Kate Scow
Assistant Professor
Department:Dept. of Land, Air and Water Resources
Location: 251 Hoagland Hall, University of California, Davis, CA 95616
Telephone: (530) 752-4632
Fax: (530) 752-1552
E-mail:kmscow@ucdavis.edu
General Research Interest Statement:
Soil microbial ecology
Research Interest Pertaining to
SAFS project:
Dynamics and diversity of soil microbial communities in agroecosystems,
carbon and nitrogen cycling in soil, decomposition of organic
matter, kinetics of microbial processes, biodegradation of
pesticides and organic pollutants
Selected Publications:
Fan, S., and K.M. Scow. 1993. Biodegradation of TCE and toluene
by indigenous microbial populations in soil. Appl. Environ.
Microbiol. 59:1911-1918.
Chung, G.-Y., B.J. McCoy, and K.M. Scow. 1993. Criteria to
assess when biodegradation is kinetically limited by intraparticle
diffusion and sorption. Biotechnol. and Bioeng. 41:625-632.
Scow, K.M. 1993. Effect of sorption-desorption and diffusion
processes on the kinetics of biodegradation of organic chemicals
in soil, pp 73-114. In: Linn, D. (ed.) Sorption and Degradation
of Pesticides and Organic Chemicals in Soil. Soil Science
Society of America Special Publication 32, Madison WI.
Scow, K. M., and J. Hutson. 1992. Effect of diffusion and
sorption on the kinetics of biodegradation: theoretical considerations.
Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. J. 56:119-127.
Scow, K. M., and M. Alexander. 1992. Effect of diffusion and sorption on the
kinetics of biodegradation: experimental results with synthetic
aggregates. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. J. 56:128-134.
Scow, K. M., R. R. Merica, and M. Alexander. 1990. Kinetic
analysis of enhanced biodegradation of carbofuran. J. Agric.
Food Chem. 38: 908-912.
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