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Murray B. McBride

Murray B. McBride

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Chemistry

D-Index
80
Citations
24372
World Ranking
3401
National Ranking
1119

Overview

Murray B. McBride is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States, focusing their research within the field of Environmental Science. Their work primarily addresses issues related to pollution, health, toxicology, and plant science.

The scientist has contributed to research on several topics including:

  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Heavy Metals in Plants
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
  • Mine drainage and remediation techniques
  • Clay minerals and soil interactions
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing

McBride has published extensively in various venues, with frequent contributions to journals such as:

  • BMC Biotechnology
  • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
  • European Journal of Soil Science
  • Minerals
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by McBride include:

  • Estimating soil chemical properties by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy: Promise versus reality, 2021, European Journal of Soil Science
  • Chemical Speciation, Plant Uptake, and Toxicity of Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils, 2020, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
  • Bioavailability and bioaccessibility of cadmium in contaminated rice by in vivo and in vitro bioassays, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Pb Mineral Precipitation in Solutions of Sulfate, Carbonate and Phosphate: Measured and Modeled Pb Solubility and Pb2+ Activity, 2021, Minerals
  • Rhizosphere effect on Pb solubility and phytoavailability in Pb-Contaminated soils, 2020, Environmental Pollution

In collaboration, McBride frequently works with co-authors such as:

  • Xinxin Li
  • Zhongqi Cheng
  • Sara Perl Egendorf
  • Yuting Zhou
  • Zachary Ziegert

Best Publications

  • Health risk from heavy metals via consumption of food crops in the vicinity of Dabaoshan mine, South China.

    Ping Zhuang;Murray B. McBride;Hanping Xia;Ningyu Li

  • Adsorption of copper and zinc by biochars produced from pyrolysis of hardwood and corn straw in aqueous solution.

    Xincai Chen;Guangcun Chen;Linggui Chen;Yingxu Chen

  • Solubility control of Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb in contaminated soils

    M. McBRIDE;S. Sauve;W. Hendershot

  • Toxic metal accumulation from agricultural use of sludge: are USEPA regulations protective?

    M. B. McBride

  • Toxic metals in sewage sludge-amended soils: has promotion of beneficial use discounted the risks?

    M.B. McBride

  • MOBILITY AND SOLUBILITY OF TOXIC METALS AND NUTRIENTS IN SOIL FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER SLUDGE APPLICATION

    Murray B. McBride;Brian K. Richards;Tammo Steenhuis;John J. Russo

  • A Critique of Diffuse Double Layer Models Applied to Colloid and Surface Chemistry

    Murray B. McBride

  • Movement of heavy metals through undisturbed and homogenized soil columns

    Vincent J. Camobreco;Brian K. Richards;Tammo S. Steenhuis;John H. Peverly

  • Copper solubility and speciation of in situ contaminated soils : Effects of copper level, pH and organic matter

    Sébastien Sauvé;Murray B. McBride;Wendell A. Norvell;William H. Hendershot

  • Speciation and Complexation of Cadmium in Extracted Soil Solutions

    Sébastien Sauvé;Wendell A. Norvell;Murray McBride;William Hendershot

  • Reduction of nitrogen loss and Cu and Zn mobility during sludge composting with bamboo charcoal amendment

    Li Hua;Weixiang Wu;Yuxue Liu;Murray B. McBride

  • TRACE ELEMENT CONTENT OF SELECTED FERTILIZERS AND DAIRY MANURES AS DETERMINED BY ICP–MS

    Murray B. McBride;Graeme Spiers

  • Oxidative degradation of glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonate by manganese oxide.

    K. A. Barrett;M. B. McBride

  • Environmental factors determining the trace-level sorption of silver and thallium to soils.

    Astrid R. Jacobson;Murray B. McBride;Philippe Baveye;Tammo S. Steenhuis

  • Concentrations of lead, cadmium and barium in urban garden-grown vegetables: The impact of soil variables

    Murray B. McBride;Hannah A. Shayler;Henry M. Spliethoff;Rebecca G. Mitchell

  • Derivation of soil quality criteria using predicted chemical speciation of Pb2+ and Cu2+

    Sébastien Sauvé;Alain Dumestre;Murray McBride;William Hendershot

  • Speciation of Lead in Contaminated Soils

    Sébastien Sauvé;Murray B. McBride;William H. Hendershot

  • CADMIUM UPTAKE BY CROPS ESTIMATED FROM SOIL TOTAL Cd AND pH

    Murray B. Mcbride

  • Chemical Speciation, Plant Uptake, and Toxicity of Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils.

    Minori Uchimiya;Desmond Bannon;Hiromi Nakanishi;Murray B McBride

  • Effect of sludge-processing mode, soil texture and soil pH on metal mobility in undisturbed soil columns under accelerated loading.

    B.K Richards;T.S Steenhuis;J.H Peverly;M.B McBride

  • Metal mobility at an old, heavily loaded sludge application site.

    Brian K. Richards;Tammo S. Steenhuis;John H. Peverly;Murray B. McBride

  • Linking plant tissue concentrations and soil copper pools in urban contaminated soils

    Sébastien Sauvé;Nicola Cook;William H. Hendershot;Murray B. McBride

  • Mobility and extractability of cadmium, copper, nickel, and zinc in organic and mineral soil columns

    Lucia D. Tyler;Murray B. McBride

  • Lead (Pb) and other metals in New York City community garden soils: factors influencing contaminant distributions.

    Rebecca G. Mitchell;Henry M. Spliethoff;Lisa N. Ribaudo;Donna M. Lopp

  • Solubility of Cd2+, Cu2+, Pb2+, and Zn2+ in Aged Coprecipitates with Amorphous Iron Hydroxides

    Carmen Enid Martínez;Murray B. McBride

  • The Chemistry of Soil Constituents

    Murray B. McBride

Frequent Co-Authors

Tammo S. Steenhuis
Tammo S. Steenhuis Cornell University
Brian K. Richards
Brian K. Richards Cornell University
Sébastien Sauvé
Sébastien Sauvé University of Montreal
Zhian Li
Zhian Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Philippe C. Baveye
Philippe C. Baveye University of Paris-Saclay
William H. Hendershot
William H. Hendershot McGill University
Yingxu Chen
Yingxu Chen Zhejiang University
Weixiang Wu
Weixiang Wu Zhejiang University
Jianming Xu
Jianming Xu Zhejiang University
Janice E. Thies
Janice E. Thies Cornell University

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