Kenneth F. Steele

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Stream chemistry related to rain storms and land use

• Nitrate contamination

• Evolution of ground-water chemistry in alluvial aquifers, especially arsenic

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Kim, B., Steele, K.F. and Fugitt, T., 2006. Comparison of Dissolved and Acid-Extractable Metal Concentrations of Ground Water, Eastern Arkansas, USA, Jour. of Environmental Informatics, Vol. 7, p. 56-65.

Steele, Kenneth F., 2005, Carbonate Chemistry in The Encyclopedia of Water (ed. Jay Lehr), John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York, New York

Steele, Kenneth F. and Kristofor Brye, 2005, Nitrogen, in The Encyclopedia of Water (ed. Jay Lehr), John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, New York.

Kim, Burmshik and Kenneth F. Steele, 2005, Application of geologic information for ground-water quality management, Proceedings of the XXXI International Hydrologic Resources Congress, Seoul, Korea, p.5577-5585.

Brye, Kristofor and Kenneth Steele, 2005, Soil and Water Contamination by Heavy Metals in The Encyclopedia of Water (ed. Jay Lehr) John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, New York

Kim, B., K. Steele and T. Fugitt, 2004. Comparison of Dissolved and Acid-Extractable Metal Concentrations of Ground Water, Eastern Arkansas, USA, Environmental Informatics Archives, Vol. 2, p. 272-284.

Curtis, J. Varnell, J. Van Brahana, and Kenneth Steele, 2004, The influence of coal quality variation on utilization of water from abandoned coal mines as a municipal water source, Mine Water and the Environment, Vol. 223, p. 204-208.

Steele, K.F., Kresse, T.M., Davis, R.K., 2003, Small-scale Spatial variation of water quality within the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquiter, Arkansas, USA, “in” Two Rivers 4 th Joint International Association of Hydrologists-Canadian National Chapter/Candian Geotechnical Society Conference (ed. for IAH papers, Bob Betcher), Noval Digital Images, Winnepeg, Canada, 8 pages on CD volume.

Steele, K. F., Davis, R.K, and Kresse, T.M., 2003. Spatial and temporal nitrate concentration variability within the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer on a small scale at selected Arkansas, USA Sites, “in” Proceedings of the 7th International Water Association International Conference on Diffuse Pollution and Basin Management (ed., Michael Bruen), Excel Print, Boyne House, Co. Meath, Ireland, p. 7-33 to 7-38.

Steele, K F., T. Kresse, R. K. Davis and S. Boss and J. Johnston, 2004, How uniform is the ground water chemistry of the alluvial aquifer, Arkansas Water Resources Center Annual Conference: Quality Water to Meet Our Competing Needs, Conference Proceedings.

Steele, Kenneth F., Ralph K. Davis, J. Van Brahana, Lyle Godfrey and Ginger Tatom, 2002, Research and regulatory water quality perspectives, Ozark Mountain Region, Arkansas, in (Jerry F. Kenny, ed.) Ground Water/Surface Water Interactions, American Water Resources Association Technical Publication Series, TPS-02-2, Middleburg, VA, p. 199-204.

Steele, Kenneth, Vendrell, Paul, Nelson, Marc, Roggio, Robin, and McNew, Ronald, 2001, Pastureland Impacts On Water Quality Of Two Small Streams, Ozark Region, USA, in Globalization and Water Resources: The Changing Value of Water, David Moody and Faye Anderson, eds., American Water Resources Association, Middleburg, VA, 7 p.

Dixon, B., Scott, H.D., Dixon, J.C., and Steele, K., 2002. Prediction of aquifer vulnerability to pesticides using fuzzy rule-based models at the regional scale, Physical Geography, 23, p. 130-153.

Steele, Kenneth, Vendrell, Paul, Nelson, Marc, Roggio, Robin, and McNew, Ronald, 2001, Pastureland Impacts On Water Quality Of Two Small Streams, Ozark Region, USA, in Globalization and Water Resources: The Changing Value of Water, David Moody and Faye Anderson, eds., American Water Resources Association, Middleburg, VA., 7 p.

Wheeler, Garland L., Steele, Kenneth F., Lawson, Edwin R., 2000, Water and nutrient movement in small, forested watersheds in the Boston Mountains, Forest Science, Vol. 46, p. 335-343.

Lin, H.S., H.D. Scott, K.F. Steele and H.I. Inyang, 1999, Agricultural chemicals in the alluvial aquifer of a typical county of the Arkansas Delta, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Vol. 58, p. 151-172.

Steele, K.F., D.S. Hicks and Jose M. Lopez, 1998, Comparison of the nutrient loads to Laguna Joyuda, Puerto Rico, Proceedings Tropical Hydrology and Caribbean Water Resources--Third International Symposium on Tropical Hydrology and Fifth Caribbean Islands Water Resources Congress, American Water Resources Association, Herndon, VA p. 27-32.

Nichols, Terry; Steele, Kenneth; Vendrell, Paul; and Scott, Don,; 1998 “Ground Water Monitoring in the Arkansas Delta—1992-1998,” Water Resources Engineering 98 Vol. II, American Society of Civil Engineering, Reston, VA, p 1242-1247.

Steele, K.F., S.S. Hill, T. Nichols, H.D. Scott, P.F. Vendrell, and H.S. Lin, 1996, Impact of agricultural chemicals on the alluvial aquifer, Lower Mississippi River Delta: Proceedings of the University Council on Water Resources Meeting 1996, Carbondale, IL, p. 50-59.

Steele, K.F., C. Ogden, D.S. Wickliff, and J.M. Lopez, 1996, Chemical responses and nutrient fluxes of Laguna Joyuda tributaries following rain storms: Acta Cientifica, Vol. 7, p43-66, 1993.

Lin, H.S., H.D. Scott, and Steele, K.F., 1996, Development of a ground water vulnerability map for pesticide contamination for the Arkansas Delta using GIS in Proceedings of the American Water Resources Association Annual Symposium on "GIS and Water Resources" eds. C.A. Hallam, K.J. Lanfear, J.M. Salisbury, and W.A. Battaglin, American Water Resources Association, Bethseda, MD, p. 211-220.

Steele, Kenneth F. (Editor), 1995, Animal Waste and the Land-Water Interface, CRC/Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida, 589 p.

Steele, K.F. and C.R. Smith, 1994, Hydrogeochemistry and Water Quality of Two Primary Carbonate Aquifers, Ozark Plateaus Province, in Proceedings of Effects of Human-Induced Changes on Hydrologic Systems, R.A. Marston and V.R. Hasfurther, editors, American Water Resources Association, Summer Symposium, Bethesda, MD, p. 1147-1156.

Steele, K.F., Daniel, T.C., and Edwards, D.R., 1992, Interaction of poultry waste and limestone terrain on water quality: professional and public information dissemination in Proceedings of International Symposium on Hydrology and Water Resources Education and Training: The Challenges to Meet at the Turn of the XXI Century and Second North America Water Management Seminar, Water Resources Publications, Littleton, Colorado.

Steele, K.F. and Nichols, T.W., 1992, Monitoring of pesticides under the Arkansas agricultural chemical groundwater management plan: Environmental Contamination, p. 179-181.

Steele, K. F. and McCalister, W.K., 1991, Potential nitrate pollution of groundwater in limestone terrain by poultry litter, Ozark Region, U.S.A. in NATO ASI Series, Vol G30 (eds. I. Bogardi and R.D. Kuzelka), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, p. 209-218.

Mott, D.N. and Steele, K.F., 1991, Effects of pasture runoff on water chemistry, Buffalo National River, U.S.A. in Sediment and Steam Water Quality in a Changing Environment: Trends and Explanation, International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication No. 203, p. 229-238.

Steele, K.F., Lybrand, M.S., Wheeler, G.L., Lawson, E.R. and Waide, J.B., 1991, Effects of season and silvicultural practices on the chemistry of first-order streams in the Ozark National Forest, Arkansas, U.S.A. in Sediment and Stream Water Quality in a Changing Environment: Trends and Explanation, International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication No. 203, p. 285-292.

Steele, K.F., 1990, Groundwater pollution in Magill's Survey of Science: Earth Sciences, Vol. 2, p. 1028-1034.

Adamski, C. and Steele, K.F., 1988, Agricultural land use effects on groundwater quality in the Ozark Region: Proceedings of Agricultural Impacts on Groundwater Conference, National Water Well Association, Dublin, OH, p. 593-614.

Steele, K.F., McCalister, W.K., and Adamski, J.C., 1990, Nitrate and bacteria contamination of limestone in poultry/cattle producing areas of northwestern Arkansas, U.S.A.: Environmental Contamination, p. 528-530.