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| R LohmannSummaryAffiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Country: USA Publications
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Importance of black carbon to sorption of native PAHs, PCBs, and PCDDs in Boston and New York harbor sedimentsR Lohmann
Ralph M Parsons Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Environ Sci Technol 39:141-8. 2005....- Dependency of polychlorinated biphenyl and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon bioaccumulation in Mya arenaria on both water column and sediment bed chemical activitiesRainer Lohmann
Ralph M Parsons Laboratory, 48 415, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Environ Toxicol Chem 23:2551-62. 2004..These results suggest that attempts to estimate bioaccumulation by benthic organisms should include interactions with both the bed sediment and the water column... - Adsorptive and absorptive contributions to the gas-particle partitioning of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: state of knowledge and recommended parametrization for modelingRainer Lohmann
Department of Environmental Science, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
Environ Sci Technol 38:3793-803. 2004..We hypothesize that kinetic constraints related to shell-like particle structures might lead to deviations from sorption equilibrium and higher particle-borne fractions of PAHs in particular at remote sites... - Further developments in the use of semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs) as passive air samplers for persistent organic pollutants: field application in a spatial survey of PCDD/Fs and PAHsR Lohmann
Environmental Science Department, Lancaster University, UK
Environ Sci Technol 35:2576-82. 2001..SPMDs also respond to differences in the mixture of compounds present in the atmosphere, thereby aiding source apportionment studies... - Atmospheric distribution of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), and non-ortho biphenyls (PCBs) along a North-South Atlantic transectR Lohmann
Department of Environmental Science, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, UK
Environ Sci Technol 35:4046-53. 2001..The study gave limited evidence for the influence of OH-radical initiated depletion reactions of gaseous PCDD/Fs. The global atmospheric burden is estimated to be on the order of 350 kg sigmaCl4-8DD/Fs and approximately 3 kg sigmaTEQ... - The significance of PCBs in the atmosphere of the southern hemisphereW A Ockenden
Environmental Science Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ UK
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 8:189-94. 2001..Most other PCBs were a factor of 2-4 greater in the Canadian Arctic... - Polyethylene devices: passive samplers for measuring dissolved hydrophobic organic compounds in aquatic environmentsRachel G Adams
Ralph M Parsons Laboratory, MIT 48 413, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Environ Sci Technol 41:1317-23. 2007..PEDs are cheap and robust samplers, competent to accomplish in situ, time-averaged passive sampling with fast equilibration times (approximately days) and simplified laboratory analyses... - Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in air and seawater of the Atlantic Ocean: sources, trends and processesRosalinda Gioia
Centre for Chemicals Management and Department of Environmental Science, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
Environ Sci Technol 42:1416-22. 2008..Generally, the tri- and tetrachlorinated homologues dominated the total flux (> 70%). Total PCB fluxes (28, 52, 118, 138, and 153) ranged from -7 to 0.02 ng m(-2) day(-1)... - Emission factors and importance of PCDD/Fs, PCBs, PCNs, PAHs and PM10 from the domestic burning of coal and wood in the U.KRobert G M Lee
Department of Environmental Science, IENS, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
Environ Sci Technol 39:1436-47. 2005..Emissions of PAHs and PM10 were major contributors to U.K. national emission inventories. Major emissions were found from the domestic burning for Cl1,2,3DFs, while the contribution of PCDD/F-sigmaTEQ to total U.K. emissions was minor... - Verifying emission factors and national POPs emission inventories for the UK using measurements and modelling at two rural locationsRainer Lohmann
Department of Environmental Science, IENS, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
J Environ Monit 8:79-88. 2006..Finally, the UK's national POPs emission inventories based on source inventories and EF, as used here, were compared to estimates derived using the increase in atmospheric concentration of selected POPs... - Potential contamination of shipboard air samples by diffusive emissions of PCBs and other organic pollutants: implications and solutionsRainer Lohmann
Environmental Science Department, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, LA1 4YQ, UK
Environ Sci Technol 38:3965-70. 2004..The implications of these findings for past and future studies of global POPs distribution are discussed. Recommendations are made to help critically appraise and minimize the problems of insidious/diffusive shipboard contamination... - Evidence for dynamic air-water coupling and cycling of persistent organic pollutants over the open Atlantic OceanFoday M Jaward
Department of Environmental Science, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
Environ Sci Technol 38:2617-25. 2004..However, the precise mechanisms remain unclear; further studies are urgently required to elucidate them... 
Atlantic ocean surface waters buffer declining atmospheric concentrations of persistent organic pollutantsLuca Nizzetto
Centre of Chemicals Management, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
Environ Sci Technol 44:6978-84. 2010..This study provides experimental evidence that the ocean has a buffering capacity - dependent on individual chemicals - which moderates the rate at which the system will respond to an underlying change in continental emissions...- Global fate of POPs: current and future research directionsRainer Lohmann
Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI 02882 1197, USA
Environ Pollut 150:150-65. 2007..However, future research will need to understand the various biogeochemical and geophysical cycles under anthropogenic pressures to be able to understand and predict the global fate of POPs accurately... - PAHs in air and seawater along a North-South Atlantic transect: trends, processes and possible sourcesLuca Nizzetto
Department of Chemical and Environmental Sciences, University of Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, Como, Italy
Environ Sci Technol 42:1580-5. 2008..Ratios for anthracene and phenanthrene were < 0.3 in the remote tropical Atlantic, suggesting net volatilization... - Wet deposition of persistent organic pollutants to the global oceansElena Jurado
Department of Environmental Chemistry, IIQAB-CSIC, Jordi Girona 18-26, Barcelona 08034, Catalunya, Spain
Environ Sci Technol 39:2426-35. 2005..However, when raining events and non-raining time periods are integrated, air-water diffusive exchange fluxes acquire an important role, which can be dominant in some regions and for some POPs... - Atmospheric dry deposition of persistent organic pollutants to the Atlantic and inferences for the global oceansElena Jurado
Department of Environmental Chemistry, IIQAB-CSIC, Jordi Girona 18-26, Barcelona 08034, Catalunya, Spain
Environ Sci Technol 38:5505-13. 2004..Furthermore, it is suggested that marine aerosol plays an important role in scavenging atmospheric contaminants... - Role of black carbon in the partitioning and bioavailability of organic pollutantsRobert M Burgess
Environ Toxicol Chem 23:2531-3. 2004 - Oceanic biogeochemical controls on global dynamics of persistent organic pollutantsJordi Dachs
Department of Environmental Chemistry, IIQAB CSIC, Jordi Girona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Environ Sci Technol 36:4229-37. 2002..It is concluded that oceanic biogeochemical processes play a critical role in controlling the global dynamics and the ultimate sink of POPs... - Latitudinal and seasonal capacity of the surface oceans as a reservoir of polychlorinated biphenylsElena Jurado
Department of Environmental Chemistry, IIQAB CSIC, Jordi Girona 18 26, Barcelona 08034, Catalunya, Spain
Environ Pollut 128:149-62. 2004.... - Trace determination of the flame retardant tetrabromobisphenol A in the atmosphere by gas chromatography-mass spectrometryZhiyong Xie
GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Coastal Research, Department of Environmental Chemistry, Max Planck Str 1, D 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
Anal Chim Acta 584:333-42. 2007..85 pgm(-3). A declining trend with increasing latitude was present from the Wadden Sea to the Arctic. The atmospheric occurrence of TBBPA in the Arctic is significant and might imply that TBBPA has long-range transport potential... - Occurrence and air-sea exchange of phthalates in the ArcticZhiyong Xie
GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht, Institute for Coastal Research, Max Planck Strasse 1, D 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
Environ Sci Technol 41:4555-60. 2007..This suggests that atmospheric transport and deposition of phthalates is a significant process for their occurrence in the remote Atlantic and Arctic Ocean...