5, 2008 Dallas, TX).
• Pope, G. A., Reynard, Jennifer R., Bien, W.F., Gorring, M.L. (2007). Fires and pedogenesis in the New Jersey Pine Barrens: Preliminary results. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 17-21.
• Punamiya, P., Sarkar, D., Makris, K.C. and Datta, R. (2008). An alternative, inexpensive to determine arsenic in water and soil extracts in presence of phosphorus (Third Passaic River symposium held at Montclair State University, Montclair NJ.)
• Punamiya, P., Datta, R., Patel. M., Sarkar, D. and Das P. (2008) Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on Cadmium uptake by Brassica juncea: An Incubation study. Agronomy Abstracts.
• Punamiya, P., Datta, R., Sarkar, D. and Das P. (2008) Effect of Cadmium on antioxidant enzymes in the presence of beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: An Incubation study using Brassica juncea (Indian mustard) Geological Society of America Abstracts.
• Punamiya, P., Datta, R., Sarkar, D., Barber, S., Patel. M. and Das P. (2008) Symbiotic role of Glomus mosseae in lead phytoextraction using vetiver grass. Geological Society of America Abstracts.
• Punamiya, P., Makris, K.C., Datta, R. and Sarkar, D (2007) Low-Level Colorimetric Determination of Arsenic in the Presence of Phosphorus in Soil Solutions. Agronomy Abstracts. (ASA-CSSA-SSSA , Nov 4-8 ,New Orleans, LA).
• Punamiya, P., Patel. M., Datta, R. and Sarkar, D. (2008) Phytoextraction of lead in soil using lead-accumulating grass (Vetiveria zizanioides) in the presence of beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG, April 19-23 San Antonio, TX).
• Quazi, S., Makris, K.C., Sarkar, D., Datta, R. and Punamiya, P. (2007) Geochemical fate of arsenic in swine litter AGU, Abstract 88(52).( AGU, 10–14 Dec 2007, San Francisco, CA).
• Reynard, Jennifer R., Pope, G.A, Gorring, M.L., and Bien,W.F. (2007). Forest fire’s role as a catalyst for clay mineral alterations in soil and its effect on cation exchange capacity. Geological Society of America 2006 Annual Meeting, October 22-25, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Reynard, Jennifer R., Pope, G.A., and Bien, W.F. (2006). Forest fire as a unifying soil weathering agent in differing ecosystems. Ecological Society of America Mid-Atlantic Ecology Conference, April 8, 2006, New Jersey School of Conservation, Branchville, New Jersey.
• Shakya, K., Das, P., Makris, K.C., Datta, R., Sarkar, D. and Panchoor, D. Uptake and Biotransformation of 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene (TNT) by Wheat (Triticum aestivum) (2006). Agronomy Abstracts.
• Shell, Rebecca and Syms, Craig, 2008. “The Effects of Predatory Pressures on Spatial Community Structure in Sand Gobies.” 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA 7-11 July 2008.
• Witherell, B. B. and C. Hall, 2005. The Role of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) in Planning and Managing Stream Restoration Projects in Urbanizing Watersheds: New Jersey Case Study, Phase I. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Joint Assembly, Spring Meeting. May 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Witherell, B. B., and H. Feng, 2006. Using a River Basin Management Approach to Keep Clean Water Clean: Potential Application to the Passaic River Basin System. Second Passaic River Symposium. October 2006, Montclair, New Jersey.
• Witherell, B. B., K. Barrett, and H. Feng, 2006. Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), Water Quality Trading/Banking, and Adaptive Watershed Management in New Jersey. AWRA Specialty Conference on Adaptive Management of Water Resources. June 2006, Missoula, Montana.
• Witherell, B.B., 2008. System dynamic modeling of land use regulation for water resource protection: The New Jersey Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act. Third Passaic River Symposium, October 2008, Montclair, New Jersey.
• Witherell, B.B., 2008. System dynamic modeling of socio-economic indicators related to land use regulation. 2008 System Dynamics Users Conference, October 2008, Burlington, Vermont.
• Xeflide, Seth, 2007. Analysis of baseflow trends in New Jersey: An empirical historical study. Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers 2007 Annual Meeting.
• Yidana, S. M., Ophori D.U. (2006). A multivariate statistical analysis of water chemistry – The Ankobra Basin, Ghana (abstract). Abstract with Programs, GSA 41st Annual Meeting, Northeastern Section, March 20-22, 2006, Camp Hill/Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., p 64.