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Overview

Larry B. Barber is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with significant contributions to earth and planetary sciences as well. The work encompasses various subfields, including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, atmospheric science, environmental chemistry, pollution, and water science and technology.

The main topics covered in their research are diverse. These include:

  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Toxic organic pollutants impact
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology
  • Water treatment and disinfection

Larry B. Barber has published extensively in notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Frequent collaborators in their research activities are:

  • Jeramy R. Jasmann
  • Kaycee E. Faunce
  • Steffanie H. Keefe
  • Alan M. Vajda
  • Jennifer L. Rapp

Recent publications by Larry B. Barber highlight a focused effort on various aspects of chemical pollutants in aquatic environments and their ecological impacts. These include:

  • Watershed-Scale Risk to Aquatic Organisms from Complex Chemical Mixtures in the Shenandoah River, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Uptake of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances by Fish, Mussel, and Passive Samplers in Mobile-Laboratory Exposures Using Groundwater from a Contamination Plume at a Historical Fire Training Area, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2023, Environmental Science & Technology

Other notable papers relevant to the scientific context they work in, authored by related researchers in overlapping fields, include:

  • Surface-water/groundwater boundaries affect seasonal PFAS concentrations and PFAA precursor transformations, 2021, Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • Evaluating the potential role of bioactive chemicals on the distribution of invasive Asian carp upstream and downstream from river mile 278 in the Illinois waterway, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Boreal blazes: biomass burning and vegetation types archived in the Juneau Icefield, 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Pharmaceuticals, hormones, and other organic wastewater contaminants in U.S. streams, 1999-2000: a national reconnaissance.

    Dana W. Kolpin;Edward T. Furlong;Michael T. Meyer;E. Michael Thurman

  • Response to Comment on “Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999−2000: A National Reconnaissance”

    Dana W. Kolpin;Edward T. Furlong;Michael T. Meyer;E. Michael Thurman

  • A national reconnaissance for pharmaceuticals and other organic wastewater contaminants in the United States--II) untreated drinking water sources.

    Michael J. Focazio;Dana W. Kolpin;Kimberlee K. Barnes;Edward T. Furlong

  • A national reconnaissance of pharmaceuticals and other organic wastewater contaminants in the United States - I) Groundwater

    Kimberlee K. Barnes;Dana W. Kolpin;Edward T. Furlong;Steven D. Zaugg

  • Antidepressant pharmaceuticals in two U.S. effluent-impacted streams: occurrence and fate in water and sediment, and selective uptake in fish neural tissue.

    Melissa M. Schultz;Edward T. Furlong;Dana. W. Kolpin;Stephen L. Werner

  • Reproductive disruption in fish downstream from an estrogenic wastewater effluent.

    Alan M. Vajda;Larry B. Barber;James L. Gray;Elena M. Lopez

  • Expanded Target-Chemical Analysis Reveals Extensive Mixed-Organic-Contaminant Exposure in U.S. Streams

    Paul M. Bradley;Celeste A. Journey;Kristin M. Romanok;Larry B. Barber

  • Antidepressants at environmentally relevant concentrations affect predator avoidance behavior of larval fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas)

    Meghan M. Painter;Megan A. Buerkley;Matthew L. Julius;Alan M. Vajda

  • Steroid estrogens, nonylphenol ethoxylate metabolites, and other wastewater contaminants in groundwater affected by a residential septic system on Cape Cod, MA.

    Christopher H. Swartz;Sharanya Reddy;Mark J. Benotti;Haifei Yin

  • Urban Stormwater: An Overlooked Pathway of Extensive Mixed Contaminants to Surface and Groundwaters in the United States.

    Jason R. Masoner;Dana W. Kolpin;Isabelle M. Cozzarelli;Larry B. Barber

  • Nature and transformation of dissolved organic matter in treatment wetlands.

    Larry B. Barber;Jerry A. Leenheer;Ted I. Noyes;Eric A. Stiles

  • Pharmaceuticals and Other Organic Waste Water Contaminants Within a Leachate Plume Downgradient of a Municipal Landfill

    Kimberlee K. Barnes;Scott C. Christenson;Dana W. Kolpin;Michael J. Focazio

  • Effects of the antimicrobial sulfamethoxazole on groundwater bacterial enrichment.

    Jennifer C. Underwood;Ronald W. Harvey;David W. Metge;Deborah A. Repert

  • Demasculinization of male fish by wastewater treatment plant effluent.

    Alan M. Vajda;Larry B. Barber;James L. Gray;Elena M. Lopez

  • Geochemical heterogeneity in a sand and gravel aquifer: Effect of sediment mineralogy and particle size on the sorption of chlorobenzenes

    Larry B. Barber;Larry B. Barber;E.Michael Thurman;Donald D. Runnells

  • Geochemical and Hydrologic Factors Controlling Subsurface Transport of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

    Andrea K. Weber;Larry B. Barber;Denis R. LeBlanc;Elsie M. Sunderland

  • Occurrence and Fate of Organic Contaminants during Onsite Wastewater Treatment

    Kathleen E. Conn;Larry B. Barber;Gregory K. Brown;Robert L. Siegrist

  • Sewage contamination in the upper Mississippi River as measured by the fecal sterol, coprostanol

    Jeffrey Hawkins Writer;Jerry A. Leenheer;Larry B. Barber;Gary L. Amy

  • Long-term fate of organic micropollutants in sewage-contaminated groundwater.

    Larry B. Barber;E. Michael. Thurman;Michael P. Schroeder;Denis R. LeBlanc

  • Chemical loading into surface water along a hydrological, biogeochemical, and land use gradient: a holistic watershed approach.

    Larry B. Barber;Sheila F. Murphy;Philip L. Verplanck;Mark W. Sandstrom

  • Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Environment ANTIDEPRESSANTS AT ENVIRONMENTALLY RELEVANT CONCENTRATIONS AFFECT PREDATOR AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR OF LARVAL FATHEAD MINNOWS (PIMEPHALES PROMELAS)

    Meghan M. Painter;Megan A. Buerkley;Matthew L. Julius;Alan M. Vajda

Frequent Co-Authors

Dana W. Kolpin
Dana W. Kolpin United States Geological Survey
Edward T. Furlong
Edward T. Furlong United States Geological Survey
Michael T. Meyer
Michael T. Meyer United States Geological Survey
Heiko L. Schoenfuss
Heiko L. Schoenfuss St. Cloud State University
Paul M. Bradley
Paul M. Bradley United States Geological Survey
Steven D. Zaugg
Steven D. Zaugg United States Geological Survey
William T. Foreman
William T. Foreman United States Geological Survey
Joseph N. Ryan
Joseph N. Ryan University of Colorado Boulder
Francis H. Chapelle
Francis H. Chapelle United States Geological Survey
Ronald W. Harvey
Ronald W. Harvey United States Geological Survey

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