Microbial ecology of a managed aquifer near the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (Middletown, Ia)

Epidemiology of beryllium sensitization and pneumoconiosis in the population of former nuclear weapons workers and current and former conventional munitions workers from the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAAP) in Burlington, Iowa

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Seed predation, not seed dispersal, explains the landscape-level abundance of an early-successional plant

JOHN L. ORROCK, DOUGLAS J. LEVEY*, BRENT J. DANIELSON† and ELLEN I. DAMSCHEN‡ Ecology and Evolutionary Interdepartmental Graduate Program, 353 Bessey Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA, * Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8525, USA, † Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Department, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA, and ‡ Departmen...

Prairie strips improve biodiversity and the delivery of multiple ecosystem services from corn–soybean croplands

Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; National Laborato...

Factors Influencing Natural Attenuation of Dinitrotoluenes in Surface Soils: Badger Army Ammunition Plant a Case Study

Remediation of dinitrotoluene contaminated soils from former ammunition plants: soil washing efficiency and effective process monitoring in bioslurry reactors.

A pilot-scale bioslurry system was used to test the treatment of soils highly contaminated with 2,4-dinitrotoluene (2,4-DNT) and 2,6-dinitrotoluene (2,6-DNT). The treatment scheme involved a soil-washing process followed by two sequential aerobic slurry reactors augmented with 2,4-DNT- and 2,6-DNT-mineralizing bacteria. Test soils were obtained from two former army ammunition plants, the Volunt...