Technical Publications

Below is a list of publications describing methods recently developed at the Water Sciences Laboratory.

  • Bartelt-Hunt, S. L.; Snow, D. D.; Damon, T.; Shockley, J.; Hoagland, K., The occurrence of illicit and therapeutic pharmaceuticals in wastewater effluent and surface waters in Nebraska. Environmental Pollution 2009, 157, (3), 786-791.
  • Sellin, M. K.; Snow, D. D.; Akerly, D. L.; Kolok, A. S., Estrogenic Compounds Downstream From Three Small Cities in Eastern Nebraska: Occurrence and Biological Effect. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 2009, 45, 14-21.
  • Kolok, A. S.; Snow, D. D.; Kohno, S.; Sellin, M. K.; Guillette Jr, L. J., Occurrence and biological effect of exogenous steroids in the Elkhorn River, Nebraska, USA. Science of the Total Environment 2007, 388, (1-3), 104-115.Young, T. S. M.; Morley, M. C.; Snow, D. D., Anaerobic Biodegradation of RDX and TCE: Single- and Dual-Contaminant Batch Tests. Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management 2006, 10, (2), 94-101.
  • Aga, D. S.; O'Connor, S.; Ensley, S.; Payero, J. O.; Snow, D.; Tarkalson, D., Determination of the Persistence of Tetracycline Antibiotics and Their Degradates in Manure-Amended Soil Using Enzyme-Linked Immunosobent Assay and Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2005, 53 (18), pp 7165-7171.
  • Sra, A. K.; Hu, Y.; Martin, G. E.; Snow, D. D.; Ribbe, M. W.; Kohen, A., Competitive 15N Kinetic Isotope Effects of Nitrogenase-Catalyzed Dinitrogen Reduction. JACS Communications 2004, 1-2.
  • Snow, D.D., D. A. Cassada, S.J. Monson, J. Zhu, and R. F. Spalding. 2003. Tetracycline and Macrolide Antibiotics: Trace analysis in water and wastewater using solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, Chapter 14 in Analysis of Emerging Contaminants Using Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) (EM Thurman and I.M Ferrer, eds.) American Chemical Society.
  • Zhu, J, D.D. Snow, D.A Cassada,, S.J Monson, and R.F. Spalding. 2001. Analysis of oxytetracycline, tetracycline, and chlortetracycline in water using solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, Journal of Chromatography A, 928,177-186.
  • Cassada, D.A., Y. Zhang, D.D. Snow, and R.F. Spalding. 2000. Trace analysis of ethanol, MTBE, and related oxygenate compounds by solid phase microextraction and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry, 72, (19), 4654-4658.
  • Cassada, D.A., S.J. Monson, D.D. Snow, and R.F. Spalding, 1999. Sensitive determination of RDX, nitroso-RDX metabolites, and other munitions in ground water by solid-phase extraction and isotope dilution liquid chromatography-atmospheric pressure electro-spray ionization mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography A, 844, 87-95.

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