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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
9221
World Ranking
4995
National Ranking
1838

Best Publications

  • Machine Learning: New Ideas and Tools in Environmental Science and Engineering

    Shifa Zhong;Kai Zhang;Majid Bagheri;Joel G. Burken

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • Subinhibitory Concentrations of Disinfectants Promote the Horizontal Transfer of Multidrug Resistance Genes within and across Genera

    Ye Zhang;April Z. Gu;Miao He;Dan Li

  • Sub-inhibitory concentrations of heavy metals facilitate the horizontal transfer of plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance genes in water environment.

    Ye Zhang;April Z. Gu;Tianyu Cen;Xiangyang Li

  • MiDAS 4: A global catalogue of full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences and taxonomy for studies of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

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  • Aptamer-Based Optical Biosensor For Rapid and Sensitive Detection of 17β-Estradiol In Water Samples

    Nimet Yildirim;Feng Long;Feng Long;Ce Gao;Miao He

  • Water Disinfection Byproducts Induce Antibiotic Resistance-Role of Environmental Pollutants in Resistance Phenomena

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  • Mechanistic Toxicity Assessment of Nanomaterials by Whole-Cell-Array Stress Genes Expression Analysis

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  • Bioavailability and characterization of dissolved organic nitrogen and dissolved organic phosphorus in wastewater effluents.

    Chao Qin;Haizhou Liu;Lei Liu;Scott Smith

  • Implication of using different carbon sources for denitrification in wastewater treatments.

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  • Sub-lethal concentrations of heavy metals induce antibiotic resistance via mutagenesis.

    Xiangyang Li;April Z. Gu;Ye Zhang;Bin Xie

  • Efficient degradation of contaminants of emerging concerns by a new electro-Fenton process with Ti/MMO cathode.

    Songhu Yuan;Songhu Yuan;Na Gou;Akram N. Alshawabkeh;April Z. Gu

  • Life-Cycle Assessment of Advanced Nutrient Removal Technologies for Wastewater Treatment

    Sheikh M. Rahman;Matthew J. Eckelman;Annalisa Onnis-Hayden;April Z. Gu

  • Functionally relevant microorganisms to enhanced biological phosphorus removal performance at full-scale wastewater treatment plants in the United States.

    April Z. Gu;A. Saunders;J. B. Neethling;H. D. Stensel

  • Inactivation, reactivation and regrowth of indigenous bacteria in reclaimed water after chlorine disinfection of a municipal wastewater treatment plant

    Dan Li;Dan Li;Siyu Zeng;April Z. Gu;Miao He

  • Progress toward understanding the distribution of Accumulibacter among full-scale enhanced biological phosphorus removal systems.

    Shaomei He;April Z. Gu;Katherine D. McMahon

  • Side-stream enhanced biological phosphorus removal (S2EBPR) process improves system performance - A full-scale comparative study.

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  • Impact of titanium dioxide nanomaterials on nitrogen fixation rate and intracellular nitrogen storage in Anabaena variabilis.

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  • Process optimization by decoupled control of key microbial populations: distribution of activity and abundance of polyphosphate-accumulating organisms and nitrifying populations in a full-scale IFAS-EBPR plant

    Annalisa Onnis-Hayden;Nehreen Majed;Andreas Schramm;April Z. Gu

  • Evaluation of Intracellular Polyphosphate Dynamics in Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Process using Raman Microscopy

    Nehreen Majed;Christian Matthäus;Max Diem;April Z Gu

Frequent Co-Authors

Akram N. Alshawabkeh
Akram N. Alshawabkeh Northeastern University
Hanchang Shi
Hanchang Shi Tsinghua University
Jianmin Chen
Jianmin Chen Fudan University
David Kaeli
David Kaeli Northeastern University
Jennifer G. Dy
Jennifer G. Dy Northeastern University
Max Diem
Max Diem Northeastern University
Katherine D. McMahon
Katherine D. McMahon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Matthew J. Eckelman
Matthew J. Eckelman Northeastern University
Andreas Schramm
Andreas Schramm Aarhus University
Songhu Yuan
Songhu Yuan China University of Geosciences

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