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Deborah L. Swackhamer

Deborah L. Swackhamer

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
38
Citations
10087
World Ranking
8502
National Ranking
3034

Overview

Deborah L. Swackhamer is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, with a focus on health professions and the arts and humanities.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Health Professions
  • Arts and Humanities

Within these broad fields, their subfields of study are:

  • General Health Professions
  • Philosophy

The primary research topics covered in their work consist of:

  • Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
  • Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
  • Health, Medicine and Society

Among the recent publications is a research paper titled "Spatial and temporal variations of chromium in sediments of the Great Lakes", published in 2024 by Michigan State University Libraries.

Frequent collaborators in Deborah L. Swackhamer's research include:

  • Dave T. Long
  • S.J. Eisenreich

Their work has appeared in the following publication venue:

  • Michigan State University Libraries

Best Publications

  • Forecasting agriculturally driven global environmental change

    David Tilman;Joseph Fargione;Brian Wolff;Carla D'Antonio

  • Bioaccumulation of PCBs by algae: Kinetics versus equilibrium

    Deborah L. Swackhamer;R.S. Skoglund

  • Rethinking the Ozone Problem in Urban and Regional Air Pollution

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  • Partitioning and bioaccumulation of PBDEs and PCBs in Lake Michigan.

    Summer S. Streets;Scott A. Henderson;Amber D. Stoner;Daniel L. Carlson

  • Occurrence and bioaccumulation of organochlorine compounds in fishes from Siskiwit Lake, Isle Royale, Lake Superior.

    Deborah L. Swackhamer;Ronald A. Hites

  • Atmospheric Loading of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons to Lake Michigan as Recorded in the Sediments

    Matt F. Simcik;Steven J. Eisenreich;Katherine A. Golden;Shi Ping Liu

  • Sources and transport of contaminants of emerging concern: A two-year study of occurrence and spatiotemporal variation in a mixed land use watershed.

    David J. Fairbairn;M. Ekrem Karpuzcu;William A. Arnold;Brian L. Barber

  • Deposition and evaporation of polychlorobiphenyl congeners to and from Siskiwit Lake, Isle Royale, Lake Superior

    Deborah L. Swackhamer;Bruce D. McVeety;Ronald A. Hites

  • Factors affecting phytoplankton species‐specific differences in accumulation of 40 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

    Kari Stange;Deborah L. Swackhamer

  • A Kinetics Model for Predicting the Accumulation of PCBs in Phytoplankton

    Robert S. Skoglund;Kari Stange;Deborah L. Swackhamer

  • Quantitation of toxaphene in environmental samples using negative ion chemical ionization mass spectrometry

    Deborah L. Swackhamer;M. Judith. Charles;Ronald A. Hites

  • PCBs in Lake Michigan Water Revisited

    Roger F. Pearson;Keri C. Hornbuckle;Steven J. Eisenreich;Deborah L. Swackhamer

  • Accumulation, inventory, and diagenesis of chlorinated hydrocarbons in lake ontario sediments.

    Charles S. Wong;Gordon. Sanders;Daniel R. Engstrom;David T. Long

  • Reproductive responses of male fathead minnows exposed to wastewater treatment plant effluent, effluent treated with XAD8 resin, and an environmentally relevant mixture of alkylphenol compounds

    Larry B. Barber;Kathy E. Lee;Deborah L. Swackhamer;Heiko L. Schoenfuss

  • On the rate of decline of persistent organic contaminants in lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) from the Great Lakes, 1970-2003.

    Daniel L. Carlson;David S. De Vault;Deborah L. Swackhamer

  • Reply to comment on "Estimation of the atmospheric and nonatmospheric contributions and losses of polychlorinated biphenyls for Lake Michigan on the basis of sediment records of remote lakes.

    Deborah L. Swackhamer;David E. Armstrong

  • Assessing annual water-air fluxes of polychlorinated biphenyls in lake michigan.

    Keri C. Hornbuckle;Clyde W. Sweet;Roger F. Pearson;Deborah L. Swackhamer

  • Bioaccumulation factors for PCBs revisited.

    Katrine Borgå;Aaron T. Fisk;Barry Hargrave;Paul F. Hoekstra

  • Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Mass Balance and Comparison of Wastewater Effluent and Upstream Sources in a Mixed-Use Watershed.

    David J. Fairbairn;William A. Arnold;Brian L. Barber;Elizabeth F. Kaufenberg

  • Sediment-water distribution of contaminants of emerging concern in a mixed use watershed.

    David J. Fairbairn;M. Ekrem Karpuzcu;William A. Arnold;Brian L. Barber

  • Distribution and Characterization of PCBs in Lake Michigan Water

    Deborah L. Swackhamer;David E. Armstrong

  • Response to Comment on “Partitioning and Bioaccumulation of PBDEs and PCBs in Lake Michigan”

    Summer S. Streets;Scott A. Henderson;Amber D. Stoner;Daniel L. Carlson

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven J. Eisenreich
Steven J. Eisenreich Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ronald A. Hites
Ronald A. Hites Indiana University
William A. Arnold
William A. Arnold University of Minnesota
Keri C. Hornbuckle
Keri C. Hornbuckle University of Iowa
Stephen Polasky
Stephen Polasky University of Minnesota
David E. Armstrong
David E. Armstrong University of Wisconsin–Madison
Gerald J. Niemi
Gerald J. Niemi University of Minnesota, Duluth
Janet G. Hering
Janet G. Hering Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
David T. Long
David T. Long Michigan State University
Lucinda B. Johnson
Lucinda B. Johnson University of Minnesota, Duluth

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