Investigators and Program Directors

Select Publications

• Sinclair, E. and Kannan, K. (2006). Mass loading and fate of perfluoroalkyl surfactants in wastewater treatment plants. Environmental Science and Technology, 40, 1408-1414.
• Reiner, J.L. and Kannan, K. (2006). A survey of polycyclic musks in selected household commodities from the United States. Chemosphere, 62, 867-873.
• Taniyasu, S., Kannan, K., So, M.K., Gulkowska, A., Sinclair, E., Okazawa, T. and Yamashita, N. (2005). A method for the analysis of fluorotelomer alcohols, fluorotelomer acids, and short- and long-chain perfluorinated acids in water and biota. Journal of Chromatography A, 1093, 89-97.
• Kannan, K., Tao, L., Sinclair, E., Pastva, S.D., Jude, D.J. and Giesy, J.P. (2005). Perfluorinated compounds in aquatic organisms at various trophic levels in a Great Lakes food chain. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 48, 559-566.
• Kannan, K., Johnson, B-R., Yohn, S.S., Giesy, J.P. and Long, D.T. (2005). Spatial and temporal distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments from inland lakes in Michigan. Environmental Science and Technology, 39, 4700-4706.
• Kannan, K., Reiner, J.L., Yun, S-H., Perrotta, E.E., Tao, L., Johnson-Restrepo, B., and Rodan, B.D. (2005). Polycyclic musk compounds in higher trophic level aquatic organisms and humans from the United States. Chemosphere, 61, 693-700.
• Yamashita, N., Kannan, K., Taniyasu, S., Horii, Y., Petrick, G. and Gamo, T. (2005). A global survey of perfluorinated acids in oceans. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 51, 658-668.
• Kannan, K., Corsolini, S., Falandysz, J., Fillman, G., Senthil Kumar, K., Loganathan, B.G., Mohd, M.A., Olivero, J., Van Wouwe, N., Yamg, J.H. and Aldous, K.M. (2004). Perfluorooctanesulfonate and related fluorochemicals in human blood from several countries. Environmental Science and Technology, 38, 4489-4495.
• Kannan, K., Senthilkumar, K., Nakata, H., Falandysz, J., Oehme, G. and Masunaga, S. (2003). Polychlorinated biphenyls, dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans and p,p'-DDE in livers of white-tailed sea eagles from eastern Germany, 1979-1998. Environmental Science and Technology, 37, 1249-1255.
• Kannan, K., Newsted, J., Halbrook, R.S. and Giesy, J.P. (2002). Perfluorooctane sulfonate and related fluorinated hydrocarbons in mink and river otters from the United States. Environmental Science and Technology, 36, 2566-2571.
• Giesy, J.P. and Kannan, K. (2002). Perfluorochemicals in the environment. Environmental Science and Technology, 36, 147A-152A (Feature Article).
• Kannan, K., Keith, T.L., Naylor, C.G., Staples, C.A. and Giesy, J.P. (2002). Nonylphenol and nonylphenol ethoxylates in fish, sediment and water from the Kalamazoo River, Michigan. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 44, 77-82.
• Hilcherova, K., Kannan, K., Holoubek, I. and Giesy, J.P. (2002). Characterization of estrogenic activity of riverine sediments from the Czech Republic. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 43, 175-185.

Contact Information

Phone: (518) 474-0015
Fax: (518) 473-2895
E-mail: kkannan@wadsworth.org.