Environmental Geosciences, V. 12, No. 4 (December 2005), P. 251-265.

Copyright 2005. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists/Division of Environmental Geosciences. All rights reserved.

DOI: 10.1306/eg.06210404021

Phytostabilization of a landfill containing coal combustion waste

Christopher Barton,¹Donald Marx,²Domy Adriano,³Bon Jun Koo,⁴Lee Newman,⁵Stephen Czapka,⁶John Blake⁷

¹Department of Forestry, University of Kentucky, 203 Thomas Poe Cooper Building, Lexington, Kentucky 40546-0073; [email protected]
²PHC Reclamation, 775 Eddings Point Road, Frogmore, South Carolina 29920
³Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Drawer E, Aiken, South Carolina 29802
⁴Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Drawer E, Aiken, South Carolina 29802
⁵Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, 800 Sumpter Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29208
⁶U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service–Savannah River, P.O. Box 700, New Ellenton, South Carolina 29809
⁷U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service–Savannah River, P.O. Box 700, New Ellenton, South Carolina 29809

AUTHORS

Christopher D. Barton is an assistant professor of forest hydrology and watershed management in the Department of Forestry at the University of Kentucky. As a research hydrologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (1999–2003), his research focused on hydrochemical processes associated with the restoration and remediation of disturbed and/or contaminated areas at the U.S. Department of Energy Savannah River Site, South Carolina.

Donald H. Marx is a chief scientist at the PHC Reclamation, Inc., Frogmore, South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. While with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, he researched on the use of beneficial mycorrhizal fungi to improve forest generation and mined-land reclamation. He received the Marcus Wallenberg Prize for his practical work on mycorrhizal fungi.

Domy C. Adriano is a professor of environmental soil science in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at the University of Georgia, Athens, and is also a senior biogeochemical ecologist at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, South Carolina. His research interests include biogeochemistry of trace metals in the soil-plant system, risk reduction, and management in metal-contaminated sites.

Bon Jun Koo is a research associate at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, South Carolina, and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the South Carolina State University. His research has focused on the bioavailability of trace elements and radionuclides in the soil, rhizosphere biogeochemistry, and remediation fields (i.e., bioremediation, phytoremediation, and monitored natural attenuation).

Newman (University of South Carolina and the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory) has researched on a variety of plants and processes; genetic engineering of plants for phytoremediation potential; uptake and degradation of chlorinated solvents, chlorinated aromatics, and pesticides; rhizosphere enhancement of contaminant degradation; and nitrogen reduction in soil and groundwater and remediation of explosives, and has installed several commercial phytoremediation sites.

Stephen J. Czapka is a biologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and has an M.S. degree in biology from Towson University. His research interests lie in wildlife biology and habitat restoration. His current projects include avifauna and hydrology responses to Carolina Bay restoration in South Carolina and the examination of techniques to reforest riparian corridors in Delaware, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.

John Blake is the assistant manager for research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service–Savannah River, New Ellenton, South Carolina. He heads a collaborative research program involving scientists from federal, state, and private sectors in the areas of biodiversity and ecosystem management, wetland restoration and banking, forest operations research (fire, silviculture, and wildlife management), and environmental remediation.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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