Michael Anderson
Michael A. Anderson
Department Chair
Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Academic Degrees:
- Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 1990
Specialization:
- Applied limnology and lake/reservoir management
- Surface water quality and modeling
- Fate of contaminants in soils, sediments and waters
- Environmental chemistry
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Selected Publications:
- Anderson, M.A. and J. Berkowitz, 2010. Aluminum polymers formed following alum treatment of lake water. Chemosphere 81:832-836.
- Reid, N.J., M.A. Anderson and W.D. Taylor. 2010. Distribution of guagga mussel veligers, Dreissena bugensis, in the reservoirs of the Colorado River Aqueduct. Lake Reserv. Manage. 26:328-335.
- Anderson, M.A. 2010. Influence of pumped-storage hydroelectric plant operation on a shallow polymictic lake: Predictions from 3-D hydrodynamic modeling. Lake Reserv. Manage. 26:1-13.
- Reese, B.K. and M.A. Anderson. 2009. Dimethyl sulfide production in a saline eutrophic lake, Salton Sea, California. Limnol. Oceanogr. 54:250-261.
- Reese, B.K., M.A. Anderson and C. Amrhein. 2008. Hydrogen sulfide production and volatilization in a polymictic eutrophic saline lake, Salton Sea, California. Sci. Tot. Environ. 406:205-218.
- Anderson, M.A., L. Whiteaker, E. Wakefield and C. Amrhein. 2008. Properties and distribution of sediment in the Salton Sea, California: An assessment of predictive models. Hydrobiologia 604:97-100.
- de Koff, J., M.A. Anderson and C. Amrhein. 2008. Geochemistry of iron in the Salton Sea, California. Hydrobiologia 604:111-121.
- Lawson, R. and M.A. Anderson. 2007. Stratification and mixing in Lake Elsinore, California: an assessment of axial flow pumps for improving water quality in a shallow eutrophic lake. Water Res. 41:4457-4467.
- Berkowitz, J., M.A. Anderson and C. Amrhein. 2006. Influence of aging on phosphorus sorption to alum floc in lake water. Water Res. 40:911-916.
- Breiner, J.M., M.A. Anderson, H.W.K. Tom and R.C. Graham. 2006. Properties of surface modified colloidal particles. Clays Clay Miner. 54:12-24.
- Berkowitz, J., M.A. Anderson and R.C. Graham. 2005. Laboratory investigation of aluminum solubility and solid-phase properties following alum treatment of lake waters. Water Res. 39:3918-3928.
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