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GROUNDWATER MICROBIOLOGY & SUBSURFACE MICROBIAL TRANSPORT:

Bradford, SA, VL Morales, W Zhang, RW Harvey, AI Packman, A Mohanram, W Welty.  2013.  Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 01/2013; 43:775-893. PDF File

Landkamer, LL, RW Harvey, TD Schiebe, JN Ryan.  2013. Colloid transport in saturated porous media: Elimination of attachment efficiency in a new colloid transport model.  Water Res Research accepted 1/2013  PDF File

Haack, SK, DW Metge, LR Fogarty, MT Meyer, LB Barber, RW Harvey, DR LeBlanc, DW Kolpin.   2012  Effects on groundwater microbial communities of an engineered 30-day in situ exposure to the antibiotic sulfamethoxazole. Environ. Sci Tech. 46(14):7478-86.  PDF File

Mohanram, A, C Ray, DW Metge, LBB Barber, JN Ryan, and RW Harvey.  2011. Effects of dissolved organic carbon and clay particles on the transport and attachment behaviors of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts and carboxylate-modified microspheres advected through temperate and tropical agricultural soils.  Environ. Sci Tech. 46(14):2088-94 PDF File.

Metge, DW, RW Harvey, GR Aiken, R Anders, G Lincoln, and J Jasperse. 2011. Effects of sediment-associated extractable metals, degree of sediment grain sorting, and dissolved organic carbon upon Cryptosporidium parvum removal and transport within riverbank filtration sediments, Sonoma County, California.  Env. Sci Tech. 45(13):5587-95  PDF File

Williams, LB, DW Metge, DD Eberl, RW Harvey, AG Turner, P Prapaipong and AT Poret-Peterson. 2011. What makes a natural clay antibacterial?  Env. Sci. Tech.    High Res PDF file.   Low res PDF file

Harvey, RW, DW Metge, A Mohanram, X Gao, and J Chorover.  2011.  Differential effects of dissolved organic carbon upon re-entrainment and surface properties of groundwater bacteria and bacteria-sized microspheres during transport through a contaminated, sandy aquifer.  Env. Sci. Tech.       PDF file.

Underwood, JC, RW Harvey, DW Metge, DA Repert, LK Baumgartner, RL Smith, T Roane, and LB Barber.  2011.  Effects of the antimicrobial sulfamethoxazole on groundwater bacterial enrichment.  Env. Sci. Tech.  PDF file.

Abudalo RA, JN Ryan, RW Harvey, DW Metge, and L Landkamer. 2010. Influence of organic matter on the transport of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in a ferric oxyhydroxide-coated quartz sand saturated porous medium.  Water Res. 44:1104-1113.  PDF file.

Harvey, RW, DW Metge, LB Barber, and GR Aiken.  2010. Effects of altered groundwater chemistry upon the pH-dependency and magnitude of bacterial attachment during transport within an organically contaminated sandy aquifer. Water Res. 44:1062-1071.  PDF file.

Metge, DW, Harvey, GR Aiken, R Anders, G Lincoln and J Jasperse. 2010. Influence of organic carbon loading, sediment associated metal oxide content and sediment grain size distributions upon Cryptosporidium parvum removal during riverbank filtration operations, Sonoma County, CA.  Water Res. 44:1126-1137.  PDF file.

Mohanram, A, C Ray, RW Harvey, DW Metge, JN Ryan, J Chorover, and DD Eberl.  2010.  Comparison of transport and attachment behaviors of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts and oocyst-sized microspheres being advected through three mineralogically different granular porous media.  Water Res. 44:5334-5344.  PDF file.

Harvey, RW, DW Metge, R Sheets, J Jasperse. 2010.  Fluorescent microspheres as surrogates in evaluating the efficacy of riverbank filtration for removing Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts and other pathogens. In Riverbank Filtration for Water Security in Desert Countries; Ray, C., Shamruck, M., Eds.; Amsterdam, Springer Science. p 83-98.  PDF file.

Gao, X, DW Metge, C Ray, RW Harvey, and J Chorover.  2009. Surface Complexation of carboxylate adheres Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts to the hematite-water interface.  Env. Sci. Technol. 43: 7423-7429.  PDF file.

Harvey, RW, DW Metge, AM Shapiro, RA Renken, CL Osborn, JN Ryan, KJ Cunningham, and L Landkamer. Pathogen and Chemical Transport in the Karst Limestone of the Biscayne Aquifer: 3. Use of microspheres to estimate the transport potential of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts - 2008  Water Resources Research - PDF file.

Shapiro, AM, RA Renken, RW Harvey, MR Zygnerski, and DW Metge. Pathogen and chemical transport in karst limestone of the Biscayne aquifer: 2. Chemical retention resulting from chemical diffusion and slow advection- 2008 Water Resources Research - PDF file.

Renken, RA, KJ Cunningham, AM Shapiro, RW Harvey, MR Zygnerski, DW Metge, and MA Wacker. Pathogen and chemical transport in the karst limestone of the Biscayne aquifer: 1. Revised conceptualization of ground-water flow- 2008  Water Resources Research - PDF file.

Wang, M, Ford, RM, and Harvey, RW, 2008  Coupled effect of chemotaxis and growth on microbial distributions in organic-amended aquifer sediments: observations from laboratory and field studies.  PDF file

Ford, RM and Harvey, RW, 2007 Role of chemotaxis in the transport of bacteria through saturated porous media.  Adv Water Resources 30:1608-1617.
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Maxwell, RM, Welty, C, and Harvey, RW,  2007  Revisiting the Cape Cod Bacteria Injection Experiment Using a Stochastic Modeling Approach.  Environmental Science & Technology  41, 5548-5558.  PDF file

Metge, DW, Harvey, RW, Anders, R, Rosenberry, DO, Seymour, D, and Jasperse, J, 2007 Use of Carboxylated Microspheres to Assess Transport Potential of Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts at the Russian River Water Supply Facility, Sonoma County, California.  Geomicrobiology Journal 24:231–245.  PDF file

Blanford, W.J., Brusseau, M.L., Yeh, J.T.C., Gerba, C.P., Harvey, R., 2005, Bacteriophage PRD-1 transport in a sandy aquifer: Influence of water chemistry and travel distance on viability: Water Research, v. 39, p. 2345-2357.

Abudalo R.A., Bogatsu Y.G., Ryan J.N., Harvey R.W., Metge D.W., and Elimelech M., 2005. The effect of ferric oxyhydroxide grain coatings on the transport of bacteriophage PRD1 and Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in saturated porous media. Environmental Science & Technology 39, 6412-6419. Article from ACS.

Renken R.A., Cunningham K.J., Zygnerski M.R., Wacker M.A., Shapiro A.M., Harvey R.W., Metge D.W., Osborn C.L., and Ryan J.N., 2005. Assessing the vulnerability of a municipal well field to contamination in a karst aquifer. Environmental & Engineering Geoscience 11, 319-331.  Article (pdf).

S.Van Cuyk, RL Siegrist, K Lowe and RW Harvey  2004. Evaluating Microbial Purification during Soil Treatment of Wastewater with Multicomponent Tracer and Surrogate Tests. J. Environ. Qual. 33:316-329 (2004).

Tufenkji N., Miller G.F., Ryan J.N., Harvey R.W., and Elimelech M., 2004.  Transport of Cryptosporidium oocysts in porous media: Role of straining and physicochemical filtration. Environmental Science & Technology 38, 5932-5938.  Article (pdf)

Harvey R.W. and Ryan J.N., 2004. PRD1 bacteriophage in groundwater viral transport, inactivation, and attachment studies. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 49, 3-16. Article (pdf).

Harvey, RW, and Harms, H. 2002.  Tracers in Groundwater: Use of microorganisms and microspheres.  in Ref: In G. Bitton et al., ed., Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology, 6: 3194-3202. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2002.

Kinner, N. E.; Harvey, R. W.; Shay, D. M.; Metge, D. W.; Warren, AField Evidence for a Protistan Role in an Organically-Contaminated Aquifer;  2002, Environ. Sci. Technol.,36,4312-4318.  PDF file

Ryan, JN, Harvey, RW,   Metge, DW, Elimelech, M,  Navigato, T, and Pieper, AP  2002  Field and Laboratory Investigations of Inactivation of Viruses (PRD1 and MS2) Attached to Iron Oxide-Coated Quartz Sand  Environmental Science & Technology; 2002; 36(11); 2403-2413.  PDF file

Harvey, RW, Mayberry, N., Kinner, NE, Metge, DW and Novarino, F 2002, Effect of Growth Conditions and Staining Procedure upon the Subsurface Transport and Attachment Behaviors of a Groundwater Protist,  Appl. Envir. Microbiol.,  68: 1872-1881.  PDF file

Harvey, R.W. and Harms H., 2001, Transport of Microorganisms in the Terrestrial Subsurface: In Situ and Laboratory Methods, Chapter 69, In Hurst, C.J., Knudsen, G.R., McInerney, M.J., Stetzenback, L.D., Crawford, R.L., eds., Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 2nd Edition: Washington, ASM Press, p. 753-776   PDF file

Harvey, RW and Harms, H., 2001, Tracers in Groundwater: Use of Microorganisms and Microspheres. In G. Bitton et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology, 6: 3194-3202. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2002. PDF file

Campbell Rehmann, L.L., Welty, C., and Harvey, R.W., 2000, Reply to Comment on "Stochastic analysis of virus transport in aquifers". Water Resour.Res., Vol. 36: 1983-1984.  PDF file

Campbell Rehmann, L.L., Welty, C., and Harvey, R.W., 1999, Stochastic analysis of virus transport in aquifers. Water Resour. Res., Vol. 35,  1987-2006. PDF file

Ryan, J. N., Elimelech, M., Ard, R. A., Harvey, R. W., Johnson, P. R., Bacteriophage PRD1 and Silica Colloid Transport and Recovery in an Iron  Oxide-Coated Sand Aquifer, Environmental Science & Technology; 1999; 33(1); 63-73.  PDF file

N. E. Kinner, R. W. Harvey, K. Blakeslee, G. Novarino, and L. D. Meeker, 1998 Size-Selective Predation on Groundwater Bacteria by Nanoflagellates in an Organic-Contaminated Aquifer, Appl. Envir. Microbiol.,  64: 618-625. PDF file

Krueger, C. J., Barber, L. B., Metge, D. W., Field, J. A., Fate and Transport of Linear Alkylbenzenesulfonate in a Sewage-Contaminated Aquifer: A Comparison of Natural-Gradient Pulsed Tracer Tests, Environmental Science & Technology; 1998; 32(8); 1134-1142. PDF file

Harvey, R.W., Metge, D.W., Kinner, N., and Mayberry, N., 1997, Physiological considerations in applying laboratory-determined buoyant densities to predictions of bacterial and protozoan transport in groundwater: Results of in-situ and laboratory tests. Environ. Sci. Technol., 31:289-295. PDF file

Pieper, A.P., Ryan, J.N., Harvey, R.W., Amy, G.L., Illangasekare, T.H., and Metge, D.W., 1997, Transport and recovery of bacteriophage PRD1 in a sand and gravel aquifer: Effect of sewage-derived organic matter. Environ. Sci. Technol. 31:1163-1170.  PDF file

Harvey, R.W.,  1997, Microorganisms as tracers in groundwater injection and recovery experiments: A review. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 20:461-472.  PDF file

Novarino, G., Warren, A., Butler, H., Lambourne, G., Boxshall, A., Bateman, J., Kinner, N.E., Harvey, R.W., Mosse, R.A., and Teltsch, B., 1997,  Protistan communities in aquifers: a review. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 20:261-275. PDF file

Kinner, N.E., Harvey, R.W., and Kazmierkiewicz-Tabaka, M., 1997,  Effect of flagellates on free-living bacterial abundance in an organically-contaminated aquifer. FEMS Microbiol. Rev.  20:247-259. PDF file

INVITED CHAPTERS (BOOKS):

Harvey, R.W. and Harms H., 2001, Transport of Microorganisms in the Terrestrial Subsurface: In Situ and Laboratory Methods, Chapter 69, In Hurst, C.J., Knudsen, G.R., McInerney, M.J., Stetzenback, L.D., Crawford, R.L., eds., Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 2nd Edition: Washington, ASM Press, p. 753-776  PDF file

Harvey, RW and Harms, H., 2001, Tracers in Groundwater: Use of Microorganisms and Microspheres.  In G. Bitton et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology, 6: 3194-3202. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2002.  PDF file

Harvey, R.W., Suflita, J.M., and McInerney, M.J., 2001, Overview of issues in subsurface and landfill microbiology., Chapter 63.,  In Hurst, C.J., Knudsen, G.R., McInerney, M.J., Stetzenback, L.D., Crawford, R.L., eds., Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 2nd Edition: Washington, ASM Press, p. 675-695.    PDF file

Barber, L.B., Krueger, C., Metge, D.W., Harvey, R.W., and Field, J.A., 1995, Fate of linear alkylbenzene sulfonate in groundwater: implications for in situ surfactant-enhanced remediation, in Sabatini, D.A., Knox, R.C., and Harwell, J.H., eds., Surfactant-Enhanced Subsurface Remediation: Washington, American Chemical Society, pp. 95-111