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Overview

David A. Polya is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research activities focus mainly on environmental science, with a significant number of publications relating to environmental chemistry and its subfields.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

  • Arsenic contamination and mitigation
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Mine drainage and remediation techniques
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection

David A. Polya's research is documented in several recent papers such as:

  • "Arsenic and other geogenic contaminants in global groundwater" (2024), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Groundwater Arsenic Distribution in India by Machine Learning Geospatial Modeling" (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Linking microbial community composition to hydrogeochemistry in the western Hetao Basin: Potential importance of ammonium as an electron donor during arsenic mobilization" (2020), Environment International
  • "Positive Association of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) with Chronic Exposure to Drinking Water Arsenic (As) at Concentrations below the WHO Provisional Guideline Value: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Arsenic exposure from food exceeds that from drinking water in endemic area of Bihar, India" (2020), The Science of The Total Environment

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Laura A. Richards
  • Ashok Ghosh
  • Jonathan R. Lloyd
  • Daren C. Gooddy
  • Arun Kumar

Publications appear predominantly in journals such as:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Environmental Geochemistry and Health
  • Applied Geochemistry

Their expertise spans several fields and subfields, with 112 publications in environmental science. Key subfields include environmental chemistry (49 publications), health, toxicology and mutagenesis (25 publications), pollution (13 publications), water science and technology (11 publications), and geochemistry and petrology (10 publications).

Best Publications

  • Role of metal-reducing bacteria in arsenic release from Bengal delta sediments

    Farhana S. Islam;Andrew G. Gault;Christopher Boothman;David A. Polya

  • Rice is a major exposure route for arsenic in Chakdaha block, Nadia district, west Bengal, India: A probabilistic risk assessment

    Debapriya Mondal;David A. Polya

  • Arsenic in shallow, reducing groundwaters in southern Asia : An environmental health disaster

    Laurent Charlet;David A. Polya

  • Arsenic hazard in shallow Cambodian groundwaters

    David A. Polya;A. G. Gault;N. Diebe;P. Feldman

  • High arsenic in rice is associated with elevated genotoxic effects in humans

    Mayukh Banerjee;Nilanjana Banerjee;Pritha Bhattacharjee;Debapriya Mondal;Debapriya Mondal

  • XAS and XMCD evidence for species-dependent partitioning of arsenic during microbial reduction of ferrihydrite to magnetite.

    V. S. Coker;A. G. Gault;C. I. Pearce;G. van der Laan

  • The control of organic matter on microbially mediated iron reduction and arsenic release in shallow alluvial aquifers, Cambodia

    H. A. L. Rowland;R. L. Pederick;D. A. Polya;R. D. Pancost

  • Arsenic and other geogenic contaminants in global groundwater

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  • Molecular Analysis of Arsenate-Reducing Bacteria within Cambodian Sediments following Amendment with Acetate

    G. Lear;B. Song;A. G. Gault;D. A. Polya

  • Arsenic in hair and nails of individuals exposed to arsenic-rich groundwaters in Kandal province, Cambodia

    Andrew G. Gault;Helen. A.L. Rowland;John M. Charnock;John M. Charnock;Roy A. Wogelius

  • Interactions between the Fe(III)-reducing bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens and arsenate, and capture of the metalloid by biogenic Fe(II).

    F. S. Islam;R. L. Pederick;A. G. Gault;L. K. Adams

  • Compositional controls on early diagenetic pathways in fine-grained sedimentary rocks: Implications for predicting unconventional reservoir attributes of mudstones

    Joe H. S. Macquaker;Kevin G. Taylor;Margaret Keller;David Polya

  • Comparison of drinking water, raw rice and cooking of rice as arsenic exposure routes in three contrasting areas of West Bengal, India

    Debapriya Mondal;Debapriya Mondal;Mayukh Banerjee;Mayukh Banerjee;Manjari Kundu;Manjari Kundu;Nilanjana Banerjee;Nilanjana Banerjee

  • Importance of mantle derived fluids during granite associated hydrothermal circulation: He and Ar isotopes of ore minerals from Panasqueira

    Peter G. Burnard;David A. Polya

  • Characterisation of organic matter in a shallow, reducing, arsenic-rich aquifer, West Bengal

    H.A.L. Rowland;D.A. Polya;J.R. Lloyd;R.D. Pancost

  • Arsenic release and attenuation in low organic carbon aquifer sediments from West Bengal

    M. Héry;B. E. Van Dongen;F. Gill;D. Mondal;D. Mondal

  • Environmental science: Rising arsenic risk?

    David Polya;Laurent Charlet

  • Evolution and paragenetic context of low δD hydrothermal fluids from the Panasqueira W-Sn deposit, Portugal: new evidence from microthermometric, stable isotope, noble gas and halogen analyses of primary fluid inclusions

    D.A Polya;K.A Foxford;F Stuart;A Boyce

  • Understanding arsenic metabolism through a comparative study of arsenic levels in the urine, hair and fingernails of healthy volunteers from three unexposed ethnic groups in the United Kingdom.

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  • Arsenic bioremediation by biogenic iron oxides and sulfides

    Enoma O. Omoregie;Enoma O. Omoregie;Enoma O. Omoregie;Raoul Marie Couture;Raoul Marie Couture;Philippe Van Cappellen;Philippe Van Cappellen;Claire L. Corkhill;Claire L. Corkhill

  • Pond-derived organic carbon driving changes in arsenic hazard found in Asian groundwaters.

    Michael Lawson;David A. Polya;Adrian J. Boyce;Charlotte Bryant

  • The Role of Indigenous Microorganisms in the Biodegradation of Naturally Occurring Petroleum, the Reduction of Iron, and the Mobilization of Arsenite from West Bengal Aquifer Sediments

    H. A. L. Rowland;C. Boothman;R. Pancost;A. G. Gault

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan R. Lloyd
Jonathan R. Lloyd University of Manchester
John M. Charnock
John M. Charnock University of Manchester
Bart E. van Dongen
Bart E. van Dongen University of Manchester
Chris J. Ballentine
Chris J. Ballentine University of Oxford
Adrian J. Boyce
Adrian J. Boyce Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Michael J. Watts
Michael J. Watts British Geological Survey
Debashis Chatterjee
Debashis Chatterjee University of Kalyani
Charlotte Bryant
Charlotte Bryant Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Ashok K. Giri
Ashok K. Giri Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
David J. Vaughan
David J. Vaughan University of Manchester

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