Selected Results
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Fact sheet describing results from the Bemidji Toxics project
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Toxics Papers:
- "Ground water contamination by crude oil" (146 KB) by Geoffrey Delin and William Herkelrath.
- "Long-term monitoring of unsaturated-zone properties to estimate recharge at the Bemidji crude-oil spill site" (498 KB) by Geoffrey Delin and William Herkelrath.
- "Aromatic and Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon Degradation under Fe (III)-Reducing Conditions" (135 KB) by Robert T. Anderson, et al.
- "Coupled Biogeochemical Modeling of Ground Water Contamination at the Bemidji Minnesota Crude Oil Spill Site" (60 KB) by Gary Curtis, et al.
- "Investigating the Potential for Colloid- and Organic Matter-Facilitated Transport of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Crude Oil-Contaminated Ground Water" (136 KB) by Joseph Ryan, et al.
- "Determining BTEX Biodegradation Rates Using In Situ Microcosms at the Bemidji site, Minnesota: Trials and Tribulations" (69KB) by E. Michael Godsy, et al.
- "Inhibition of Acetoclastic Methanogenesis by Crude Oil from Bemidji, Minnesota" (143 KB) by Ean Warren, Barbara Bekins, and E. Michael Godsy.
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Posters Presented at Technical Conferences:
- "Estimating multiphase hydraulic properties at a crude-oil spill site" by William Herkelrath, Hedeff Essaid, and Leslie Dillard, USGS, Menlo Park CA
A poster presented at the "International workshop on Characterization and measurement of the hydraulic properties of unsaturated porous media", Riverside, CA, October 22-24, 1997.
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Related links that include results
from the Bemidji site:
- Fate of Organic Chemicals in Subsurface Environments
- Microbiology and Molecular Ecology studies in Bemidji, MN
- Multiphase flow, transport, reaction and biodegradation
- Comprehensive Organic Analysis of Water
- Transport and Biogeochemical Fate of Organic Substances in Aquatic Environments
- Biogeochemical Controls on Organic Contaminant Degradation in Heterogeneous Near Surface Environments
- Comparative Study of Organic Degradation in Selected Hydrologic Environments
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Figures:
- Geochemical zonation (17 KB) diagram.
- Plan view aerial photo from 1991 (85 KB) showing topographic contours and well locations at the site.
