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Chemicals in the Environment: Fate, Impacts, and Remediation is devoted to the broad review of metals and organic compounds in the environment. The volume focuses on three main aspects of chemicals in the environment: 1) fate and transport in soil, sediment, water and air; 2) resulting environmental impacts in the environment, wildlife, and humans, and 3) remediation methodologies and applications. An introductory chapter examines the history of metals and organic chemicals in the environment, exposure to these chemicals through food, air and water, identification of chemical hazards, process and scope of ecological impairment, fate and transport modeling, impacts and monitoring, and remediation methods.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• 1. Chemicals in the Environment: An Overview(p. 1)
• Fate and Transport in Soil/Sediment, Water, and Air
• 2. Theoretical Evaluation of the Interfacial Area between Two Fluids in a Model Soil(p. 26)
• 3. Environmental Impacts and Monitoring: A Historical Perspective on the Use of Natural Attenuation for Subsurface Remediation(p. 42)
• 4. Speciation and Chemical Reactions of Phosphonate Chelating Agents in Aqueous Media(p. 59)
• 5. The Effects of Soil/Sediment Organic Matter on Mineralization, Desorption, and Immobilization of Phenanthrene(p. 95)
• 6. Reductive Transformation of Halogenated Aliphatic Pollutants by Iron Sulfide(p. 113)
• 7. Non-Particle Resuspension Chemical Transport from Stream Beds(p. 130)
• 8. Development of the Speciation-Based Metal Exposure and Transformation Assessment Model (META4): Application to Copper and Zinc Problems in the Alamosa River, Colorado(p. 150)
• 9. Transport and Transformation Processes Affecting Organophosphorus Insecticide Loads in Surface Runoff(p. 164)
• 10. Assessing Atrazine Input and Removal Processes in the Chesapeake Bay Environment: An Overview(p. 186)
• 11. The Urban Atmosphere: An Important Source of Trace Metals to Nearby Waters?(p. 203)
• 12. Speciation and Distribution of Atmospheric Mercury over the Northern Chesapeake Bay(p. 223)
• 13. Atmospheric and Fluvial Sources of Trace Elements to the Delaware Inland Bays(p. 243)
• Environmental Impacts and Monitoring
• 14. Development and Application of Equilibrium Partitioning Sediment Guidelines in the Assessment of Sediment PAH Contamination(p. 260)
• 15. Small Volume Sampling and GC/MS Analysis for PAH Concentrations in Water above Contaminated Sediments(p. 275)
• 16. Highly Sensitive Assay for Anticholinesterase Compounds Using 96 Well Plate Format(p. 289)
• 17. Temporal and Spatial Variation in Monitoring of Ambient Urban Air Pollutants(p. 306)
• 18. Trophic Transport of Metals in Birds: Birds as Indicators of Exposure and Effect(p. 321)
• 19. Genetic Diversity Provides a Useful Measure of Environmental Impacts(p. 340)
• 20. Plant Biomonitors: Pollution, Dandelions, and Mutation Rates(p. 350)
• 21. Molecular Identification of Chironomid Species(p. 363)
• Remediation
• 22. Integrating Site Characterization with Aquifer and Soil Remediation Design(p. 384)
• 23. Mechanisms Controlling Chlorocarbon Reduction at Iron Surfaces(p. 397)
• 24. Enhanced Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metals by Bacterial Cells with Surface-Displayed Synthetic Phytochelatins(p. 411)
• 25. Solvated Electron (Na/NH[subscript 3]) Dechlorination of Model Compounds and Remediation of PCB- and CAH-Contaminated Wet Soils(p. 419)
• 26. Groundwater and Soil Remediation Using Electrical Fields(p. 434)
• 27. Influence of Nonionic Surfactants on the Bioavailability of Hexachlorobenzene for Microbial Reductive Dechlorination(p. 449)
• Indexes
• Author Index(p. 469)
• Subject Index(p. 471)

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