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Karl J. Rockne is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research spans across two main fields of study: Dentistry and Environmental Science. Within these broader areas, their work further specializes in subfields including Orthodontics, Oral Surgery, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, and Periodontics.

Their publications reflect a focus on several key topics, especially revolving around dental health and environmental impacts. These topics include Dental materials and restorations, Oral microbiology and periodontitis research, Endodontics and Root Canal Treatments, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management, and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life.

The venues most frequently chosen for publication reflect their interdisciplinary expertise, with multiple papers appearing in Dental Materials and the Journal of Dentistry. Other publication venues include Resources Conservation and Recycling, The Science of The Total Environment, and ACS ES&T Water.

Co-authors who have collaborated most often with Karl J. Rockne include Karabi Mondal, Evan P. O'Brien, James L. Drummond, Luke Hanley, and An Li. These collaborations indicate active engagement in research efforts spanning both dental and environmental topics.

Notable recent papers by Karl J. Rockne include:

  • The Green Print: Advancement of Environmental Sustainability in Healthcare (2020) published in Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Polyhalogenated carbazoles in freshwater and estuarine sediment from China and the United States: A multi-regional study (2021) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Gas ebullition from petroleum hydrocarbons in aquatic sediments: A review (2020) published in Journal of Environmental Management
  • Polyhalogenated Carbazoles in Sediments of Lower Laurentian Great Lakes and Regional Perspectives (2022) published in ACS ES&T Water
  • Logistic Regression Analysis of LC-MS/MS Data of Monomers Eluted from Aged Dental Composites: A Supervised Machine-Learning Approach (2023) published in Analytical Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Comparison of synthetic surfactants and biosurfactants in enhancing biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

    Randhir S. Makkar;Karl J. Rockne

  • Anaerobic naphthalene degradation by microbial pure cultures under nitrate-reducing conditions

    Karl J. Rockne;Joanne C. Chee-Sanford;Robert A. Sanford;Brian P. Hedlund

  • The Green Print: Advancement of Environmental Sustainability in Healthcare

    Jodi D. Sherman;Cassandra Thiel;Andrea MacNeill;Matthew J. Eckelman

  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in the sediments of the Great Lakes. 1. Lake Superior.

    Wenlu Song;Justin C. Ford;An Li;William J. Mills

  • Biodegradation of Bicyclic and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Anaerobic Enrichments

    Karl J. Rockne;Stuart E. Strand

  • Distributed sequestration and release of PAHs in weathered sediment: the role of sediment structure and organic carbon properties.

    Karl J. Rockne;Leslie M. Shor;L. Y. Young;Gary L. Taghon

  • Organophosphate Esters in Sediment of the Great Lakes

    Dandan Cao;Jiehong Guo;Yawei Wang;Zhuona Li

  • Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in the Sediments of the Great Lakes. 2. Lakes Michigan and Huron

    Wenlu Song;An Li;Justin C. Ford;Neil C. Sturchio

  • Anaerobic biodegradation of naphthalene, phenanthrene, and biphenyl by a denitrifying enrichment culture.

    Karl J Rockne;Stuart E Strand

  • Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in the Sediments of the Great Lakes. 3. Lakes Ontario and Erie

    Wenlu Song;Justin C. Ford;An Li;Neil C. Sturchio

  • Pore structure of soot deposits from several combustion sources.

    Karl J Rockne;Gary L Taghon;David S Kosson

  • Desorption Kinetics for Field-Aged Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Sediments

    Leslie M. Shor;Karl J. Rockne;Gary L. Taghon;L. Y. Young

  • Polyhalogenated Carbazoles in Sediments of Lake Michigan: A New Discovery

    Jiehong Guo;Da Chen;Dave Potter;Karl J. Rockne

  • PCBs in sediments of the Great Lakes--distribution and trends, homolog and chlorine patterns, and in situ degradation.

    An Li;Karl J. Rockne;Neil Sturchio;Wenlu Song

  • Untargeted Identification of Organo-Bromine Compounds in Lake Sediments by Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectrometry with the Data-Independent Precursor Isolation and Characteristic Fragment Method

    Hui Peng;Chunli Chen;David M. V. Saunders;Jianxian Sun

  • Spatial and Temporal Trends of Polyhalogenated Carbazoles in Sediments of Upper Great Lakes: Insights into Their Origin.

    Jiehong Guo;Zhuona Li;Prabha Ranasinghe;Solidea Bonina;Solidea Bonina

  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in the sediments of the Great Lakes. 4. Influencing factors, trends, and implications

    A. N. Li;Karl J. Rockne;Neil Sturchio;Wenlu Song

  • Stratification of Archaea in the deep sediments of a freshwater meromictic lake: vertical shift from methanogenic to uncultured archaeal lineages.

    Guillaume Borrel;Anne Catherine Lehours;Olivier Crouzet;Didier Jézéquel

  • Historical trends of inorganic and organic fluorine in sediments of Lake Michigan

    Garry Codling;Anja Vogt;Paul D. Jones;Tieyu Wang

  • Photolytic debromination pathway of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in hexane by sunlight

    Hua Wei;Yonghong Zou;An Li;Erik R. Christensen

  • Soot deposition in the Great Lakes: implications for semi-volatile hydrophobic organic pollutant deposition.

    David R. Buckley;Karl J. Rockne;and An Li;William J. Mills

  • Bacteria inactivation at a sub-stoichiometric titanium dioxide reactive electrochemical membrane.

    Lun Guo;Kai Ding;Karl J. Rockne;Metin Duran

Frequent Co-Authors

An Li
An Li University of Illinois at Chicago
Neil C. Sturchio
Neil C. Sturchio University of Delaware
John P. Giesy
John P. Giesy University of Saskatchewan
David S. Kosson
David S. Kosson Vanderbilt University
Stuart E. Strand
Stuart E. Strand University of Washington
Paul D. Jones
Paul D. Jones University of Saskatchewan
Steve Wiseman
Steve Wiseman University of Lethbridge
Da Chen
Da Chen Jinan University
Yawei Wang
Yawei Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tian Lin
Tian Lin Chinese Academy of Sciences

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