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100 Years of superphosphate addition to pasture in an acid soil—current nutrient status and future management

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A feasibility study of agricultural and sewage biomass as biochar, bioenergy and biocomposite feedstock: production, characterization and potential applications.

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A new way to use solid-state carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study the sorption of organic compounds to soil organic matter

scientific article published on 7 June 2005

Advanced solid-state carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic studies of sewage sludge organic matter: detection of organic "domains".

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An iron(II) dihydrogen hydrido complex containing the tripodal tetraphosphine ligand P(CH2CH2PMe2)3.

scientific article published on 29 March 2004

Aromaticity and degree of aromatic condensation of char

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Assessing crop residue phosphorus speciation using chemical fractionation and solution 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

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Assessing soil corrosivity along feral-proof fencing in the Australian Arid Zone and the development of a new soil corrosivity index

scientific article published in 2022

Assessing the quantitative reliability of solid-state 13C NMR spectra of kerogens across a gradient of thermal maturity

scientific article published on 28 November 2005

Biochar carbon stability in a clayey soil as a function of feedstock and pyrolysis temperature

scientific article published on 10 October 2012

Butenynyl complexes of iron(II) containing the tripodal tetraphosphine ligand P(CH2CH2PMe2)3

Cadmium sorption in biosolids amended soils: results from a field trial

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Changes in character of organics in the receiving environment of effluent from a sulphite pulp mill.

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Changes in sewage sludge carbon forms along a treatment stream

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Changes in the nature of dissolved organics during pulp and paper mill wastewater treatment: a multivariate statistical study combining data from three analytical techniques

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Changes in the nature of sewage sludge organic matter during a twenty-one-month incubation

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Changes in the organic character of post-coagulated Pinus radiata sulfite pulp mill wastewater under aerated stabilization basin treatment—A laboratory scale study

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Changes in water quality following gypsum application to catchment soils of the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia

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Characterisation of soil organic phosphorus in NaOH-EDTA extracts: A comparison of 31P NMR spectroscopy and enzyme addition assays

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Characterization of dissolved organic matter for prediction of trihalomethane formation potential in surface and sub-surface waters.

scientific article published on 15 January 2016

Characterization of sewage sludge organic matter using solid-state carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

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Chemical composition of composted grape marc.

scientific article published in January 2009

Clear effects of soil organic matter chemistry, as determined by NMR spectroscopy, on the sorption of diuron

scientific article published on 04 October 2007

Comparison of degradation between indigenous and spiked bisphenol A and triclosan in a biosolids amended soil

scientific article published on 31 January 2013

Comparison of quantification methods to measure fire-derived (black/elemental) carbon in soils and sediments using reference materials from soil, water, sediment and the atmosphere

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Complex Forms of Soil Organic Phosphorus-A Major Component of Soil Phosphorus.

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Constraining the carbonate system in soils via testing the internal consistency of pH, pCO2 and alkalinity measurements

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

Control of the pore size distribution and its spatial homogeneity in particulate activated carbon

scholarly article in Carbon, vol. 78, November 2014

Correction to: Constraining the carbonate system in soils via testing the internal consistency of pH, pCO2 and alkalinity measurements

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

Degradation of 4-nonylphenol, 4-t-octylphenol, bisphenol A and triclosan following biosolids addition to soil under laboratory conditions

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Determination of T1rhoH relaxation rates in charred and uncharred wood and consequences for NMR quantitation.

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Development of a Spectrophotometric Method for Determining pH of Soil Extracts and Comparison with Glass Electrode Measurements

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Direct comparison between visible near- and mid-infrared spectroscopy for describing diuron sorption in soils

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Effect of land use on organic matter composition in density fractions of contrasting soils: A comparative study using 13C NMR and DRIFT spectroscopy

scientific article published on 11 April 2020

Effects of plant roots and arbuscular mycorrhizas on soil phosphorus leaching

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Field dissipation of 4-nonylphenol, 4-t-octylphenol, triclosan and bisphenol A following land application of biosolids.

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Fire-derived organic matter retains ammonia through covalent bond formation

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Globular structures in roots accumulate phosphorus to extremely high concentrations following phosphorus addition

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

Impact of remote protonation on 13C CPMAS NMR quantitation of charred and uncharred wood.

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Investigation of the role of structural domains identified in sedimentary organic matter in the sorption of hydrophobic organic compounds

scientific article published in June 2005

Iron Complexes Containing the Tripodal Tetraphosphine Ligand P(CH2CH2PMe2)3

scientific article published on June 18, 1997

Loss and gain of carbon during char degradation

article published in 2017

Midinfrared spectroscopy and chemometrics to predict diuron sorption coefficients in soils

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

NMR characterization of 13C-benzene sorbed to natural and prepared charcoals

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Paramagnetic effects on solid state carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of soil organic matter

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Persistence of estrogenic activity in soils following land application of biosolids

scientific article published on 01 January 2014

Physicochemical and microbiological effects of long- and short-term winery wastewater application to soils.

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Quantitative analysis of ³¹P NMR spectra of soil extracts--dealing with overlap of broad and sharp signals.

scientific article published on 09 April 2015

Rapid degradation of pyrogenic carbon

Seasonal variation in the nature of DOM in a river and drinking water reservoir of a closed catchment.

scientific article published on 4 November 2016

Selected personal care products and endocrine disruptors in biosolids: an Australia-wide survey

scientific article published on 8 January 2011

Separating the effects of organic matter-mineral interactions and organic matter chemistry on the sorption of diuron and phenanthrene

scientific article published on 13 May 2008

Soil Microbial Community Responses After Amendment with Thermally Altered Pinus radiata Needles

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

Solid-state 13C NMR spectroscopic studies of soil organic matter at two magnetic field strengths

scholarly article

Synthesis and Properties of Iron(II) Hydride Complexes Containing the Tripodal Tetraphosphine Ligand P(CH2CH2PMe2)3

scientific article published on December 17, 1997

Synthesis of new tetradentate oligophosphine ligands

The Organic Chemistry of Plant Residues: Comparison Of NMR and Pyrolysis Data Using Multivariate Statistical Approaches

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The application of a spectrophotometric method to determine pH in acidic (pH<5) soils

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

The effect of lipids on the sorption of diuron and phenanthrene in soils

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The effect of solvent-conditioning on soil organic matter sorption affinity for diuron and phenanthrene

scientific article published on 10 May 2009

The effects of organic matter-mineral interactions and organic matter chemistry on diuron sorption across a diverse range of soils.

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The use of MSSV pyrolysis to assist the molecular characterisation of aquatic natural organic matter.

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Variable water cycles have a greater impact on wheat growth and soil nitrogen response than constant watering

scientific article published on 15 May 2019