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65
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897

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Richard L. Smith is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research mainly focuses on the field of Engineering with significant contributions in several subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Organic Chemistry, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist has authored numerous publications, frequently appearing in venues such as UNC Libraries, Green Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Journal, Renewable Energy, and ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Their research spans several primary topics, including:

  • Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies
  • Nanomaterials for Catalytic Reactions
  • Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis
  • Biofuel Production and Bioconversion
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard L. Smith include:

  • "Cycloamination strategies for renewable N-heterocycles," 2020, Green Chemistry
  • "Mg-coordinated self-assembly of MgO-doped ordered mesoporous carbons for selective recovery of phosphorus from aqueous solutions," 2020, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • "Critical assessment of reaction pathways for conversion of agricultural waste biomass into formic acid," 2021, Green Chemistry
  • "High-capacity structured MgO-Co adsorbent for removal of phosphorus from aqueous solutions," 2021, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • "Direct one-pot synthesis of ordered mesoporous carbons from lignin with metal coordinated self-assembly," 2021, Green Chemistry

Richard L. Smith has collaborated frequently with fellow researchers including Haixin Guo, Xinhua Qi, Janet Kiholm Smith, Richard T. Bliss, and Feng Shen.

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book publications such as "Production of Biofuels and Chemicals from Sustainable Recycling of Organic Solid Waste," published by Springer Nature (Netherlands) in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Extreme Value Analysis of Environmental Time Series: An Application to Trend Detection in Ground-Level Ozone

    Richard L. Smith

  • Quantifying Uncertainty in Projections of Regional Climate Change: A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Multimodel Ensembles

    Claudia Tebaldi;Richard L. Smith;Doug Nychka;Linda O. Mearns

  • Transport of microspheres and indigenous bacteria through a sandy aquifer: Results of natural- and forced-gradient tracer experiments

    Ronald W. Harvey;Leah H. George;Richard L. Smith;Denis R. LeBlanc

  • Effect of organic contamination upon microbial distributions and heterotrophic uptake in a cape cod, mass., aquifer

    R W Harvey;R L Smith;L George

  • Denitrification in nitrate-contaminated groundwater: Occurrence in steep vertical geochemical gradients

    Richard L Smith;Brian L Howes;John H Duff

  • Bayesian Modeling of Uncertainty in Ensembles of Climate Models

    Richard L. Smith;Claudia Tebaldi;Doug Nychka;Linda O. Mearns

  • Markov chain models for threshold exceedances

    Richard L. Smith;Jonathan A. Tawn;Stuart G. Coles

  • Regional probabilities of precipitation change: A Bayesian analysis of multimodel simulations

    C. Tebaldi;L. O. Mearns;D. Nychka;R. L. Smith

  • Bivariate Threshold Methods for Extremes

    Harry Joe;Richard L. Smith;Ishay Weissman

  • Denitrification in a sand and gravel aquifer.

    Richard L. Smith;John H. Duff

  • Ammonium transport and reaction in contaminated groundwater: Application of isotope tracers and isotope fractionation studies

    J. K. Böhlke;Richard L. Smith;Daniel N. Miller;Daniel N. Miller

  • Effects of the antimicrobial sulfamethoxazole on groundwater bacterial enrichment.

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

  • The effect of horizontal resolution on simulation of very extreme US precipitation events in a global atmosphere model

    Michael F. Wehner;Richard L. Smith;G. Bala;Phillip Duffy

  • Bacterial dissimilatory reduction of arsenate and sulfate in meromictic Mono Lake, California

    Ronald S Oremland;Philip R Dowdle;Shelly Hoeft;Jonathan O Sharp

  • Electron donors utilized by sulfate-reducing bacteria in eutrophic lake sediments.

    Richard L. Smith;Michael J. Klug

  • Microbial and chemical factors influencing methane production in laboratory incubations of low-rank subsurface coals

    Stephen H. Harris;Richard L. Smith;Charles E. Barker

  • Multi-scale measurements and modeling of denitrification in streams with varying flow and nitrate concentration in the upper Mississippi River basin, USA

    John Karl Böhlke;Ronald C. Antweiler;Judson W. Harvey;Andrew E. Laursen

  • Importance of closely spaced vertical sampling in delineating chemical and microbiological gradients in groundwater studies

    Richard L. Smith;Ronald W. Harvey;Denis R. LeBlanc

  • A Bivariate Time Series Approach to Anthropogenic Trend Detection in Hemispheric Mean Temperatures

    Richard L. Smith;Tom M. L. Wigley;Benjamin D. Santer

  • Aquatic fulvic acids in microbially based ecosystems: Results from two desert lakes in Antarctica

    Diane M. McKnight;George R. Aiken;Richard L. Smith

  • Subsurface Microbial Diversity in Deep-Granitic-Fracture Water in Colorado

    Jason W. Sahl;Raleigh Schmidt;Elizabeth D. Swanner;Kevin W. Mandernack

  • Autotrophic, hydrogen-oxidizing, denitrifying bacteria in groundwater, potential agents for bioremediation of nitrate contamination.

    Richard L. Smith;Marnie L. Ceazan;Myron H. Brooks

  • Denitrification in san francisco bay intertidal sediments.

    Ronald S. Oremland;Cindy Umberger;Charles W. Culbertson;Richard L. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

John Karl Böhlke
John Karl Böhlke United States Geological Survey
Ronald S. Oremland
Ronald S. Oremland United States Geological Survey
Ronald W. Harvey
Ronald W. Harvey United States Geological Survey
Larry B. Barber
Larry B. Barber United States Geological Survey
Diane M. McKnight
Diane M. McKnight University of Colorado Boulder
Donald G. Truhlar
Donald G. Truhlar University of Minnesota
Craig R. Tobias
Craig R. Tobias University of Connecticut
Mary A. Voytek
Mary A. Voytek National Aeronautics and Space Administration
James M. Tiedje
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University
Brian L. Howes
Brian L. Howes University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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