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Murray E. Close is affiliated with the Institute of Environmental Science and Research in New Zealand. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Pollution, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The core topics of Close's research encompass groundwater flow and contamination studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, fecal contamination and water quality, water treatment and disinfection, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, and environmental DNA in biodiversity studies.

Close has contributed to multiple publications, with notable papers including:

  • Nitrogen cycling and microbial cooperation in the terrestrial subsurface, 2022, The ISME Journal
  • Outcomes of the first combined national survey of pesticides and emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) in groundwater in New Zealand 2018, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Ultra-small bacteria and archaea exhibit genetic flexibility towards groundwater oxygen content, and adaptations for attached or planktonic lifestyles, 2023, ISME Communications
  • Metabolic Diversity and Aero-Tolerance in Anammox Bacteria from Geochemically Distinct Aquifers, 2022, mSystems
  • Attenuation and transport of human enteric viruses and bacteriophage MS2 in alluvial sand and gravel aquifer media-laboratory studies, 2021, Water Research

Close frequently collaborates with several researchers including Louise Weaver, Kim M. Handley, Theo S. Sarris, Olivia E. Mosley, and Emilie Gios. These collaborations have resulted in multiple joint publications.

The scientist often publishes in venues specializing in environmental and water science such as The Science of The Total Environment, Water Research, Ecological Engineering, Ground Water, and ARPHA Conference Abstracts.

Best Publications

  • Periphyton biomass dynamics in gravel bed rivers: the relative effects of flows and nutrients

    Barry J. F. Biggs;Murray E. Close

  • Ecological characterisation, classification, and modelling of New Zealand rivers: An introduction and synthesis

    Barry J. F. Biggs;Maurice J. Duncan;Ian G. Jowett;John M. Quinn

  • Nitrogen cycling and microbial cooperation in the terrestrial subsurface

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  • Effects of pH, ionic strength, dissolved organic matter, and flow rate on the co-transport of MS2 bacteriophages with kaolinite in gravel aquifer media

    Gillian E. Walshe;Liping Pang;Markus Flury;Murray E. Close

  • Heavy Metals in Soil, Plants and Groundwater Following High-Rate Sewage Sludge Application to Land

    T. W. Speir;A. P. Van Schaik;H. J. Percival;M. E. Close

  • Simulation of picloram, atrazine, and simazine leaching through two New Zealand soils and into groundwater using HYDRUS-2D

    Liping Pang;Murray E Close;James P.C Watt;Keith W Vincent

  • Best management practices to mitigate faecal contamination by livestock of New Zealand waters

    Rob Collins;Malcolm Mcleod;Mike Hedley;Andrea Donnison

  • Rhodamine WT and Bacillus subtilis Transport through an Alluvial Gravel Aquifer

    Liping Pang;Murray Close;Mike Noonan

  • Estimation of septic tank setback distances based on transport of E. coli and F-RNA phages.

    Liping Pang;Murray Close;Mark Goltz;Lester Sinton

  • Application of the method of temporal moments to interpret solute transport with sorption and degradation.

    Liping Pang;Mark Goltz;Murray Close

  • Modeling water flow and bacterial transport in undisturbed lysimeters under irrigations of dairy shed effluent and water using HYDRUS-1D.

    Shuang Jiang;Liping Pang;Graeme D. Buchan;Jiří Šimůnek

  • Microbial groundwater quality and its health implications for a border-strip irrigated dairy farm catchment, South Island, New Zealand.

    Murray Close;Rod Dann;Andrew Ball;Ruth Pirie

  • Effect of pore-water velocity on chemical nonequilibrium transport of Cd, Zn, and Pb in alluvial gravel columns.

    Liping Pang;Murray Close;Daniela Schneider;Greg Stanton

  • Modeling Transport of Microbes in Ten Undisturbed Soils under Effluent Irrigation

    Liping Pang;Malcolm McLeod;Jacqueline Aislabie;Jirka Šimůnek

  • Baseflow water chemistry in New Zealand rivers. 1. Characterisation.

    Murray E. Close;Robert J. Davies‐Colley

  • Characterization and Estimation of Hydraulic Properties in an Alluvial Gravel Vadose Zone

    Rodney Dann;M Close;M J Flintoft;R P Hector

  • Filtration and transport of Bacillus subtilis spores and the F-RNA phage MS2 in a coarse alluvial gravel aquifer: implications in the estimation of setback distances.

    Liping Pang;Murray Close;Mark Goltz;Mike Noonan

  • Non-equilibrium transport of Cd in alluvial gravels

    Liping Pang;Murray E. Close

  • Transport and attenuation of bacteria and bacteriophages in an alluvial gravel aquifer

    L. W. Sinton;M. J. Noonan;R. K. Finlay;L. Pang

  • Baseflow water chemisty in New Zealand rivers 2. Influence of environmental factors

    Murray E. Close;Robert J. Davies‐Colley

  • Field-scale physical non-equilibrium transport in an alluvial gravel aquifer

    Liping Pang;Murray Close

Frequent Co-Authors

Ajit K. Sarmah
Ajit K. Sarmah University of Auckland
Robert J. Davies-Colley
Robert J. Davies-Colley National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Steve Green
Steve Green Plant & Food Research
Barry J. F. Biggs
Barry J. F. Biggs National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Aaron I. Packman
Aaron I. Packman Northwestern University
Brent Clothier
Brent Clothier Plant & Food Research
John M. Quinn
John M. Quinn National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Christopher Hickey
Christopher Hickey National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Mark A. Knackstedt
Mark A. Knackstedt Australian National University

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