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Phan, V.A., Zeigler, K.E., Vinson, D.S., in press. High Plains groundwater isotopic composition in northeastern New Mexico (USA): relationship to recharge and hydrogeologic setting. Hydrogeology Journal. doi:10.1007/s10040-021-02329-9.
 
Ashley, K., Davis, K.J., Martini, A., Vinson, D.S., Gerlach, R., Fields, M.W., McIntosh, J., 2021. Deuterium as a quantitative tracer of enhanced microbial methane production. Fuel 289, article number 119959. doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2020.119959.
 
Owusu, C., Silverman, G.S., Vinson, D.S., Paul, R., Baker, K.M., Delmelle, E.M., 2021. Predicting coliform presence in private wells as a function of well characteristics, parcel size and leachfield soil rating. Science of The Total Environment 758, article number 143701. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143701.
 
Owusu, C., Silverman, G.S., Vinson, D.S., Bobyarchick, A., Paul, R., Delmelle, E., 2020. A spatial autologistic model to predict the presence of arsenic in private wells across Gaston County, North Carolina using geology, well depth, and pH. Exposure and Health, doi:10.1007/s12403-020-00373-6.
 
McDevitt, B., McLaughlin, M.C., Vinson, D.S., Geeza, T.J., Blotevogel, J., Borch, T., Warner, N.R., 2020. Isotopic and element ratios fingerprint salinization impact from beneficial use of oil and gas produced water in the Western U.S. Science of The Total Environment 716, article no. 137006. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137006.
 
Vinson, D.S., Blair, N.E., Ritter, D.J., Martini, A.M., McIntosh, J.C., 2019. Carbon mass balance, isotopic tracers of biogenic methane, and the role of acetate in coal beds: Powder River Basin (USA). Chemical Geology 530, article no. 119329. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119329.
 
Schweitzer, H., Ritter, D., McIntosh, J., Barnhart, E., Cunningham, A.B., Vinson, D., Orem, W., Fields, M., 2019. Changes in microbial communities and associated water and gas geochemistry across a sulfate gradient in coal beds: Powder River Basin, USA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 245, 495-513. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2018.11.009.
 
Borrok, D.M., Lenz, R.M., Jennings, J.E., Gentry, M.L., Steensma, J., Vinson, D.S., 2018. The origins of high concentrations of iron, sodium, bicarbonate, and arsenic in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer. Applied Geochemistry 98, 383–392. doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2018.10.014.

Vinson, D.S., Lundy, J.R., Dwyer, G.S., Vengosh, A., 2018. Radium isotope response to aquifer storage and recovery in a sandstone aquifer. Applied Geochemistry 91, 54–63. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2018.01.006.

Blair, N.E., Leithold, E.L., Papanicolaou, A.N.T., Wilson, C.G., Keefer, L., Kirton, E., Vinson, D., Schnoebelen, D., Rhoads, B., Yu, M., Lewis, Q., 2018. The C-biogeochemistry of a Midwestern USA agricultural impoundment in context: Lake Decatur in the intensively managed landscape critical zone observatory. Biogeochemistry 138, 171–195. doi: 10.1007/s10533-018-0439-9.

Moore, M.T., Vinson, D.S., Whyte, C.J., Eymold, W.K., Walsh, T.B., Darrah, T.H., 2018. Differentiating between biogenic and thermogenic sources of natural gas in coalbed methane reservoirs from the Illinois Basin using noble gas and hydrocarbon geochemistry, in: Lawson, M., Formolo, M.J., Eiler, J.M. (Eds.), From Source to Seep: Geochemical Applications in Hydrocarbon Systems, Geological Society, London, Special Publications. pp. 151–188. doi: 10.1144/SP468.8.

McIntosh, J.C., Schaumberg, C., Perdrial, J., Harpold, A., Vázquez-Ortega, A., Rasmussen, C., Vinson, D., Zapata-Rios, X., Brooks, P.D., Meixner, T., Pelletier, J., Derry, L., and Chorover, J., 2017. Geochemical evolution of the Critical Zone across variable time scales informs concentration-discharge relationships: Jemez River Basin Critical Zone Observatory. Water Resources Research, v. 53, p. 4169–4196. doi: 10.1002/2016WR019712.

Vinson, D.S., Blair, N.E., Martini, A.M., Larter, S., Orem, W.H., and McIntosh, J.C., 2017. Microbial methane from in situ biodegradation of coal and shale: A review and reevaluation of hydrogen and carbon isotope signatures. Chemical Geology, v. 453, p. 128–145. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.01.027.

Barnhart, E.P., Weeks, E.P., Jones, E.J.P., Ritter, D.J., McIntosh, J.C., Clark, A.C., Ruppert, L.F., Cunningham, A.B., Vinson, D.S., Orem, W., and Fields, M.W., 2016. Hydrogeochemistry and coal-associated bacterial populations from a methanogenic coal bed. International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 162, p. 14-26. doi:10.1016/j.coal.2016.05.001.

Kirk, M.F., Wilson, B.H., Marquart, K.A., Zeglin, L.H., Vinson, D.S., and Flynn, T.M., 2015. Solute concentrations influence microbial methanogenesis in coal-bearing strata of the Cherokee basin, USA. Frontiers in Microbiology v. 6, article 1287. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01287.

Ritter, D., Vinson, D., Barnhart, E., Akob, D.M., Fields, M.W., Cunningham, A.B., Orem, W., and McIntosh, J.C., 2015. Enhanced microbial coalbed methane generation: A review of research, commercial activity, and remaining challenges. International Journal of Coal Geology v. 146, p. 28-41. doi:10.1016/j.coal.2015.04.013.

Vengosh, A., Hirschfeld, D., Vinson, D., Dwyer, G., Raanan, H., Marie, A., Zaarur, S., and Ganor, J., 2014. Response to comment on “High naturally occurring radioactivity in fossil groundwater from the Middle East.” Environmental Science & Technology v. 48, p. 9946-9947. doi: 10.1021/es501140b.

Vinson, D.S., Tagma, T., Bouchoau, L., Dwyer, G.S., Warner, N.R., and Vengosh, A., 2013, Occurrence and mobilization of radium in fresh to saline coastal groundwater inferred from geochemical and isotopic tracers (Sr, S, O, H, Ra, Rn). Applied Geochemistry, v. 38, p. 161-175. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2013.09.004.

Vinson, D.S., Lundy, J.R., Dwyer, G.S., and Vengosh, A., 2012, Implications of carbonate-like geochemical signatures in a sandstone aquifer: Radium and strontium isotopes in the Cambrian Jordan aquifer (Minnesota, USA). Chemical Geology, v. 334, p. 280-294, doi: 10/1016/j.chemgeo.2012.10.030.

Vinson, D.S., McIntosh, J.C., Dwyer, G.S., and Vengosh., A., 2011, Arsenic and other oxyanion-forming natural trace elements in an alluvial basin aquifer: Evaluating sources and mobilization by isotopic tracers (Sr, B, S, O, H, Ra). Applied Geochemistry, v. 26, p. 1364-1376, doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.05.010.

Vinson, D.S., Schwartz, H.G., Dwyer, G.S., and Vengosh, A., 2011, Evaluating salinity sources of groundwater and implications for sustainable reverse osmosis desalination in coastal North Carolina, USA. Hydrogeology Journal, v. 19, p. 981-994, doi: 10.1007/s10040-011-0738-x.

Diemer, J., Allan, C., Eckhardt, I., Kroening, D., and Vinson, D., 2011, History of sedimentation in a Piedmont reservoir: Evidence from Brown’s Cove, Lake Wylie, NC. Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, v. 17, p. 123-142, doi: 10.2113/gseegeosci.17.2.123.

Vinson, D.S., Lundy, J.R., Dwyer, G.S., and Vengosh, A., 2010, Sr isotopes, hydrogeologic setting, and water-rock interaction in the Mt. Simon sandstone (Minnesota, USA), in Water Rock Interaction: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Water-rock Interaction WRI-13, Guanajuato, Mexico, 16-20 August 2010, ed. P. Birkle and I.S. Torres-Alvarado. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 111-114.

Vinson, D.S., Vengosh, A., Hirschfeld, D., and Dwyer, G.S., 2009, Relationships between radium and radon occurrence and hydrochemistry in fresh groundwater from fractured crystalline rocks, North Carolina (USA). Chemical Geology, v. 260, p. 159-171, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.10.022.

Vengosh, A., Hirschfeld, D., Vinson, D., Dwyer, G., Raanan, H., Rimawi, O., Al-Zoubi, A., Akkawi, E, Marie, A., Haquin, G., and Ganor, J., 2009, High naturally occurring radioactivity in fossil groundwater from the Middle East. Environmental Science & Technology, v. 43, p. 1769-1775, doi: 10.1021/es802969r.

Vinson, D.S., Campbell, T.R., and Vengosh, A., 2008, Radon transfer from groundwater used in showers to indoor air. Applied Geochemistry, v. 23, p. 2676-2685, doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.05.021.

Eppes, M.C., Bierma, R., Vinson, D., and Pazzaglia, F., 2008, A soil chronosequence study of the Reno valley, Italy: Insights into the relative role of climate versus anthropogenic forcing on hillslope processes during the mid-Holocene. Geoderma, v. 147, p. 97-107, doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.07.011.

Vinson, D.S., Block, S.E., Crossey, L.J., and Dahm, C.N., 2007, Biogeochemistry at the zone of intermittent saturation: Field-based study of the shallow alluvial aquifer, Rio Grande, New Mexico. Geosphere v. 3, p. 366-380, doi: 10.1130/GES00073.1.

Lechler, P. J., Miller, J. R., Lacerda, L. D., Vinson, D., Bonzongo, J. C., Lyons, W. B., and Warwick, J.J., 2000, Elevated mercury concentrations in soils, sediments, water, and fish of the Madeira River basin, Brazilian Amazon: A function of natural enrichments? Science of the Total Environment, v. 260, p. 87‑96, doi: 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00543-X.