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Kenneth H. Williams is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily addresses topics within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their work explores several key topics including Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Climate Change and Permafrost.

Williams has authored multiple papers across various journals and venues. Some recent examples are:

  • Borgs are giant genetic elements with potential to expand metabolic capacity (2022) published in Nature
  • Integrating airborne remote sensing and field campaigns for ecology and Earth system science (2020) published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Persistence and Plasticity in Conifer Water-Use Strategies (2020) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • The Snowmelt Niche Differentiates Three Microbial Life Strategies That Influence Soil Nitrogen Availability During and After Winter (2020) published in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above- and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions (2022) published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Rosemary Carroll
  • Susan S. Hubbard
  • Haruko Wainwright
  • Curtis Beutler
  • Wenming Dong

Williams frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Water Resources Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts

Best Publications

  • Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria

    Christopher T. Brown;Laura A. Hug;Brian C. Thomas;Itai Sharon

  • Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system

    Karthik Anantharaman;Christopher T. Brown;Laura A. Hug;Itai Sharon

  • Fermentation, hydrogen, and sulfur metabolism in multiple uncultivated bacterial phyla.

    Kelly C. Wrighton;Brian C. Thomas;Itai Sharon;Christopher S. Miller

  • Community genomic analyses constrain the distribution of metabolic traits across the Chloroflexi phylum and indicate roles in sediment carbon cycling

    Laura A Hug;Cindy J Castelle;Kelly C Wrighton;Brian C Thomas

  • Genomic Expansion of Domain Archaea Highlights Roles for Organisms from New Phyla in Anaerobic Carbon Cycling

    Cindy J. Castelle;Kelly C. Wrighton;Brian C. Thomas;Laura A. Hug

  • Diverse uncultivated ultra-small bacterial cells in groundwater

    Birgit Luef;Kyle R. Frischkorn;Kyle R. Frischkorn;Kelly C. Wrighton;Kelly C. Wrighton;Hoi-Ying N. Holman

  • An overview of the spectral induced polarization method for near-surface applications

    Andreas Kemna;Andrew Binley;Giorgio Cassiani;Ernst Niederleithinger

  • Thermodynamically controlled preservation of organic carbon in floodplains

    Kristin Boye;Kristin Boye;Vincent Noël;Malak M. Tfaily;Sharon E. Bone

  • Acetate Availability and its Influence on Sustainable Bioremediation of Uranium-Contaminated Groundwater

    Kenneth H. Williams;Philip E. Long;James A. Davis;Michael J. Wilkins

  • Estimation of permeable pathways and water content using tomographic radar data

    S. S. Hubbard;J. E. Peterson;E. L. Majer;P. T. Zawislanski

  • Hydrogeological characterization of the South Oyster bacterial transport site using geophysical data

    Susan S. Hubbard;Jinsong Chen;John Peterson;Ernest L. Majer

  • Extraordinary phylogenetic diversity and metabolic versatility in aquifer sediment

    Cindy J. Castelle;Laura A. Hug;Kelly C. Wrighton;Brian C. Thomas

  • Uranium redox transition pathways in acetate-amended sediments

    John R. Bargar;Kenneth H. Williams;Kate M. Campbell;Philip E. Long

  • Critical biogeochemical functions in the subsurface are associated with bacteria from new phyla and little studied lineages

    Laura A. Hug;Brian C. Thomas;Itai Sharon;Christopher T. Brown

  • Imaging Hydrated Microbial Extracellular Polymers: Comparative Analysis by Electron Microscopy

    Alice C. Dohnalkova;Matthew J. Marshall;Bruce W. Arey;Kenneth H. Williams

  • The East River, Colorado, watershed: A mountainous community testbed for improving predictive understanding of multiscale hydrological–biogeochemical dynamics

    Susan S. Hubbard;Kenneth Hurst Williams;Deb Agarwal;Jillian Banfield

  • Metabolic interdependencies between phylogenetically novel fermenters and respiratory organisms in an unconfined aquifer

    Kelly C Wrighton;Cindy J Castelle;Michael J Wilkins;Laura A Hug

  • Geophysical imaging of stimulated microbial biomineralization.

    Kenneth H. Williams;Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis;Lee D. Slater;Alice Dohnalkova

  • Bioremediation of uranium-contaminated groundwater: a systems approach to subsurface biogeochemistry.

    Kenneth H Williams;John R Bargar;Jonathan R Lloyd;Derek R Lovley

  • Geophysical monitoring of coupled microbial and geochemical processes during stimulated subsurface bioremediation.

    Kenneth H. Williams;Andreas Kemna;Michael J. Wilkins;Jennifer L. Druhan

  • Persistence of uranium groundwater plumes: Contrasting mechanisms at two DOE sites in the groundwater–river interaction zone

    John M. Zachara;Philip E. Long;John Bargar;James A. Davis

  • Proteogenomic monitoring of Geobacter physiology during stimulated uranium bioremediation

    Michael J. Wilkins;Nathan C. VerBerkmoes;Kenneth H. Williams;Stephen J. Callister

  • Low-frequency electrical response to microbial induced sulfide precipitation

    Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis;Kenneth Hurst Williams;Kenneth Hurst Williams;Lee Slater;Susan Hubbard

  • Geophysical monitoring of coupled microbial and geochemical processes during stimulated subsurface bioremediation

    K.H. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan S. Hubbard
Susan S. Hubbard Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Philip E. Long
Philip E. Long Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jillian F. Banfield
Jillian F. Banfield University of California, Berkeley
Michael J. Wilkins
Michael J. Wilkins Colorado State University
Eoin L. Brodie
Eoin L. Brodie Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Carl I. Steefel
Carl I. Steefel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
John R. Bargar
John R. Bargar SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Tetsu K. Tokunaga
Tetsu K. Tokunaga Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Derek R. Lovley
Derek R. Lovley University of Massachusetts Amherst
James A. Davis
James A. Davis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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