Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications & Book Chapters

“Feasibility of metal oxide glasses and polymer membranes as sorbents for gaseous oxidized mercury”
Livia Lown, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Paige Murray, Seth Lyman, Krista Carlson, Mae Gustin
ACS Omega, 2025, doi: 10.1021/acsomega.5c05401

“Production of potassium sulfate through valorization of zero liquid discharge mining waste from lithium clays”
David Stem, Nikhil Bhoumik, Eakjot Sekhon, Ryan Ravenelle, Hugh Broadhurst, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Glenn Miller, Christopher Barile
ACS Sustainable Resource Management, 2025, doi: 10.1021/acssusresmgt.5c00100

“Latitudinal gradients of snow contamination in the Rocky Mountains associated with anthropogenic sources”
Monica Arienzo, Kelly Gleason, Graham Sextone, Mae Gustin, Melissa Schwan, Nicole Choma, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Joseph McConnell, Peter Weisberg, Adam Csank
Environmental Pollution, 2025, doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126094

“Alternate materials for the capture and quantification of gaseous oxidized mercury in the atmosphere”
Livia Lown, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Seth Lyman, Mae Gustin
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2024, doi: 10.5194/amt-17-6397-2024

“Measurement of Atmospheric Mercury: Current Limitations and Suggestions for Paths Forward”
Mae Gustin, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, et al.
Environmental Science & Technology, 2024, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.4c06011

“Limitations and insights regarding atmospheric mercury sampling using gold”
Jan Gacnik, Seth Lyman, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Mae Gustin
Analytical Chimica Acta, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2024.342956

“Reducing conditions influence U(IV) accumulation in sediments during in-situ bioremediation”
Noémie Janot, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Juan Lezama Pecheco, José Cerrato, Daniel Alessi, Vincent Noël, Eunmin Lee, Don Pham, Elena Suvorova, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Daniel Giammar, Kenneth Williams, Philip Long, John Bargar
ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, Special Issue on Environmental Redox Processes and Contaminant and Nutrient Dynamics, 2024, doi: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00271

“Interaction of reactive mercury with surfaces and implications for atmospheric mercury speciation measurements”
Natalie Allen, Jan Gacnik, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Mae Gustin
Atmospheric Environment, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2023.120240

“What is the utility of measuring gaseous HgII dry deposition using Aerohead samplers? A review”
Mae Gustin, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Stefan Osterwalder, Olivier Magand, Aurélien Dommergue
Science of the Total Environment, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167895

“Observations of the chemistry and concentrations of reactive Hg at locations with different ambient air chemistry”
Mae Gustin, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Natalie Allen, Nicole Choma, William Johnson, Sam Lopez, Armistead Russell, Eric Mei, Olivier Magand, Aurélien Dommergue, Tyler Elgiar
Science of the Total Environment, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166184

“Determining sources of reactive mercury compounds in Reno, Nevada, United States”
Mae Gustin, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Nicole Choma, Kevin Shoemaker, Natalie Allen
Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry, 2023, doi: 10.3389/fenvc.2023.1202957

“The Contribution of Fe(III) Reduction to Soil Carbon Mineralization in Montane Meadows Depends on Soil Chemistry, Not Parent Material or Microbial Community”
Cody Reed, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Sarah Castle, David Vuono, Benjamin Sullivan
JGR Biogeosciences, 2023, doi: 10.1029/2022JG007325

“Phase partitioning of mercury, arsenic, selenium, and cadmium in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Arthrospira maxima microcosms”
Livia Lown, Josh Vernaz, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Mae Gustin, Sage Hiibel
Environmental Pollution, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121679

“Comparison and calibration of methods for ambient reactive mercury quantification”
Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Seth Lyman, Mae Gustin 
Science of the Total Environment, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159219

“Investigation of the biochemical controls on mercury uptake and mobility in trees”
Mae Gustin, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Jeff Harper, Won-Gyu Choi, Jeff D. Blum, Marcus W. Johnson
Science of the Total Environment, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158101

“Evidence against rapid mercury oxidation in photochemical smog”
Seth Lyman, Tyler Elgiar, Mae Gustin, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Liji M. David, Lei Zhang
Environmental Science & Technology, 2022, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c02224

“Further investigations into the use of tree rings as archives of atmospheric mercury concentrations”
Mae Gustin, Benjamin Ingle, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham
Biogeochemistry, 2022, doi: 10.1007/s10533-022-00892-1

“Using a next-generation sequencing approach to DNA metabarcoding for identification of adulteration and potential sources of mercury in commercial cat and dog foods”
Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Kelly Klingler, Margarita Vargas Estrada, Mae Gustin
Science of the Total Environment, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146102

“Use of membranes and detailed HYSPLIT analyses to understand atmospheric particulate, gaseous oxidized, and reactive mercury chemistry”
Mae Gustin, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Lei Zhang, Seth Lyman, Nicole Choma, Mark Castro
Environmental Science & Technology, 2021, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c07876

“Development of an understanding of reactive mercury in ambient air: A review”
Mae Gustin, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Jiaoyan Huang, Steve Lindberg, Seth Lyman
Atmosphere, 2021, doi: 10.3390/atmos12010073

“Fate of springtime atmospheric reactive mercury: Concentrations and deposition at Zeppelin, Svalbard”
Stefan Osterwalder, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Beatriz Ferreira Araujo, Olivier Magand, Jennie Thomas, Foteini Baladima, Katrin Aspmo Pfaffenhuber, Torun Berg, Lei Zhang, Jiaoyan Huang, Aurélien Dommergue, Jeroen Sonke, Mae Gustin
ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2021, doi: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00299

“Improvements to the accuracy of atmospheric oxidized mercury measurements”
Seth Lyman, Lynne Gratz, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Mae Gustin, Adriel Luippold
Environmental Science & Technology, 2020, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c02747

“Evaluation of sorption surface materials for reactive mercury compounds”
Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Seth Lyman, Mae Gustin
Atmospheric Environment, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117836

“Unexpected mechanism for glucose-primed soil organic carbon mineralization under an anaerobic-aerobic transition”
Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Qian Zhao, Daniel Obrist, and Yu Yang
Geoderma, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114535

“Use of multiple lines of evidence to understand reactive mercury concentrations and chemistry in Hawai’i, Nevada, Maryland, and Utah, USA”
Adriel Luippold, Mae Gustin, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Mark Castro, Winston Luke, Seth Lyman, and Lei Zhang
Environmental Science & Technology, 2020, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c02283

“Improvement of quantification and identification of atmospheric reactive mercury”
Adriel Luippold, Mae Gustin, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Lei Zhang
Atmospheric Environment, 2020, 224, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117307

“Persistent agricultural legacy in soil influences plant restoration success in a Great Basin salt desert ecosystem”
Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Stephanie Freund, Shauna Uselman, Elizabeth Leger, and Benjamin Sullivan
Ecological Restoration, 2020, 38:1

“Oxidation of soil organic carbon during an anoxic-oxic transition”
Qian Zhao, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Dinesh Adhikari, Chunmei Chen, Aman Patel, Simon Poulson, Paul Verburg, Xilong Wang, Eric Roden, Aaron Thompson, and Yu Yang
Geoderma, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114584

“Comparison of 4 methods for measurement of reactive, gaseous oxidized, and particulate bound mercury”
Mae Gustin, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Lei Zhang
Environmental Science & Technology, 2019, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b04648

“General Geochemistry and Microbiology Techniques”
In: Analytical Geomicrobiology: A Handbook of Instrumental Techniques (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham and Yaqi You

“What is in commercial cat and dog food? The case for mercury and ingredient testing”
Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Kelly Klingler, Mary Peacock, Mike Teglas, Mae Gustin
Science of The Total Environment, 2019, 684, 276-280

“Evaluation of cation exchange membrane performance under exposure to high Hgº and HgBr2 concentrations”
Matthieu Miller, Mae Gustin, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, and Grant Edwards
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2019, 12, 1207-1217

“Biogeochemical fate of ferrihydrite-model organic compound complexes during anaerobic microbial reduction”
Dawit Wardofa, Dinesh Adhikari, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Qian Zhao, Simon Poulson, Yuanzhi Tang, and Yu Yang
Science of The Total Environment, 2019, 668, 216-223

“Aerobic respiration of mineral-bound organic carbon in a soil”
Dinesh Adhikari, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Dawit Wordofa, Paul Verburg, Simon Poulson, and Yu Yang
Science of The Total Environment, 2019, 651, 1253-1260

“The effect of natural organic matter on the adsorption of mercury to bacterial cells”
Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Bhoopesh Mishra, Satish Myneni, and Jeremy B. Fein
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015, 150, 1-10

“The effect of chloride on the adsorption of Hg onto three bacterial species“
Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Brian Farrell, Bhoopesh Mishra, Satish Myneni, and Jeremy B. Fein
Chemical Geology, 2014, 373, 106-114

“Bioreduction of hydrogen uranyl phosphate: mechanisms and U(IV) products“
Xue Rui, Man Jae Kwon, Edward O’Loughlin, Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Jeremy B. Fein, Bruce A. Bunker, Kenneth Kemner, and Maxim Boyanov
Environmental Science & Technology, 2013, 47, 5668-5678

“The effects of non-metabolizing bacterial cells on the precipitation of U, Pb and Ca phosphates”
Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Xue Rui, Bruce A. Bunker, Nicolas Menguy, Roland Hellmann, and Jeremy B. Fein
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011, 75, 2828-2847