Environmental impact statement: This paper presents advances in a sampling technique that allows the co-analysis of anions of P, V, As, Mo, Sb, W, U and sulphide in sediment. Coanalysis of sediment solutes is particularly valuable as it allows interpretation of geochemical processes based on the behaviour of multiple analytes at the same precise time and locations. This technique has the abilit...

Artificial photosynthesis, specifically H2O dissociation for CO2 reduction with solar energy, is regarded as one of the most promising methods for sustainable energy and utilisation of environmental resources. However, a highly efficient conversion still remains extremely challenging. The hydrogenation of CO2 is regarded as the most commercially feasible method, but this method requires either ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Institute (NAI) conducted two "Workshops Without Walls" during 2010 that enabled global scientific exchange--with no travel required. The second of these was on the topic "Molecular Paleontology and Resurrection: Rewinding the Tape of Life." Scientists from diverse disciplines and locations around the world were joined throug...

Over the past 2 decades, molecular techniques have established the critical role of both free-living and host-associated microbial partnerships in the environment. Advancing research to link microbial community dynamics simultaneously to host physiology and ecosystem biogeochemistry is required to broaden our understanding of the ecological roles of environmental microbes. Studies on coral reef...

Introduction The X-ray standing wave (XSW) technique provides an element-specific structural probe by using x-ray reflectivity to generate a " two-beam " interference field that in turn induces a spatial dependence to the x-ray spectroscopic yields from atoms within the field. The XSW technique is primarily used for resolving the atomic-scale structure at surfaces, interfaces, and thin films wi...

Parallel research programs encompassing the hydrodynamics and geochemistry have been undertaken in Oatley Bay, a small urban estuary that is a lower tributary to the Georges River in Southern Sydney Using field data and a simple numerical model, the regimes of flow effecting circulation in Oatley Bay have been determined. The efficiency of flushing and the subsequent fate of conservative pollut...

Poorlyand well-crystallized efflorescent sulphates sequences beginning with the simple hydrated salts from divalent to trivalent cations are described in acid mine drainage (AMD) elsewhere (Alpers et al., 1994; Nordstrom, 1999; Nordstrom and Alpers, 1999; Buckby et al., 2003; Romero et al., 2006; among others). Weathering of pyrite and pyrrothite produces acidity and Fe, followed by precipitati...

a School of Earth Sciences, Bristol Isotope Group, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen’s Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, United Kingdom b School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Isotope Geochemistry & Cosmochemistry Group, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom c Department of Geological Sciences, NASA Lunar Science Institute Center f...

N The effects of pH and sediment surface characteristics on sorption of indigenous groundwater bacteria were determined using contaminated and uncontaminated aquifer material from Cape Cod, MA. Over the pH range of the aquifer (5-7), the extent of bacterial sorption onto sediment in uncontaminated groundwater was strongly pH-dependent, but relatively pH-insensitive in contaminated groundwater f...