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University of Connecticut School of Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering

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MacKay Allison

Associate Professor


Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998             


Castleman Building Rm 314

Phone: 860-486-2450

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Research focus:

Fate of contaminants in natural and engineered systems

Sorption of veterinary antibiotics

Environmental degradation of human pharmaceuticals

Contaminants in the groundwater-surface water interface


Research Website:
www.engr.uconn.edu/~mackaya

Resume: Mackay Resume

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Recent publications:

R.A. Figueroa, D. Vasudevan, A.A. MacKay, “Trends in soil sorption coefficients within and across common antimicrobial families”, Chemosphere 2010, 79, 786-793.

B.F. Smets, S. Zhang, R. Yu, P. Gan, A.A. MacKay, “Presence, distribution and diversity of iron oxidizing bacteria at a landfill leachate impacted groundwater surface water interface”, FEMS Microbiology Ecology 2009, 71, 260-271.

S.M. Syring, R. Krishnamurthy, A.A. MacKay, “Attenuation of heavy metals in roadway runoff with wood chips”, ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering 2009, 135, 747-757.

D. Vasudevan, G.L. Bruland, B.S. Torrance, V.G. Upchurch, A.A. MacKay, “pH-Dependent ciprofloxacin sorption to soils: Interaction mechanisms and soil factors influencing sorption”, Geoderma, 2009 151, 68-76.

A.A. MacKay, D.E. Seremet, “Probe compounds to quantify cation exchange and complexation interactions of ciprofloxacin with soils”, Environmental Science and Technology 2008, 42, 8270-8276.