NORTHERN AGRICULTURE
Integrative studies
Klöffel T, Young EH, Borchard N, Vallotton JD, Nurmi E, Shurpali NJ, Urban Tenorio F, Liu X, Young GHF, Unc A. 2022. The challenges fraught opportunity of agriculture expansion into boreal and Arctic regions. Agricultural Systems,203: 103507, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2022.103507
Unc A, Adamczyk B, Borchard N. 2022. Editorial: Sustainable and Climate-Smart Agriculture in the Boreal and Arctic Regions. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems; 6: https://doi.org/doi:10.3389/fsufs.2022.816726
Unc A, Altdorff D, Abakumov E, Adl S, Baldursson S, Bechtold M, Cattani DJ, Firbank LG, Grand S, Guðjónsdóttir M, Kallenbach C, Kedir AJ, Li P, McKenzie DB, Misra D, Nagano H, Neher DA, Niemi J, Oelbermann M, Overgård Lehmann J, Parson D, Quideau S, Sharkhuu A, Smreczak B, Vallotton JD, Whalen J, Young EH, Zhang M, Borchard N. 2021. Expansion of agriculture in northern cold-climate regions: A cross-sectoral perspective on opportunities and challenges. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems; 5: 236. https://doi.org/doi:10.3389/fsufs.2021.663448
Altdorff D, Borchard N, Young EH, Galagedara L, Quideau S, Unc A. 2021. Agriculture in boreal and Arctic regions requires an integrated global approach for research and policy. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 41: 23. https://doi.org/doi:10.1007/s13593-021-00676-1
Climate change
King M, Altdorff D, Li P, Galagedara L, Holden J, Unc A. 2018. Northward shift of the agricultural climate zone under 21st-century global climate change. Scientific Reports 8: 7904, https://doi.org/doi:10.1038/s41598-018-26321-8; 2018 top 100 (i.e. 36/625) for Earth Sciences articles published in Scientific Reports (as of Feb 05, 2023, in the top 3% most cited for the journal (4904/170909 in WoS])
Soil fertility and management
Abedin J, Unc A, 2023. The rate dependent efficacy of biochar for crop yield and nutrition on Podzols newly converted from boreal forests, Field Crops Research, 303: 109121, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2023.109121
Kedir JA, McKenzie DB, Ziadi N, Unc A. 2022. Comparison of agri-environmental phosphorus tests for boreal agricultural and natural Podzols. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, https://doi.org/10.1139/CJSS-2022-0037
Young EH, Vallotton JD, Kedir JA, Medaiyese AO, Goyer C, Comeau L-P, Unc A. 2022. The impacts of rock pulverization on soil quality and functional soil nematode and respiration properties of boreal lands converted from forest to agricultural use, Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 102(4): 977-990: https://doi.org/doi:10.1139/CJSS-2022-0007, (Editor’s Choice selection)
Kedir AJ, Nyiraneza J , Hawbold KA, McKenzie DB , Unc A. 2022. Phosphorus sorption capacity and its relationships with soil properties under podzolic soils of Atlantic Canada, Frontiers in Soil Science, 2: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoil.2022.931266
Kedir AJ, Mingchu Z, Unc A. 2021. Understanding soil fertility status in Newfoundland from standard farm soil tests. Canadian Journal of Soil Science. 101(3): 517-531. https://doi.org/doi:10.1139/CJSS-2020-0108
Abedin J, Unc A, 2021. The utility of biochar for increasing the fertility of new agricultural lands converted from boreal forests. Canadian Journal of Soil Science. 102(1): 165-176. https://doi.org/doi:10.1139/CJSS-2021-0002
Kedir AJ, Nyiraneza, Hawboldt KA, McKenzie DB, Unc A. 2021. Phosphorus adsorption characteristics in forested and managed podzolic soils, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 85:249–262. https://doi.org/doi:10.1002/saj2.20180
Abedin J, Unc A. 2020. Addition of biochar to acid, boreal podzolic soils enhances micronutrient availability and crop productivity, Open Agriculture (de Gruyter) 5(1): 188-201, https://doi.org/doi:10.1515/opag-2020-0021
Soil biology, health, and carbon
Young EH, Abedin J, Unc A. 2023. Soil nematode communities after addition of biochar to agricultural farmland following conversion from boreal forest, Soil Research, (CSIRO) 61(5) 456-467 https://doi.org/10.1071/SR22228
Tingskou R, Unc A. 2023. Impact of fertiliser source on the dynamics of carbon and nutrients in a Podzol slated for land-use conversion Soil Use and Management, 00: 1-13 https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12906
Young EH, Unc A. 2023. A review of nematodes as biological indicators of sustainable functioning for northern soils undergoing land-use conversion. Applied Soil Ecology, 183: 104762, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2022.104762
Comeau L-P, MacKinley K, Unc A, Vallotton JD. 2022. Ex-situ soil respiration assessment using minimally disturbed microcosms and dried-sieved soils; comparison of methods to assess soil health. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, https://doi.org/10.1139/CJSS-2021-0143
Sherman C, Unc A, Doniger T, Ehrlich R, Steinberger Y. 2019. The effect of human trampling activity on a soil microbial community at the Oulanka Natural Reserve, Finland. Applied Soil Ecology, 135: 104-112, https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2018.11.013
Soil hydrology and EMI
Altdorff D, Sadatcharam K, Unc A, Krishnapillai M, Galagedara L. 2020. Comparison of multi-frequency and multi-coil electromagnetic induction (EMI) for mapping properties in shallow podsolic soils. Sensors 20(8): 2330; https://doi.org/doi:10.3390/s20082330
Sadatcharam K, Altdorff D, Unc A, Krishnapillai M, Galagedara L. 2020. Depth Sensitivity of Apparent Magnetic Susceptibility Measurements using Multi-Coil and Multi-Frequency Electromagnetic Induction. Journal of Environmental & Engineering Geophysics (JEEG) 25(3):301, https://doi.org/doi:10.32389/JEEG20-001
Badewa E, Unc A, Cheema M, Galagedara L. 2019. Temporal stability of apparent electrical conductivity (ECa) in managed Podzols. Acta Geophysica, 67(4):1107–1118, https://doi.org/doi:10.1007/s11600-019-00306-1
Altdorff D, Galagedara L, Abedin J, Unc A. 2019. Effect of biochar application rates on the hydraulic properties of anagricultural-use boreal Podzol. Soil Systems, 3:53, https://doi.org/doi:10.3390/soilsystems3030053
Badewa E, Unc A, Cheema M, Kavanagh V, Galagedara L. 2018. Soil moisture mapping using multi-frequency and multi-coil electromagnetic induction sensors on managed podzols. Agronomy, 8:224, https://doi.org/doi:10.3390/agronomy8100224
Altdorff D, Galagedara L, Nadeem M, Cheema M, Unc A. 2018. Effect of agronomic treatments on the accuracy of soil moisture mapping by electromagnetic induction. Catena 164: 96-106, https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.catena.2017.12.036
Altdorff D, Galagedara L, Unc A. 2017. Impact of projected land conversion on water balance of boreal soils in western Newfoundland. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 8 (4): 613-626, https://doi.org/doi:10.2166/wcc.2017.016
GHG’s
Medayiese A, Wu J, Unc A. 2023. Utility of wood ash, paper sludge and biochar for the mitigation of greenhouse gases emissions from acid boreal soils, Journal of Environmental Management, 330(15): 117202, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.117202
GENERAL SOIL SCIENCE, AGRONOMY, AGRICULTURE
Goss, M.J., Blagodastky, S., Unc, A., 2023. Microbial denitrification, In Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment 2ndEd., vol 1, pp. 261-269, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822974-3.00282-2
Vallotton, J.D., Blagodatsky, S., Unc, A., 2023. Soil respiration, In Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment 2nd Ed., vol 1, pp. 369-378, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822974-3.00264-0
Goss MJ, Unc A, Ehlers W. 2019. Ch. 9, Improving water management in organic crop cultivation. In Improving organic crop cultivation, Ulrich Köpke (Ed.), Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing. (ISBN-13: 9781786761842) (Invited chapter)
Unc A, Hoekstra G. 2009. Agronomic Evaluation of ThermAer ATAD Biosolids; Greenhouse Growth Trials. Residuals and Biosolids 2009 Proceedings, pp. 1214-1226(13), ISSN 1938-6478, https://doi.org/doi:10.2175/ 193864709793846303 (link)
Unc A, Goss MJ. 2006. Impact of organic waste amendments on soil hydraulic properties and on water partitioning, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science 5: 243–251, https://doi.org/doi:10.1139/s05-018
Curnoe W, Irving DI, Dow CB, Velema G, Unc A. 2006. Effect of spring application of a paper mill-soil-conditioner on corn yield and soil fertility, Agronomy Journal 98: 423-429, https://doi.org/doi:10.2134/agronj2005.0041
MICROBIAL ECOLOGY
Soil microbial ecology, Arid lands
Tahtamouni E, Khresat J, Lucero M, Sigala J, Unc A. 2023. Soil community catabolic profiles for a semiarid reclaimed surface coalmine, International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, 37(5): 338-354. https://doi.org/10.1080/17480930.2023.2185438
Eshel G, Unc A*, Egozi R, Shakartchy E, Doniger T, Steinberger Y. 2022. Orchard floor management effect on soil free-living nematode communities, Soil Research (CSIRO-Australia). 60(3), pp. 310–319, https://doi.org/doi:10.1071/SR21196 (*corresponding author)
Unc A, Eshel G, Unc GA, Deniger T, Sherman C, Leikin M, Steinberger Y. 2020. Vineyard soil microbial community under conventional, sustainable and organic management practices in a Mediterranean climate. Soil Science. 59(3) 253-265, https://doi.org/doi:10.1071/SR20152
Unc A, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E, Sherman C, Doniger T, Steinberger Y. 2019. Soil bacterial community associated with the dioecious Acanthosicyos horridus in the Namib Desert. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 55: 393–403, https://doi.org/doi:10.1007/s00374-019-01358-7
Wasserstrom H, Elias B-E, Vered E, Sherman C, Unc A, Steinberger Y. 2017. The influence of flint stones on a soil microbial community in the northern Negev Desert. AIMS Microbiology, 3(3): 564-579, https://doi.org/doi:10.3934/microbiol.2017.3.580
Tahtamouni MEW, Khresat S, Lucero ME, Sigala J, Unc A. 2016. Diversity of endophytes across the soil-plant continuum for Atriplex spp. in arid environments. Journal of Arid Land 8(2): 241-253, https://doi.org/doi:10.1007/s40333-015-0061-9
Martirosyan V, Unc A, Miller G, Doniger T, Wachtel C, Steinberger Y, 2016. Desert perennial shrubs shape the microbial-community miscellany in laimosphere and phyllosphere space. Microbial Ecology, 72(3): 659–668, https://doi.org/doi:10.1007/s00248-016-0822-9
Yu J, Unc A, Zhang X, Steinberger Y. 2016. Responses of the soil microbial catabolic profile and diversity to vegetation rehabilitation in degraded semiarid grassland. Applied Soil Ecology 101: 124-131, https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.01.022
Berg N, Unc A, Steinberger Y. 2015. Examination of biotic and abiotic controls of soil bacterial diversity under perennial shrubs in xeric soils. Catena 127: 124–128, https://doi.org/doi:10.1016 /j.catena.2014.12.029
Nelson C, Unc A, Lucero M, Lombard K, Perkins S. 2014. Impact of seed exposure to plant material on plant growth & development on remediated arid lands. Journal of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation 3(1): 41-69, http://doi.org/10.21000/JASMR14010041
Saul-Tcherkas V, Unc A, Steinberger Y. 2013. Impact of desert shrubs on soil microbial diversity. Microbial Ecology65(3): 689-699, https://doi.org/doi:10.1007/s00248-012-0141-8
Lucero ME, Unc A, Cooke P, Dowd S, Sun S. 2011. Endophyte microbiome diversity in micropropagated Atriplex canescens and Atriplex torreyi var griffithsii. PLoS ONE 6(3): e17693, https://doi.org/doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017693
Microbial Ecology, Other
Pavlik I, Geršl M, Bartos M, Ulmann V, Kaucka P, Caha J, Unc A, Hubelova D, Modra H. 2018. Nontuberculous mycobacteria in the environment of Hranice Abyss, the world’s deepest flooded cave (Hranice karst, Czech Republic). Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25(24): 23712–23724, http://doi.org/doi:10.1007/s11356-018-2450-z
Lucero ME, DeBolt S, Unc A, Ruiz-Font A, Reyes LV, McCulley RL, Alderman SC, Dinkins RD, Barrow JR, Samac DA. 2014. Chapter 10: Advancing food security through long term research networks that explore agroecosystems across disciplines and scales, In: Oelbermann, M. (Ed), Sustainable Agroecosystems in Climate Change Mitigation, Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, The Netherlands, pp. 183-202. http://doi.org/doi:10.3920/978-90-8686-788-2_10 (Invited chapter)
BIOTECHNOLOGY
Biotechnology, algal
Markou G, Diamantis A, Arapoglou D, Mitrogiannis C; González-Fernández C, Unc A. 2021. Growing Spirulina (Arthrospira platensis) in seawater supplemented with digestate: trade-offs between increased salinity, nutrient and light availability, Biochemical Engineering Journal 165: 107815 http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.bej.2020.107815
Markou G. Wang L, Ye J, Unc A. 2019. Cultivation of microalgae on anaerobically digested agro-industrial wastes and by-products. In Application of Microalgae in Wastewater Treatment (Volume-II) Subtitle: Domestic and Industrial wastewater treatment. Sanjay Kumar Gupta and Faizal Bux (eds.), Springer International. pp.147-172, http://doi.org/doi:10.1007/978-3-030-13909-4_7
Seger M, Unc A*, Holguin OF, Starkenburg S, Lammer P. 2019. Nutrient-driven algal-bacterial dynamics in semi-continuous, pilot-scale photobioreactor cultivation of Nannochloropsis salina CCMP1776 with municipal wastewater nutrients. Algal Research, 39: 101457, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j. algal.2019.101457 (*corresponding author)
Markou G, Wang L, Ye J, Unc A. 2018. Using agro-industrial wastes for the cultivation of microalgae and duckweeds: Contamination risks and biomass safety concerns. Biotechnology Advances 36(4): 1238-1254, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.biotechadv.2018.04.003
Unc A, Monfet E, Potter A, Camargo Valero MA, Smith SR. 2017. Microalgae cultivation for wastewater treatment and biofuel production: a bibliographic overview of past and current trends: Note to editor, Algal Research, 24B: 2-7, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.algal.2017.05.005
Unc A, Camargo Valero MA, Smith SR. 2017. Special Issue Editorial: Wastewater and Algae; Risk, biofuels and long-term sustainability. Algal Research, 24B: 1, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.algal.2017.05.004
Lammers P, Huesemann M, Boeing W, Anderson DB, Arnold RG, Bai X, Brown L, Downes CM, Gujarathi N, Holladay JE, Laur P, Marrone BL, Mott JB, Nirmalakhandan N, Ogden KL, Parsons R, Richardson JW, Samocha T, Sayre RT, Seger M, Thomasson A, Unc A, Waller P, Olivares JA. 2017. Review of the cultivation program within the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts. Algal Research, 22: 166-186, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.algal.2016.11.021
Monfet E, Unc A. 2017. Defining wastewaters used for cultivation of algae. Algal Research, 24B: 520-526, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.algal.2016.12.008
Unnithan VV, Unc A, Smith GB. 2014. Mini-Review: A priori considerations for bacteria-algae interactions in algal biofuel systems receiving municipal wastewaters. Algal Research 4: 35-40, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.algal.2013.11.009 (Top 2% most cited among articles published in Algal Research (48/2887, as of Feb 05, 2023 @Web of Science)
Biotechnology, microbiology, waste and wastewaters
Gerba, C.P., Goss, M.J., Unc, A., 2023. Septic systems and municipal waste disposal on land, In Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment 2nd Ed., vol 1, pp. 567-577, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822974-3.00286-X
Farhangi MB, Ghasemzadeh Z, Ghorbanzadeh, N, Khalilirad M, and Unc A. 2021. Phosphate removal from landfill leachate using ferric iron bioremediation under anaerobic condition. Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management. 23: 1576–1587. http://doi.org/doi:10.1007/s10163-021-01239-y
Sigala J, Unc A, Stringam B. 2019. Examination of particle dispersion when saline concentrate is released in septic tank wastewater. Sustainable Water Resources Management (Springer), 5: 779-783, http://doi.org/doi:10.1007/s40899-018-0257-1
Sigala J, Stringam B, Unc A. 2017. In vitro examination of the application of saline concentrate to septic tank wastewater.Sustainable Water Resources Management (Springer), 3(2): 157-162, http://doi.org/doi:10.1007/s40899-017-0089-4
Unnithan VV, Unc A, Smith, GB. 2015. Enzymatic pre-treatment of wastewater to minimize recovery by reverse transcriptase PCR of RNA from inactive bacteriophages. Current Microbiology 71(1): 49-53, http://doi.org/doi:10.1007/s00284-015-0830-x
Unnithan VV, Unc A, Joe V, Smith GB. 2014. Short RNA indicator sequences are not completely degraded by autoclaving, Scientific Reports (Nature) 4: 4070, http://doi.org/doi:10.1038/srep04070
Unnithan VV, Unc A, Smith GB. 2014. Role of Nannochloropsis salina for the recovery and persistence of MS2 virus in wastewater. Algal Research 4: 70-75, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.algal.2013.11.004
Sigala J, Unc A. 2013. Pyrosequencing estimates of diversity of antibiotic resistant bacteria in a wastewater system. Water Science and Technology 67(7): 1534-1543, http://doi.org/doi:10.2166/ wst.2013.026
Sigala J, Unc A. 2012. A PCR-DGGE approach to evaluate the impact of wastewater source on the antibiotic resistance diversity in treated wastewater effluent. Water Science and Technology 65(7): 1323-1331, http://doi.org/doi:10.2166/wst.2012.024
Unc A, Springthorpe VS. 2008. Escherichia coli as a microbial indicator of fecal contamination in soils and surface waters: roles of environmental biotic and abiotic factors in modulating its occurrence and numbers. In: Diaz, L. and Perez, M. (Eds.) Ecology Research Trends, NOVA Publishers, NJ, pp. 123-160, ISBN: 978-1-60456-638-3 (Invited chapter)
CONTAMINANT MICROBIOLOGY
Contaminant microbiology, microbial transport studies
Mosaddeghi, M.R., Unc, A., Mahboubi, A.A., Safadoust, A., 2023, Microbial mobility and transport in soils, In Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment 2nd Ed., vol 1, pp. 512-521, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822974-3.00276-7
Ghorbanzadeh N, Shokati R. Farhangi MB, Shabanpour M, Unc A, 2021. Effect of the biogenic precipitation of calcium carbonate on bacterial transport in sand columns, Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology, 21(2): 280-291. http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.ecohyd.2021.01.001
Unc A, Niemi J, Goss MJ. 2015. Soil and waste matrix affects spatial heterogeneity of bacteria filtration during unsaturated flow. Water 7: 836-854, http://doi.org/doi:10.3390/w7030836
Gharabaghi B, Safadoust A, Mahboubi AA, Mosaddeghi MR, Unc A, Ahrens B, Sayyad Gh. 2015. Temperature effect on the transport of bromide and E. coli NAR in saturated soils. Journal of Hydrology 522: 418–427, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.01.003
Farhangi MB, Safari Sinegani AA, Mosaddeghi MR, Unc A, Khodakaramian G. 2014. Survival of Pseudomonas fluorescens CHAO in soil; impact of calcium carbonate and temperature, Arid Land Research and Management 28: 36–48, http://doi.org/doi:10.1080/15324982.2013.806605
Farhangi MB, Safari Sinegani AA, Mosaddeghi MR, Unc A, Khodakaramian G. 2013. Impact of calcium carbonate and temperature on survival of Escherichia coli in soil. Journal of Environmental Management 119: 13-19, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.01.022
Unc A, Goss MJ, Cook S, Li X, Atwill ER, Harter T. 2012. Matrix effects critical to microbial transport through the vadose zone to groundwater, Water Resources Research 48, W00L12, 17 pp., http://doi.org/doi:10.1029/2011WR010775
Safadoust A, Mahboubi AA, Mosaddeghi MR, Gharabaghi B, Unc A, Voroney P, Heydari A. 2012. Effect of regenerated soil structure on unsaturated transport of Escherichia coli and bromide, Journal of Hydrology 430-431: 80-90, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.02.003
Safadoust A, Mahboubi AA, Mosaddeghi MR, Gharabaghi B, Voroney P, Unc A, Khodakaramian G. 2012. Significance of physical weathering of two-texturally different soils for the saturated transport of E. coli and bromide. Journal of Environmental Management 107: 147 158, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.04.007
Safadoust A, Mahboubi A, Gharabaghi B, Mosaddeghi MR, Voroney P, Unc A, Sayyad Gh. 2011. Bacterial filtration rates in repacked and weathered soil columns. Geoderma 167-168: 204-213, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.08.014
Goss MJ, Ehlers W, Unc A. 2010. The role of lysimeters in the development of our understanding of contamination of groundwater aquifers, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 35: 913–926, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.pce.2010.06.004
Mosaddeghi MR, Sinegani AAS, Farhangi MB, Mahboubi AA, Unc A. 2010. Saturated and unsaturated transport of cow manure-borne E. coli through in situ clay loam lysimeters. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 137: 163-171, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.agee.2010.01.018
Mosaddeghi MR, Mahboubi AA, Zandsalimi S, Unc A. 2009. Influence of organic waste type and soil structure on the bacteria filtration rates in unsaturated intact soil columns, Journal of Environmental Management 90 (2): 730-739, http://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2008.01.009
Unc A, Goss,MJ. 2003. Movement of faecal bacteria from manure through the vadose zone, Water, Air and Soil Pollution149: 327-337, https://doi.org/doi:10.1023/A:1025693109248
Unc A, Goss MJ. 2004. Transport of bacteria from manure and the protection of water resources, Applied Soil Ecology25: 1-18, doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2003.08.007 (Awarded “Top-10 Most Cited from 2003 to 2008”; as of Feb 05, 2023, in the top 1% most cited for the journal [50/4373 in WoS]; continuously and regularly cited, i.e., a “classic” in the research on bacterial transport in soils)
Unc A, Goss MJ. 2002. Movement of pathogenic bacteria from manure to groundwater resources, In: Kocasoy G., Atabarut T., and Nuhoglu I. (Eds.) Appropriate Environmental and Solid Waste Management and Technologies For Developing Countries, ISWA, Istanbul, Turkey, vol. 3, pp. 1539-1546. (link)
Unc A, Goss MJ. 2000. Development of a protocol for sampling faecal coliform bacteria originating from manure in the vadose zone, Water Quality Research Journal of Canada 35: 23-28, https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025693109248
Contaminant microbiology, environmental quality
Unc A, Zurek L, Peterson G, Narayanan S, Springthorpe SV, Sattar SA. 2012. Microarray assessment of virulence, antibiotic and heavy metal resistance in an agricultural watershed creek. Journal of Environmental Quality 41(2): 534-543, doi:10.2134/jeq2011.0172.
Unc A, Hoekstra G. 2011. Significance of the source of waste used to produce autothermal aerobic digested biosolids on the apparent phytoavailability of copper and zinc. The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management 37(4): 273-283, doi:10.5276/JSWTM.2011.273
Lombard K, O’Neill M, Heyduck R, Onken B, Ulery A, Mexal J, Unc A. 2011. Composted biosolids as a source of iron for hybrid poplars (Populus sp) grown in Northwest New Mexico, Agroforestry Systems 81: 45-56, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-010-9334-7
Springthorpe S, Perez J, Bérubé D., Unc A, Sattar S. 2011. Can E. coli hide in your water? In: Water Quality Technology Conference and Exposition 2010, American Water Works Association (Denver, CO); Curran Associates, Inc. (publisher; Red Hook, NY), ISBN: 978-1-61782-340-4, Pages 210-216.
Perez J, Bérubé D, Sattar SA, Unc A, Springthorpe S. 2010. Do aluminium concentrations in drinking water inhibit cultivation of Escherichia coli?, Water Science and Technology: Water Supply 10(3): 269–276, https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2010.902
Sigala J, Unc A. 2009. Assessment of the contribution of wastewater sources to the diversity of antibiotic resistance in wastewater treatment plants. In Proceedings of the 14th European Biosolids and Organic Resources Conference, ed. NJ Horan, ISBN 978-1-903958-35-3. Leeds UK: Aqua Enviro, 10pp. (link)
Unc A, Gardner J, Springthorpe S. 2006. Recovery of Escherichia coli from soil after addition of sterile organic wastes, Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72: 2287-2289, https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.72.3.2287-2289.2006,
Unc A, Goss MJ. 2006. Culturable Escherichia coli in soil mixed with two types of manure, Soil Science Society of America Journal 70:763-769, https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2004.0367
Unc A, Sharpe PH, Pitty Del Cid J, Springthorpe S, Sattar SA, Goss MJ. 2006. Impact of cattle grazing management on microbial indicators of fecal pollution, Canadian Journal of Animal Science 86(4): 583-583.
Sharpe PH, Unc A, Pitty del Cid J, Marcellisen P, Knight DR, Goss MJ. 2006. Drinking and defecating frequencies and locations are affected by the presence of a water trough when cattle graze near a creek, Canadian Journal of Animal Science 86(4): 597-597.
SCIENCE EDUCATION
Masse J, Yates T, Krzic M, Unc A, Chen ZC, Quideau S, Hodgson K, Warren J. 2019. Identifying learning outcomes for a Canadian pedology field school: Addressing the gap between new graduates’ skills and the needs of the current job market, Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 99(4): 458-471, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2019-0040