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Karen H. Johannesson is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Boston in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions across related subfields such as geochemistry and petrology, pollution, environmental chemistry, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and inorganic chemistry.

Their work covers a range of topics central to understanding elemental and chemical processes in the environment, including geochemistry and elemental analysis, heavy metals in the environment, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, geology and paleoclimatology research, radioactive element chemistry and processing, arsenic contamination and mitigation, and aspects of paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Johannesson has published frequently in several scientific venues. The most common publication venues include:

  • Applied Geochemistry
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Chemical Geology
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Chemosphere

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Johannesson demonstrate a focus on contaminants and biogeochemical cycling in aquatic and sedimentary environments. Representative publications include:

  • "Arsenic and other geogenic contaminants in global groundwater," 2024, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Groundwater geochemistry, quality, and pollution of the largest lake basin in the Middle East: Comparison of PMF and PCA-MLR receptor models and application of the source-oriented HHRA approach," 2021, Chemosphere
  • "The Global Biogeochemical Cycle of the Rare Earth Elements," 2024, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "Human-induced pollution and toxicity of river sediment by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) and accumulation in a paddy soil-rice system: A comprehensive watershed-scale assessment," 2022, Chemosphere
  • "Rare earth elements as tracers of sediment contamination by fertilizer industries in Southern Brazil, Patos Lagoon Estuary," 2021, Applied Geochemistry

Johannesson collaborates frequently with several coauthors, indicating a networked approach to research. Frequent collaborators include Lamine Boumaiza, Romain Chesnaux, Randy L. Stotler, Frédéric Huneau, and Christine Stumpp.

Best Publications

  • Rare earth elements (REE) and yttrium in stream waters, stream sediments, and Fe–Mn oxyhydroxides: Fractionation, speciation, and controls over REE + Y patterns in the surface environment

    Matthew I. Leybourne;Karen H. Johannesson

  • Speciation of rare earth elements in natural terrestrial waters: assessing the role of dissolved organic matter from the modeling approach

    Jianwu Tang;Karen H. Johannesson

  • Factor analytical approaches for evaluating groundwater trace element chemistry data

    I.M Farnham;K.H Johannesson;A.K Singh;V.F Hodge

  • Treatment of nondetects in multivariate analysis of groundwater geochemistry data

    Irene M Farnham;Ashok K Singh;Klaus J Stetzenbach;Kevin H Johannesson

  • RARE EARTH ELEMENTS AS GEOCHEMICAL TRACERS OF REGIONAL GROUNDWATER MIXING

    Kevin H. Johannesson;Klaus J. Stetzenbach;Vernon F. Hodge

  • Origin of middle rare earth element enrichments in acid waters of a Canadian high Arctic lake.

    Kevin H Johannesson;Xiaoping Zhou

  • Rare earth element concentrations and speciation in organic-rich blackwaters of the Great Dismal Swamp, Virginia, USA

    Karen H. Johannesson;Jianwu Tang;Jeanette M. Daniels;William J. Bounds

  • Rare earth element complexation behavior in circumneutral pH groundwaters: Assessing the role of carbonate and phosphate ions

    Kevin H. Johannesson;Klaus J. Stetzenbach;Vernon F. Hodge;W. Berry Lyons

  • The rare earth element geochemistry of Mono Lake water and the importance of carbonate complexing

    Kevin H. Johannesson;W. Berry Lyons

  • Geochemistry of the rare-earth elements in hypersaline and dilute acidic natural terrestrial waters: Complexation behavior and middle rare-earth element enrichments

    Kevin H. Johannesson;W.Berry Lyons;Mary A. Yelken;Henri E. Gaudette

  • Ligand extraction of rare earth elements from aquifer sediments: Implications for rare earth element complexation with organic matter in natural waters

    Jianwu Tang;Karen H. Johannesson

  • Rare-earth element geochemistry of Colour Lake, an acidic freshwater lake on Axel Heiberg Island, Northwest Territories, Canada

    Kevin H. Johannesson;W.Berry Lyons

  • Rare earth element fractionation and concentration variations along a groundwater flow path within a shallow, basin-fill aquifer, Southern Nevada, USA

    Kevin H. Johannesson;Irene M. Farnham;Caixia Guo;Klaus J. Stetzenbach

  • Do Archean chemical sediments record ancient seawater rare earth element patterns

    Karen H. Johannesson;Doyle L. Hawkins;Alejandra Cortés

  • Origin of rare earth element signatures in groundwaters of circumneutral pH from southern Nevada and eastern California, USA

    Kevin H Johannesson;Xiaoping Zhou;Caixia Guo;Klaus J Stetzenbach

  • Balancing the global oceanic neodymium budget: Evaluating the role of groundwater

    Karen H. Johannesson;David J. Burdige

  • Deciphering groundwater flow systems in Oasis Valley, Nevada, using trace element chemistry, multivariate statistics, and Geographical Information System

    Irene M. Farnham;Klaus J. Stetzenbach;Ashok K. Singh;Kevin H. Johannesson

  • The solubility control of rare earth elements in natural terrestrial waters and the significance of PO 4 3− and CO 3 2− in limiting dissolved rare earth concentrations: A review of recent information

    Kevin H. Johannesson;W. Berry Lyons;Klaus J. Stetzenbach;Robert H. Byrne

  • Rare earth element geochemistry of groundwaters from a thick till and clay-rich aquitard sequence, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Kevin H Johannesson;M.Jim Hendry

  • Groundwater geochemistry, quality, and pollution of the largest lake basin in the Middle East: Comparison of PMF and PCA-MLR receptor models and application of the source-oriented HHRA approach.

    Hamed Haghnazar;Karen H. Johannesson;Ricardo González-Pinzón;Mojtaba Pourakbar

  • Delineation of Ground-Water Flow Systems in the Southern Great Basin Using Aqueous Rare Earth Element Distributions

    Kevin H. Johannesson;Klaus J. Stetzenbach;Vernon F. Hodge;David K. Kreamer

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Burdige
David J. Burdige Old Dominion University
W. Berry Lyons
W. Berry Lyons The Ohio State University
Prosun Bhattacharya
Prosun Bhattacharya Royal Institute of Technology
Peter W. Swarzenski
Peter W. Swarzenski International Atomic Energy Agency
Matthew I. Leybourne
Matthew I. Leybourne Queen's University
Jonathan B. Martin
Jonathan B. Martin University of Florida
Jochen Bundschuh
Jochen Bundschuh University of Southern Queensland
Marc Poujol
Marc Poujol University of Rennes
Abhijit Mukherjee
Abhijit Mukherjee Curtin University
George R. Helz
George R. Helz University of Maryland, College Park

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