George O'Connor

Professor
Environmental Soil Chemistry

DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH AREAS
Management of Nutrients, Pesticides, and Wastes

RESEARCH FOCUS
Environmental soil chemistry, specifically, the application of basic soil-chemistry principles to guide responsible and beneficial use of non-hazardous wastes on soils.

COURSES TAUGHT
SOS 5050 - Soils for Environmental Professionals
SOS 4932/6932 - Soils and Public Health (Spring 2007)

SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Silveira, M.L., L.R.F. Alleoni, G.A. O'Connor, and A.C. Chang. 2006. Heavy metal sequential extraction methods - a modification for tropical soils. Chemosphere. 64:1929-1938.

Van Alstyne, R., L.R. McDowell, P.A. Davis, N.S. Wilkinson, L.K. Warren, and G.A. O'Connor. 2006. Effects of dietary aluminum from an aluminum water treatment residual on bone mineral content of feeder lambs. The professional Animal Scientist 22:153-157.

Makris, K.C., and G.A. O'Connor. 2007. Land application of drinking water treatment residuals as contaminant-mitigating agents. In: Sarkar, D., Datta, R., and Hannigan, R. (Eds.). Current Prospectives in Environmental Geochemistry. Geological Soc. Amer. Press, Denver, CO. In press.

Silveira, M.L., L.R.F. Alleoni, A.C. Chang, and G.A. O'Connor. 2007. Metal-associated forms and speciation in biosolids-amended Oxisols. Commun. Soil Sci. Plt. Anal. In press.

Elliott, H.A., and G.A. O'Connor. 2007. Phosphorus management for sustainable biosolids recycling in the United States. Soil Biology & Biochem. In press.

Agyin-Birikorang, S., G.A. O'Connor, L.W. Jacobs, K.C. Makris, and S.R. Brinton. 2007. Long-term phosphorus immobilization by a drinking water treatment residual. J. Environ. Qual. In press.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Soil and Water Science Department, 106 Newell Hall, PO Box 110510, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611
(352) 392.1803 x 329, (352) 392.3399 fax
email: gao@ufl.edu
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