Publications

A list of Ph.D dissertations and refereed publications by researchers in our group can be found below:

• P.J. Witkowski, "Modeling Sorptive Interactions During Transport of a Persistent Organic Contaminant: Aroclor 1242" 1990.
• S.W. Taylor, "Transport of Substrate and Biomass in Porous Media With Application to In-situ Bioremediation of Organic Contaminants in Groundwater," 1990.
• P.T. Imhoff, "Dissolution of a Non-aqueous Phase Liquid in Saturated Porous Media", 1992.
• J.A. Smith, "Sorption of Nonionic Organic Compounds to Organoclays from Water", 1992.
• H.J. Cho, "The Volatilization of Organic Compounds in Unsaturated porous Media during Infiltration", 1992.
• D.M. Tuck, "Immiscible Displacement of Residual Tetrachloroethylene from Saturated and Unsaturated Porous Media", 1992.
• J.W. Park, "Engineering Applications of Organo-Oxides for Decontamination of Water and Soil", 1994.
• N. Singhal, "Anaerobic Dehalogenation of TCE in Continuous Flow Systems", 1995.
• C.L. MacLeod, "Mercury in the New Jersey Coastal Plain", 1995.
• S. Guha, "Surfactant Enhanced Bioremediation: Bioavailability of Hydrophobic Organic Compounds Partitioned into the Micellar Phase of Nonionic Surfactants",
  1995.
• J.C. Johnson, "Mass Transfer in Porous Media: The Effect of Surfactants on the Mass Transfer Rate Coefficient", 1998.
• S.L. Smith, "Modeling the Transport of Trace Metals in Water-Saturated Soils and Sediments as Affected by the Biodegradation of Organic Substrates via Various
  Terminal Electron Acceptors" 1998.
• P.L. Kallin, "Modeling the Fate and Transport of Trace Metal Contaminants in Natural and Constructed Surface-Flow Wetlands", 1999.
• J. R. Stencel, "Trace Metals in Water from crude Oil: Surfactant and Humic Acid Enhanced Partitioning", 1999.
• D.G. Brown, "Effects of Nonionic Surfactants on Bacterial Transport Through Porous Media", 2000.
• H.S. Kim, "Dynamics of Aerobic and Denitrifying Bacterial Strains During the Biodegradation of Toluene in a Porous Medium: Experimental Quantification
  and Mathematical Simulation", 2004.
• J.H. Choi, "The Effect of Plants on the Dynamics of Sulfur Species and Zinc in Wetland Sediments", 2004.
• S. Xu, "An Investigation on the Effects of Herbaceous Plants on the Biogeochemistry of Wetland Sediments" 2005.
• J. Shrestha, "Effects of Anthropogenic Disturbances on the Iron and Nitrogen Cycles in Riparian Wetland Soils", 2007.

• Jaffé, P.R., F.L. Parker, and D.J. Wilson, “Distribution of Toxic Substances in Rivers,” J. of the Environmental Engineering Division, ASCE, Vol. 108, No. EE4,
  August 1982, pp. 639-649.

• Eckenfelder, W.W., and P.R. Jaffé, “Effluent Quality Control in the Activated Sludge Process Using Oxygen Uptake Rate,” Environ. Technology Letters,
  Vol. 3, 1982, pp. 441-448.

• Jaffé, P.R., and R.A. Ferrara, “Desorption Kinetics in Modeling Toxic Chemicals,” J. of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 109, No. 4, August 1983,
  pp. 859-867.

• Jaffé, P.R., and F.L. Parker, “Uncertainty Analysis of a First Order Decay Model,” J. of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 110, No. 1, February 1984,
  pp. 131-140.

• Jaffé, P.R., and R.A. Ferrara, “Modeling Sediment and Water-Column Interactions for Hydrophobic Pollutants; Parameter Discrimination and Model Response
  to Input Uncertainty,” Water Research, Vol. 18, No. 9, September 1984, pp. 1169-1174.

• Jaffé, P.R., “Modeling Sorbing Chemicals; Considering the Nonsingular Adsorption/Desorption Isotherm,” J. of Environmental Science and Health.
  Part A, Environmental Science and Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 1, February 1986, pp.  55-69.

• Jaffé, P.R., “Tropical Eutrophic Lake Modeling and Parameter Discrimination,” Water Resources Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. 3, June 1988, pp. 585-592.

• Witkowski, P.J., P.R. Jaffé, and R.A Ferrara, “Sorption and Desorption Dynamics of Aroclor 1242 to Natural Sediments,” J. of Contaminant Hydrology,
  No. 2, 1988, pp. 249-269.

• Jaffé, P.R., C. Paniconi, and E.F. Wood, “Model Calibration Based on the Naturally Occurring Random Fluctuations of an Environmental System,”
  J. of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 144, No. 5, October 1988, pp. 1136-1145

• Baek, N.H., and P.R. Jaffé, “The Degradation of Trichloroethylene in Mixed Methanogenic Cultures,” J. of Environmental Quality, Vol. 18,
  October 1989, pp. 515-518.

• Smith, J.A., P.R Jaffé, and C.T. Chiou, “Effect of Ten Quaternary Ammonium Cations on Tetrachloromethane Sorption to Clay From Water,”
  Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 24, No 8., August 1990, pp. 1167-1179.

• Taylor, S.W., and P.R. Jaffé, “Biofilm Growth and the Related Changes in Physical Properties of a Porous Media. 1.- Experimental Investigation,”
  Water Resources Research, Vol. 26, No. 9, September 1990, pp. 2153-2159.

• Taylor, S.W., P.C.D. Milly, and P.R. Jaffé, “Biofilm Growth and the Related Changes in Physical Properties of a Porous Media. 2.- Permeability,”
  Water Resources Research, Vol. 26, No. 9, September 1990, pp. 2161-2169.

• Taylor, S.W., and P.R. Jaffé, “Biofilm Growth and the Related Changes in Physical Properties of a Porous Media. 3.- Dispersivity,”
  Water Resources Research, Vol. 26, No. 9, September 1990, pp. 2171-2180.

• Taylor, S.W., and P.R. Jaffé, “Substrate and Biomass Transport in a Porous Medium,” Water Resources Research, Vol. 26, No. 9, September 1990, pp. 2181-2194.

• Cho, J.H., and P.R. Jaffé, “The Volatilization of Organic Compounds in Unsaturated Porous Media During Infiltration,” Journal of Contaminant Hydrology,
  Vol. 6, No. 4, December 1990, pp. 387-410.

• Baek, N.H., P.R. Jaffé, and N. Singhal, “Simulating the Degradation of TCE Under Methanogenesis,” J. of Environmental Science and Health.
  Part A, Environmental Science and Engineering, Vol. 25, No. 8, December 1990, pp. 987-1005.

• Taylor, S.W., and P.R. Jaffé, “Enhanced In-Situ Biodegradation and Aquifer Permeability Reduction,” J. of Environmental Engineering, ASCE,
  Vol. 117, No. 1, January 1991, pp. 25-46.

• Smith, J.A., and P.R Jaffé, “Comparison of Tetrachloromethane Sorption to an Alkylammonium-clay and an Alkyldiammonium-clay,”
  Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 25, No. 12, December 1991, pp. 2054-2058.

• Smith, J.A., H.J. Cho, P.R. Jaffé, C.L. MacLeod, and S.A. Koehnlein, “Sampling Unsaturated-Zone Water for Trichloroethylene at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey,”
  J. of Environmental Quality, Vol. 21, April 1992, pp. 264-271.

• Jaffé, P.R., and S.W. Taylor, “Reply on Biofilm Growth and the Related Changes in the Physical Properties of a Porous Medium: Experimental Investigation,”
  Water Resources Research, Vol. 28, No.5, May 1992, pp. 1483-1484.

• Stigliani, W.M., P.R. Jaffé, and S. Anderberg, “Heavy Metal Pollution in the Rhine Basin,” Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 27, No. 5, May 1993,
  pp. 786-792.

• Cho, J.H., and P.R. Jaffé, “Simulating the Volatilization of Solvents in Unsaturated Soils during Laboratory and Field Infiltration Experiments,”
  Water Resources Research, Vol. 29, No. 10, 1993, pp. 3329-3342.

• Park, J.W., and P.R. Jaffé, “Partitioning of Three Non-ionic Organic Compounds Between Adsorbed Surfactants, Micelles, and Water,”
  Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 27, No.12, 1993, pp. 2559-2565.

• Stigliani, W.M., A. Anderberg, and P.R. Jaffé, “Industrial Metabolism and Long-Term Risk from Accumulated Chemicals in the Rhine Basin,”
  Industry and Environment, UNEP, July-September 1993.

• Smith J.A., and P.R. Jaffé, “Adsorptive Selectivity of Organic-Cation-Modified Bentonite for Nonionic Organic Contaminants,”
  Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, Vol. 72, 1994, pp. 205-211.

• Imhoff, P.T., P.R. Jaffé, and G.F. Pinder, “An Experimental Study of Complete Dissolution of a Nonaqueous Phase Liquid in Saturated Porous Media.
  ” Water Resources Research, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1994, pp. 307-320.

• Smith, J.A., and P.R. Jaffé, “Benzene Transport through Landfill Liners Containing Organophilic Bentonite,” J. of Environmental Engineering,
  ASCE, Vol. 120, No. 6, November/December 1994, pp. 1559-1577.

• Imhoff, P.T., and P.R. Jaffé, “Effect of Liquid Distribution on Gas-Water Phase Mass Transfer in Unsaturated Sand During Infiltration,” Journal of
  Contaminant Hydrology, Vol. 16, 1994, pp. 359-380.

• Park, J.W., and P.R. Jaffé, “Phenanthrene Removal from Soil-Slurries with Surfactant-Treated Oxides,” J. of Environmental Engineering, ASCE,
  Vol. 121, 1995, pp.430-437.

• Guha, S., and P.R. Jaffé, “Biodegradation Kinetics of Phenanthrene Partitioned into the Micellar-Phase of Non-ionic Surfactants,” Environmental
  Science and Technology, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1996, pp. 605-611.

• Guha, S., and P.R. Jaffé, “The Bioavailability of Hydrophobic Compounds Partitioned into the Micellar Phase of Nonionic Surfactants,”
  Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 30, No. 4, 1996, pp. 1382-1391.

• Park, S.S., and P.R. Jaffé, “Development of a Redox Potential Model for the Assessment of Postdepositional Heavy Metal Mobility,” Ecological Modelling,
  Vol.91, No. 1-3, 1996, pp. 169-181.

• MacLeod, C.L., M.D. Borcsik, P.R. and Jaffé, “Effect of Infiltrating Solutions on the Desorption of Mercury from Aquifer Sediments,” Environmental Technology,
  Vol 17, No. 5, 1996, pp. 465-475.

• Guha, S., and P.R. Jaffé, “Determination of Monod Kinetic Coefficients for Volatile Hydrophobic Organic Compounds,”Biotechnology and Bioengineering,
  Vol. 50, No. 6, 1996, pp. 693-699.

• Sun, S., and P.R. Jaffé, “Sorption of Phenanthrene from Water onto Alumina Coated with Dianionic Surfactants,” Environmental Science and Technology,
  Vol. 30, No. 10, 1996, pp. 2906-2913.

• Guha, S., P.R. Jaffé, and C.A. Peters, “Solubilization of PAH Mixtures by a Non-Ionic Surfactant,” Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 32, No. 7, 1998,
  pp. 930-935.

• Tuck, D.M., B.R. Bierck, and P.R. Jaffé, “Synchrotron Radiation Measurement of Multiphase Fluid Saturation in Porous Media: Experimental Technique and
  Error Analysis,” J. of Contaminant Hydrology, Vol. 31, No. 3-4, 1998, pp. 21-45.

• Guha, S., P.R. Jaffé, and C.A. Peters, “Bioavailability of Mixtures of PAHs Partitioned into the Micellar Phase of a Non-ionic Surfactant,” Environmental Science
  and Technology, Vol. 32, No. 15, 1998, pp. 2317-2324.

• Smith, S.L., and P.R. Jaffé, “Modeling the Transport and Reaction of Trace Metals in Water-Saturated Soils and Sediments,”Water Resources Research, Vol. 34,
  No. 11, 1998, pp. 3135-3147.

• Johnson, J.C., S.Sun, and P.R. Jaffé, “Surfactant Enhanced PCE Dissolution in Porous Media; The Effect on Mass Transfer Rate Coefficients,” Environmental Science and Technology,
  Vol. 33, No. 8, 1999, pp. 1286-1292.

• Park, S.S., and P.R. Jaffé, “A Numerical Model to Estimate Sediment Oxygen Levels and Demand,” Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 28, 1999, pp. 1219-1226.

• Brown, D.G., S. Guha, and P.R. Jaffé, “Surfactant-Enhanced Biodegradation of a PAH in Soil Slurry Reactors,” Bioremediation Journal, Vol. 3, 1999, pp. 269-283.

• Guha, S., C.A. Peters, and P.R. Jaffé, “Multi-Substrate Biodegradation Kinetics of Naphtalene, Phenanthrene and Pyrene Mixtures,” Biotechnology and Bioengineering,
  Vol. 65, No. 5, 1999, pp. 491-499.

• Cantu, R., J.R. Stencel, R. Czernuszewicz, P.R. Jaffé, and T.D. Lash, “Surfactant Enhanced Partitioning of Nickel and Vanadium Dexophylloerythroporphyrins from
  Crude Oil into Water and Their Analysis Using Surface-Enhanced Resonance Raman Spectroscopy,” Environmental Science and Technology, Vol 34, No. 1, 2000,
  pp.192-198.

• Marshall, J.D., B.W. Shimada, P.R. Jaffé, “Effect of Temporal Variability in Infiltration on Contaminant Transport in the Unsaturated Zone,”
  Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Vol. 46, 2000, pp. 151-161.

• Brown, D.G., and P.R. Jaffé, “Spectrophotometric Assay of POE Nonionic Surfactants and its Application to Surfactant Sorption Isotherms,” Environmental Science and
  Technology, Vol 35, No 10, 2001, pp. 2022-2025.

• Brown, D.G., and P.R. Jaffé, “Effects of Surfactants on the UV/Visible Absorption of Bacterial Cells,” Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Vol. 74, No 6,
  2001, pp. 476-482.

• Brown, D.G., and P.R. Jaffé, “Effects of Nonionic Surfactants on Bacterial Transport Through Porous Media,” Environmental Science and Technology,
  Vol. 35, No. 19, 2001, pp. 3877-3883.

• Brown, D.G., J.R. Stencel, and P.R. Jaffé, “Effects of Porous Media Preparation on Bacteria Transport Through Porous Media,” Water Research, Vol. 36,
  2002, pp. 105-114.

• Li, G., S.W. Wang, H. Rabitz, S. Wang, and P. Jaffé “Global Uncertainty Assessments by High Dimensional Model Representations (HDMR),” Chemical
  Engineering Science, Vol. 57, 2002, pp. 4445-4460.

• Wang, S., P.R. Jaffé, G. Li, S.W. Wang, and H.A. Rabitz, “Simulating Bioremediation of Uranium-Contaminated Aquifers; Uncertainty Assessments of
  Model Parameters,” J. of Contaminant Hydrology, Vol. 64, No 3-4, 2003, pp. 283-307.

• Kim, H.S., P.R. Jaffé and L.Y. Young, “Simulating Biodegradation of Toluene in Sand-Column Experiments at the Macorscopic and Pore-level Scale for
  Aerobic and Denitrifying Conditions,” Advances in Water Research,  Vol. 27, 2004, pp. 335-348.

• Wang, S., and P.R. Jaffé, “Dissolution of Trace Metals in Potable Aquifers due to CO₂ Releases from Deep Formations,” Energy Conversion and
  Management, Vol. 45, No. 18-19, 2004, pp. 2833-2848.

• Komlos, J. and P.R. Jaffé, “Effect of Iron Bioavailability on Dissolved Hydrogen Concentrations during Microbial Iron Reduction,” Biodegradation,
  Vol. 15, 2004, pp. 315-325.

• Xu, S., A.C. Leri, S.C.B. Myneni, and P.R. Jaffé, “Uptake of Bromide by two Wetland Plants (Typha latifolia L.and Phragmites australis(Cav.) Trin.
  ex Steud),” Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 38, No. 21, 2004, pp. 5642-5648.

• Brown, D.G., J. Komlos, and P.R. Jaffé, “Simultaneous Utilization of Acetate and Hydrogen by Geobacter sulfurreducens and Implications for Use of
  Hydrogen as an Indicator of Redox Conditions,” Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 39, No. 9, 2005, pp. 3069-3076.

• Altevogt, A.S., and P.R. Jaffé, “Modeling the Effects of Gas-Phase CO₂ Intrusion on the Biogeochemistry of Variably Saturated Soils,” Water
  Resources Research, Vol. 41, No. 9, 2005, W09426, doi:10.1029 /2004WR003819.

• Clément, J.C., J. Shrestha, J.G. Ehrenfeld, and P.R. Jaffé, “Ammonium Oxidation Coupled to Dissimilatory Iron Reduction under Anaerobic
  Conditions in Wetland Soils,” Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Vol. 37, No. 12 , 2005, pp. 2323-2328.

• Choi, J.H., S.S. Park, and P.R. Jaffé, “The Effect of Emerging Macrophytes on the Dynamics of Sulfur Species and Trace Metals in Wetland Sediments,”
  Environmental Pollution, Vol. 140, No. 2 , 2006, pp. 286-293.

• Xu, S. and P.R. Jaffé, “Effect of Plants on the Removal of Hexavalent Chromium in Wetland Sediments,” Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 35,
  No.1, 2006, pp. 334-341.

• Brown, D.G., and P.R. Jaffé, “Effects of Adsorbed Nonionic Surfactants on the Cell Surface Hydrophobicity and Apparent Hamaker Constant of a
  Sphingomonas sp.,” Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2006, pp. 195-201.

• Choi, J.H., S.S. Park, and P.R. Jaffé, “Simulating the Dynamics of Sulfur Species and Zinc in Wetland Sediments,”Ecological Modelling, Vol 199,
  2006, pp. 315-323.

• Kim, H.S. and P.R. Jaffé, “Spatial Distribution and Physiological State of Bacteria in a Sand Column Experiment during the Biodegradation of
  Toluene,” Water Research, Vol. 41, 2007, pp. 2089-2100.

• Yabusaki, S.B., Y. Fang, P.E. Long, C.T. Resch, A.D. Peacock, J. Komlos, P.R. Jaffé, S.J. Morrison, R.D. Dayvault, D.C. White, R.T. Anderson,
  “Uranium Removal from Groundwater via In Situ Biostimulation:  Field-Scale Modeling of Transport and Biological Processes,” Journal of
  Contaminant Hydrology, Vol. 93, 2007, pp. 216-235.

• Xu, S., P.R. Jaffé, and D.L. Mauzerall, “A Mechanistic Model for Methane Emission from Flooded Rice Paddy Soils,” Ecological Modelling,
  Vol. 205, 2007, pp. 475-491.

• Komlos, J., R. Kukkadapu, J.M. Zachara, and P.R. Jaffé, “Biostimulation of Iron Reduction and Subsequent Oxidation of Sediment Containing
  Fe-silicates and Fe-oxides: Effect of Redox Cycling on Fe(III) Bioreduction,” Water Research, Vol. 41, 2007, pp. 2996-3004.

• Moon, H.S., Komlos, J., and P.R. Jaffé, “Uranium Reoxidation in Previously Bioreduced Sediment by Dissolved Oxygen and Nitrate,”
  Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 41, No. 13, 2007, pp. 4587-4592.

• Singhal, N., P.R. Jaffé, W. Maier, and E.H. Jho, “The Opposing Effects of Bacterial Activity and Gas Production on Anaerobic TCE Degradation in One-dimensional
  Soil Columns,” Chemosphere, Volume 69, No. 11, 2007,  pp. 1790-179.

• Kim, H.S. and P.R. Jaffé, “Degradation of Toluene by a Mixed Population of Archetypal Aerobes, Microaerophiles, and Denitrifiers: Laboratory Sand Column
  Experiment and Multispecies Biofilm Model Formulation,” Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2008, Vol. 99, No. 2, pp. 290-301.

• Komlos, J., B. Mishra, A. Lanzirotti, S.C.B. Myneni, and P.R. Jaffé, “Real Time Speciation of Uranium during Active
  Bioremediation and U(IV) Reoxidation,” J. of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 134, No. 2., 2008, pp. 78-86.

• Zazo, J.A., J.S. Paull, and P.R. Jaffé, “Influence of Plants on the Reduction of Hexavalent Chromium in Wetland
  Sediments,” Environmental Pollution, March 2008, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2008.01.006, 156, 2008, pp. 29-35.

• Komlos, J.A., Peacock, R.K. Kukkadapu, and P.R. Jaffé, “Long-Term Dynamics of Uranium Reduction/Reoxidation
  under Low Sulfate Conditions,” Geochim Cosmochim Acta, 72, 2008, pp. 3603–3615, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2008.05.040.

• Rosenzweig, B.R., H.S. Moon, J.A. Smith, M.L. Baeckd P.R. Jaffé, “Variation in the Instream Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen Response
  between and within Rainstorm Events in an Urban Watershed,"Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A. Toxic/Hazardous
  Substances and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 43, No. 11,  2008 , pp. 1223-1233, an.

• Komlos, J., H.S. Moon, and P.R. Jaffé, “Effect of Sulfate on the Simultaneous Bioreduction of Iron and Uranium,” Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 37, 2008, pp. 2058-2062.

• Moon, H.S., Komlos, J., and P.R. Jaffé, “Biogenic U(IV) Oxidation by Dissolved Oxygen and Nitrate in Sediment   after Prolonged U(VI)/Fe(III)/SO₄^2- Reduction,” Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Vol. 105, 2009, pp. 18–27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2008.10.014.

• Bassein, E. and P. R. Jaffé, “Measuring In Situ Reaction Rate Constants in Wetland Sediments,” Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-008-0612-z, in press.

• Shrestha, J., J.R. Rich, J.G. Ehrenfeld, and P.R. Jaffé, “Oxidation of Ammonium to Nitrite under Iron Reducing Conditions in Wetland Soils; Laboratory, Field Demonstrations and Push Pull Rate Determination,” Soil Science, in press.

• Song, B., E. Chyun, P.R. Jaffé, and B.B. Ward, “Molecular Methods to Detect and Monitor Dissimilatory Arsenate Respiring Bacteria (DARB) in Sediments,” FEMS Microbiology Ecology, in press.