Peter Nico

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

Nico, Peter S. and Scott E. Fendorf,  Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment, “Kinetics of Redox Reactions” Daniel Hillel, Editor-in-Chief, Elsevier Ltd., Oxford, UK, 2005  

Nico, P.S., Fendorf, S.E., Lowney, Y.W., Holm, S.E., Ruby, M.V., Environ. Sci. Technol.2004, 38, 5253-5260   “Chemical Structure of Arsenic and Chromium in CCA-Treated Wood:  Implications of Environmental Weathering”  

Hansel, CM; Benner, SG; Nico, P; Fendorf, S., Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 2004, 68, 3217-3229 
”Structural constraints of ferric (hydr)oxides on dissimilatory iron reduction and the fate of Fe(II)”

Nico, P.S.; Anastasio, C; Zasoski, R.J., Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta.  2002, 66, 4067-4076  “Rapid Photo-oxidation of Mn(II) Mediated by Humic Substances”

Nico, P. S.; Zasoski, R. J., Environ. Sci. Technol. 2001, 35, 3338-3343, “Mn(III) Availability as a Rate Controlling Factor in the Oxidation of Phenol and Sulfide on d-MnO2”

Nico, P. S.; Zasoski, R. J., Environ. Sci. Technol.2000, 34, 3363-3367,“Importance of Mn(III) Availability on Cr(III) Oxidation on Birnessite”

Invited Presentations

Nico, Peter, Michelle Werner, and Cort Anastasio 2004 ALS’ User Meeting:  Annual Meeting of users of the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, October 2004, "Chromium in atmospheric particles: speciation and redox transformations"

Nico, P.S.,Fendorf, S.E., Lowney, Y.W., Holm, S.E., Ruby, M.V. 19th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments and Water Special Session: CCA Treated Wood – Regulations, Science and Risk Assessment, October 2003, "EXAFS Investigation of Cr and As in CCA Treated Materials"

Werner, Michelle , Cort Anastasio, Bing Gao, Ian Kennedy, Peter S. Nico Argonne National Lab’s Advanced Light Source User Seminar Series, June 2003, "Atmospheric Transformation of Chromium Species on Aerosol Nano-Particles Metabolism and Contaminant Transport

Nico, P.S., C. M. Hansel, S. G. Benner, S. E. Fendorf 84th Annual Meeting of AAAS, Pacific Division, San Francisco, June 2003, "The Influence of Ferric Hydroxide Structure on Sustained Microbial"

Published Abstracts and Presentations

Lowney, Y., R. Wester, P. Nico, S. Holm, M. Ruby Society for Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology (SETAC) Fourth SETAC World Congress, Portland, November 2004, "Chemistry and Dermal Absorption of As in Residues from Wood Preserved, with Chromated Copper Arsenic (CCA)"

Lowney, Y., R. Wester, P. Nico, S. Holm, M. Ruby Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, Baltimore, March 2004, "Chemistry and Dermal Absorption of As in Residues from Wood Preserved with Chromated Copper Arsenic (CCA)"

Nico, Peter S., Shawn G. Benner, Scott E. Fendorf “International Workshop on Biogeochemical Processes involving Iron Minerals in Natural Waters” International Conference Center of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) on Monte Verita, Switzerland, November 2003, "The Influence of Iron Biomineralization on Uranium Transport"     

Nico, P.S., Fendorf, S.E., Lowney, Y.W., Holm, S.E., Ruby, M.V. 19th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments and Water Special Session: CCA Treated Wood – Regulations, Science and Risk Assessment, October 2003, "EXAFS Investigation of Cr and As in CCA Treated Materials"

Nico, P.S., C. M. Hansel, S. G. Benner, S. E. Fendorf 84th Annual Meeting of AAAS, Pacific Division, San Francisco, June 2003, "The Influence of Ferric Hydroxide Structure on Sustained Microbial Metabolism and Contaminant Transport"

Neiss, Jim, Peter Nico, Scott Fendorf 84th Annual Meeting of AAAS, Pacific Division, San Francisco, June 2003, "Impact of Solution Speciation on Uranium Reduction" 

Hansel, C.M., S.G. Benner, P.S. Nico, S. E. Fendorf American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2002, "Effects of Reductive Biomineralization of Ferric Hydroxides on Sustained Microbial Metabolism and Contaminant Sequestration"

Hansel, C. M., S. G. Benner, P. S. Nico, S. E. Fendorf Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2002, "Resolving Reductive Biomineralization Pathways of Ferric Hydroxide"

Nico, P. S., S. E. Fendorf Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2002, "Rate and Mechanism of Cr(VI) Reduction on Magnetite"     

Nico, P., S. Benner, S. Fendorf Symposium: Biogenic Substances and their Effect on Trace Metal Cycling and Mineral Weathering 2002 Goldschmidt, Davos, Switzerland, August 2002, "Uranium Retention by Biogenic Magnetite"     

Fendorf, S., C. Hansel, S. Benner, P. Nico, K. Reville, & B. Bostick Symposium: Small-scale Processes in Heterogeneous Environments with Relevance to Environmental Biogeochemistry 2002 Goldschmidt, Davos, Switzerland, August 2002, "Biogenic Evolution of Microscale Heterogeneity: Impact on Contaminant Dynamics"  

Fendorf, Scott, Colleen Hansel, Shawn Benner, Peter Nico, and Bruce Wielinga Symposium: Microbially Mediated Redox Process at the Solid-Water Interface, American Chemical Society National Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 2002, "Reactive Pathways for the Reductive Stabilization of Metal Contaminants"

Nico, Peter S., Cort Anasasio, Robert J. Zasoski
Symposium: Microbially Mediated Redox Process at the Solid-Water Interface American Chemical Society National Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 2002, "Rapid Photo-oxidation of Mn(II) Mediated by Humic Substances"

Nico, Peter S., Robert J. Zasoski, Pacifichem (co-sponsored:  American Chemical Society and Japanese Chemical Society), Waikiki, December 2000, "Indirect Photooxidation of Mn(II)"                             

Nico, Peter S., Robert J. Zasoski American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, March 2000, "Importance of Mn(III) to Several Redox Reactions at the Birnessite Surface"

Nico, Peter S., Robert J. Zasoski American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, August 1999, "Importance of Mn(III) Availability on Cr(III) Oxidation by Birnessite"