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Patrick Höhener

Patrick Höhener

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
37
Citations
5245
World Ranking
8909
National Ranking
404

Overview

Patrick Höhener is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Environmental Engineering, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics of their research activity cover a range of environmental and contamination-related issues. These include:

  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Environmental remediation with nanomaterials
  • Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing

Patrick Höhener has published articles in several scholarly journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Chemosphere
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Multi-elemental compound-specific isotope analysis of pesticides for source identification and monitoring of degradation in soil: a review," 2022, Environmental Chemistry Letters
  • "Evaluation of MNA in A Chlorinated Solvents-Contaminated Aquifer Using Reactive Transport Modeling Coupled with Isotopic Fractionation Analysis," 2021, Water
  • "Underestimation of Anthropogenic Bromoform Released into the Environment?," 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Soil carbon dioxide fluxes to atmosphere: The role of rainfall to control CO2 transport," 2020, Applied Geochemistry
  • "Effect of NAPL mixture and alteration on 222Rn partitioning coefficients: Implications for NAPL subsurface contamination quantification," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Davide Gori
  • Carine Demelas
  • Grégory Cohen
  • Olivier Atteia
  • Laure Malleret

Best Publications

  • Chemical processes at the sediment-water interface.

    Peter Santschi;Patrick Höhener;Gaboury Benoit;Marilyn Buchholtz-ten Brink

  • Early diagenetic influences on iron transformations in a freshwater lake sediment

    Paul Wersin;Patrick Höhener;Rudolf Giovanoli;Werner Stumm

  • In situ analysis of denitrifying toluene- and m-xylene-degrading bacteria in a diesel fuel-contaminated laboratory aquifer column.

    A Hess;B Zarda;D Hahn;A Häner

  • Environmental Isotopes in Biodegradation and Bioremediation

    C Aelion;Patrick Höhener;Daniel Hunkeler;Ramon Aravena

  • Vapor phase transport and biodegradation of volatile fuel compounds in the unsaturated zone: a large scale lysimeter experiment.

    Gabriele Pasteris;David Werner;Karin Kaufmann;Patrick Höhener

  • Constructed wetlands to reduce metal pollution from industrial catchments in aquatic Mediterranean ecosystems: a review to overcome obstacles and suggest potential solutions.

    Anna Guittonny-Philippe;Veronique Masotti;Patrick Höhener;Jean Luc Boudenne

  • Degradation of weathered diesel fuel by microorganisms from a contaminated aquifer in aerobic and anaerobic microcosms

    Thierry Pierre-Alain Bregnard;Patrick Höhener;Andreas Häner;Josef Zeyer

  • Biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbon vapors: laboratory studies on rates and kinetics in unsaturated alluvial sand.

    Patrick Höhener;Céline Duwig;Gabriele Pasteris;Karin Kaufmann

  • Worldwide occurrence and fate of chlorofluorocarbons in groundwater

    Patrick Höhener;David Werner;Christian Balsiger;Gabriele Pasteris

  • In situ vadose zone bioremediation.

    Patrick Höhener;Violaine Ponsin

  • Anaerobic degradation of pristane in nitrate-reducing microcosms and enrichment cultures.

    T. P.-A. Bregnard;A. Häner;P. Höhener;J. Zeyer

  • 222Rn as a Partitioning Tracer To Detect Diesel Fuel Contamination in Aquifers: Laboratory Study and Field Observations

    Daniel Hunkeler;Eduard Hoehn;Patrick Höhener;Josef Zeyer

  • Intrinsic bioremediation of a petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated aquifer and assessment of mineralization based on stable carbon isotopes.

    Christof Bolliger;Patrick Höhener;Daniel Hunkeler;Katharina Häberli

  • Carbon isotope fractionation during volatilization of petroleum hydrocarbons and diffusion across a porous medium: a column experiment.

    Daniel Bouchard;Patrick Höhener;Daniel Hunkeler

  • Review of Field Methods for the Determination of the Tortuosity and Effective Gas-Phase Diffusivity in the Vadose Zone

    David Werner;David Werner;Peter Grathwohl;Patrick Höhener

  • Degradation of p-xylene by a denitrifying enrichment culture

    A Häner;P Höhener;J Zeyer

  • Analysis of bacterial and protozoan communities in an aquifer contaminated with monoaromatic hydrocarbons

    Boris Zarda;Geoffrey Mattison;Annatina Hess;Dittmar Hahn

  • Petroleum hydrocarbon mineralization in anaerobic laboratory aquifer columns

    Daniel Hunkeler;Dominik Jörger;Katharina Häberli;Patrick Höhener

  • Carbon isotope fractionation during diffusion and biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in the unsaturated zone: field experiment at Vaerløse Airbase, Denmark, and modeling.

    Daniel Bouchard;Daniel Hunkeler;Petros Gaganis;Ramon Aravena

  • Nitrogen cycling across the sediment-water interface in an eutrophic, artificially oxygenated lake

    P. Höhener;R. Gächter

  • Microbial community response to petroleum hydrocarbon contamination in the unsaturated zone at the experimental field site Værløse, Denmark

    Karin Kaufmann;Mette Christophersen;Alexandre Buttler;Alexandre Buttler;Hauke Harms

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Hunkeler
Daniel Hunkeler University of Neuchâtel
Josef Zeyer
Josef Zeyer ETH Zurich
David Werner
David Werner Newcastle University
Peter Kjeldsen
Peter Kjeldsen Technical University of Denmark
Dittmar Hahn
Dittmar Hahn Texas State University
Hauke Harms
Hauke Harms Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Peter H. Santschi
Peter H. Santschi Texas A&M University
Alexandre Buttler
Alexandre Buttler École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Ludo Diels
Ludo Diels Flemish Institute for Technological Research
Jakob Zopfi
Jakob Zopfi University of Basel

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