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Melanie Kah
PeerJ Editor & Author
1,135 Points

Contributions by role

Author 135
Editor 1,000

Contributions by subject area

Soil Science
Environmental Contamination and Remediation
Environmental Impacts
Ecotoxicology
Agricultural Science
Ecology
Veterinary Medicine
Green Chemistry
Food Science and Technology
Plant Science
Toxicology
Molecular Biology
Microbiology
Environmental Sciences

Melanie Kah

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

Melanie Kah graduated with a MSc in Agronomy and Soil Sciences (University of Nancy, France), before completing her PhD on the fate of ionisable pesticides in soils (University of York, UK). She was then recruited by the UK Food and Environmental Research Agency (FERA), where she assessed the exposure and hazard of a wide range of contaminants, within projects commissioned by government and industry. In 2009, Melanie moved to the University of Vienna (Austria), where she developed projects looking at the interactions between organic contaminants and natural/engineered nanoparticles. Melanie was a Distinguished Visitor at the CSIRO Land and Water in 2018 (Adelaide, Australia), before joining the School of Environment at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) in 2019.

Environmental Contamination & Remediation Environmental Impacts

Editing Journals

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Auckland

Work details

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

University of Auckland
January 2019
Environment

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Edited 9
June 11, 2018
Sorption to soil, biochar and compost: is prediction to multicomponent mixtures possible based on single sorbent measurements?
Melanie Kah, Gabriel Sigmund, Pedro Luis Manga Chavez, Lucie Bielská, Thilo Hofmann
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4996 PubMed 29910988

Academic Editor on

October 10, 2022
Impact of silver nanoparticles on the nutritional properties of Arthrospira platensis
Sharolynne Xiao Tong Liang, Sinouvassane Djearamane, Anto Cordelia Tanislaus Antony Dhanapal, Ling Shing Wong
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13972 PubMed 36248713
August 9, 2021
The regulating effects and mechanism of biochar and maifanite on copper and cadmium in a polluted soil-Lolium perenne L. system
Yuan Ding, Weiya Wang, Shiying Ao
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11921 PubMed 34434656
September 21, 2020
A laboratory comparison of the interactions between three plastic mulch types and 38 active substances found in pesticides
Nicolas Beriot, Paul Zomer, Raul Zornoza, Violette Geissen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9876 PubMed 33005488
April 13, 2020
Response of organic carbon mineralization and bacterial communities to soft rock additions in sandy soils
Zhen Guo, Jichang Han, Juan Li
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8948 PubMed 32322443
October 21, 2019
A new small device made of glass for separating microplastics from marine and freshwater sediments
Ryota Nakajima, Masashi Tsuchiya, Dhugal J. Lindsay, Tomo Kitahashi, Katsunori Fujikura, Tomohiko Fukushima
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7915 PubMed 31656703
July 31, 2019
The use of biochar in animal feeding
Hans-Peter Schmidt, Nikolas Hagemann, Kathleen Draper, Claudia Kammann
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7373 PubMed 31396445
June 27, 2019
Impact of metal oxide nanoparticles on in vitro DNA amplification
Chun-Hui Gao, Monika Mortimer, Ming Zhang, Patricia A. Holden, Peng Cai, Shan Wu, Yuexing Xin, Yichao Wu, Qiaoyun Huang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7228 PubMed 31293839
April 19, 2019
Tracking neonicotinoids following their use as cotton seed treatments
Kristina L. Kohl, Lauren K. Harrell, Joseph F. Mudge, Seenivasan Subbiah, John Kasumba, Etem Osma, Apurba K. Barman, Todd A. Anderson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6805 PubMed 31041156
May 22, 2018
Effect of Reactive Black 5 azo dye on soil processes related to C and N cycling
Khadeeja Rehman, Tanvir Shahzad, Amna Sahar, Sabir Hussain, Faisal Mahmood, Muhammad H. Siddique, Muhammad A. Siddique, Muhammad I. Rashid
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4802 PubMed 29844965