David Alan Laird
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David Alan Laird's Degrees
- PhD Soil Science University of California, Davis
- Masters Soil Science University of California, Davis
- Bachelors Environmental Science University of California, Davis
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- Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy–Principal Components Regression Analyses of Soil Properties (2001) (1546)
- Impact of biochar amendments on the quality of a typical Midwestern agricultural soil (2010) (1128)
- Biochar impact on nutrient leaching from a Midwestern agricultural soil. (2010) (1027)
- Review of the pyrolysis platform for coproducing bio‐oil and biochar (2009) (653)
- Bio-oil and bio-char production from corn cobs and stover by fast pyrolysis (2010) (624)
- The Charcoal Vision : A Win – Win – Win Scenario for Simultaneously Producing Bioenergy , Permanently Sequestering Carbon , while Improving Soil and Water Quality (2008) (563)
- The Charcoal Vision: A Win–Win–Win Scenario for Simultaneously Producing Bioenergy, Permanently Sequestering Carbon, while Improving Soil and Water Quality (2008) (399)
- Assessing potential of biochar for increasing water‐holding capacity of sandy soils (2013) (394)
- Effects of long-term soil acidification due to nitrogen fertilizer inputs in Wisconsin (1997) (390)
- NEAR-INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS OF SOIL C AND N (2002) (372)
- Short-term CO2 mineralization after additions of biochar and switchgrass to a Typic Kandiudult ☆ (2010) (333)
- Influence of layer charge on swelling of smectites (2006) (323)
- Stability of Biochar in the Soil (2009) (323)
- Sorption of tetracycline and chlortetracycline on K- and Ca-saturated soil clays, humic substances, and clay-humic complexes. (2007) (296)
- Environmental benefits of biochar. (2012) (291)
- Characterization of volatile organic emissions and wastes from a swine production facility (1997) (252)
- Atrazine desorption from smectites (1994) (241)
- Characterization and quantification of biochar alkalinity. (2017) (215)
- Impact of Biochar on Manure Carbon Stabilization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (2011) (203)
- Impact of Nitrogen Fertilization and Cropping System on Carbon Sequestration in Midwestern Mollisols (2005) (202)
- Adsorption of Atrazine on Smectites (1992) (195)
- Arsenic sorption on zero-valent iron-biochar complexes. (2018) (188)
- Sorption of atrazine on Soil Clay Components. (1994) (166)
- Nitrogen fertilizer effects on soil carbon balances in midwestern U.S. agricultural systems. (2009) (163)
- BONDING BETWEEN POLYACRYLAMIDE AND CLAY MINERAL SURFACES (1997) (157)
- Anion exchange capacity of biochar (2015) (152)
- Biochar impact on Midwestern Mollisols and maize nutrient availability (2014) (151)
- Sorption of phenanthrene by reference smectites. (2001) (149)
- Layer Charge Influences on the Hydration of Expandable 2:1 Phyllosilicates (1999) (148)
- INFLUENCE OF SOIL MOISTURE ON NEAR-INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENT OF SOIL PROPERTIES (2005) (127)
- Nitrogen fertilization and cropping system impacts on soil quality in midwestern mollisols (2006) (118)
- Adsorption behaviour and mechanisms of cadmium and nickel on rice straw biochars in single- and binary-metal systems. (2019) (116)
- Functional classification of swine manure management systems based on effluent and gas emission characteristics. (2001) (114)
- Model for Crystalline Swelling of 2:1 Phyllosilicates (1996) (114)
- Sorption of ammonium and nitrate to biochars is electrostatic and pH-dependent (2018) (111)
- Sorption and Desorption of Copper on Soil Clay Components (1999) (111)
- Extent of pyrolysis impacts on fast pyrolysis biochar properties. (2012) (101)
- Nature of clay-humic complexes in an agricultural soil. I. Chemical, biochemical, and spectroscopic analyses (2001) (95)
- Layer Charge Characteristics of 2:1 Silicate Clay Minerals (1994) (94)
- Evaluation of modified boehm titration methods for use with biochars. (2013) (92)
- Hysteresis in Crystalline Swelling of Smectites (1995) (85)
- Impacts of fresh and aged biochars on plant available water and water use efficiency (2017) (81)
- Distribution and movement of sludge-derived trace metals in selected Nigerian soils. (2001) (79)
- Impact of Pyrolysis Temperature and Feedstock on Surface Charge and Functional Group Chemistry of Biochars. (2018) (78)
- Nutrient Removal as a Function of Corn Stover Cutting Height and Cob Harvest (2010) (75)
- The impacts of biomass properties on pyrolysis yields, economic and environmental performance of the pyrolysis-bioenergy-biochar platform to carbon negative energy. (2017) (70)
- Accelerated aging of biochars: Impact on anion exchange capacity (2016) (69)
- Long-term impacts of residue harvesting on soil quality (2013) (69)
- Effect of Biochar on Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions at the Laboratory and Field Scales (2018) (69)
- Distinguishing black carbon from biogenic humic substances in soil clay fractions (2008) (67)
- Evaluation of the Alkylammonium Method of Determining Layer Charge (1989) (64)
- Nature of Clay–Humic Complexes in an Agricultural Soil (2001) (64)
- Relationship Between Cation Exchange Selectivity and Crystalline Swelling in Expanding 2:1 Phyllosilicates (1997) (63)
- Abiotic transformation of chlorpyrifos to chlorpyrifos oxon in chlorinated water (2003) (59)
- Multi-year and multi-location soil quality and crop biomass yield responses to hardwood fast pyrolysis biochar (2017) (56)
- Producing energy while sequestering carbon? The relationship between biochar and agricultural productivity (2014) (54)
- Drought effects on composition and yield for corn stover, mixed grasses, and Miscanthus as bioenergy feedstocks (2014) (54)
- Vertical Distribution of Corn Stover Dry Mass Grown at Several US Locations (2011) (53)
- Chemistry of smectitic and illitic phases in interstratified soil smectite (1991) (52)
- Biochars in soils: towards the required level of scientific understanding (2016) (52)
- Six Year Yield Variability Within a Central Iowa Field (1996) (52)
- Macroporous Carbon Supported Zerovalent Iron for Remediation of Trichloroethylene (2017) (51)
- YIELD VARIABILITYWITHINACENTRAL IOWA FIELD (1997) (50)
- Release and fixation of ammonium and potassium under long-term fertility management (1997) (50)
- Exchangeable Cation Hydration Properties Strongly Influence Soil Sorption of Nitroaromatic Compounds (2006) (49)
- Influence of smectite hydration and swelling on atrazine sorption behavior. (2005) (48)
- Carbon Sequestration in Clay Mineral Fractions from 14C‐Labeled Plant Residues (2003) (47)
- Geochemical modulation of pesticide sorption on smectite clay. (2004) (47)
- Aluminum and iron biomass pretreatment impacts on biochar anion exchange capacity (2017) (46)
- Corn and soil response to biochar application and stover harvest. (2016) (45)
- Soil carbon increased by twice the amount of biochar carbon applied after 6 years: Field evidence of negative priming (2020) (44)
- Interpretation of alkylammonium characterization of soil clays (1987) (43)
- Effects of Increasing Potassium Chloride and Calcium Chloride Ionic Strength on Pesticide Sorption by Potassium- and Calcium-Smectite (2006) (42)
- A model for mechanistic and system assessments of biochar effects on soils and crops and trade‐offs (2016) (40)
- Modified method for proximate analysis of biochars (2017) (40)
- Mechanisms for adsorption of organic bases on hydrated smectite surfaces (1999) (40)
- Interactions Between Atrazine and Smectite Surfaces (1996) (40)
- Interactions of chlorpyrifos with colloidal materials in aqueous systems. (2004) (39)
- An On-The-Go Spectral Reflectance Sensor for Soil (2003) (38)
- Cation and Water Content Effects on Dipole Rotation Activation Energy of Smectites (2004) (36)
- Long term biochar effects on corn yield, soil quality and profitability in the US Midwest (2018) (35)
- Electrical conductivity spectra of smectites as influenced by saturating cation and humidity (2004) (34)
- Evaluation of the Structural Formula and Alkylammonium Methods of Determining Layer Charge (1994) (34)
- Chapter 21 – Triazine Soil Interactions (2008) (32)
- Sustainable Pyrolytic Production of Zerovalent Iron (2017) (32)
- Biochar effect on severity of soybean root disease caused by Fusarium virguliforme (2017) (32)
- Development of field mobile soil nitrate sensor technology to facilitate precision fertilizer management (2019) (32)
- Impact of Biochar Organic and Inorganic Carbon on Soil CO2 and N2O Emissions. (2017) (29)
- Nature of the Illitic Phase Associated with Randomly Interstratified Smectite/Illite in Soils (1993) (29)
- Regenerating Agricultural Landscapes with Perennial Groundcover for Intensive Crop Production (2019) (29)
- Quantitative mechanisms of cadmium adsorption on rice straw- and swine manure-derived biochars (2018) (29)
- Global land-use and carbon emission implications from biochar application to cropland in the United States (2020) (28)
- Spectroscopic study of carbaryl sorption on smectite from aqueous suspension. (2005) (28)
- Role of cation demixing and quasicrystal formation and breakup on the stability of smectitic colloids (2007) (28)
- Comparison of the Physical and Chemical Properties of Laboratory and Field-Aged Biochars. (2016) (28)
- Dielectric spectra of bound water in hydrated Ca-smectite (2002) (28)
- Suspension Nebulization Analysis of Clays by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (1991) (27)
- Ionic strength-induced formation of smectite quasicrystals enhances nitroaromatic compound sorption. (2007) (27)
- Estimating the organic oxygen content of biochar (2020) (24)
- Impact of six lignocellulosic biochars on C and N dynamics of two contrasting soils (2017) (22)
- Assessing the Biochar Effects on Selected Physical Properties of a Sandy Soil: An Analytical Approach (2017) (21)
- Problems Associated with Layer Charge Characterization of 2:1 Phyllosilicates (1994) (20)
- Comprehensive Study of Organic Contaminant Adsorption by Clays: Methodologies, Mechanisms, and Environmental Implications (2011) (19)
- Midwest vision for sustainable fuel production (2014) (18)
- Reduction of Fe(III) in griffithite (2000) (17)
- Biochar Age and Crop Rotation Impacts on Soil Quality (2017) (17)
- Transmission X-ray Diffraction Technique for Measuring Crystalline Swelling of Smectites in Electrolyte Solutions (1995) (16)
- Comparison of Four Elemental Mass Balance Methods for Clay Mineral Quantification (1994) (16)
- Layer Charge of Smectites in an Argialboll-Argiaquoll Sequence (1988) (15)
- Perennial biomass crop establishment, community characteristics, and productivity in the upper US Midwest: Effects of cropping systems seed mixtures and biochar applications (2018) (15)
- Capture and Release of Orthophosphate by Fe-Modified Biochars: Mechanisms and Environmental Applications (2021) (15)
- Cosorption of atrazine and a lauryl polyoxyethylene oxide nonionic surfactant on smectite. (2005) (15)
- Regional techno‐economic and life‐cycle analysis of the pyrolysis‐bioenergy‐biochar platform for carbon‐negative energy (2019) (15)
- Elemental recoveries for clay minerals analysed by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry using slurry nebulisation (1990) (14)
- Where should we apply biochar? (2019) (14)
- Smectite-catalyzed dehydration of glucose (2006) (14)
- Quantification and characterization of chemically-and thermally-labile and recalcitrant biochar fractions. (2018) (14)
- Enhancing Biochar as Scaffolding for Slow Release of Nitrogen Fertilizer (2021) (14)
- Role of smectites and Al-substituted goethites in the catalytic condensation of arginine and glucose (2004) (14)
- Toxicity of Chlorpyrifos Adsorbed on Humic Colloids to Larval Walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) (2003) (14)
- Establishment of Perennial Groundcovers for Maize‐Based Bioenergy Production Systems (2017) (13)
- Biochar effects on nutrient leaching (2015) (13)
- Layer charge and crystalline swelling of expanding 2:1 phyllosilicates (1987) (13)
- Temperature and reaction atmosphere effects on the properties of corn stover biochar (2017) (13)
- Integrated biochar research: A roadmap (2021) (12)
- Use of inverse modelling and Bayesian optimization for investigating the effect of biochar on soil hydrological properties (2018) (12)
- Percolation treatment of charge-transfer in humidified smectite clays (2006) (12)
- Interactions among K+-Ca2+ exchange, sorption of m-dinitrobenzene, and smectite quasicrystal dynamics. (2008) (11)
- Simultaneous Mineralogical Quantification and Chemical Characterization of Soil Clays (1994) (11)
- Living Mulch for Sustainable Maize Stover Biomass Harvest (2017) (11)
- Analysis of Layer Charge, Cation and Anion Exchange Capacities, and Synthesis of Reduced Charge Clays (2015) (11)
- Hydrolysis of chlorpyrifos in aqueous and colloidal systems (2002) (10)
- Role of smectite quasicrystal dynamics in adsorption of dinitrophenol (2008) (10)
- Quantitative Prediction of Biochar Soil Amendments by Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (2013) (10)
- Optimizing the production of activated carbon from fast pyrolysis char (2015) (10)
- Technique for Transmission Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Powder Diffraction Analyses of the Same Clay Mineral Specimen (1989) (9)
- Modeling perennial groundcover effects on annual maize grain crop growth with the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (2020) (9)
- Dedicated Bioenergy Crops and Water Erosion. (2019) (9)
- MORPHOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF SELECTED SLUDGE-AMENDED NIGERIAN SOILS (2003) (9)
- Mechanism of dinitrophenol herbicide sorption by smectites in aqueous suspensions at varying pH (2007) (8)
- Strategic switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) production within row cropping systems: Regional‐scale assessment of soil erosion loss and water runoff impacts (2020) (8)
- Preconcentration Techniques in Soil Mineralogical Analyses (2015) (8)
- Soil-test dynamics throughout a five-year ‘Thompson Farm’ rotation in Iowa (2002) (8)
- Commentary on ‘Current economic obstacles to biochar use in agriculture and climate change mitigation’ regarding uncertainty, context-specificity and alternative value sources (2017) (7)
- Reactions of Pesticides with Soil Minerals (2018) (6)
- Vertical Distribution of Structural Components in Corn Stover (2014) (4)
- Perennial cover crop influences on soil C and N and maize productivity (2019) (3)
- Real-Time Sensing of Soil Nitrate Concentration in the Parts per Million Range While the Soil is in Motion (2013) (3)
- Formation and Properties of Clay‐Polymer Complexes, Second Edition (2015) (3)
- Environmental Benefi ts of Biochar (2012) (3)
- Temperature Effects on Properties of Rice Husk Biochar and Calcinated Burkina Phosphate Rock (2021) (3)
- Relationship of the Nature of Suspended Clay Minerals to Hydrologic Conditions 1 (1982) (3)
- Corn stover harvest reduces soil CO2 fluxes but increases overall C losses (2020) (2)
- Analytical Evaluation of Mobile In Situ Soil Nitrate Infrared Sensor Designs for Precision Agriculture (2021) (2)
- Assessing biological soil health through decomposition of inexpensive household items (2021) (2)
- Identifying key processes driving Cd long-term adsorption and immobilization by biochar in soils and evaluating combined aging effects under simulated local climates (2022) (2)
- Determining Completion of Excess Salt Removal from Clays: Method Comparisons (1993) (2)
- Impact of a Corn-Living Mulch Cropping System on Soil C- and N-Dynamics (2016) (2)
- Biochar and Soil Quality (2005) (2)
- Toxicity of pesticides adsorbed to suspended sediment to larval fish in the Cedar River (2001) (1)
- Sediment characteristics in storm runoff from an agricultural watershed (1981) (1)
- Citation stacking in soil science articles: our response to the open letter by concerned early-career soil scientists (2018) (1)
- Carbon Farming as a Carbon Negative Technology (2015) (0)
- Impact of biochar-based slow-release N-fertilizers on maize growth and nitrogen recovery efficiency. (2023) (0)
- Development of field mobile soil nitrate sensor technology to facilitate precision fertilizer management (2018) (0)
- Role of Dietary Trace Minerals on Mineral Excretion in Pigs (2003) (0)
- Sorption of ammonium and nitrate to biochars is electrostatic and pH-dependent (2018) (0)
- Carbon Stabilization by Clays in the Environment: Process and Characterization Methods (2009) (0)
- The emerging biochar industry (2012) (0)
- RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CATION E X C H A N G E SELECTIVITY A N D CRYSTALLINE SWELLING IN E X P A N D I N G 2:1 PHYLLOSILICATES (2006) (0)
- The Ultrastructure of Clay-Humic Complexes in an Iowa Mollisol (2009) (0)
- Comments on “Sericites in Feldspars as Source of 2:1 Phyllosilicates in Selected Sandy Soils” (1994) (0)
- The Ultrastructure of Clay-Humic Complexes in an Iowa Mollisol (2009) (0)
- Economic Impacts of Biochar-Induced Yield Increases in the United States (2018) (0)
- Living Mulch Establishment in Row Crop Systems for Sustainable Biofuels Production (2016) (0)
- The Role of Biochar and Zeolite in Enhancing Nitrogen and Phosphorus Recovery: A Sustainable Manure Management Technology (2022) (0)
- SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION Evaluation of Modified Boehm Titration Methods for Use with Lignocellulosic Biochars (2013) (0)
- Parameters for determining oxide weight fractions of mineral phases in the non-linear chemical mass balance model used in QSCM 3 (2006) (0)
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