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Richard T. Wilkin is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to environmental chemistry, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, geochemistry and petrology, pollution, and biomedical engineering.

Their work revolves around core topics such as mine drainage and remediation techniques, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, heavy metals in the environment, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) research, toxic organic pollutants impact, arsenic contamination and mitigation, and radioactive element chemistry and processing.

Wilkin has published extensively in well-known scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Geoscience Frontiers
  • Applied Geochemistry
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Among notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Wilkin are:

  • Rare-Earth Elements as Natural Tracers for In Situ Remediation of Groundwater, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in water and wastewater: A critical review of their global occurrence and distribution, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Limitations of Current Approaches for Predicting Groundwater Vulnerability from PFAS Contamination in the Vadose Zone, 2021, Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation
  • Long-term performance evaluation of zero-valent iron amended permeable reactive barriers for groundwater remediation - A mechanistic approach, 2022, Geoscience Frontiers
  • Mechanisms of water-rock interaction and implications for remediating flooded mine workings elucidated from environmental tracers, stable isotopes, and rare earth elements, 2023, Applied Geochemistry

Wilkin frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Michael Lawrinenko
  • Sudarshan Kurwadkar
  • Tony R. Lee
  • William C. Brandon
  • Matt Rovero

The scientist's research contributions span 37 publications classified under Environmental Science, with subfield emphasis in:

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Pollution
  • Biomedical Engineering

Best Publications

  • The size distribution of framboidal pyrite in modern sediments: an indicator of redox conditions

    R.T. Wilkin;H.L. Barnes;S.L. Brantley

  • Cadmium in soils and groundwater: A review.

    Andreas Kubier;Richard T. Wilkin;Thomas Pichler

  • Formation processes of framboidal pyrite

    R.T. Wilkin;H.L. Barnes

  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in water and wastewater: A critical review of their global occurrence and distribution.

    Sudarshan Kurwadkar;Sudarshan Kurwadkar;Jason Dane;Sushil R. Kanel;Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda

  • Pyrite formation by reactions of iron monosulfides with dissolved inorganic and organic sulfur species

    R.T. Wilkin;H.L. Barnes

  • Reaction pathways in the Fe-S system below 100°C

    Liane G Benning;Rick T Wilkin;H.L Barnes

  • Formation of ferrihydrite and associated iron corrosion products in permeable reactive barriers of zero-valent iron.

    Yoko Furukawa;Jin Wook Kim;Janet Watkins;Richard T. Wilkin

  • History of water-column anoxia in the Black Sea indicated by pyrite framboid size distributions

    Richard T. Wilkin;Michael A. Arthur;Walter E. Dean

  • High-level arsenite removal from groundwater by zero-valent iron.

    Hsing-Lung Lien;Richard T. Wilkin

  • Chromium-removal processes during groundwater remediation by a zerovalent iron permeable reactive barrier.

    Richard T. Wilkin;Chunming Su;Robert G. Ford;Cynthia J. Paul

  • Long‐Term Performance of Permeable Reactive Barriers Using Zero‐Valent Iron: Geochemical and Microbiological Effects

    Richard T. Wilkin;Robert W. Puls;Guy W. Sewell

  • Speciation of arsenic in sulfidic waters

    Richard T Wilkin;Dirk Wallschläger;Robert G Ford

  • Laboratory evaluation of zero-valent iron to treat water impacted by acid mine drainage.

    Richard T. Wilkin;Mary S. McNeil

  • Variations in pyrite texture, sulfur isotope composition, and iron systematics in the Black Sea: evidence for Late Pleistocene to Holocene excursions of the o2-h2s redox transition

    Richard T. Wilkin;Michael A. Arthur

  • Geochemical impacts to groundwater from geologic carbon sequestration: controls on pH and inorganic carbon concentrations from reaction path and kinetic modeling.

    Richard T. Wilkin;Dominic C. DiGiulio

  • Fifteen-year assessment of a permeable reactive barrier for treatment of chromate and trichloroethylene in groundwater.

    Richard T. Wilkin;Steven D. Acree;Randall R. Ross;Robert W. Puls

  • Pyrite formation in an anoxic estuarine basin

    Richard T. Wilkin;H. L. Barnes

  • Pyrite formation in the water column and sediments of a meromictic lake

    Neil S. Suits;Rick T. Wilkin

  • In Situ Chemical Reduction of Cr(VI) in Groundwater Using a Combination of Ferrous Sulfate and Sodium Dithionite: A Field Investigation

    Ralph D. Ludwig;Chunming Su;Tony R. Lee;Richard T. Wilkin

  • Perchlorate behavior in a municipal lake following fireworks displays.

    Richard T. Wilkin;Dennis D. Fine;Nicole G. Burnett

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Wilson
John T. Wilson Environmental Protection Agency
Michael A. Arthur
Michael A. Arthur Pennsylvania State University
Beth L. Parker
Beth L. Parker University of Guelph
Liane G. Benning
Liane G. Benning Freie Universität Berlin
Yongsong Huang
Yongsong Huang Brown University
Katherine H. Freeman
Katherine H. Freeman Pennsylvania State University
Kirk G. Scheckel
Kirk G. Scheckel Environmental Protection Agency
Timothy R. Filley
Timothy R. Filley University of Oklahoma
Susan L. Brantley
Susan L. Brantley Pennsylvania State University
Alexandra Navrotsky
Alexandra Navrotsky Arizona State University

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