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Environmental Radiotracers: Products
Although this is no longer considered a current GLERL research project, John Robbins continues to work on completing his many research endeavors in his capacity as a GLERL Scientist emeritus. Please see the Research Programs page for a list of current research projects.
(Posters | Publications | Milestone Reports)
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Robbins, J.A., C. Holmes, R. Halley, M. Bothner, E. Shinn, J. Graney, G. Keeler, M. tenBrink, K.A. Orlandini, and D. Rudnick; Dec. 2000; "Time-Averaged Fluxes of Lead and Fallout Radionuclides to Sediments in Florida Bay" [pdf]
Robbins, J.A., D.N. Edgington, B.J. Eadie, N.R. Morehead, and R. W. Rood; Feb. 2001; "Time Scales for Sediment Focusing in Lake Michigan Based on Fallout 137Cs Data: A Thirty Year Study" [pdf]
Robbins, J.A., B.J. Eadie, N.R. Morehead, and D. N. Edginton; Feb. 2002;
"High Resolution Mapping of 137Cs and 7Be Inventories
in the High Deposition Area of Southern Lake Michigan" [pdf]
Callender, E. and J. A. Robbins, Radionuclide and trace element transport and accumulation in a Missouri River reservoir. Water Resources Research 29, 1787-1894, 1993.
Cook, P. M., J. A. Robbins, D. D. Endicott, K. B. Lodge, P. D. Guiney, M. K. Walker, E. W. Zabel, and R. E. Peterson, Effects of aryl hydrocarbon receptor-mediated early life stage toxicity on lake trout populations in Lake Ontario during the 20th century. Environ Sci. Technol. 37, 3878-3884, 2003.
Eadie, B. J., S. Nihart, and J. A. Robbins. Study of early diagenesis of compounds in Great Lakes sediments is underway. Coastal Oceanography and Climatology News, Recent Events in United States Coastal Waters, Center for Ocean Management Studies, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island, 4 (l982) 43.
Eadie, B. J. , H. A. Vanderploeg, J. A. Robbins and G. R. Bell, The significance of particle settling and resuspension in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Ibid. (pp. 196-209).
Eadie, B. J. and J. A. Robbins. The role of particulate matter in the movement of contaminants in the Great Lakes., In Sources and Fates of Aquatic Pollutants (R. A. Hites and S. J. Eisenreich, Eds.), Advances in Chemistry Series 216, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. 1987. pp. 319-364.
Eadie, B. J. and J. A. Robbins. Composition and accumulation of recent sediments in Lake Michigan, In: Lake Michigan. Monograph (M. Munawar, Ed.) (In Press, October 2003).
Eadie, B. J., J. A. Robbins, W. R. Faust and P. F. Landrum, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments and porewaters of the lower Great Lakes: reconstruction of a regional benzo(a)pyrene source function, In: Organic Substances and Sediments in Water: Volume 3, Processes and Analytical, R. Baker, Ed., Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, MI., 1991, pp. 171-189.
Eadie, B. J., Robbins, J. A., Blackwelder, P., Metz, S., Trefry, J. H., McKee, B. and Nelson, T. A., A retrospective analysis of nutrient enhanced coastal ocean productivity in sediments from the Louisiana continental shelf, Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity, Proceedings of Workshop, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, October 1991, Texas A&M Sea Grant College Program Publication TAMU-SG-92-109, June 1992, 153 pp.
Eadie, B. J., McKee B. A., Lansing, M. B., Robbins, J. A., Metz, S. and Trefry, J. H., Records of nutrient-enhanced coastal ocean productivity in sediments from the Louisiana Continental Shelf, Estuaries, Estuaries 17, 754-765, 1994.
Eadie, B. J., D. J.Schwab, R. A. Assel N. Hawley, M. B. Lansing, G. S. Miller, N. R. Morehead, J. A. Robbins, P.L. VanHoof, G. A. Leskevich, T. H. Johengen, P. Laryentev, R. E. Holland, Development of Recurrent Coastal Plume in Lake Michigan Observed for First Time, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 77, N0. 35, 337-338, 1996.
Eadie, B. J., D. J. Schwab,T. H. Johengen,P. J. Lavrentyev, G. S. Miller, R. E. Holland, G. A. Leskevich, M. B. Lansing, N. R. Morehead, J. A. Robbins, N. Hawley, D. N. Edgington and P. L. VanHoof, Particle transport, nutrient cycling and algal community structure associated wit a major winter-spring sediment resuspension event in southern Lake Michigan, J. Great Lakes Res. 28, 324-337, 2002.
Edgington, D. N. and J. A. Robbins. Time scales of sediment focusing in large lakes as revealed by measurement of fallout Cs-137, In Large Lakes: Ecological Structure and Function (M. Tilzer and C. Serruya, Eds. Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1990, 691 pp (pp 210-223).
Edgington, D. N., J. V. Klump, J. A. Robbins, Y. S. Kushner, V. D. Pampura and J. V. Sadimirov, Radionuclides in Lake Baikal: sedimentation rates, residence times and inventories., Nature 350, 601-604, 1991.
Edgington, D. N., Robbins, J. A., M.-P. Gustin, K. A. Orlandini and S. C. Coleman, Uranium-series disequilibrium, sedimentation, diatom frustules and paleoclimate change in Lake Baikal, Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett. 142, 29-42, 1996.
Eisenreich, S. J., N. A. Metzer, N. R. Urban, and J. A. Robbins. Response of atmospheric lead to decreased use of lead in gasoline. Environ. Sci. Technol. 20, 171-174, 1986.
Eisenreich, S. J., P. D. Capel, J. A. Robbins and R. A. Bourbonniere, Accumulation of chlorinated hydrocarbons in lacustrine sediments. Environ. Sci. Technol. 23, 1116-1126, 1989.
Fingleton, D. J., and J. A. Robbins. Trace elements in air over Lake Michigan near Chicago during September 1973. J. Great Lakes Res. 6 (1980) 22-37.
Fisher, J. B., P. L. McCall, W. J. Lick, and J. A. Robbins. Vertical mixing of sediments by tubificid oligochaetes. J. Geophys. Res. 85 (1980) 3997-4006.
Graney, J. R., A. N. Halliday, G. J. Keeler, J. O. Nriagu, J. A. Robbins and S. A. Norton, Isotopic record of lead pollution in lake sediments from the northeastern United States, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 59, 1715-1728, 1995.
Hancock, G., D. N. Edgington, J. A. Robbins, J. N. Smith, G. Brunskill and J. Pfitzner, Workshop on radiological techniques in sedimentation studies: methods and applications, In Environmental Changes and Radioactive Tracers, Proceedings of the South Pacific Environmental Radioactivity Association (SPERA) 2000 (J. M. Fernandez and R. Fichez, Eds.) IRD Editions, Paris, 2002. 532. pp.
Hawley, N., J. A. Robbins, and B. J. Eadie. The partitioning of beryllium-7 in freshwater. Geochem. Cosmochim Acta. 50, 1127-1131, 1986.
Holmes, C. W., J. Robbins, R. Halley, M. Bothner, M. TenBrink and M. Marot, Sediment dynamics of Florida Bay mud banks on a decadal time scale, In Paleoecological Studies of South Florida (Ed. B. R. Wardlaw), Bulletins of American Pale- ontology, Number 361, 31-40, 2001.
Horowitz A. J., Elrick K. A., Robbins, J. A. and Cook, R. B., The effect of mining related activities on the trace element geochemistry of Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, U.S.A. - Part II: Subsurface sediments. Hydrological Processes 9, 35-54, 1995.
Horowitz, A. J., K. A. Elrick, J. A. Robbins and R. B Cook, A summary of the effects of mining and related activities on the sediment-trace element geochemistry of Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA, J. Geochemical Exploration, 52, 135-144, 1995.
Horowitz, A. H., J. A. Robbins, K. A. Elrick and R. B. Cook, Bed sediment trace element geochemistry of Terrace Reservoir, near Summitville, southwestern Colorado, U. S. Geological Survey, Open File Report 96-344, July, 1996, 41 pp.
Kadlec, R., and J. A. Robbins. Sedimentation and sediment accumulation in Michigan Coastal Wetlands. Chemical Geology 44 (1984) 119-150.
Kerfoot, W. C., G. Lauster and J. A. Robbins, Paleolimnological study of copper mining around Lake Superior: Artificial varves from Portage Lake provide a high resolution record. Limnol. Oceanogr. 39, 649-669, 1994.
Kerfoot, W. C. and J. A. Robbins, Nearshore regions of Lake Superior: Multielement signatures of mining discharges in sediment cores and a test of Pb-210 deposition under conditions of variable sediment mass flux, J. Great Lakes, J. Great Lakes Res. 25(4), 697-720, 1999
Kerfoot, W. C., S. Harting, R. Rossmann and J. A. Robbins, Anthropogenic copper inventories and mercury profiles from Lake Superior: Evidence for mining impacts, J. Great Lakes Res., 25(4), 663-682, 1999.
Kerfoot, W. C., S. L. Harting, J. A. Robbins and R. Rossmann, Local, regional and global implications of elemental mercury in metal (copper, silver, gold, zinc) ores:insights from Lake Superior sediments. J. Great Lakes Research, (In.Press, July, 2004
Krezoski, J. R., J. A. Robbins, and D. S. White. Dual radiotracer measurement of zoobenthos-mediated solute and particle transport in freshwater sediments. J. Geophys. Res. 89 (1984):7937-7947.
Kerfoot, W. C., S. L. Harting, R. Rossmann and J. A. Robbins, Amalgam mercury in copper, silver and gold ores: an unexpected contribution to Lake Superior sediments, J. Geochemistry, Special Volume on Metal Mining and the Environment. (In Press, March, 2002.)
Krezoski, J. R. and J. A. Robbins. The vertical distribution of feeding and particle-selective transport of 137Cs in lake sediments by lumbriculid oligochaetes, J. Geophys. Res. 90, 11999-12006, 1985.
Kerfoot, W. C., J. A. Robbins and L. J. Weider, A new approach to historical reconstruction: Combining descriptive and experimental paleolimnology, Limnol. Oceanogr. 44, 1232-1247, 1999.
Landrum, P. F. and J. A. Robbins, Bioavailability of sediment-associated contaminants to benthic invertebrates, In: Sediments: Chemistry and Toxicity of In-Place Pollutants, R. Baudo, J. P. Giesy and H. Muntau, Eds., Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, MI 1990, pp. 237-263.
Lindner, G., W. Pfeiffer, J. A. Robbins and E. Recknagel, Long-lived Chernobyl radionuclides in Lake Constance: speciation, sedimentation and biological transfer, Proc. XVth Conference of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA), In: Radioecology of Natural and Artificial Radionuclides, (W. Feld, Ed.), Progress in radiation Protection Series, FS-89-48T, Verlag, Tuv, Rheinland GmBH, Koln, 1989, ppp 295-200.
Lindner, G. W. Pfeiffer, U.Wahl, J. Kleiner, H.-H. Stabel, P. Frenzel, J. A. Robbins, F. Giovanoli, A. Lelans and E. Recknagel, Sedimentation of long- lived radionuclides in Lake Constance, Proc. 7th Internat. Conf. on Heavy Metals in the Environment, CEP Consultants Publishing, Edinburgh, U.K., Sept. 1989, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 449-452.
Lindner, G., I. Greiner, R. Grom, K. Hain, M. Ibler, S. Kaminski, J. Kleiner, W. Pfeiffer, J. Robbins, O. Seewald, Ch. Wilkelm and M. Wunderer, Ent- fernungs- und Akkumulationsprozesse von Caesium-Radiounukliden in Seen des Voralpengebiets, In: Jubilaeumstagung "Strahlenschutz fuer Mensch und Umwelt", Fachverband fuer Strahlenschutz, Aachen, Deutschland, 1991.
Markewich, H. W., L. D. Britsch, G. R. Buell, D. L. Dillon, C. M. Fraticelli, T. L. Fries, J. P. McGeehin, J. B. Pracht, J. A. Robbins and J. H. Wrenn, Detailed Descriptions for sampling, sample preparation and analyses of cores from St. Bernard Parrish, Lousiana, Open-File Report (98-429), Mississippi Basin Carbon Project Process Studies, U. S. Dept. of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey, Atlanta, Georgia. 36 pp., 1998.
Matisoff, G. and J. A. Robbins. A model for biological mixing of sediments. J. Geol. Ed. 35, 144-149, 1987.
McCall, P., J. A. Robbins, and G. R. Matisoff. 137Cs and 210Pb transport and geochronologies in urbanized reservoirs with rapidly increasing sedimentation rates. Chemical Geology 44 (1984) 33-65.
McGeehin, J.S., G.S. Burr, G. Hodgins, S.J. Bennett, J.A. Robbins, N. Morehead and H. Markewich. Stepped-combustion 14C dating of bomb carbon in lake sediment. Radiocarbon 46 (2004) 893-900.
Meyers, P. A., N. Takeuchi, and J. A. Robbins. Petroleum hydrocarbons in sediments in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron. J. Great Lakes Res. 6 (1980) 315-320.
Mulsow, S., P. F. Landrum and J. A. Robbins, Biological mixing responses to sublethal concentrations of DDT in sediments by Heteromastus filiformis (Capitellidae) using a 137Cs marker layer technique, Marine Ecology - Progress Series (In Press, March 2002).
Ostrom, P. H., N. E. Ostrom, J. Henry, B. J. Eadie, P. A. Meyers and J. A. Robbins, Changes on the trophic state of Lake Erie: Discordance between molecular ë13C and bulk ë13C sedimentary records. Chemical Geol. 152, 163-179, 1998.
Pirrone, N., I. Allegrini, Keeler, G. J., Nriagu, J. O., Rossmann, R. and Robbins,J. A. Historical atmospheric mercury emissions and depositions in North America compared to mercury accumulations in sedimentary records. Atm. Environ. 32, 929-940, 1998.
Quigley, M. A., and J. A. Robbins. Silica regeneration processes in nearshore
southern Lake Michigan. J. Great Lakes Res.
10(1984):383-392.
Quigley, M. A. and J. A. Robbins. Phosphorus release processes in nearshore southern Lake Michigan. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 43, 1201-1207, 1986.
Robbins, J. A. Geochemistry of lead isotopes. In: McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 5th Ed., 1980, 591-598.
Robbins, J. A. Sediments of southern Lake Huron: Elemental composition and accumulation rates. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ecological Research Series, EPA-600/3-80-080. August, 1980, 309 pp. (plus appendix, 198 pp.)
Robbins, J. A., and B. J. Eadie. Models of contaminants in the Great Lakes. Res. Oceanogr. Eng. 4 (1982) 3.
Robbins, J. A. Stratigraphic and dynamic effects of sediment reworking by Great Lakes zoobenthos. In: Developments in Hydrobiology 9, Sediment/Freshwater Interaction, Ed. P. G. Sly. Proc. of the 2nd International Symposium on Sediment-Water Interactions, Kingston, Ont. Hydrobiologia 92 (1982) 611-622.
Robbins, J. A. (Editor). Geochronology of Recent Deposits. In Chemical Geology. Special Issue, V. 44, No. 1/3 May 1984. 348 pp.
Robbins, J. A. The coupled lakes model for estimating the long-term response
of the Great Lakes to time dependent loadings of particle associated con
taminants. Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Technical Memo,
ERL-GLERL-57, Ann Arbor, Mich. 4804. April 1985, 41 pp.
Robbins, J. A. A model for particle-sediment transport of tracers in sediments
with conveyor-belt deposit feeders. J. Geophys. Res. 91, 8542-8558, 1986.
Robbins, J. A. Great Lakes regional fallout source functions, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory Technical Memo, ERL-GLERL-56, February, 1986, 21 pp.
Robbins, J. A. Sediments of Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron: Elemental composition and accumulation rates. Special report 102, University of Michigan, Great Lakes Research division, Feb. 1986, 102 pp. (Appendix 278 pp.)
Robbins, J. A., K. Husby-Coupeland, and D. S. White. Precise radiotracer measurement of the rate of sediment reworking by Stylodrilus heringianus and the effects of variable dissolved oxygen levels. J.Great Lakes Res. 10(1984):335-347.
Robbins, J. A. , T. Keilty, D. S. White and D. N. Edgington. Relationships between Tubificid abundances, sediment composition and accumulation rates in Lake Erie. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 46, 223-231, 1989
Robbins, J. A., The role of radiotracers in studies of aquatic contamination, Proc. 7th Internat. Conf. on Heavy Metals in the Environment, CEP Conultants Publishing, Edinburgh, U.K., Sept. 1989, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 445-448.
Robbins, J. A., A. Mudroch and B. G. Oliver, Transport and storage of 137Cs and 210Pb in sediments of Lake St. Clair, Can. J. Fish and Aquat. Sci. 47, 572-587, 1990.
Robbins, J. A. and B. J. Eadie, Seasonal cycling of trace elements, 137Cs, 7Be, and 239+240Pu in Lake Michigan, J. Geophys. Res. 96, 17081-17104,1991.
Robbins, J. A. and N. R. Morehead, Rates of accumulation of recent sediments in Lake Ontario as determined by Cs-137 and Pb-210, Report for the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, 16 pp. plus Appendix. March 1991.
Robbins, J. A., G. Lindner, W. Pfeiffer, J. Kleiner, H.-H. Stabel and P. Frenzel, Epilimnetic scavenging of Chernobyl radionuclides in Lake Constance, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 56, 2239-2361, 1992.
Robbins, J. A. and L. R. Herche, Thirty years of lead-210 dating: successes and failures, Proc. Internat. Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, CEP Consultants, Ltd., Edinburgh, UK, V.2 202, 1993.
Robbins, J. A. and L. R. Herche, Models and uncertainty in lead-210 dating of sediments, Proceedings of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology, Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 25, 217-222, 1993.
Robbins, J. A. and A. W. Jasinski, Chernobyl fallout radionuclides in Lake Sniardwy, Poland, J. Environmental Radioactivity, 26, 157-184, 1995.
Robbins, J. A. and X. Wang, Sediment core dating, Report to the South Florida Water Management District, (Contract C-5324), March-August, 1995.
Robbins, J. A., X. Wang and R. W. Rood, Sediment Core Dating, Report to the South Florida Water Management District, Sept. 1995-Jan. 1996.
Robbins, J. A., K. R. Reddy, C. W. Holmes, N. R. Morehead, M. Marot and R. W. Rood, Sediment Core Dating, Final Report to the South Florida Water Management District, March 12, 1999.
Robbins, J. A., C. Holmes, R. Halley, M. Bothner, E. Shinn, J. Graney, G. Keeler, M. tenBrink, K. A. Orlandini and D. Rudnick, Time-averaged fluxes of lead and fallout radionuclides to sediments in Florida Bay. J. Geophys. Res. 105, No. C12, 28,805-28,821, 2000.
Schelske, C. L., E. F. Stoermer, D. J. Conley, J. A. Robbins, and R. M. Glover. Early eutrophication in the lower Great Lakes: New evidence from biogenic silica in sediments. Science 222 (1983) 320-322.
Schelske, C. L., J. A. Robbins, W. S. Gardner, D. J. Conley and R. A. Bourbonniere. Sediment record of biogeochemical responses to anthropogenic perturbations of nutrient cycles in Lake Ontario. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.45, 129-1303, 1988.
Soster, F. M., G. Matisoff, P. L. McCall and J. A. Robbins, In situ effects of organisms on pore water geochemistry in Great Lakes sediments, In Organism- Sediment Interactions, (Eds. J.Y.Aller, S. A. Woodin and R. C. Aller), The Belle W. Baruch Library in Marine Science, No 21, U. South Carolina Press, pp 279- 295, 2001.
Tenzer, G. E., P. A. Meyers, J. A. Robbins, B. J. Eadie, N. R. Morehead and M. B. Lansing, Sedimentary organic matter record of recent environmental changes in the St. Marys' River ecosystem, Michigan-Ontario border, Organic Geochemistry, 30, 133-146, 1999.
Tisue, G. T., D. J. Fingleton, J. A. Robbins, R. Allison, and S. Brar. Air quality changes over Lake Michigan: 1973-1974 compared with 1978-1979. Radiological and Environmental Research Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill., Annual Report, Biology, January-December 1980 (ANL-80-225. Pt. III), pp. 39-45.
Wahlgren, M. W., J. A. Robbins, and D. N. Edgington. Plutonium in the Great Lakes. In: Tranuranics in the Environment (W. C. Hanson, Ed.) U.S. Department of Energy (TID-22800) (1981) 659-683.
White, D. S., P. C. Klahr and J. A. Robbins. The effect of temperature and density on sediment reworking by Stylodrilus heringianus (Oligochaete: Lumbriculidae). J. Great Lakes Res. 13, 147-156, 1987.
Milestone Reports
FY 2001 Milestone Report submitted by John Robbins describing the determination of modern sediment accumulation rates in Lake Michigan.
FY 1999 Milestone Report submitted by John Robbins describing the estimate of the long-term contaminant removal rates for Lake Michigan based on fallout Cs-137 in material re-suspended into benthic traps.
FY 2005 Milestone
Report submitted by John Robbins using soil core phosphorous profiles
to predict net peat accumulation rates in south Florida wetlands.
update: 2006-05-11 mbl