Biogeochemistry & Environmental Quality Research Group Clemson University

Referred Articles

  1. Chow AT, Tsai KP, Fegel TS, Pierson DN, and Rhoades CC (2019) Lasting effects of wildfire on disinfection byproduct formation in forest catchments.  Journal of Environmental Quality 48: 1826-1834.
  2. Olivares C, Zhang WB, Uzun H, Cargi E&, Majidzadeh H, Trettin C, Karanfil T, and Chow AT (2019) High temporal resolution optical in-situ sensors capture dissolved organic carbon dynamics after wildland fire in blackwater forest ecosystems.  International Journal of Wildland Fire (Special Issue – Forests, Flames and Faucets: Influence of Wildfire on Water Quality and Watershed Processes) 28: 761-768.
  3. Majidzadeh H, Chen H, Coates TA, Tsai KP, Olivares C, Trettin C, Uzun H, Karanfil T, and Chow AT(2019) Periodic prescribed fire is an effective watershed management strategy to reduce organic matter export and disinfection byproduct precursors in source water.  International Journal of Wildland Fire (Special Issue – Forests, Flames and Faucets: Influence of Wildfire on Water Quality and Watershed Processes) 28: 804-813 & 822.
  4. Chen H, Tsai KP, Su Q, Chow AT, and Wang JJ (2019) Throughfall dissolved organic matter as a terrestrial disinfection byproduct precursor.  ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 3(8): 1603-1613, [Cover story of the issue].
  5. Tsai KP, Uzun H, Chen H, Karanfil T, and Chow AT (2019) Control wildfire-induced Microcystis aeruginosa blooms by copper sulfate: Tradeoffs between reducing algal organic matter and promoting disinfection byproduct formation.  Water Research 158: 227-236.
  6. Joe-Wong C, Schlesinger DR, Chow AT, and Myneni SCB (2019) Sea level rise produces abundant organobromines in salt-affected coastal wetlands.  Geochemical Perspectives Letters 10: 31-35.
  7. Abney T, Kuhn T, Chow AT, Hockaday W, Fogel M, Berhe A (2019) Pyrogenic carbon erosion after the Rim Fire, Yosemite National Park: role of fire severity and slope on erosional transport of PyC. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences: 2018JG004787.
  8. Yang YL, Lin ES, Sun SQ, Chen H, and Chow AT (2019) Direct electricity production from subaqueous wetland sediments and banana peels using membrane-less microbial fuel cells.  Industrial Crops & Products 128: 70-79.
  9. Chen H, Chow AT, Li XW, Ni HG, Dahlgren RA, Zeng H, and Wang JJ (2018) Wildfire burn intensity affects the quantity and speciation of PAH in soils. ACS Space and Earth Chemistry 2: 1262-1270, [Cover story of the issue].
  10. Ku P, Tsui MTK, Nie XP, Chen H, Hoang TC, Blum JD, Dahlgren RA, and Chow AT (2018) Origin, reactivity, and bioavailability of mercury in wildfire ash.  Environmental Science & Technology 52: 14149-14157.
  11. Coates TA, Hagan DL, Aust M, Johnson A, Keen C, Chow AT, and Dozier JH (2018) Mineral soil chemical properties as influenced by long-term use of prescribed fir with differing frequencies in a southeastern coastal plan pine forest.  Forests 0(12): 739.
  12. Yang YL©, Lin ES, Sun SQ, Chen H, and Chow AT (2019) Direct electricity production from wetland sediments and banana peels using membrane-less microbial fuel cells.  Industrial Crops & Products 128: 70-79.
  13. Yi J, Ruecker A, Deventer MJ, Chow AT, and Rhew RC (2018) From sea level rise to stratospheric ozone depletion: enhanced halocarbon emissions from a degraded forested wetland in coastal South Carolina.  ACS Space and Earth Chemistry 2(10): 955-967.
  14. Chen H, Blosser GD, Majidzadeh H©, Liu XJ©, Conner WH, and Chow AT (2018) Integration of an automated identification-quantification pipeline and statistical techniques for pyrolysis GC/MS tracking of the molecular fingerprints of natural organic matter.  Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 134: 371-380.
  15. Rhoades C, Chow AT, Covino T, Fegel T, Pierson T, and Rhea A (2018) The legacy of a severe wildfire on stream nitrogen and carbon in headwater catchments Ecosystems 21: 1-15.
  16. Yang YL, Chen H, Majidzadeh, Chow AT (2018) Electricity generation from different wetlands: Mechanisms based on dissolved organic matters in membrane-less microbial fuel cells.  Chemical Engineering Journal 351: 1006-1012.
  17. Krauss KW, Noe GB, Duberstein JA, Conner WH, Stagg CL, Cormier N, Jones MC, Bernhardt CE, Lockaby G, From AS, Doyle TW, Day RH, Ensign SH, Pierfelice KN, Hupp CR, Chow AT, and Whitbeck JL (2018) The role of the upper tidal estuary in wetland blue carbon storage and flux. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 32(5): 817-839.
  18. Yang XL, Yu XB, Cheng JR, Zheng, RY, Wang K, Dai YX, Tong NJ, and Chow AT (2018) Impacts of land-use on surface waters at the watershed scale in southeastern China: Insight from fluorescence excitation-emission matrix and PARAFAC.  Science of the Total Environment 627: 647-657.
  19. Coates TA, Chow AT, Hagan DL, Waldrop TA, Wang GG, Bridges Jr. WC, Rogers MF, and Dozier JH (2018) Thermocouple probe orientation affects prescribed fire behavior estimation. Journal of Environmental Quality 47: 170-176.
  20. Yu XB, Ladewig S, Bao S, Toline CA, Whitmire S, and Chow AT (2018) Occurrence and distribution of microplastics at selected coastal sites along the southeastern US.  Science of the Total Environment 612-613: 298-305.
  21. Majidzadeh H,  Uzun H, Ruecker A, Miller D, Vernon J, Zhang H, Bao S, Tsui MTK, Karanfil T, and Chow AT (2017) Extreme flooding mobilized dissolved organic matter from coastal forested wetlands.  Biogeochemistry 136: 293-309.
  22. Coates TA, Chow AT, Hagan D, Wang GG, Bridges Jr W, and Dozier J (2017) Frequent prescribed burning as a long-term practice in longleaf pine forests does not affect detrital chemical composition. Journal of Environmental Quality 46(5): 1020-2017.
  23. Ruecker A, Uzun H, Karanfil T, Tsui MTK, and Chow AT (2017) Disinfection byproduct precursor dynamics and water treatability during an extreme flooding event in a coastal blackwater river in southeastern US. Chemosphere. 188: 90-98.
  24. Tsai KP, Uzun H, Karanfil T, and Chow AT (2017) Dynamic changes of disinfection byproduct precursors following exposures of Microcystis aeruginosa to wildfire ash solutions.  Environmental Science & Technology 51(15): 8272-9292.
  25. Liu X, Ruecker A, Song B, Xing J, Conner WH, and Chow AT (2017) Effects of salinity and wet-dry treatments on C and N dynamics in coastal-forested wetland soils: Implications of sea level rise.  Soil Biology & Biochemistry 112: 56-67.
  26. Tsai KP and Chow AT. (2016) Growing algae alter spectroscopic characteristics and chlorine reactivity of dissolved organic matter from thermally-altered forest litters. Environmental Science & Technology 50(15): 7991-8000.
  27. Chow AT, Pitt AL, Baldwin RF, Suhre D, Wang JJ (2016) Water quality dynamics of ephemeral wetlands in the Piedmont Ecoregion, South Carolina, USA. Ecological Engineering 94: 555-563.
  28. Wang JJ, Jiao Y, Rhew RC, and Chow AT (2016) Haloform formation in coastal wetland along a salinity gradient at South Carolina, United States. Environmental Chemistry 13(4): 745-756.
  29. Wang JJ, Dahlgren RA, Ersan M, Karanfil T, Chow AT (2016) Temporal variations of disinfection byproduct precursors in wildfire detritus.  Water Research 99: 66-73.
  30. Ng TW, Li BB, Chow AT, and Wong PK (2016) Effects of bromide on inactivation efficacy and disinfection byproduct formation in photocatalytic inactivation. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 324: 145-151.
  31. Ladwig S, Bao S, and Chow AT (2015) Natural fibers: A missing link to chemical pollution dispersion in aquatic environments.  Environmental Science & Technology 49(21): 12609-12610.
  32. Ng TW, Li BB, Chow AT, and Wong PK (2015) Formation of disinfection byproducts from bacterial disinfection. In, Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water - Occurrence, Formation, Health Effects, and Control. Karanfil et al. Eds., American Chemical Society Symposium Book. Chapter 13, pp 235 - 250.
  33. Majidzadeh H&, Wang JJ, and Chow AT (2015) Forest fire alters dissolved organic matter and disinfection byproduct precursors exports from forested watersheds – Part I: A controlled laboratory study. In, Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water - Occurrence, Formation, Health Effects, and Control. Karanfil et al. Eds., American Chemical Society Symposium Book.  Chapter 15, pp 271-292.
  34. Tsai KP, Rogers MF© Chow AT, and Diaz F (2015) Forest fire alters dissolved organic matter and disinfection byproduct precursors exports from forested watersheds – Part II: A controlled field study. In, Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water - Occurrence, Formation, Health Effects, and Control. Karanfil et al. Eds., American Chemical Society Symposium Book.  Chapter 16, pp. 293-306.
  35. Wang JJ, Dahlgren RA, and Chow AT (2015) Controlled burning of forest detritus altering spectroscopic characteristics and chlorine reactivity of dissolved organic matter: Effects of temperature and oxygen availability.  Environmental Science & Technology 49: 14019-14027.
  36. Lo A, and Chow AT (2015).  The relationship between climate change concern and national wealth. Climatic Change 131(2): 335-348.
  37. Wang JJ, Tharayil N, Chow AT, Suseela V, and Zeng H (2015) Phenolic profile within the fine-root branching orders of an evergreen species highlights a disconnect in root tissue quality predicted by elemental- and molecular- level carbon composition. New Phytologist 206: 1261-1273.
  38. Dai J, Wang JJ, Chow AT, and Conner WH (2015) Electrical energy production from forest detritus in a forested wetland using microbial fuel cells. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 7: 244-252.
  39. Wang JJ, Dahlgren RA, Ersan M, Karanfil T, Chow AT (2015) Wildfire altering terrestrial precursors of disinfection byproducts in forest detritus.  Environmental Science & Technology 49: 5921-5929.
  40. Yu XB, Hawley-Howard J&, Wang JJ, Pitt AL, Baldwin R, Chow AT (2015) Water quality of small seasonal wetland in the Piedmont ecoregion, South Carolina, USA: Effects of land-use and hydrology. Water Research 73: 98-108.
  41. Ng TW, Chow AT, and Wong PK (2014) Duel roles of dissolved organic matter in photo-irradiated Fe(III)-contained waters. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 290: 116-124.
  42. Wang JJ, Chow AT, Sweeney JM, and Mazet JAK (2014) Trihalomethanes in marine mammal aquaria: Occurrences, sources, and health risks.  Water Research 59: 219-228.
  43. Chow AT, Cheung SM, and Yip P (2014) Wildlife markets in South China. Human Wildlife Interactions 8(1): 93-97.
  44. Chow AT, Chong JH, Cook M, White D (2014) Vanishing fireflies: A citizen science project promoting scientific inquiry and environmental stewardship. Science Education & Civil Engagement 6(1): 23-31.
  45. Chow AT, Dai J, Conner WH, Hitchcock DR, and Wang JJ (2013) Dissolved organic matter and nutrient dynamics of a coastal freshwater forested wetland in Winyah Bay, South Carolina. Biogeochemistry 112:571-587.
  46. Chow AT, Diaz FJ, Wong KH, O’Geen AT, Dahlgren RA, Wong PK (2013) Photochemical and bacterial transformations of disinfection byproduct precursors in waters. Journal of Environmental Quality 42: 1589-1595.
  47. Zhou J, Wang JJ, Baudon A, and Chow AT (2013) Improved fluorescence excitation-emission matrix regional integration to quantify spectra for fluorescence dissolved organic matter. Journal of Environmental Quality 42:925-930.
  48. Wang JJ, Liu X, Ng TW, Xiao J, Chow AT, and Wong PK (2013) Disinfection byproduct formation from disinfecting pure bacterial cells and pipeline biofilms. Water Research 43: 2701-2709.
  49. Chow AT (2012) Book Review – Carbon Credits from Peatland Rewetting, Climate, Biodiversity, Land Use, edited by Franziska Tanneberge and Wendelin Wichtmann. Soil Science Society of America Journal 76(1): 309.
  50. Williams T, Chow AT, and Song B (2012) Historical visualization evidence on forest-salt marsh transition in Winyah Bay, South Carolina: A retrospective study in sea level rise. Wetland Science and Practice 29(4): 5-17.
  51. Wang JJ, Ng TW&, Zhang Q, Yang XB, Dahlgren RA, Chow AT, and Wong PK (2012). Reactivity of C1 and C2 organohalogens formation – from plant litter to bacteria. Biogeosciences 9: 3721-3727.
  52. Lo AY, Chow AT, and Cheung SM (2012) Stated contribution to turtle conservation: The significance of perceived social support and implications to conservation education.  Journal of Environmental Management 50: 900-913.
  53. Chow AT, O’Geen AT, Dahlgren RA, Diaz F, Wong KH, and Wong PK (2011) Reactivity of foliar litter leachates from California Oak woodlands in the formation of disinfection Byproducts. Journal Environmental Quality 40: 1607-1616.
  54. Cheung SM, and Chow AT (2011) Project-based learning: a student investigation of the turtle trade in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. Journal of Biological Education 45(2): 68-76.
  55. Chow AT (2011) Investigation of surface and sediment pore water quality in Mai Po Wetland, Hong Kong.  Wetland Science and Practice 28(2): 7-17.
  56. Ng TW, Cai QH, Wong CK, Chow AT, and Wong PK (2010) Simultaneous chromate reduction and azo dye decolourization by Brevibacterium casei: Azo dye as electron donor for chromate reduction.  Journal of Hazardous Materials 32(1-3): 792-800.
  57. Zhang Q, Kuang WF, Liu LY, Li K, Wong KH, Chow AT, and Wong PK (2009) Trihalomethane, haloacetonitrile, and chloral hydrate formation potentials of organic carbon fractions from sub-tropical forest soils.  Journal of Hazardous Materials 172(2-3): 880-887.
  58. Diaz FJ, Chow AT, O’Geen AT, Dahlgren RA, and Wong PK (2009) Effect of constructed wetlands receiving agricultural return flows on disinfection byproduct precursors.  Water Research 43(10): 2750-2760.
  59. Chow AT, Lee ST, O’Geen AT, Orozco T, Beaudette D, Wong PK, Hernes PJ, Tate KW, and Dahlgren RA (2009) Litter contributions to dissolved organic matter and disinfection byproduct precursors in California oak woodland watersheds.  Journal of Environmental Quality 38(6): 2334-2343.
  60. Woo OT, Chung WK, Wong KH, Chow AT, and Wong PK (2009) Photocatalytic oxidation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Intermediates identification and toxicity testing.  Journal of Hazardous Materials 168 (2-3): 1192-1199.
  61. Gong S, Chow AT, Fong JJ, and Shi H (2009) The Chelonian trade in the largest pet market in China: scale, scope, and impacts on turtle conservation. Oryx 43(2) 1-4.
  62. Jiang R, Huang SB, Chow AT, and Yang J (2009) Nitric oxide removal from flue gas with a biotrickling filter using Pseudomonas putida.  Journal of Hazardous Materials 164: 432-441.
  63. Chow AT, Dahlgren RA, and O’Geen AT (2009) Spatial and temporal variation on dissolved organic carbon in the Sacramento and San Joaquin watersheds.  In, River Pollution Research Progress, Gallo M.N. and Ferrari M.H. Ed. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Chapter 5. pp. 235-250. Hauppauge, NY.
  64. So LM, Chow AT, Wong KH, and Wong PK (2008) The Use of rhizospheric bacteria to enhance metal ions uptake by water hyacinth.  In, Plant-Bacteria Interactions: Strategies and Techniques to Promote Plant Growth. Ahmad, Oichtel, and Hayat Eds., Chapter 15, p.283-303. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany.
  65. Chow AT, Dahlgren RA, Zhang Q, and Wong PK (2008) Relationships between specific ultraviolet absorbance and trihalomethane precursors of different carbon sources.  Journal of Water Supply Research and Technology – AQUA 57(7): 471-480.
  66. Diaz F, Chow AT, O’Geen AT, Dahlgren RA, and Wong PK (2008) Restored wetlands as a source of disinfection byproduct precursors.  Environmental Science & Technology 42(16): 5992-5997.
  67. Chow AT, Leech D, Boyer T, and Singer P (2008) Impact of simulated natural solar irradiation on disinfection byproduct precursors.  Environmental Science & Technology 42(15): 5586-5593.
  68. Yang SQ, and Chow AT (2008) Turbulence structures in non-uniform flows.  Advances in Water Resources 31(10): 1344-1351.
  69. Chan CM, Wong KH, Chung WK, Chow TS [= Chow AT], and Wong PK (2007) Photocatalytic degradation of di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate adsorbed by chitin A.  Water Science & Technology 56(7): 125-134.
  70. Chow AT, Dahlgren RA, and Harrison JH (2007) Watershed sources of disinfection byproduct precursors in the Sacrament and San Joaquin rivers, California. Environmental Science & Technology 41(22): 7645-7652.
  71. Chow AT (2006) Disinfection by-product reactivity of aquatic humic substances derived from soils. Water Research 40(7): 1426-1430.
  72. Chow AT, Guo F, Gao S, and Breuer R (2006) Size and XAD fractionation of trihalomethane precursors from soils. Chemosphere 62(10): 1636-1646.
  73. Chow AT, Guo F, Gao S, and Breuer R (2006) Trihalomethane reactivity of water and sodium hydroxide extractable organic carbon fractions from peat soils.  Journal of Environmental Quality 35: 114-121.
  74. Chow AT, Tanji KK, Gao S, and Dahlgren RA (2006) Temperature, water content, and wet-dry cycle effects on DOC production and C mineralization in agricultural peat soils.  Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38(3): 477-488.
  75. Chow AT (2006) Comparison of XAD-8 and DAX-8 resins for isolating disinfection byproduct precursors.  Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology – AQUA 55(1): 45-56.
  76. Chow AT, Gao S, and Dahlgren RA (2005) Physical and chemical fractionations of natural organic matter and trihalomethane precursors: A review.  Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology - AQUA 54(8): 475-508.
  77. Chow AT, Guo F, Gao S, and Breuer R (2005) Trihalomethane formation potential of filter isolates of electrolyte-extractable soil organic carbon. Journal of Environmental Quality 34(6): 1992-1997.
  78. Chow AT, Guo, F, Gao S, Breuer R, and Dahlgren RA (2005) Pore size filter selection for characterizing dissolved organic carbon and trihalomethane precursors from soils.  Water Research 39(7): 1255-1264.
  79. Chow AT, Tanji KK, and Gao S (2004) Modeling drainwater selenium removal in wetlands.  Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, ASCE 130(1): 60-69. (2005 Best Research Paper – Environmental Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers).
  80. Chow AT, Tanji KK, and Gao, S (2003) Productions of dissolved organic carbon and trihalomethane precursor from cultivated peat soils in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California.  Water Research 37(18): 4475-4485.
  81. Tanji KK, Gao S, Scardaci SC, and Chow AT (2003) Characterizing redox status of paddy soils with incorporated rice straw. Geoderma (114): 333-353.
  82. Wang WX, and Chow ATS (2002) Benzo[a]pyrene absorption and exposure pathways in the green mussel Perna virdis.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 21(2): 451-458.
  83. Gao S, Tanji KK, Scardaci SC, and Chow AT (2002) Comparison of redox indicators in a paddy soil during rice-growing season.  Soil Science Society of America Journal 66(3): 805-817.

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Last Updated: 1/30/2021

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