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Jens Aamand is affiliated with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Denmark. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with extensive work spanning pollution, environmental chemistry, water science and technology, health toxicology and mutagenesis, and ecology.

The scientist has contributed to multiple topics within their field, including:

  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry

Aamand's publication record features several papers in leading journals, including five publications in Water Research, three in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and others in Environmental Research Letters, The Science of The Total Environment, and Scientific Reports.

Significant recent papers by Aamand include:

  • Redox-dependent biotransformation of sulfonamide antibiotics exceeds sorption and mineralization: Evidence from incubation of sediments from a reclaimed water-affected river (2021, Water Research)
  • Combined removal of organic micropollutants and ammonium in reactive barriers developed for managed aquifer recharge (2020, Water Research)
  • Assessment of complex subsurface redox structures for sustainable development of agriculture and the environment (2021, Environmental Research Letters)
  • A 3D hydrogeochemistry model of nitrate transport and fate in a glacial sediment catchment: A first step toward a numerical model (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Transport of Tracers and Pesticides Through Fractured Clayey Till: Large Undisturbed Column Experiments and Model-Based Interpretation (2021, Water Resources Research)

Frequent collaborators in Aamand's research include:

  • Rasmus Jakobsen (9 coauthored papers)
  • Morten Dencker Schostag (7 coauthored papers)
  • Lea Ellegaard-Jensen (7 coauthored papers)
  • Lars Hestbjerg Hansen (7 coauthored papers)
  • Nora Badawi (6 coauthored papers)

Best Publications

  • Emerging pollutants in the environment: present and future challenges in biomonitoring, ecological risks and bioremediation

    Maria Gavrilescu;Kateřina Demnerová;Jens Aamand;Spiros N. Agathos

  • Is biological treatment a viable alternative for micropollutant removal in drinking water treatment processes

    Jessica Benner;Damian E. Helbling;Hans-Peter E. Kohler;Janneke Wittebol

  • Biodegradation: Updating the Concepts of Control for Microbial Cleanup in Contaminated Aquifers

    Rainer U. Meckenstock;Martin Elsner;Christian Griebler;Tillmann Lueders

  • Microbial degradation of isoproturon and related phenylurea herbicides in and below agricultural fields

    Sebastian R Sørensen;Gary D Bending;Carsten S Jacobsen;Allan Walker

  • Microbial oxidation of pyrite coupled to nitrate reduction in anoxic groundwater sediment.

    Christian Juncher Jørgensen;Ole Stig Jacobsen;B. O. Elberling;Jens Aamand

  • Isolation from Agricultural Soil and Characterization of a Sphingomonas sp. Able To Mineralize the Phenylurea Herbicide Isoproturon

    Sebastian R. Sørensen;Zeev Ronen;Jens Aamand

  • In-Field Spatial Variability in the Degradation of the Phenyl-Urea Herbicide Isoproturon Is the Result of Interactions between Degradative Sphingomonas spp. and Soil pH

    Gary D. Bending;Suzanne D. Lincoln;Sebastian R. Sørensen;J. Alun W. Morgan

  • Rapid Mineralization of the Phenylurea Herbicide Diuron by Variovorax sp. Strain SRS16 in Pure Culture and within a Two-Member Consortium

    Sebastian R. Sørensen;Christian N. Albers;Jens Aamand

  • Impact of DNA extraction method on bacterial community composition measured by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis

    Julia R. de Lipthay;Julia R. de Lipthay;Christiane Enzinger;Kaare Johnsen;Jens Aamand

  • Chemical and microbiological soil characteristics controlling glyphosate mineralisation in Danish surface soils

    Anne Louise Gimsing;Ole Kragholm Borggaard;Ole Stig Jacobsen;Jens Aamand

  • Sorption, desorption and mineralisation of the herbicides glyphosate and MCPA in samples from two Danish soil and subsurface profiles

    Sebastian R. Sørensen;Anne Schultz;Ole S. Jacobsen;Jens Aamand

  • Degradation and Mineralization of Nanomolar Concentrations of the Herbicide Dichlobenil and Its Persistent Metabolite 2,6-Dichlorobenzamide by Aminobacter spp. Isolated from Dichlobenil-Treated Soils

    Sebastian R. Sørensen;Maria S. Holtze;Allan Simonsen;Jens Aamand

  • Strains of the soil fungus Mortierella show different degradation potentials for the phenylurea herbicide diuron

    Lea Ellegaard-Jensen;Lea Ellegaard-Jensen;Jens Aamand;Birthe B. Kragelund;Anders H. Johnsen

  • Effects of Sulfuroxy Anions on Degradation of Pentachlorophenol by a Methanogenic Enrichment Culture

    Torben Madsen;Jens Aamand

  • Elucidating the Key Member of a Linuron-Mineralizing Bacterial Community by PCR and Reverse Transcription-PCR Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis 16S rRNA Gene Fingerprinting and Cultivation

    Sebastian R. Sørensen;Jim Rasmussen;Carsten S. Jacobsen;Ole S. Jacobsen

  • Metabolites of the phenylurea herbicides chlorotoluron, diuron, isoproturon and linuron produced by the soil fungus Mortierella sp.

    Nora Badawi;Stig Rønhede;Stefan Olsson;Birthe B. Kragelund

  • Isolation and immunocytochemical location of the nitrite-oxidizing system in Nitrospira moscoviensis

    E. Spieck;Silke Ehrich;Jens Aamand;Eberhard Bock

  • Fungal–bacterial consortia increase diuron degradation in water-unsaturated systems

    Lea Ellegaard-Jensen;Berith Elkær Knudsen;Berith Elkær Knudsen;Anders Johansen;Christian Nyrop Albers

  • Mecoprop, isoproturon, and atrazine in and above a sandy aquifer: vertical distribution of mineralization potential.

    Lise Larsen;Sebastian R. Sørensen;Jens Aamand

  • In situ exposure to low herbicide concentrations affects microbial population composition and catabolic gene frequency in an aerobic shallow aquifer.

    Julia R. de Lipthay;Nina Tuxen;Kaare Johnsen;Lars H. Hansen

  • Growth in coculture stimulates metabolism of the phenylurea herbicide isoproturon by Sphingomonas sp. strain SRS2.

    Sebastian R. Sørensen;Zeev Ronen;Jens Aamand

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Jørgen Albrechtsen
Hans-Jørgen Albrechtsen Technical University of Denmark
Lars Hestbjerg Hansen
Lars Hestbjerg Hansen University of Copenhagen
Poul Løgstrup Bjerg
Poul Løgstrup Bjerg Technical University of Denmark
Jan Tind Sørensen
Jan Tind Sørensen Aarhus University
Barth F. Smets
Barth F. Smets Technical University of Denmark
Søren Rosendahl
Søren Rosendahl University of Copenhagen
Ole Nybroe
Ole Nybroe University of Copenhagen
Carsten S. Jacobsen
Carsten S. Jacobsen Aarhus University
Philip John Binning
Philip John Binning Technical University of Denmark

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