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Bleam, William
 William F. Bleam, PhD
Professor
Research Area: Toxicant Behavior and Remediation. Imaging. Environmental Chemistry. Fate and transport of compounds in soil environments, using such methods as magnetic resonance and x-ray absorption spectroscopies.
Home Dept: Soil Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Affiliated Depts: Molecular and Environmental Toxicology; Environmental Chemistry & Technology
Address
Department of Soil Sciences
273 Soils Building
1525 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Phone - 608/262-2633 - Email
Research
The focus of our research group has evolved in recent years, placing a greater emphasis on the chemistry of humic substances and the relationship between sorption to soil colloids and the biological availability of contaminants to organisms-principally microorganisms. A goal we are working toward would have all students in the group include some studies that reuqire the culturing of microorganisms along with more traditional environmental chemistry.
Publications- Skyllberg U, Bloom PR, Qian J, Lin CM, Bleam WF. Complexation of mercury(II) in soil organic matter: EXAFS evidence for linear two-coordination with reduced sulfur groups. Environ Sci Technol. 2006 Jul 1;40(13):4174-80.
- Szulczewski, M.D., P.A. Helmke, and W.F. Bleam. 2001. XANES spectroscopy studies of Cr(VI) reduction by thiols in organosulfur compounds and humic substances. Environ. Sci. Technol. 35:1134-1141.
- Skyllberg, U.L., K. Xia, P.R. Bloom, E.A. Nater, and W.F. Bleam. 2000. Binding of mercury(II) to reduced sulfur in soil organic matter along upland-peat soil transects. J. Environ. Qual. 29:855-865.
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