Joseph D. Ayotte

USGS WRD, NR, NH/VT District

361 Commerce Way

Pembroke NH 03275

(603) 226-7810 Voice

(603) 226-7894 Fax

email: jayotte@usgs.gov

http://nh.water.usgs.gov/CurrentProjects/nawqa/nawqaweb.htm

Arsenic interests include: Regional (New England) distribution of arsenic in ground water from bedrock wells and sources and mobility of arsenic. The NECB NAWQA is currently designing and conducting studies of waters in private domestic bedrock wells to help determine the regional context; we are also involved in proposed and current studies with collaborators such as the National Cancer Institute, Dartmouth College, the States of New Hampshire and Maine to address source, mobility, and controls on arsenic in bedrock wells.

Robert Ayuso

MS 954, National Center, Reston VA

phone, FAX, e-mail address: 703-648-6347, -6383, 

rayuso@usgs.gov

As-related research interests: geochemistry, radiogenic isotope geology

I'm head of the project on geonvionmental studies in the eastern region; have two current tasks focused on As in New England.

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Charles R. Bacon

USGS mail stop 910

345 Middlefield Road

Menlo Park, CA 94025-3591

ph. (650) 329-5246

fax (650) 329-5203

e-mail cbacon@usgs.gov

SHRIMP RG now has the ability to measure As concentrations. This is one pay off of adding the Cs ion source, which has been in operation for a couple of months (I'm overdue in getting info to the science panel on status of the RG; waiting for completion of visit from programmer and engineer). As with any trace element measurement, having an independently analyzed standard for reference is necessary to get accurate concentration data. Joe Wooden says that they have looked at As in sulfides and in silicate glass (doped with trace elements). If people want to measure As concentrations in other materials, they may need to help with standard development. The point is that the As Studies Group needs to be aware of the SHRIMP RG lab. What we can offer, which LA-ICP-MS and other microbeam techniques probably can not, is high sensitivity and high spatial resolution (probably 20 micrometer diameter or less analysis spot, maximum of a few micrometers penetration). We also could do depth profiling.

Jack Barbash, Research Chemist

Pesticides National Synthesis Team

National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA)

U.S. Geological Survey

1201 Pacific Ave., Suite 600

Tacoma, WA 98402

Voice: (253)428-3600 ext. 2610

Fax: (253)428-3614

Email: jbarbash@usgs.gov

Web: http://water.wr.usgs.gov/pnsp/index.html

I live in a community (Vashon Island, in Puget Sound) that is currently wrestling with a fairly acute arsenic (and lead) contamination problem in their soils.  So, there are many in our community who would be keenly interested in following the progress of this effort. 

Julia L.Barringer

USGS, 810 Bear Tavern Road

West Trenton, NJ 08628

Phone:609-771-3960

FAX: 609-771-3915

e-mail: jbarring@usgs.gov

I have recently completed studies of arsenic in soils in New Jersey.  I am interested in arsenic mobility in soils and arsenic in ground water (currently, there have been some "hits' in NJ that are worthy of investigation).

James P. Bennett

USGS, BRD

Madison, WI 53711

608 270 2442

Jim_Bennet@usgs.gov

My interests are in heavy metals in vegetation.

John M. Besser, Ph.D.

Research Fisheries Biologist (Toxicology)

USGS (BRD) Columbia Environmental Research Center

4200 New Haven Rd., Columbia MO 65201

phone, (573) 876-1818; fax (573) 876-1896

john_besser@usgs.gov

As-related research interests:

I am interested in the bioavailability of arsenic in surface waters and sediments and its toxic effects on aquatic biota. My recent research has focused on cationic metals in acid mine drainage and selenium in irrigation drainwater. Our center has capabilities for conducting a wide range of interdisciplinary laboratory and field research on aquatic contaminants.

Laura M. Bexfield

USGS, WRD, 5338 Montgomery Blvd., NE, Suite 400, Albuquerque, NM 87109

Telephone: 505-830-7972

Fax: 505-830-7998

E-mail address: bexfield@usgs.gov

As-related research interests: The natural occurrence of arsenic in ground water--specifically, the source of arsenic in ground water of the Middle Rio Grande Basin, NM, where lowering of the EPA standard will have a large impact on the drinking-water supply of the City of Albuquerque.

George N. Breit

Box 25046 MS 973

Denver Federal Center

Denver, Colorado

Telephone: 303-236-4951

Fax: 303-236-3200

E-Mail address: gbreit@usgs.gov

GD (Crustal Imaging and Characterization Team)

As-related research interests: Characterization of solid phases containing arsenic in sedimentary and weathering environments.

Field Areas: Bangladesh and Oklahoma

Mark Brigham

2280 Woodale Drive, Mounds View, MN 55112

Telephone: 763-783-3274

Fax: 763-783-3103

E-Mail address: mbrigham@usgs.gov

WWW: http://mn.water.usgs.gov/index.html

USGS Affiliations (USGS members): WRD--MN District

As-related research interests: The Minnesota Department of Transportation contacted our office for technical assistance relating to As levels in fly ash from coal-fired power plants. They plan to use ash in some phases of road construction, and are concerned about the potential for leaching of As from the ash into ground water. The State of Minnesota has ongoing research on As levels in ground water and humans that consume high-As groundwater. See: http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/esa/hra/mehp97/mars.html

In one statewide survey, 1% of 954 wells across the state exceeded the current 50 ppb drinking-water standard; 36% exceeded 3 ppb. Thus, As in groundwater is a concern in the State, particularly in view of the newly proposed 5 ppb standard. See: http://spot.pca.state.mn.us/water/groundwater/pubs/arsenic.pdf

We (USGS-MN District) are interested in studying ground-water As levels as related to aquifer characteristics. Some data exist (NAWQA and NURE data), but little or no interpretation of these data has been conducted, and no funding partners have been identified.

Craig J. Brown

WRD, East Hartford, CT

phone, FAX, e-mail address:

Phone (860) 291-6766

Fax (860) 291-6799

email: cjbrown@usgs.gov

As-related research interests:

We are interested in the pathways from bedrock and soils, to ground water. CT has some bedrock types that are high in arsenopyrite. And there are many agricultural areas where arsenical pesticides were used in CT. The CT State Health dept. is concerned about several public supply wells that will be over the proposed As standard, and we are working towards a cooperative study.

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John A. Colman

U.S. Geological Survey

10 Bearfoot Road

Northborough, Massachusetts 01532

Telephone: 508 490 5027

Fax: 508 490 5068

E-Mail address: jacolman@usgs.gov

USGS Affiliations (USGS members): WRD NE MA/RI

As-related research interests:

Biogeochemistry of arsenic mobilization from unconsolidated deposits and bedrock.

Reactive solute transport modeling of arsenic.

Charles A. Cravotta III

USGS WRD, 840 Market Street

Lemoyne, PA 17043

phone: 717-730-6963

FAX: 717-730-6997

e-mail address: cravotta@usgs.gov

As-related research interests: geochemistry of mine drainage 

James G. Crock

U.S. Geological Survey

M.S. 973, Denver Federal Center

Denver, CO 80225-0046

Telephone: 303-236-2452

Fax: 303-236-3200

E-Mail address: jcrock@usgs.gov

USGS Affiliations (USGS members): GD/CR/CICT

As-related research interests: Analytical chemistry of Arsenic. Arsenic's distribution, speciation, and mode of occurrence in rocks, soils, and sediments. Baseline and background information on vegetation, soils, and other geological materials.

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James A. Davis

WRD/OHR/BRR, Menlo Park

Tel: 650-329-4484

Fax: 650-329-4327

Email: jadavis@usgs.gov

As-related research interests: As transport in groundwater and surface waters; As redox chemistry; As chemical reactions at mineral surfaces

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Ronald Eisler

Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

Laurel MD 20708-4017

Tel. 301-497 5724; FAX 301 497 5744

email: ronald_eisler@usgs.gov

Risk assessment of As to plants and animals

Robert G. Eppinger

USGS, MRP

PO Box 25046, MS 973

Denver, CO 80225

303-236-2468

Fax:303-236-3200

eppinger@usgs.gov

USGS Affiliations (USGS members):

MRSP (Mineral Resources Program)

As-related research interests

mine drainage, mine waste/mill tailings, undisturbed natural sources

Field Areas:

presently working in:

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, AK

Denali National Park and Preserve, AK

Salmon and Challis National Forests, ID

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Faith A. Fitzpatrick

U.S. Geological Survey-WRD

8505 Research Way, Middleton, WI 53562

office: 608-821-3818 fax: 608-821-3817 

email: fafitzpa@usgs.gov

Specific interest: As related contamination in the Kankakee Basin, Indiana--Suspected natural source for the As from ground-water but no scientific data to support this.

David L. Fey

USGS, MS 973

Denver Federal Cntr.

Box 25046, Denver, Colorado 80225

phone: 303-236-8923

fax-303-236-3200 

USGS Affiliations (USGS members): Geologic Division, Mineral Resources Program

As-related research interests: Arsenic occurrence and mobility in near-surface environments in proximity to abandoned hard-rock mine waste.

Field Areas: West central Montana and southwest Colorado

Nora K. Foley, Ph. D.

Eastern Minerals Resource Team

MS 954, U.S. Geological Survey

12201 Sunrise Valley Drive

Reston, VA 20192 USA

e-mail: nfoley@usgs.gov

phone: 703-648-6179

fax: 703-648-6383

As-related research interests: I have funded project tasks in these areas: Trace element geochemistry of clay deposits, clay-bearing rock sequences, (shales etc), mobility of metals/metalloids in these environments under saprolitic (weathering) conditions.

There are a number of currently funded projects in the Eastern Region-involving WRD, GD, etc-- that have tasks looking at Arsenic in the Environment. To give a national breadth to the organizing group, I suggest you contact Robert Ayuso and Bob Seal who co-lead the GD Environmental studies in the East project. (They are both returning from travel at the end of this week.) Or Rob Robinson who is leading a task (with Ayuso and WRD) on As in New England. The overall project has a number of tasks aimed at both regional studies and process-related research (New England and other areas) involving arsenic, Ayuso or Robinson would be good additions to the steering committee as their expertises are radiogenic isotopic/geochemistry studies (Ayuso) and geochemistry/thermodynamics (Robinson); respectively. Also, Marty G. and R. Ayuso are working together in southeast US on some arsenic questions.

Andrea L. Foster

USGS-GD-MRP Menlo Park

phone: 650-329-5437

FAX: 815-461-3827 (e-fax number)

e-mail address: afoster@usgs.gov

As-Related Research Interests:

synchrotron-based spectroscopic studies of arsenic species in sediments, waters, and macro/microbiota from sites of historic mining synchrotron-based spectrosopic studies of arsenic sorption on model mineral surfaces, precipitation of arsenic-bearing primary and secondary phases, and weathering of arsenic-rich minerals. impact of microbiological communites on arsenic cycling, and impact of arsenic on the viability of micrbiobiological communities.

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John R. Garbarino

P.O. Box 25046, MS407

Denver Federal Center

Denver, CO 80225-0046

Telephone:  (303) 236-3945

Fax:  (303) 236-3499

E-Mail address:  jrgarb@usgs.gov

WWW:  http://wwwnwql.cr.usgs.gov

USGS-WRD National Water Quality Laboratory

As-related research interests

Arsenic speciation in soil, bed sediment, ground water, and surface water samples.  Occurence, distribution, and fate of arsenic species derived from poultry litter.  Method development, sample collection, and sample preservation.

 Field Areas: Delmarva Peninsula, Maryland, and Oklahoma

Roy L. Glass, Hydrologist

U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division

4230 University Drive, Suite 201, Anchorage, AK 99508-4664

Office: (907) 786-7124 Fax: (907) 786-7150

E-mail: rlglass@usgs.gov

http://ak.water.usgs.gov

http://ak.water.usgs.gov/Projects/Nawqa

Martin Goldhaber

USGS, MS 973 Denver Federal Center

Denver CO, 80225

Telephone:303-236-1521

Fax:303-2363200

mgold@usgs.gov

Crustal Imaging Team, Geologic Division

As-related research interests include large scale migration of As in the earth's crust; Regional As enrichment in the Appalachian Mountains and Appalachian Basin; Regional As enrichment in the US midcontinent. Environmental As contamination arising from coal mining in the Appalachian Basin.

Larry P. Gough

U.S. Geological Survey

4200 University Dr.

Anchorage, AK 99508

lgough@usgs.gov

907-786-7441

907-786-7401 (fax)

Interests: Biogeochemistry of As; As speciation and mobility in Arctic and subarctic ecosystems--terrestrial and aquatic.

Richard I. Grauch

US Geological Survey

Denver Federal Center, MS 973

Denver, Colorado USA 80225

Telephone: 303-236-5551

Fax: 303-236-3200

E-Mail address: rgrauch@usgs.gov

USGS Affiliations (USGS members): MRSP

As-related research interests: I'm currently working on the genesis of the Phosphoria Formation with emphasis on understanding the temporal and spatial distribution and mineralogic residence of environmentally sensitive elements (including Se, Ni, Zn, Tl, As, etc.).

Field Areas: Idaho, Utah, Montana, and Wyoming

George Groschen

Urbana Illinois District Office

phone 217 344-0037 ext 3012

FAX, 217 344-0082

e-mail  gegrosch@usgs.gov

As-related research interests

Speciation and mineralogical controls on dissolved arsenic in ground water.

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Sheridan Kidd Haack

USGS, Lansing, Michigan 48911

Phone: 517-887-8909

Fax: 517-887-8937

The Michigan District conducted a study of arsenic in ground water in 9 Michigan counties between 1997-1999. I served as the coordinator for the study. The study was conducted in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and 9 County Departments of Public Health. The study was conducted as 1 of 4 USGS Drinking Water Initiative studies, and was a collaboration between WRD, NMD and GD, with additional participation of Jerome Nriagu at the Univ. of Michigan. A data report has been prepared, as well as Fact Sheets for each of the counties. Several journal articles will also result from this study. A variety of maps and GIS coverages have been prepared or are underway. Several presentations have been made at various national and international meetings. The data has been presented to USEPA at various stages of their process for establishing the new proposed standard. Efforts are underway for an epidemiological study of arsenic-related health effects in Michigan. Briefly, some of the data acquired include:

• aqueous chemistry for 56 private wells, 20 public water supply wells and 38 monitoring wells in the 9-county study area (including arsenic species for many of these wells provided by Jerome Nriagu at the Univ. of Michigan)

• depth-specific bedrock samples and aqueous chemistry from packed-interval sampling at similar depths in 2 newly-drilled wells that span the major bedrock aquifer (Marshall Sandstone) in the study area

• GIS coverage of arsenic concentration, well-depth and associated aquifer for approximately 2500 wells in the 9-county study area, derived from Michigan well-drilling and laboratory analysis records

• analyses of arsenic and trace metals in bedrock core from the two newly-drilled wells provided by Alan Kolker, GD, Reston

• analyses of arsenic leaching characteristics from samples of the Marshall Sandstone, provided by Jerome Nriagu at the University of Michigan

• Analyses of within-well flow characteristics and geophysical logs for the newly-drilled wells, conducted by Fred Paillet, WRD; and WRD staff in the Michigan District.

The newly-drilled wells are still open for sampling, as are several NAWQA-installed monitoring wells in the shallow glacial drift aquifer, and substantial bedrock core remains.

Tracy Connell Hancock

Richmond, VA

(tel) 804-261-2618

(fax) 804-261-2659 

email: thancock@usgs.gov

As-related research interests:

I am currently working as a Hydrologist on the Delmarva NAWQA focusing on water quality problems associated with Animal Feeding Operations. There are several organic arsenic feed amendments used for poultry and swine in my study area. I have helped to organize collaborative arrangements with many academic researchers and other Federal Agencies on this subject. We are particularly interested in the speciation and fate and transport of arsenic on the Delmarva, since there is so much poultry production and subsequent manure spreading on fields. We recently completed a few days of intensive field work in the Pocomoke River basin, in which we sampled ground water, surface water, agricultural soils, bed sediment, and poultry litter for arsenic speciation. We sampled several different sites collecting surface water (with bed sediments and agricultural soils) and ground water representing varying degrees on agricultural influence. In addition, we collected a few ground-water samples from different depths in the Beaverdam Formation, which is known to have relatively high concentrations of heavy metals and may provide a natural source of arsenic.

Field Areas:

Areas of intensive animal agriculture including the Pocomoke River basin, Delmarva Peninsula (poultry) and the Shenandoah Valley, Potomac River basin, Virginia (poultry and hog).

Tim Hayes

USGS Mission, Jeddah; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (formerly WRD, SD District; formerly GD Branch of Central Mineral Resources, Denver)

telephone:  country code (011)966-2-619-9839 x563

fax:  country code 966-2-619-9924

e-mail:  thayes@usgs.gov

As-related research interests:  arsenic in mine drainage and its remediation; low-temperature aqueous geochemistry of arsenic, selenium, andother oxyanions; arsenic in sedimentary rocks; arsenic in low-temperature ore deposits

Dr. James R. Hein

U.S. Geological Survey

345 Middlefield Rd., MS 999

Menlo Park, CA, 94025-3591

Phone: 650-329-5287

FAX: 650-329-5299

jhein@usgs.gov

A pilot study is underway for FY 00 on the distribution, speciation, bioavailabiltiy, transport, and anthropogenic versus natural sources to toxic metals (including arsenic) in the California continental borderland. A 5 year project has been submitted that will start in FY 01.

James R. Herring

Geologist

U.S. Geological Survey

MS 973; Box 25046

Denver Federal Center

Denver, CO 80225

EMail: jherring@usgs.gov

Much of my work at the moment concerns trace elements, including As, in rocks, leachates, groundwater, plants and animals associated with the western U.S. lands associated with phosphate mining. These phosphatic shales are rich in trace elements of geoenvironmental concern; several elements, notably Se, V, Cr, Ni, and Zn, commonly have concentrations in excess of 1000 ppm. We are just starting to get a handle on the rock water interaction. 24-hour passive leachate experiments in 20:1 water:rock show concentrations of these elements at the 1000 ppb range. Concerning As, rock concentrations tend to 50 ppm and leachate concentrations to 40 ppb. These As concentrations are not as alarming as those of the other mentioned elements, but As, nonetheless, is an important element to follow geochemically in this system.

Stephen R. Hinkle

USGS, WRD, 10615 SE Cherry Blossom Dr.

Portland, OR 97216

phone: 503-251-3237

FAX: 503-251-3470

e-mail address: srhinkle@usgs.gov

As-related research interests: geochemical controls on arsenic mobility

Some recent references relevant to the interest group:

Hinkle, S. R., Polette, D. J., Arsenic in Ground Water of the Willamette Basin, Oregon U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4205

Portland, Oregon 1999

Available on-line at URL:

http://oregon.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/Online/Html/WRIR98-4205/index.html

The above report contains a plate showing spatial distribution of arsenic concentrations from 728 ground-water samples in the Willamette Basin, Oregon.I could provide a .tif or .ps file

Todd Hinkley

980 U.S. Geological Survey

Box 25046 Federal Center

Denver CO 80225-0046

303-236-5850

(fax: -5349)

Dan Hippe

WRD-Northeast Region

703 648 5810

Fax: 703 648 4850

djhippe@usgs.gov

Interests: I have a general interest in the environmental chemistry of arsenic and relating current and historic use patterns of organoarsenical pesticides to their occurrence in water resources. As the northeast region water-quality specialist, however, my primary role may be in information exchange among districts and between researchers and district staff.

Margaret Hiza

MS-980, DFC

Phone:(303) 236-0075

Fax:(303) 236-5349

I am just in the process now of writing a proposal for a land-use study in an area of the Navajo Reservation called "Hopi Buttes". The Buttes are actually diatremes and maar volcanoes which locally act as conduits for groundwater flow, and have springs associated with them. The proposal I am working on will be looking at mineralization associated with the diatremes which may have a high occurrence of both U and As. EPA water quality analyses from the area have up to 237 micrograms/Liter As. 39% of the wells and springs sampled in the area exceeded the present EPA standard of 10 mg/L. Because the water quality study is new, I'm relatively certain that there is not much published on As in the area. As contamination is a subject that is new to me, and I could certainly benefit from the expertise that your group has to offer.

I

John Izbicki

U.S. Geological Survey

5735 Kearny Villa Road, Suite O

San Diego, CA 92123

Phone: (858) 637-6831

FAX: (858) 637-9201

jaizbick@usgs.gov

J

Blair Jones

NRP-WRD, 

US Geological Survey, MS 432

12201 Sunrise Valley Dr.,

Reston VA 20192

I have a general interest in minor elements in water.

Doug Kent

USGS

345 Middlefield Rd MS 465

Menlo Park CA 94025

USGS Affiliations (USGS members): WRD-BRR-WR

Professional affiliation(s)(Non-USGS members):

Butch Kinerney

USGS Office of Communications

703-648-4732

bkinerney@usgs.gov

I've been the media contact on arsenic issues through the release of the NAQWA report and have worked closely with Focazio and Helsel to get that out the door.

Randolph A. Koski

Mineral Resources Team, Western Region

Mail Stop 941

U.S. Geological Survey

345 Middlefield Road

Menlo Park, CA 94025

Telephone: 650-329-5499

Fax: 650-329-5491

For e-mail correspondence, please use: rkoski@usgs.gov

Check out our Web pages at http://minerals.er.usgs.gov/wr

As-related research interests: Occurrence and mineralogy of arsenic in mineral deposits; mobilization and mobility of arsenic. Some recent references relevant to the interest group: I am new to the environmental field, but I have conducted microscopy and microprobe studies and published on the occurrence of arsenic-bearing minerals (e.g., arsenopyrite and lollingite) in ocean-floor sulfide deposits.

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Paul Lamothe

Location: DFC, Bldg 20, Room H1603

phone: 303-236-1923

FAX: 303-236-3200

e-mail address: plamothe@usgs.gov

As-related research interests: Arsenic speciation and modes of occurrence

Rob Lee

Mailing Address: MS 973   DFC, Denver

Telephone: (303) 236-5529

E-Mail address: rclee@usgs.gov

GD-Crustal Imaging and Characterization

As-related research interests Chemical backgrounds and baselines, MVT mineralization, Appalachian coal

Field Areas: Ozark Plateaus, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Warrior Basin-AL

Michael Lico

333 W. Nye Lane

Carson City NV 89701

Telephone: 775-887-7626

Fax: 775-887-7629

E-Mail address: mlico@usgs.gov

USGS Affiliations (USGS members): Water Resources Division

As-related research interests: I have worked on studies of naturally occurring arsenic in alluvial aquifer settings and geothermal areas.

Dennis J. Low

Hydrologist

U.S.Geological Survey - WRD

840 Market St.

Lemoyne, Pennsylvania 17043

(717) 730-6959

fax  717-730-6997,

E-mail djlow@usgs.gov

I am working part time on a USEPA Superfund Site in Southeast Pennsylvania that has arsenic in the ground water at concentrations greater than 10,000 mg/L. It was a former animal drug manufacturing plant. The arsenic was added to the drugs to aid absorption in the animals. Currently, the site is being treated via pump-and-treat methods to contain the arsenic plume and remediate the ground water through a sludge cake process. A ground water model has been run on the area, but needs to be recalibrated to include additional pumping and monitor wells. I recently suggested to the USEPA RPM the possibility of using plant cores to identify the extent of the arsenic. Unfortunately, he did not want to deviate from his pump-and-treat methods, but did think it might prove useful at other sites.

Steve Ludington

MS 901, USGS

345 Middlefield Road

Menlo Park, CA 94025

phone: 650.329.5371

fax: 650.329.5374

slud@usgs.gov

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Frank T. Manheim

US Geological Survey, MS 954

12201 Sunrise Valley Dr.,

Reston VA 20192

Tel: 703 648 6150; fax 703 648 6252

e-mail fmanheim@usgs.gov

As a part of our contaminated sediment database activities (Boston Harbor - Gulf of Maine, southern LA estuaries) I have extensive analytical data on arsenic as well as other metals and organic contaminants in bottom sediments. Other extensive databases are in preparation by Marilyn B. ten Brink for Long Island Sound and the New York Bight.

For Lake Pontchartrain see example of summary table: http://coast-enviro.er.usgs.gov/PontGeochem/html/FM_disc.htm#Table11

This is a large, highly-valued estuary fronting New Orleans. This is part of an electronic Professional Paper which is now in Publications for editing, and includes downloadable data on 1600 + sediment samples in SE coastal Louisiana.

The mean arsenic values here are low, but they increase markedly in proximity to urban shorelines and in inland waterways. In earlier periods federal agencies and other concerned organizations looked for hot spots. In our judgment it is also important to know baselines and "how clean is clean".

R. Blaine McCleskey

U.S. Geological Survey

3215 Marine St., Suite E-127

Boulder, CO 80303

303-541-3079

rbmccles@usgs.gov

As related interests:  analytical redox chemistry of arsenic, oxidation-reduction rates of arsenic, arsenic in acid mine waters, and arsenic in geothermal systems.

James M. McNeal

U.S. Geological Survey

926A National Center

Reston, VA 20192

Telephone: 703-648-6650

Fax: 703-648-6953

E-Mail address: jmcneal@usgs.gov

USGS Affiliations (USGS members): Geologic Division, Eastern Earth Surface Processes Team

As-related research interests: Arsenic distribution and mode occurrence in glacial materials, rocks, sediments, and soils of the Great Lakes area

Field Areas: Great Lakes states

Carol U. Meteyer

Ph: 608-270-2462 Fax: 608-270-2415

carol_meteyer@usgs.gov

My arsenic related interest:

I am the Wildlife Pathologist at the USGS/BRD-National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, WI that performs forensic pathology for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Law Enforcement.  I would be interested in becoming familiar with new research being performed by USGS scientists. I am not sure what format the Studies Group will take but I would be interested in how it develops and how I might be involved. Although a summary of arsenic related wildlife mortality has not been published by the NWHC, it would seem to be a timely product for us to work on. I will be at USGS Headquarters in Reston for an 8 wk detail, June 13 - Aug 8, '00. I will be working out of Sue Haseltine's office but do not know my contact numbers in Reston as yet. I will return to NWHC, and the contact numbers that are listed above, August 21.

June Mirecki

Dept. of Geology

College of Charleston

Charleston, SC 29424

Telephone: 843-953-8278

Fax: 843-953-5446

E-Mail address: mireckij@cofc.edu

USGS Affiliations (USGS members): WRD - South Carolina district

Field Areas: Atlantic Coastal Plain

Victor G. Mossotti

USGS MS-901, 345 Middlefield Road

Menlo Park, CA 94025

650-329-5284

Fax: 650-329-591

 mossotti@usgs.gov

WWW: http://minerals.usgs.gov/west

USGS Affiliations (USGS members): GD/MRSP-WR

As-related research interests: Modeling of regional distribution and transport dynamics of arsenic on geologic time scale.

Some recent references relevant to the interest group: Arsenic symposium, GSA National Meeting., November 2000.

Field Areas: Western states

Seth Mueller

MS 964

Denver Federal Center

Denver, CO 80225

303-236-2473 (USGS)

303-735-4916 (CU)

Fax:303-236-3200 (USGS)

muellesh@ucsub.colorado.edu

GD Mineral Resources

Field area: Goldstream Valley and Ester Dome areas, Fairbanks ,AK

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David Nimick

WRD-USGS

3162 Bozeman Avenue

Helena, MT 59601

phone, FAX, e-mail address

406-457-5918 (voice)

406-457-5990 (fax)

dnimick@usgs.gov

As-related research interests

field studies of arsenic transport

diel dissolved-arsenic cycles

arsenic in abandoned mine lands

D. Kirk Nordstrom

3215 Marine St.

Suite E127

Boulder, CO 80303

Telephone: (303) 541-3037

Fax:  (303) 447-2505

dkn@usgs.gov

Arsenic Interests:  thermodynamic data for chemical modeling of arsenic speciation, analytical redox chemistry of arsenic, oxidation-reduction rates of arsenic, microbial processes affecting arsenic transformations, arsenic in acid mine waters, and arsenic in geothermal systems.

Jamie L. Schlottmann Norvell

202 NW 66th

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Telephone: 405-810 4405

Fax: 405-843-7712

E-Mail address: jamie@usgs.gov

www.ok.water.usgs.gov

USGS Affiliations (USGS members): WRD Oklahoma District

As-related research interests

Currently I am not working on arsenic. Recently I have investigated:

Mobility of chicken-litter arsenic in karst terrains

Naturally occurring arsenic in ground water

Field Areas: OKLAHOMA: Central Oklahoma aquifer, Honey Creek Basin: Springfield Plateau Aquifer

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Kathy Muller Ogle

kmogle@usgs.gov

As in ground water and in zones of surface-water and ground-water interaction.

Ronald S. Oremland

Senior Scientist (ST-01), Menlo Park, WRD

(650) 329-4482

(650) 329-4463 fax

My project has an intensive research effort on arsenic. We are interested in bacterial reduction of arsenic oxyanions (in sediments, anoxic waters, pure cultures, and by isolated enzymes), and in bacterial oxidation of reduced arsenic compounds (eg, arsenite, arsines). This subject has broad application to basic geochemistry, biochemistry, environmental remediation, and even "astrobiology." Also of interest is the metablism of organoarsenic compounds like arsenobetaine.

I would be interested in learning what the USGS plans to to do about As, whether enhanced research funds are available, and what bureau-wide programs may arise as a fallout of the ruminations of this As panel.

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Angela Paul

USGS in Carson City and the University of Nevada at Reno

Phone: (775)887-7697 (USGS)

(775)327-2253 (UNR)

email: appaul@usgs.gov

As Related Research Interests: As speciation, cycling and bioavailability

L. Niel Plummer

U.S. Geological Survey

432 National Center

Reston, VA 20192

Phone 703-648-5841

FAX 703-648-5832

nplummer@usgs.gov

http://water.usgs.gov/lab/cfc/

Arsenic is one of the issues in ground water in the Middle Rio Grande Basin, Albuquerque vicinity in which I am working.

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Robert Reese

12201 Sunrise Valley Drive

Reston, VA 20192

703-648-4981

rreese@usgs.gov

http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/

Marith Reheis

Geologic Division, Earth Surface Processes Team

Building 25, Federal Center, MS-980

303-236-1270 fax: 303-236-5349 

mreheis@usgs.gov

I am interested in arsenic from the perspective of its presence in surface sediment in the southwestern U.S. and its transport as aeolian dust to areas away from the sources. Owens (dry) Lake appears to be a particularly important source of As in dust in this region. Naturally, health effects of inhalation of such As-bearing dust is a related issue. 

W. Ian Ridley

 DFC, Bdg 20, MS 973

phone: 303-236-5558

FAX: 303-236-3200

e-mail address: iridley@usgs.gov

As-related research interests: Uses of laser ablation ICP-MS for As studies. Currently working with Marty Goldhaber on As in Black Warrior Basin and with Larry Gough on As problems in Mother Lode region, California.

Dr. David A. Roth

US Geological Survey

3215 Marine Street, Suite E-127

Boulder, CO 80303 

E-mail: daroth@usgs.gov

FAX: (303) 447-2505

Phone: (303) 541-3042

Colleen E. Rostad

Bldg 95, MS 408

Denver Federal Center

Denver CO 80225

phone, 303-236-3971

FAX, 303-236-3934

e-mail address cerostad@usgs.gov

As-related research interests:

identification of organo-arsenic compounds by electrospray LC/MS (with Robert Wershaw and Dave Rutherford)

Jingle Ruppert

lruppert@usgs.gov

I am very interested in the origin, genesis, and dispersal of As in the Appalachians. My specific work has focused on As in coal and associated strata with researchers from the Kentucky Geological Survey and the Center for Applied Energy Research. We have documented high As concentrations in Middle Pennsylvanian economic coal beds in KY. The As is associated with large (>200 um), radiating pyrite grains. The As is not expected to be released during coal combustion because large pyrite grains should be removed during coal cleaning. However, it MAY pose a threat to groundwater when the coal refuge is dumped in spoils piles. I'm currently working with Marty Goldhaber and other Central Region, Minerals folks on extending a basinal brine model for As from the Black Warrior Basin into the central and northern Appalachian coal regions. Marty briefed Bonnie McGregor and Dave Russ on the hypothesis last month and gave preliminary results of reanalyzed NURE samples from streams in the Appalachians.

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Rick Sanzolone

Research Chemist

USGS, MS 973

Denver Federal Cntr.

Box 25046, Denver, Colorado 80225

rsanzolo@usgs.gov

303-236-1856

fax-303-236-1800

Interests/activities:

Arsenic analysis, sample collection and preservation for inorganic species analysis in waters (Ficklin anion exchange/FAAS method) and design and application of sequential partial dissolution schemes to soils and

sediments for operationally defined mode-of-occurrence/mobility determinations.

Working on As related projects in Yellowstone National Park, Warrior Basin,

Alabama, and Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico.

Robert R. Seal, II