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Overview

Harald Biester is affiliated with Technische Universität Braunschweig in Germany, focusing primarily on Environmental Science.

The scientist's research extensively covers topics such as mercury impact and mitigation studies, heavy metals in environment, and toxic organic pollutants impact. Other key areas of work include peatlands and wetlands ecology, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, isotope analysis in ecology, and hydrology and watershed management studies.

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Biester's publications address various aspects of environmental contamination and biogeochemical processes. Notable recent papers include:

  • Demystifying mercury geochemistry in contaminated soil-groundwater systems with complementary mercury stable isotope, concentration, and speciation analyses (2022, Environmental Science Processes & Impacts)
  • End member and Bayesian mixing models consistently indicate near-surface flowpath dominance in a pristine humid tropical rainforest (2021, Hydrological Processes)
  • Why productive lakes are larger mercury sedimentary sinks than oligotrophic brown water lakes (2020, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • Mercury Accumulation in Marine Sediments - A Comparison of an Upwelling Area and Two Large River Mouths (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • Molecular Probing of DOM Indicates a Key Role of Spruce-Derived Lignin in the DOM and Metal Cycles of a Headwater Catchment: Can Spruce Forest Dieback Exacerbate Future Trends in the Browning of Central European Surface Waters? (2022, Environmental Science & Technology)

Frequent collaborators in Biester's work include:

  • David S. McLagan
  • Lorenz Schwab
  • Jan G. Wiederhold
  • Stephan M. Kraemer
  • Marta Pérez-Rodríguez

The venues where Biester frequently publishes reveal a focus on geochemistry, environmental contamination, and related subjects. These include:

  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Biogeosciences

In terms of research specialization, Biester's work integrates disciplines such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, ecology, pollution studies, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and water science and technology.

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Ecology
  • Pollution
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Water Science and Technology

Best Publications

  • Iron traps terrestrially derived dissolved organic matter at redox interfaces

    Thomas Riedel;Dominik Zak;Harald Biester;Thorsten Dittmar

  • Determination of Mercury Binding Forms in Contaminated Soils: Mercury Pyrolysis versus Sequential Extractions

    Harald Biester;Christian Scholz

  • Binding and mobility of mercury in soils contaminated by emissions from chlor-alkali plants.

    H Biester;G Müller;H.F Schöler

  • Molecular Fractionation of Dissolved Organic Matter with Metal Salts

    Thomas Riedel;Harald Biester;Thorsten Dittmar

  • Investigation of the light-enhanced emission of mercury from naturally enriched substrates

    Mae Sexauer Gustin;Harald Biester;Christopher S Kim

  • Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids

    B. D. A. Naafs;G. N. Inglis;Y. Zheng;M. J. Amesbury

  • Modeling the Past Atmospheric Deposition of Mercury Using Natural Archives

    Harald Biester;Richard Bindler;§ and Antonio Martinez-Cortizas;Daniel R. Engstrom

  • A first insight into mercury distribution and speciation in soils from the Almadén mining district, Spain

    P. Higueras;R. Oyarzun;H. Biester;J. Lillo

  • Mercury speciation in sediments affected by dumped mining residues in the drainage area of the Idrija mercury mine, Slovenia.

    Harald Biester;Mateja Gosar;Stefano Covelli

  • Peat decomposition records in three pristine ombrotrophic bogs in southern Patagonia

    Tanja Broder;Christian Blodau;Christian Blodau;Harald Biester;Klaus-Holger Knorr

  • Comparison of different methods to determine the degree of peat decomposition in peat bogs

    H. Biester;K.-H. Knorr;J. Schellekens;A. Basler

  • Mercury speciation in tailings of the Idrija mercury mine

    Harald Biester;Mateja Gosar;German Müller

  • Over three millennia of mercury pollution in the Peruvian Andes

    Colin A. Cooke;Prentiss H. Balcom;Harald Biester;Alexander P. Wolfe

  • Halogen Retention, Organohalogens, and the Role of Organic Matter Decomposition on Halogen Enrichment in Two Chilean Peat Bogs

    H. Biester;F. Keppler;A. Putschew;‖ and A. Martinez-Cortizas

  • Proxy climate and vegetation changes during the last five millennia in NW Iberia: Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph data from two ombrotrophic peat bogs in the North Western Iberian Peninsula

    Timothy Michael Mighall;A. Martinez Cortizas;H. Biester;S. E. Turner

  • Mercury speciation analyses in HgCl2-contaminated soils and groundwater : Implications for risk assessment and remediation strategies

    A. Bollen;A. Wenke;H. Biester

  • Estimating distribution and retention of mercury in three different soils contaminated by emissions from chlor-alkali plants: part I.

    H. Biester;G. Müller;H.F. Schöler

  • Holocene peat and lake sediment tephra record from the southernmost Chilean Andes (53-55°S)

    Rolf Kilian;Miriam Hohner;Harald Biester;Hans J. Wallrabe-Adams

  • Use and legacy of mercury in the Andes.

    Colin A. Cooke;Holger Hintelmann;Jay J. Ague;Richard Burger

  • Effect of Peat Decomposition and Mass Loss on Historic Mercury Records in Peat Bogs from Patagonia

    H. Biester;A. Martinez-Cortizas;S. Birkenstock;R. Kilian;R. Kilian;R. Kilian

  • Binding of mercury in soils and attic dust in the Idrija mercury mine area (Slovenia).

    Mateja Gosar;Robert Šajn;Harald Biester

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Bindler
Richard Bindler Umeå University
Christian Birkel
Christian Birkel University of Costa Rica
Frank Keppler
Frank Keppler Heidelberg University
Christian Blodau
Christian Blodau University of Münster
Mae Sexauer Gustin
Mae Sexauer Gustin University of Nevada Reno
Thorsten Dittmar
Thorsten Dittmar Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Thorsten Hoffmann
Thorsten Hoffmann Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Ralf R. Mendel
Ralf R. Mendel Technische Universität Braunschweig
Augusto Mangini
Augusto Mangini Heidelberg University
Mark E. Hines
Mark E. Hines University of Massachusetts Lowell

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