Publications

Gardner, Courtney M., Savannah J. Volkoff, and Claudia K. Gunsch. “Examining the behavior of crop-derived antibiotic resistance genes in anaerobic sludge batch reactors under thermophilic conditions.” Biotechnology and Bioengineering 116, no. 11 (November 2019): 3063–71. https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.27134.

Gerhard, William A., and Claudia K. Gunsch. “Microbiome composition and implications for ballast water classification using machine learning.” The Science of the Total Environment 691 (November 2019): 810–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.053.

Redfern, Lauren K., Courtney M. Gardner, Emina Hodzic, P Lee Ferguson, Helen Hsu-Kim, and Claudia K. Gunsch. “A new framework for approaching precision bioremediation of PAH contaminated soils.” Journal of Hazardous Materials 378 (October 2019): 120859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.120859.

Bornbusch, Sally L., Lydia K. Greene, Erin A. McKenney, Savannah J. Volkoff, Firas S. Midani, Gail Joseph, William A. Gerhard, Uchenna Iloghalu, Joshua Granek, and Claudia K. Gunsch. “A comparative study of gut microbiomes in captive nocturnal strepsirrhines.” Am J Primatol 81, no. 10–11 (October 2019): e22986. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22986.

Volkoff, Savannah J., Alexander W. McCumber, Deverick J. Anderson, and Claudia K. Gunsch. “Antibiotic-resistant bacteria on personal devices in hospital intensive care units: Molecular approaches to quantifying and describing changes in the bacterial community of personal mobile devices.” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 40, no. 6 (June 2019): 717–20. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2019.56.

Farner Budarz, Jeffrey, Ellen M. Cooper, Courtney Gardner, Emina Hodzic, P Lee Ferguson, Claudia K. Gunsch, and Mark R. Wiesner. “Chlorpyrifos degradation via photoreactive TiO₂ nanoparticles: Assessing the impact of a multi-component degradation scenario.” Journal of Hazardous Materials 372 (June 2019): 61–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.12.028.

Lefevre, Emilie, Lauren Redfern, Ellen M. Cooper, Heather M. Stapleton, and Claudia K. Gunsch. “Acetate promotes microbial reductive debromination of tetrabromobisphenol A during the startup phase of anaerobic wastewater sludge bioreactors.” The Science of the Total Environment 656 (March 2019): 959–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.403.

Ward, Christopher S., Jin-Fen Pan, Benjamin P. Colman, Zhao Wang, Carley A. Gwin, Tiffany C. Williams, Abby Ardis, Claudia K. Gunsch, and Dana E. Hunt. “Conserved Microbial Toxicity Responses for Acute and Chronic Silver Nanoparticle Treatments in Wetland Mesocosms.” Environmental Science & Technology 53, no. 6 (March 2019): 3268–76. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b06654.

Gerhard, William A., and Claudia K. Gunsch. “Metabarcoding and machine learning analysis of environmental DNA in ballast water arriving to hub ports.” Environment International 124 (March 2019): 312–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2018.12.038.

Grieger, K., R. Hjorth, A. W. Carpenter, F. Klaessig, E. Lefevre, C. Gunsch, K. Soratana, et al. “Sustainable environmental remediation using NZVI by managing benefit-risk trade-offs.” In Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron Particles for Environmental Restoration: From Fundamental Science to Field Scale Engineering Applications, 511–62, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95340-3_15.

Czaplicki, Lauren M., Monika Dharia, Ellen M. Cooper, P Lee Ferguson, and Claudia K. Gunsch. “Evaluating the mycostimulation potential of select carbon amendments for the degradation of a model PAH by an ascomycete strain enriched from a superfund site.” Biodegradation 29, no. 5 (October 2018): 463–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10532-018-9843-z.

Gerhard, William A., and Claudia K. Gunsch. “Analyzing trends in ballasting behavior of vessels arriving to the United States from 2004 to 2017.” Marine Pollution Bulletin 135 (October 2018): 525–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.07.001.

Holzem, R. M., H. M. Stapleton, and C. K. Gunsch. “Impact of Biosolids on Indigenous Soil Denitrifying Bacteria.” Journal of Environmental Engineering (United States) 144, no. 9 (September 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001442.

Danley-Thomson, A. A., E. C. Huang, T. Worley-Morse, and C. K. Gunsch. “Evaluating the role of total organic carbon in predicting the treatment efficacy of biosand filters for the removal of Vibrio cholerae in drinking water during startup.” Journal of Applied Microbiology 125, no. 3 (September 2018): 917–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/jam.13909.

Gwin, C. A., and C. K. Gunsch. “Examining relationships between total silver concentration and Sil silver resistance genes in domestic wastewater treatment plants.” Journal of Applied Microbiology 124, no. 6 (June 2018): 1638–46. https://doi.org/10.1111/jam.13731.

Gardner, Courtney M., Carley A. Gwin, and Claudia K. Gunsch. “A survey of crop-derived transgenes in activated and digester sludges in wastewater treatment plants in the United States.” Water Science and Technology : A Journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research 77, no. 7–8 (April 2018): 1810–18. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2018.051.

Holzem, Ryan M., Courtney M. Gardner, Heather M. Stapleton, and Claudia K. Gunsch. “Using laboratory-generated biosolids to evaluate the microbial ecotoxicity of triclosan in a simulated land application scenario.” Environmental Science and Pollution Research International 25, no. 11 (April 2018): 11084–99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-1147-z.

Gwin, Carley A., Emilie Lefevre, Christina L. Alito, and Claudia K. Gunsch. “Microbial community response to silver nanoparticles and Ag⁺ in nitrifying activated sludge revealed by ion semiconductor sequencing.” The Science of the Total Environment 616–617 (March 2018): 1014–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.217.

Ng, Charmaine, Shin Giek Goh, Nazanin Saeidi, William A. Gerhard, Claudia K. Gunsch, and Karina Yew Hoong Gin. “Occurrence of Vibrio species, beta-lactam resistant Vibrio species, and indicator bacteria in ballast and port waters of a tropical harbor.” The Science of the Total Environment 610–611 (January 2018): 651–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.099.

Holzem, R. M., C. M. Gardner, and C. K. Gunsch. “Evaluating the impacts of triclosan on wastewater treatment performance during startup and acclimation.” Water Science and Technology : A Journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research 77, no. 1–2 (January 2018): 493–503. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2017.566.

Lefèvre, Emilie, Nathan Bossa, Courtney M. Gardner, Gretchen E. Gehrke, Ellen M. Cooper, Heather M. Stapleton, Heileen Hsu-Kim, and Claudia K. Gunsch. “Biochar and activated carbon act as promising amendments for promoting the microbial debromination of tetrabromobisphenol A.” Water Research 128 (January 2018): 102–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2017.09.047.

Gardner, Courtney M., and Claudia K. Gunsch. “Adsorption capacity of multiple DNA sources to clay minerals and environmental soil matrices less than previously estimated.” Chemosphere 175 (May 2017): 45–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.02.030.

Schwartz, Grace E., Lauren K. Redfern, Kaoru Ikuma, Claudia K. Gunsch, Laura S. Ruhl, Avner Vengosh, and Heileen Hsu-Kim. “Impacts of coal ash on methylmercury production and the methylating microbial community in anaerobic sediment slurries.” Environmental Science. Processes & Impacts 18, no. 11 (November 2016): 1427–39. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6em00458j.

Czaplicki, Lauren M., and Claudia K. Gunsch. “Reflection on Molecular Approaches Influencing State-of-the-Art Bioremediation Design: Culturing to Microbial Community Fingerprinting to Omics.” Journal of Environmental Engineering (New York, N.Y.) 142, no. 10 (October 2016). https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)ee.1943-7870.0001141.

Lefevre, Emilie, Nathan Bossa, Mark R. Wiesner, and Claudia K. Gunsch. “A review of the environmental implications of in situ remediation by nanoscale zero valent iron (nZVI): Behavior, transport and impacts on microbial communities.” The Science of the Total Environment 565 (September 2016): 889–901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.003.