Gurpal S. Toor

Assistant Professor
Environmental Soil Chemistry and Water Quality

DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH AREAS
Management of Nutrients, Pesticides, and Wastes

RESEARCH FOCUS
Investigate processes and mechanisms controlling the fate and transport of pollutants (nutrients, metals, pesticides, emerging contaminants) in urban landscapes.  Develop innovative management practices to minimize losses of pollutants to surface and sub-surface waters in urbanized and rapidly urbanizing watersheds.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Chahal, M.K., G.S. Toor, & P. Brown. 2010. Trace metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in an urbanized area of Florida. Soil and Sediment Contamination, 19 (In Press).

Banger, K., G.S. Toor, L. Ma, & T. Chirenje. 2010. Distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban soils of Miami, Florida.  Soil and Sediment Contamination, 19 (In Press).

Toor, G.S. 2009. Enhancing phosphorus availability in low-phosphorus soils by using poultry manure and commercial fertilizer.  Soil Science, 174:358–364.

Toor, G.S., & B.E. Haggard. 2009.  Phosphorus and trace metal dynamics in soils amended with poultry litter and granulates.  Soil Use and Management.  DIO:10.1111/j.1475-2743.2009.00235.x.

Toor, G.S., R.D. Harmel, B.E. Haggard, & G. Schmidt. 2008. Evaluation of regression methodology with low-frequency water quality sampling to estimate constituent loads for ephemeral watersheds in Texas.  Journal of Environmental Quality, 37:1847–1854.

Toor, G.S., S. Hunger, J.D. Peak, J.T. Sims, & D.L. Sparks. 2006. Advances in the characterization of phosphorus in organic wastes: environmental and agronomic applications. Advances in Agronomy, 89:1-72.

Toor, G.S., B.J. Cade-Menun, & J.T. Sims. 2005. Establishing a linkage between phosphorus forms in dairy diets, feces, and manures. Journal of Environmental Quality, 34:1380-1391.

Toor, G.S., L.M. Condron, B.J. Cade-Menun, H.J. Di, & K.C. Cameron. 2005. Preferential phosphorus leaching from an irrigated grassland soil. European Journal of Soil Science, 56:155-167.

Toor, G.S., L.M. Condron, H.J. Di, & K.C. Cameron. 2004. Seasonal fluctuations in phosphorus loss by leaching from a free draining grassland soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal, J. 68:1429-1436.

Toor, G.S., L.M. Condron, H.J. Di, K.C. Cameron, & B.J. Cade-Menun. 2003. Characterization of organic phosphorus in leachate from a grassland soil. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 35:1317-1323.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 14625 CR 672, Wimauma, FL 33598
(813) 634.0000, (813) 634.0001 fax
Email: gstoor@ufl.edu
Full Curriculum Vitae