By Professor Denis Michael O'Carroll

Book Chapters

Kocur CM; Sleep BE; O'Carroll DM, 2019, 'Moving into the third decade of nanoscale zero-valent iron (NZVI) development: Best practices for field implementation', in Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron Particles for Environmental Restoration: From Fundamental Science to Field Scale Engineering Applications, pp. 293 - 333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95340-3_7

O'Carroll DM, 2014, 'Nanotechnology for Contaminated Subsurface Remediation: Possibilities and Challenges: Possibilities and Challenges', in Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water Solutions for Improving Water Quality Second Edition, pp. 441 - 456, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-4557-3116-9.00028-7

O’Carroll DM, 2014, 'Chapter 28 Nanotechnology for Contaminated Subsurface Remediation Possibilities and Challenges', in Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water, Elsevier, pp. 441 - 456, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-1-4557-3116-9.00028-7

O'Carroll DM, 2009, 'Nanotechnology for Contaminated Subsurface Remediation: Possibilities and Challenges', in Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water, pp. 215 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-8155-1578-4.50025-1

O'Carroll DM, 2009, 'Chapter 16 Nanotechnology for Contaminated Subsurface Remediation: Possibilities and Challenges', in Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water, Elsevier, pp. 215 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-8155-1578-4.50025-1

Journal articles

Neale PA; Khan SJ; Li J; O'Carroll DM; Leusch FDL, 2025, 'Assessing the ability of advanced pre-treatment to reduce disinfection by-product formation and finished water toxicity', Water Research, 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.123755

Mirabediny M; Yu TT; Sun J; Lee M; M O'Carroll D; Manefield MJ; Das B; Kumar N, 2025, 'Fast degradation of chlorinated volatile organic compounds using soluble cobalt complexes', Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2025.107356

Krohn C; Khudur L; Biek SK; Elliott JA; Tabatabaei S; Jiang C; Wood JL; Dias DA; Dueholm MKD; Rees CA; O'Carroll D; Stuetz R; Batstone DJ; Surapaneni A; Ball AS, 2025, 'Microbial population shifts during disturbance induced foaming in anaerobic digestion of primary and activated sludge', Water Research, 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.123548

Nunez Garcia A; Lee M; Ding L; Liang X; Wang C; He F; O’Carroll DM, 2025, 'Sulfidation of Magnetite for Superior Dechlorination of Trichloroethene', Environmental Science and Technology, 59, pp. 3172 - 3182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c07127

O'Carroll D; Ackerman Grunfeld D; Gilbert D; Hou J; Lee M; Kibbey T, 2025, 'An Assessment of the Global PFAS Burden to Our Waters', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-21370

Sun J; Lorpaiboon W; Fox N; Jones A; Ho J; Manefield MJ; kumar N; O'Carroll D; Lee M, 2025, 'Characterization of PFOA isomers from PFAS precursors and their reductive defluorination', Water Research, 268, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.122717

Zhang J; Prodanovic V; O'Carroll DM; Zheng Z; Zhang K, 2024, 'Real time control of stormwater biofilters improves the removal of organic chemicals', Water Research, 266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.122411

Bhardwaj S; Lee M; O'Carroll D; McDonald J; Osborne K; Khan S; Pickford R; Coleman N; O'Farrell C; Richards S; Manefield MJ, 2024, 'Biotransformation of 6:2/4:2 fluorotelomer alcohols by Dietzia aurantiaca J3: Enzymes and proteomics', Journal of Hazardous Materials, 478, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.135510

Chen W; Phillips E; De Vera J; Lollar BS; Garcia AN; Passeport E; Sleep B; Passeport E; O'Carroll DM, 2024, 'Quantifying remediation of chlorinated volatile compounds by sulfidated nano zerovalent iron treatment using numerical modeling and CSIA', Water Research, 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.122149

Sun J; Yu TT; Mirabediny M; Lee M; Jones A; O'Carroll DM; Manefield MJ; Kumar PV; Pickford R; Ramadhan ZR; Bhattacharyya SK; Åkermark B; Das B; Kumar N, 2024, 'Soluble metal porphyrins - Zero-valent zinc system for effective reductive defluorination of branched per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)', Water Research, 258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.121803

Krohn C; Jansriphibul K; Dias DA; Rees CA; Akker BVD; Boer JC; Plebanski M; Surapaneni A; O'Carroll D; Richard S; Batstone DJ; Ball AS, 2024, 'Dead in the water – Role of relic DNA and primer choice for targeted sequencing surveys of anaerobic sewage sludge intended for biological monitoring', Water Research, 253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.121354

Ackerman Grunfeld D; Gilbert D; Hou J; Jones AM; Lee MJ; Kibbey TCG; O’Carroll DM, 2024, 'Underestimated burden of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in global surface waters and groundwaters', Nature Geoscience, 17, pp. 340 - 346, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01402-8

Kibbey TCG; O'Carroll DM; Safulko A; Coyle G, 2024, 'Multi-class machine learning classification of PFAS in environmental water samples: a blinded test of performance on unknowns', Environmental Science Advances, 3, pp. 366 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3va00266g

Boparai HK; El-Sharnouby O; O’Carroll DM, 2023, 'Catalytic dechlorination of 1,2-DCA in nano Cu0-borohydride system: effects of Cu0/Cun+ ratio, surface poisoning, and regeneration of Cu0 sites', Scientific Reports, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38678-6

Ackerman Grunfeld D; Jones AM; Sun J; Le ST; Pickford R; Huang Q; Manefield M; Kumar N; Lee MJ; O'Carroll DM, 2023, 'Electrochemical degradation of a C6-perfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) using a simple activated carbon cathode', Environmental Science Water Research and Technology, 10, pp. 272 - 287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ew00543g

Mirabediny M; Yu TT; Sun J; Lee M; O'Carroll DM; Manefield MJ; Åkermark B; Das B; Kumar N, 2023, 'Fast reductive defluorination of branched perfluorooctane sulfonic acids by cobalt phthalocyanine: electrochemical studies and mechanistic insights', Environmental Science Water Research and Technology, 10, pp. 216 - 227, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ew00612c

Liang J; Boparai H; Lomheim L; Nunez Garcia A; Edwards E; O'Carroll D; Sleep B, 2023, 'Subsurface Transport of Sulfidated Nano Zero Valent Iron and In Situ Biogeochemical Transformation of Chlorinated Solvents: A Field Study', ARPHA Conference Abstracts, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/aca.6.e107556

Talebi A; Sleep BE; O'Carroll DM, 2023, 'Model Validation and Sensitivity Analysis of Coupled Non-Equilibrium Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media With Application to Evaporation From Bare Soils', Water Resources Research, 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023WR035573

Rakhimbekova S; Power C; O’Carroll DM; Robinson CE, 2023, 'Potential for Shoreline Recession to Accelerate Discharge of Groundwater Pollutants to Coastal Waters', Water Resources Research, 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022WR034230

Gao Y; Le ST; Kibbey TCG; Glamore W; O'Carroll DM, 2023, 'A fundamental model for calculating interfacial adsorption of complex ionic and nonionic PFAS mixtures in the presence of mixed salts', Environmental Science Processes and Impacts, 25, pp. 1830 - 1838, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2em00466f

O'Carroll DM; Eloisa Sia M; Staniec M; Voogt JA; Lundholm JT; Smart CC; Robinson CE, 2023, 'Influence of vegetation type and climatological conditions on evapotranspiration from extensive green roofs', Journal of Hydrology, 617, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128951

Le ST; Kibbey TCG; Weber KP; Glamore WC; O'Carroll DM, 2023, 'Corrigendum to “A group-contribution model for predicting the physicochemical behavior of PFAS components for understanding environmental fate” [Sci. Total Environ. 764 (2021) 142882] (Science of the Total Environment (2021) 764, (S0048969720364123), (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142882))', Science of the Total Environment, 854, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158804

Krohn C; Khudur L; Dias DA; van den Akker B; Rees CA; Crosbie ND; Surapaneni A; O'Carroll DM; Stuetz RM; Batstone DJ; Ball AS, 2022, 'The role of microbial ecology in improving the performance of anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge', Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1079136

McDonough LK; Andersen MS; Behnke MI; Rutlidge H; Oudone P; Meredith K; O’Carroll DM; Santos IR; Marjo CE; Spencer RGM; McKenna AM; Baker A, 2022, 'A new conceptual framework for the transformation of groundwater dissolved organic matter', Nature Communications, 13, pp. 2153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29711-9

Cuthbert MO; Rau GC; Ekström M; O’Carroll DM; Bates AJ, 2022, 'Global climate-driven trade-offs between the water retention and cooling benefits of urban greening', Nature Communications, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28160-8

Le ST; Gao Y; Kibbey TCG; O'Carroll DM, 2022, 'Calculating PFAS interfacial adsorption as a function of salt concentration using model parameters determined from chemical structure', Science of the Total Environment, 848, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157663

Patch D; O'Connor N; Koch I; Cresswell T; Hughes C; Davies JB; Scott J; O'Carroll D; Weber K, 2022, 'Elucidating degradation mechanisms for a range of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) via controlled irradiation studies', Science of the Total Environment, 832, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154941

Méndez V; Holland S; Bhardwaj S; McDonald J; Khan S; O'Carroll D; Pickford R; Richards S; O'Farrell C; Coleman N; Lee M; Manefield MJ; Mendez V, 2022, 'Aerobic biotransformation of 6:2 fluorotelomer sulfonate by Dietzia aurantiaca J3 under sulfur-limiting conditions', Science of the Total Environment, 829, pp. 154587, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154587

Sun J; Jennepalli S; Lee M; Jones A; O'Carroll DM; Manefield MJ; Bhadbhade M; Åkermark B; Das B; Kumar N, 2022, 'Efficient Reductive Defluorination of Branched PFOS by Metal-Porphyrin Complexes', Environmental Science and Technology, 56, pp. 7830 - 7839, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c08254

Le ST; Gao Y; Kibbey TCG; Glamore WC; O'Carroll DM, 2022, 'Predicting the impact of salt mixtures on the air-water interfacial behavior of PFAS', Science of the Total Environment, 819, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151987

Gray DB; Gagnon V; Button M; Farooq AJ; Patch DJ; Wallace SJ; Koch I; O'Carroll DM; Weber KP, 2022, 'Silver nanomaterials released from commercial textiles have minimal impacts on soil microbial communities at environmentally relevant concentrations', Science of the Total Environment, 806, pp. 151248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151248

Rakhimbekova S; O'Carroll DM; Robinson CE, 2021, 'Factors controlling phosphorus mobility in nearshore aquifers adjacent to large lakes', Science of the Total Environment, 799, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149443

Patch D; Koch I; Peloquin D; O'Carroll D; Weber K, 2021, 'Development and validation of a method for the weathering and detachment of representative nanomaterials from conventional silver-containing textiles', Chemosphere, 284, pp. 131269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131269

Le ST; Gao Y; Kibbey TCG; Glamore WC; O'Carroll DM, 2021, 'A new framework for modeling the effect of salt on interfacial adsorption of PFAS in environmental systems', Science of the Total Environment, 796, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148893

Kibbey TCG; Jabrzemski R; O'Carroll DM, 2021, 'Predicting the relationship between PFAS component signatures in water and non-water phases through mathematical transformation: Application to machine learning classification', Chemosphere, 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131097

Inglis AM; Head NA; Chowdhury AIA; Nunez Garcia A; Reynolds DA; Hogberg D; Edwards E; Lomheim L; Weber K; Wallace SJ; Austrins LM; Hayman J; Auger M; Sidebottom A; Eimers J; Gerhard JI; O'Carroll DM, 2021, 'Electrokinetically-enhanced emplacement of lactate in a chlorinated solvent contaminated clay site to promote bioremediation', Water Research, 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.117305

Garcia AN; Zhang Y; Ghoshal S; He F; O'Carroll DM, 2021, 'Recent Advances in Sulfidated Zerovalent Iron for Contaminant Transformation', Environmental Science and Technology, 55, pp. 8464 - 8483, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c01251

Kibbey TCG; Jabrzemski R; O'Carroll DM, 2021, 'Source allocation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with supervised machine learning: Classification performance and the role of feature selection in an expanded dataset', Chemosphere, 275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130124

Robinson CE; Rakhimbekova S; O'Carroll DM, 2021, 'Occurrence of arsenic in nearshore aquifers adjacent to large inland lakes', Environmental Science and Technology, 55, pp. 8079 - 8089, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c02326

Sun J; Jennepalli S; Lee M; O'Carroll DM; Åkermark B; Manefield MJ; Das B; Kumar N, 2021, 'Removal of per- And polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from water by ceric(iv) ammonium nitrate', Rsc Advances, 11, pp. 17642 - 17645, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1ra02635f

Le ST; Kibbey TCG; Weber KP; Glamore WC; O'Carroll DM, 2021, 'A group-contribution model for predicting the physicochemical behavior of PFAS components for understanding environmental fate', Science of the Total Environment, 764, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142882

McDonough L; Behnke M; Spencer R; Marjo C; Andersen M; Meredith K; Rutlidge H; Oudone P; O'Carroll D; McKenna A; Baker A, 2021, 'Molecular insights into the unique degradation trajectory of natural dissolved organic matter from surface to groundwater', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-1845

Cuthbert M; Rau G; Bates A; Ekstrom M; O'Carroll D, 2021, 'Global climate-driven trade-offs between the water retention and cooling benefits of urban greening', , http://dx.doi.org/10.31223/x5k02f

Rakhimbekova S; O'Carroll DM; Oldfield LE; Ptacek CJ; Robinson CE, 2021, 'Spatiotemporal controls on septic system derived nutrients in a nearshore aquifer and their discharge to a large lake', Science of the Total Environment, 752, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141262

McDonough LK; Santos IR; Andersen MS; O’Carroll DM; Rutlidge H; Meredith K; Oudone P; Bridgeman J; Gooddy DC; Sorensen JPR; Lapworth DJ; MacDonald AM; Ward J; Baker A, 2020, 'Changes in global groundwater organic carbon driven by climate change and urbanization', Nature Communications, 11, pp. 1279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14946-1

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