Table of Contents

Key Abbreviations The Editor The Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Preface Part I Decision Support and Assessment Modelling Chapter 1 Environmental Fate and Bioaccumulation Modelling at the US Environmental Protection Agency: Applications to Inform Decision-Making; Elsie M. Sunderland, Christopher D. Knightes, Katherine von Stackelberg and Neil A. Stiber Chapter 2 Contaminated Land Decision Support: A Review of Concepts, Methods and Systems; Aisha Bello-Dambatta and Akbar Javadi Chapter 3 An Overview of Exposure Assessment Models Used by the US Environmental Protection Agency; Pamela R.D. Williams, Bryan J. Hubbell, Eric Weber, Cathy Fehrenbacher, David Hardy and Valerie Zartarian Part II Aquatic Modelling and Uncertainty Chapter 4 Modelling Chemical Speciation: Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Uncertainty; Jeanne M. VanBriesen, Mitchell Small, Chris Weber and Jessica Wilson Chapter 5 Multivariate Statistical Modelling of Water- and Soil-Related Environmental Compartments; Aleksander Astel Chapter 6 Modelling the Fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Aquatic Systems; Tuomo M. Saloranta, Ian J. Allan and Kristoffer Nas Chapter 7 A Bayesian-Based Inverse Method (BBIM) for Parameter and Load Estimation in River Water Quality Modelling under Uncertainty; Yong Liu Part III Soil, Sediment and Subsurface Modelling and Pollutant Transport Chapter 8 Colloidal-Facilitated Contaminant Transport in Unsaturated Porous Media; Arash Massoudieh and Timothy R. Ginn Chapter 9 Regional Modelling of Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Geospatial Patterns; Sabine Grunwald, Gustavo M. Vasques, Nick B. Comerford, Gregory L. Bruland and Christine M. Bliss Chapter 10 Modelling of Solute Transport in Soils Considering the Effect of Biodegradation and Microbial Growth; M.M. Nezhad and Akbar A. Javadi Part IV Forest Ecosystem and Footprint Modelling Chapter 11 Flux and Concentration Footprint Modelling; T. Vesala, N. Kljun, A . Rannik, J. Rinne, A. Sogachev, T. Markkanen, K. Sabelfeld, Th. Foken and M.Y. Leclerc Chapter 12 Past and Future Effects of Atmospheric Deposition on the Forest Ecosystem at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Simulations with the Dynamic Model ForSAFE; Salim Belyazid, Scott Bailey and Harald Sverdrup Part V Air Quality Modelling and Sensitivity Analysis Chapter 13 The Origins of 210Pb in the Atmosphere and its Deposition on and Transport through Catchment Lake Systems; Peter G. Appleby and Gayane Piliposyan Chapter 14 Statistical Modelling and Analysis of PM2.5 Control Levels; Sun-Kyoung Park and Seoung Bum Kim Chapter 15 Integration of Models and Observations: A Modern Paradigm for Air Quality Simulations; Adrian Sandu, Tianfeng Chai and Gregory R. Carmichael Chapter 16 Airshed Modelling in Complex Terrain; Peyman Zawar-Reza, Andrew Sturman and Basit Khan Epilogue Index

About the Author

Grady Hanrahan received his PhD in environmental analytical chemistry from the University of Plymouth, UK. With experience in directing undergraduate and graduate research, he has taught in the fields of environmental science and analytical chemistry at California State University, Los Angeles and California Lutheran University. He has written or co-written numerous technical papers and authored or edited four books. He actively employs environmental modelling techniques in his research and teaching activities.