Advances in the Physicochemical Characterization of Dissolved Organic Matter: Impact on Natural and Engineered Systems

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Preface ... ix 1. Introduction ... 1 Fernando L. Rosario-Ortiz Characterization of Dissolved Organic Matter 2. on Aquatic Humic Substances: Use of the Hirsch Index ... 7 E. Michael Thurman and Imma Ferrer 3. Applications of Excitation Emission Matrix Fluorescence with Parallel Factor Analysis (EEM-PARAFAC) in Assessing Environmental Dynamics of Natural Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) in Aquatic Environments: A Review ... 27 Rudolf Jaffe, Kaelin M. Cawley, and Youhei Yamashita 4. Acidic Functional Groups of Suwannee River Natural Organic Matter, Humic Acids, and Fulvic Acids ... 75 Shamus J. Driver and E. Michael Perdue 5. Natural and Unnatural Organic Matter in the Atmosphere: Recent Perspectives on the High Molecular Weight Fraction of Organic Aerosol ... 87 Tiffany R. Duhl, Nicholas Clements, Natalie Mladenov, Kaelin Cawley, Fernando L. Rosario-Ortiz, and Michael P. Hannigan Impact of Dissolved Organic Matter on Environmental Processes 6. NOM as Natural Xenobiotics ... 115 Christian E. W. Steinberg 7. NMR Studies of Phosphorus Speciation and Carbon Humification in Wetland Soils ... 145 Aopeau Imvittaya, Rasha Hamdan, and William Cooper 8. Relation between Optical Properties and Formation of Reactive Intermediates from Different Size Fractions of Organic Matter ... 159 Simon Mostafa, Julie A. Korak, Kyle Shimabuku, Caitlin M. Glover, and Fernando L. Rosario-Ortiz 9. Using Polyethylene Glycols To Understand the Temperature Dependence of the Dissolved Organic Matter-HOBL Reaction ... 181 Garrett McKay and Stephen P. Mezyk 10. The Use of Perylene as a Probe To Determine the Ability of Dissolved Organic Matter in the Aquatic Environment To Associate with Hydrophobic Organic Pollutants ... 193 M.-H. (Chris) Hsu and I. H. (Mel) Suffet Impact of Dissolved Organic Matter on Water Treatment 11. Characterization of the Molecular Weight and Reactivity of Natural Organic Matter in Surface Waters ... 209 Ina Kristiana, Jace Tan, Suzanne McDonald, Cynthia A. Joll, and Anna Heitz 12. Fate of Characterized and Uncharacterized Halogenated Organic Matter during Coagulation of Natural Waters with Chlorine or Chlorine Dioxide Application ... 235 Miguel S. Arias and R. Scott Summers 13. DBP Reactivity of Organic Matter Fractions Collected During Extreme Weather Events ... 257 Aaron D. Dotson, Paul Westerhoff, and Amlan Ghosh 14. Fluorescence Characterization of Humic Substance Coagulation: Application of New Tools to an Old Process ... 281 Julie A. Korak, Fernando L. Rosario-Ortiz, and R. Scott Summers Editor's Biography ... 301 Indexes Author Index ... 305 Subject Index ... 307