Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications & Book Chapters
Mercury Team

left to right: Dr. Mae Gustin, Dr. Sarrah Dunham-Cheatham, Adriel Luippold (May ’18)

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, 2022, 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