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Overview

Kurt D. Pennell is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and specializes in environmental science with a focus on health, toxicology, and environmental chemistry. Their research spans multiple subfields including water science and technology, environmental engineering, and molecular biology. The overall emphasis is on the study of pollutants, toxic substances, and environmental contaminants.

The scientist's work has contributed extensively to the understanding of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), toxic organic pollutants, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and the impacts of environmental factors on health and cognitive aging. Other areas of investigation include atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, carbon dioxide capture technologies, and groundwater flow and contamination studies.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Katherine E. Manz, Linda M. Abriola, Natalie L. Cápiro, Sheng Dong, and Joseph M. Braun.

Pennell has published in several scientific venues, with a significant number of works appearing in Environmental Science & Technology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Water Research, Journal of Hazardous Materials, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Kurt D. Pennell are:

  • Non-targeted analysis (NTA) and suspect screening analysis (SSA): a review of examining the chemical exposome, 2023, Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
  • Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Current status and research needs, 2020, Environmental Technology & Innovation
  • Accumulation of six PFAS compounds by woody and herbaceous plants: potential for phytoextraction, 2020, International Journal of Phytoremediation
  • A scalable workflow to characterize the human exposome, 2021, Nature Communications
  • An actionable annotation scoring framework for gas chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry, 2022, Exposome

Best Publications

  • Surfactant-enhanced solubilization of residual dodecane in soil columns. 1. Experimental investigation

    Kurt D. Pennell;Linda M. Abriola;Walter J. Weber

  • Influence of Viscous and Buoyancy Forces on the Mobilization of Residual Tetrachloroethylene during Surfactant Flushing

    Kurt D. Pennell;Gary A. Pope;Linda M. Abriola

  • Surfactant enhanced remediation of soil columns contaminated by residual tetrachloroethylene

    Kurt D Pennell;Minquan Jin;Linda M Abriola;Gary A Pope

  • Investigation of the transport and deposition of fullerene (C60) nanoparticles in quartz sands under varying flow conditions

    Yusong Li;Yonggang Wang;Kurt D Pennell;Linda M Abriola

  • Transport and Retention of Nanoscale C60 Aggregates in Water-Saturated Porous Media

    Yonggang Wang;Yusong Li;John D. Fortner;Joseph B. Hughes

  • Chlorinated Ethene Source Remediation: Lessons Learned

    Hans F. Stroo;Andrea Leeson;Jeffrey A. Marqusee;Paul C. Johnson

  • Reference Standardization for Mass Spectrometry and High-resolution Metabolomics Applications to Exposome Research

    Young-Mi Go;Douglas I. Walker;Douglas I. Walker;Yongliang Liang;Karan Uppal

  • Accumulation of PFOA and PFOS at the Air–WaterInterface

    Jed Costanza;Masoud Arshadi;Linda M. Abriola;Kurt D. Pennell

  • Vapor-phase sorption of p-xylene and water on soils and clay minerals

    Kurt D. Pennell;R. Dean Rhue;P. Suresh C. Rao;Cliff T. Johnston

  • Surfactant-enhanced solubilization of residual dodecane in soil columns. 2. Mathematical modeling

    Linda M. Abriola;Timothy J. Dekker;Kurt D. Pennell

  • Solubilization of Dodecane, Tetrachloroethylene, and 1,2-Dichlorobenzene in Micellar Solutions of Ethoxylated Nonionic Surfactants

    Kurt D. Pennell;Andrew M. Adinolfi;Linda M. Abriola;Mamadou S. Diallo

  • Surface Area of Soil Organic Matter Reexamined

    K. D. Pennell;L. M. Abriola;S. A. Boyd

  • An Experimental Investigation of Rate‐Limited Nonaqueous Phase Liquid Volatilization in Unsaturated Porous Media: Steady State Mass Transfer

    Mark D. Wilkins;Linda M. Abriola;Kurt D. Pennell

  • Surfactant enhanced recovery of tetrachloroethylene from a porous medium containing low permeability lenses. 1. Experimental studies.

    Tammy P. Taylor;Kurt D. Pennell;Linda M. Abriola;Jacob H. Dane

  • Influence of electrolyte species and concentration on the aggregation and transport of fullerene nanoparticles in quartz sands

    Yonggang Wang;Yusong Li;Kurt D. Pennell

  • Coupling Aggressive Mass Removal with Microbial Reductive Dechlorination for Remediation of DNAPL Source Zones: A Review and Assessment

    John A. Christ;C. Andrew Ramsburg;Linda M. Abriola;Kurt D. Pennell

  • Polychlorinated Biphenyl–Induced Reduction of Dopamine Transporter Expression as a Precursor to Parkinson's Disease–Associated Dopamine Toxicity

    W. Michael Caudle;Jason R. Richardson;Kristin C. Delea;Thomas S. Guillot

  • 2.5 Specific Surface Area

    K. D. Pennell

  • Experimental evaluation and mathematical modeling of microbially enhanced tetrachloroethene (PCE) dissolution.

    Benjamin K. Amos;John A. Christ;Linda M. Abriola;Kurt D. Pennell

  • Influence of a Nonionic Surfactant on the Water Retention Properties of Unsaturated Soils

    Ahmet Karagunduz;Kurt D. Pennell;Michael H. Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda M. Abriola
Linda M. Abriola Tufts University
Frank E. Löffler
Frank E. Löffler University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Dean P. Jones
Dean P. Jones Emory University
Gary W. Miller
Gary W. Miller Columbia University
Keith P. Johnston
Keith P. Johnston The University of Texas at Austin
Kim F. Hayes
Kim F. Hayes University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael H. Young
Michael H. Young The University of Texas at Austin
Young-Mi Go
Young-Mi Go Emory University
John D. Fortner
John D. Fortner Yale University
Joseph B. Hughes
Joseph B. Hughes Drexel University

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