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Clifford P. Rice is affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these broader areas, their work explores subfields such as Plant Science, Pollution, Geochemistry and Petrology, Environmental Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

Their research addresses key topics including:

  • Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
  • Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Rice has published notable papers over recent years, reflecting a range of environmental and plant science interests. Some of these include:

  • "Phenolic acids released to soil during cereal rye cover crop decomposition," 2020, Chemoecology
  • "Recent CO2 levels promote increased production of the toxin parthenin in an invasive Parthenium hysterophorus biotype," 2021, Nature Plants
  • "Benzoxazinoids in roots and shoots of cereal rye (Secale cereale) and their fates in soil after cover crop termination," 2022, Chemoecology

Frequent publication venues for Rice's work consist of:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Chemoecology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Plants
  • Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology

The scientist collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Gregory W. McCarty
  • Cathleen J. Hapeman
  • Marla R. Bianca
  • Robert Lupitskyy
  • Carlton Poindexter

Best Publications

  • Effect of solids concentration on the sorptive partitioning of hydrophobic pollutants in aquatic systems.

    Thomas C. Voice;Clifford P. Rice;Walter J. Weber

  • Removal of hormones and antibiotics by nanofiltration membranes

    Ismail Koyuncu;Osman A. Arikan;Osman A. Arikan;Mark R. Wiesner;Clifford Rice

  • Evidence of currently-used pesticides in air, ice, fog, seawater and surface microlayer in the Bering and Chukchi seas

    Sergey M. Chernyak;Clifford P. Rice;Laura L. McConnell

  • Fate of Triclocarban, Triclosan and Methyltriclosan during wastewater and biosolids treatment processes.

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  • The biomagnification of polychlorinated biphenyls, toxaphene, and DDT compounds in a Lake Michigan offshore food web

    Marlene S. Evans;George E. Noguchi;Clifford P. Rice

  • The fate and effect of oxytetracycline during the anaerobic digestion of manure from therapeutically treated calves

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  • Management of antibiotic residues from agricultural sources: use of composting to reduce chlortetracycline residues in beef manure from treated animals.

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  • Migration of nonylphenol from plastic containers to water and a milk surrogate.

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  • Endocrine disrupting alkylphenolic chemicals and other contaminants in wastewater treatment plant effluents, urban streams, and fish in the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi River Regions.

    Larry B. Barber;Jorge E. Loyo-Rosales;Clifford P. Rice;Thomas A. Minarik

  • Occurrence of antibiotics and hormones in a major agricultural watershed

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  • Fate of triclosan in agricultural soils after biosolid applications.

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  • Alkylphenol and alkylphenol-ethoxylates in carp, water, and sediment from the Cuyahoga River, Ohio.

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  • Volatilization of trifluralin, atrazine, metolachlor, chlorpyrifos, alpha-endosulfan, and beta-endosulfan from freshly tilled soil.

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  • Analysis of octyl- and nonylphenol and their ethoxylates in water and sediments by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry.

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  • Atmospheric organochlorine pollutants and air‐sea exchange of hexachlorocyclohexane in the Bering and Chukchi seas

    Daniel A. Hinckley;Terry F. Bidleman;Clifford P. Rice

  • Henry's Law Constants for Pesticides Measured as a Function of Temperature and Salinity

    C. P. Rice;S. M. Chernyak;L. L. McConnell

  • Water quality and conservation practice effects in the Choptank River watershed

    G.W. McCarty;L.L. McConnell;C.J. Hapeman;A. Sadeghi

  • Characterization of Aircraft Deicer and Anti-Icer Components and Toxicity in Airport Snowbanks and Snowmelt Runoff

    Steven R. Corsi;Steven W. Geis;Jorge E. Loyo-Rosales;Clifford P. Rice

  • Thermodynamic, spectroscopic, and computational evidence for the irreversible conversion of β- to α-endosulfan

    Walter F. Schmidt;Susanna Bilboulian;Clifford P. Rice;James C. Fettinger

  • Pesticide occurrence in selected South Florida canals and Biscayne Bay during high agricultural activity.

    Jennifer A Harman-Fetcho;Cathleen J Hapeman;Laura L McConnell;Thomas L Potter

  • Chlorpyrifos in the Air and Surface Water of Chesapeake Bay: Predictions of Atmospheric Deposition Fluxes

    Laura L. McConnell;Eric Nelson;Clifford P. Rice;Joel E. Baker

  • PCB availability assessment of river dredging using caged clams and fish

    Clifford P. Rice;David S. White

  • Influence of a riparian wetland on nitrate and herbicides exported from an agricultural field.

    Jonathan T Angier;Gregory W McCarty;Clifford P Rice;Krystyna Bialek

  • Atmospheric transport of toxaphene to Lake Michigan

    Clifford P. Rice;Perry J. Samson;George E. Noguchi

  • PCBs and other toxicants in Mysis relicta

    Marlene S. Evans;Ralph W. Bathelt;Clifford P. Rice

  • Fate of dietary perchlorate in lactating dairy cows: Relevance to animal health and levels in the milk supply

    Anthony Capuco;CP Rice;RL Baldwin;Douglas D Bannerman

  • Relating nutrient and herbicide fate with landscape features and characteristics of 15 subwatersheds in the Choptank River watershed.

    W. Dean Hively;Cathleen J. Hapeman;Laura L. McConnell;Thomas R. Fisher

  • Long-term trends of PBDEs, triclosan, and triclocarban in biosolids from a wastewater treatment plant in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US.

    Natasha A. Andrade;Nuria Lozano;Laura L. McConnell;Alba Torrents

  • Concentration of organic contaminants in fish and their biological effects in a wastewater-dominated urban stream.

    Nuria Lozano;Clifford P. Rice;James Pagano;Larry Zintek

  • Wet deposition and air-water gas exchange of currently used pesticides to a subestuary of the Chesapeake Bay.

    Jennifer A. Harman-Fetcho;Laura L. McConnell;Clifford P. Rice;Joel E. Baker

  • Organic Priority Pollutants in Nearshore Fish from 14 Lake Michigan Tributaries and Embayments, 1983

    Joseph Camanzo;Clifford P. Rice;David J. Jude;Ronald Rossmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Eadie
Brian J. Eadie Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
Peter F. Landrum
Peter F. Landrum Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Steven J. Eisenreich
Steven J. Eisenreich Vrije Universiteit Brussel
David J. Jude
David J. Jude University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John A. Robbins
John A. Robbins Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
Walter J. Weber
Walter J. Weber University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Yu-Ping Chin
Yu-Ping Chin The Ohio State University

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