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David Werner is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and primarily conducts research in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Water Science and Technology, Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Ecology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's research covers multiple topics related to environmental quality and treatment, with particular focus on fecal contamination and water quality, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, child nutrition and water access, adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal, microbial community ecology and physiology, water treatment and disinfection, and wastewater treatment and reuse.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David Werner include Kishor Acharya, Soydoa Vinitnantharat, Adrian Blackburn, Alemseged Tamiru Haile, and Thunchanok Thongsamer.

David Werner often publishes in journals such as the Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Environmental Pollution, The Science of The Total Environment, and Water.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by David Werner include:

  • Metagenomic water quality monitoring with a portable laboratory, 2020, Water Research
  • Valorisation of agricultural waste derived biochars in aquaculture to remove organic micropollutants from water - experimental study and molecular dynamics simulations, 2021, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Carbon nanomaterials affect carbon cycle-related functions of the soil microbial community and the coupling of nutrient cycles, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Coconut husk biochar amendment enhances nutrient retention by suppressing nitrification in agricultural soil following anaerobic digestate application, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Transformation mechanisms of tetracycline by horseradish peroxidase with/without redox mediator ABTS for variable water chemistry, 2020, Chemosphere

Best Publications

  • In-situ Sorbent Amendments: A New Direction in Contaminated Sediment Management

    Upal Ghosh;Richard G. Luthy;Gerard Cornelissen;David Werner

  • Antibiotic resistance gene abundances associated with waste discharges to the Almendares River near Havana, Cuba.

    David W. Graham;Susana Olivares-Rieumont;Charles W. Knapp;Lazaro Lima

  • Reductive sequestration of chromate by hierarchical FeS@Fe 0 particles

    Jiangkun Du;Jianguo Bao;Chenghang Lu;David Werner

  • Magnetite Impregnation Effects on the Sorbent Properties of Activated Carbons and Biochars

    Zhantao Han;Badruddeen Sani;Wojciech Mrozik;Martin Obst

  • Characterization of KOH modified biochars from different pyrolysis temperatures and enhanced adsorption of antibiotics

    Hua Huang;Jingchun Tang;Kai Gao;Ruozhu He

  • Effects of dose and particle size on activated carbon treatment to sequester polychlorinated biphenyls and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in marine sediments.

    John R. Zimmerman;David Werner;Upal Ghosh;Rod N. Millward

  • Vapor phase transport and biodegradation of volatile fuel compounds in the unsaturated zone: a large scale lysimeter experiment.

    Gabriele Pasteris;David Werner;Karin Kaufmann;Patrick Höhener

  • Modeling polychlorinated biphenyl mass transfer after amendment of contaminated sediment with activated carbon.

    David Werner;Upal Ghosh;Richard G. Luthy

  • Biochar and Activated Carbon for Enhanced Trace Organic Contaminant Retention in Stormwater Infiltration Systems

    Bridget A. Ulrich;Eugenia A. Im;David Werner;Christopher P. Higgins

  • Phenanthrene and pyrene sorption and intraparticle diffusion in polyoxymethylene, coke, and activated carbon.

    Sungwoo Ahn;David Werner;Hrissi K. Karapanagioti;Donald R. McGlothlin

  • Activated carbon amendment as a treatment for residual ddt in sediment from a superfund site in San Francisco Bay, Richmond, California, USA

    Jeanne E. Tomaszewski;David Werner;Richard G. Luthy

  • Sorption of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and its metabolites by activated carbon in clean water and sediment slurries.

    Sarah E. Hale;Jeanne E. Tomaszewski;Richard G. Luthy;David Werner

  • Effect of activated carbon amendment on bacterial community structure and functions in a PAH impacted urban soil.

    Paola Meynet;Sarah E. Hale;Russell J. Davenport;Gerard Cornelissen;Gerard Cornelissen

  • Soil carbon, multiple benefits

    Eleanor Milne;Eleanor Milne;Steven A. Banwart;Elke Noellemeyer;David James Abson

  • The sequestration of PCBs in Lake Hartwell sediment with activated carbon

    David Werner;Christopher P. Higgins;Richard G. Luthy

  • Effect of temperature on microbial diversity and nitrogen removal performance of an anammox reactor treating anaerobically pretreated municipal wastewater.

    Luyara de Almeida Fernandes;Alyne Duarte Pereira;Cíntia Dutra Leal;Russell Davenport

  • Partitioning of organochlorine pesticides from water to polyethylene passive samplers

    Sarah E. Hale;Timothy J. Martin;Kai-Uwe Goss;Hans Peter H. Arp

  • Worldwide occurrence and fate of chlorofluorocarbons in groundwater

    Patrick Höhener;David Werner;Christian Balsiger;Gabriele Pasteris

  • Medium shapes the microbial community of water filters with implications for effluent quality

    Marta Vignola;Marta Vignola;David Werner;Matthew J. Wade;Paola Meynet

  • Removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) from contaminated groundwater using granular activated carbon: a pilot-scale study with breakthrough modeling

    Charlie Jeffrey Liu;David Werner;Christopher Bellona

  • Activated carbon amendment to sequester PAHs in contaminated soil: a lysimeter field trial.

    Sarah E. Hale;Marie Elmquist;Rahel Brändli;Thomas Hartnik

  • Effect of biochar on the fate of volatile petroleum hydrocarbons in an aerobic sandy soil.

    Khaled M. Bushnaf;Sara Puricelli;Sabrina Saponaro;David Werner

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard G. Luthy
Richard G. Luthy Stanford University
Patrick Höhener
Patrick Höhener Aix-Marseille University
Sarah E. Hale
Sarah E. Hale Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
Gerard Cornelissen
Gerard Cornelissen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Xilong Wang
Xilong Wang Peking University
David W. Graham
David W. Graham Newcastle University
Upal Ghosh
Upal Ghosh University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Shu Tao
Shu Tao Peking University
David A. C. Manning
David A. C. Manning Newcastle University
Jussi V. K. Kukkonen
Jussi V. K. Kukkonen University of Eastern Finland

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