Visiting Scholar
Molecular Ecology
Contact Info
| Office: | 418 |
|---|---|
| Email: | zeevrone@microbio.umass.edu |
| Phone: | 413-545-6796 |
Education
- 1992 Ph.D. Microbial Ecology. The Pennsylvania State University. University Park, PA, USA.
- 1986 B.Sc. Faculty of Agriculture. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Research description
- Reductive debromination of flame retardants under iron reducing conditions
- Diagnostic of natural attenuation in gasoline polluted groundwater
- Biodegradation process of explosives and perchlorate in soil and aquifer
- The effect of effluent from dairy farms on groundwater quality
Recent Publications
- Gal, H., Z. Ronen, N.Weisbrod, O. Dahan, and R. Nativ. 2008. Perchlorate biodegradation in contaminated soils and the deep unsaturated zone. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40: 1751-1757.
- Arnon S, O.Dahan, S. lhanany, K. Cohen, I. Pankratov, A. Gross, Z. Ronen, S. Baram, L. S. Shore. 2008. Transport of testosterone and estrogen from dairy-farm waste lagoons to groundwater. Environmental Science and Technology 42: 5521–5526.
- Ronen Z., Y. Yanovich and E. Adar 2008. Metabolism of the explosive hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) in a contaminated vadose zone. In press, Chemosphere 73: 1492–1498
- Bernstein, A., Z. Ronen, E. Adar, W. Stichler and R. U. Meckenstock. 2008. Compound-specific isotope analysis of RDX and stable isotope fractionation during aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation. In press, Environmental Science and Technology.
- Nejidat, A., I. Saadi and Z. Ronen. 2008. Effect of flagella expression on adhesion of Achromobacter piechaudii to chalk surfaces. In press, Journal of Applied Microbiology.