Ecosystems Research Division

Biographical Information

Name: Candida West

Contact Info:
Ecosystems Research Division
National Exposure Research Laboratory
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
960 College Station Road
Athens, Georgia> 30605-2700

Telephone: 706-355-8023
FAX: 706-355-8029
e-mail: west.candida@epa.gov

Expertise/Research Interests:
Background is primarily in contaminant fate and transport; Current interests evolve around Branch activities including watershed modeling, multimedia, multiexposure, and multipollutant modeling, uncertainty/sentitivity in modeling, drinking water disinfection byproducts, and resource conservation.

Selected Publications:
Mohamoud, Y. M., P. Restrepo, C. C. West, and M. J. Plodinec. Seeking More Effective Management of Freshwater Pollution. Magazine for Environmental Managers (EM). Air & Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 2007, 33-35.

Babendreier, J. E., L. S. Matott, J. Hameedi, R. L. Dennis, C. D. Knightes, R. Mathur, Y. M. Mohamoud, J. M. Johnston, C. C. West, G. F. Laniak, N. Gaber, P. Pascual, AND R. Araujo. Managing Multimedia Pollution for a Multimedia World. Magazine for Environmental Managers (EM). Air & Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 2007, 6-11.

West, C.C. and J.T. Wilson. Environmental Impacts and Monitoring: A Historical Perspective on the Use of Natural Attenuation for Subsurface Remediation, In Fate and Transport of Chemicals in the Environment: Impacts, Monitoring, and Remediation (R.L. Lipnick, R.P. Mason, M.L. Phillips, and C.U. Pittman, Eds.). American Chemical Society, Symposium Series No. 806, 2001.

Fang, J., Barcelona, M.J. and C.C. West. Use of Aromatic Acids and Phospholipid-Ester-Linked Fatty Acids for Delineation of Processes Affecting an Aquifer Contaminated with JP-4 Fuel, ACS Symposium Series 671, 1997 American Chemical Society, Chapter 5, 65-75.

Knox, R.C., Sabatini, D.A., Harwell, J.H., Brown, R.E., West, C.C., Blaha, F. and C. Griffin, Surfactant Remediation Field Demonstration Using a Vertical Circulation Well, Ground Water, 35(6), 1997, 948-953.

Wilson, B.H., Hutchins, S.R. and C.C. West. Effect of Alkylphenol Polyethoxylate Surfactants on Nitrate-Based Bioremediation, Presented the Division of Environmental Chemistry, American Chemical Society in New Orleans, LA, March 24-27, 1997, NTIS PB 97-12824.

Sewell, G.W. and C.C. West. Geochemistry and Microbial Ecology of Reductive Dechlorination of PCE and TCE in Subsurface Material, Symposium on Bioremediation of Hazardous Wastes, 1994, 69-75.

West, C.C., Lyon, W. G., Ross, D. and L. Pennington, An Investigation of the Vertical Distribution and Morphology of Indigenous Organic Matter at the Sleeping Bear Site, Michigan, Environ. Geology, 24, 1994, 176-187.

Lyon, W. G., West, C.C., Osborn, M. L. and G. Sewell, Characterization of Microbially Available Organic Carbon Native to the Vadose Zone of an Aquifer, In Proceedings of the I&EC Special Symposium, American Chemical Society, Atlanta, GA., September 27-29, 1993.

West, C.C. and J.H. Harwell, Surfactants and Subsurface Remediation, Environ. Sci. Technol . 26(12), 1992, 2324-2330.

West, C.C. Surfactant-Enhanced Solubilization of Tetrachoroethylene and Degradation Products in Pump and Treat Remediation, In Transport and Remediation of Subsurface Contaminants, ACS Symposium Series, 1992, Chapter 12, 149-158.