Dr Balwant Singh

School of Land, Water and Crop Sciences
The University of Sydney
Sydney, N.S.W. 2006
Australia
Tel: (61 2) 9351 2237
Fax: (61 2) 9351 5108
E-mail: b.singh@acss.usyd.edu.au

Interests

Clay mineralogy of tropical soils
Surface charge properties of minerals
Adsorption reactions of heavy metals in soils
EXAFS application in Soil Science

Some recent publications:

Singh, B., Sherman, D.M., Gilkes, R.J., Wells, M. and Mosselmans, J.F.W. (2002). Incorporation of Cr, Mn and Ni into goethite (a-FeOOH): Mechanism from Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy. Clay Minerals (in press).

Hart, R.D., Gilkes, R.J., Siradz, S. and Singh, Balwant (2002). The nature of soil kaolins from Indonesia and Western Australia. Clays & Clay Minerals 50, 198-209.

Singh, B. (2001). Heavy metals in soils: sources, chemical reactions and forms. In: Environmental Geotechnics (eds. D. Smith, S. Fityus & M. Allman). Proc. of the 2nd Australia and New Zealand Conference on Environmental Geotechnics- Geoenvironment 2001. Australian Geomechical Society, Newcastle, Australia.

Jobstmann, H. and Singh, B. (2001). Cadmium sorption by hydroxy interlayered aluminium montmorillonite. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. 131, 203-215.

Melo, V. F. Fontes, M. P. F. Novais, R. F. Singh, B. Schaefer, C. E. G. R. (2001). Characteristics of iron and aluminium oxides of different classes of soils. [Portuguese] Revista Brasileira de Ciencia do Solo 25(1), 19-32.

V.F. Melo, B. Singh, C.E.G.R. Schaefer, R.F. Novais, and M.P.F. Fontes (2001). Chemical and mineralogical Properties of kaolinite-rich Brazilian soils. Soil Sci Soc Am J. 65, 1324-1333.

Kennedy, F., Rowell, D., Moffat, A.J. and Singh, B. (2001). An analysis of the structure of the simple mass balance equation: implications for testing national critical loads. Water, Air and Soil Pollution: Focus, 1, 281-298.

Singh, B., Sherman, D.M., Gilkes, R.J., Wells, M. and Mosselmans, J.F.W. (2000). Structural chemistry of Fe, Mn and Ni in synthetic hematites as determined by EXAFS spectroscopy. Clays & Clay Minerals 48, 521-527.

Singh, B., Alloway, B.J. and F.J.M. Bochereau. (2000). Cadmium sorption behaviour of natural and synthetic zeolites. Communications in Soil Science & Plant Analysis 31, 2775-2786.

Alloway, B; Warren, G, Lepp, N., Singh, B., Bocherau, F. and Penny, C. (2000). The use of adsorptive minerals to reduce the uptake of arsenic and cadmium by food crops from contaminated soils. In: Contaminated Soil 2000. Proceedings of the 7th International FZK/TNO Conference on Contaminated Soil 18-22 September 2000, Leipzig, Germany. Volume 2, pp 1060-1067. Thomas Telford, London, UK.

Alloway, B; Warren, G, Lepp, N., Singh, B., Bocherau, F., Gregory, L., Dourado, A. and Penny, C. (2000). Minimizing the risk of heavy metal exposure from contaminated soil by reducing bioavailability using adsorptive minerals and selected garden vegetables. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic and Mining Areas (Eds. W. Burghardt and Dornauf, C.), Essen, Germany. 12-18 July 2000. pp. 765-769. University of Essen, Essen. ISBN 3-922602-79-7.

Osei, B.A. and Singh, B. (1999). Electrophoretic mobility of some tropical soil clays: effect of iron oxides and organic matter. Geoderma 93, 325-334.

Singh, B., Merrington, G., Wilson, M.J., McHardy, W.J. and Fraser, A.R. (1999). Mineralogy and chemistry of ochre sediments near a disused mine in Cornwall, UK. Clay Mineral 34, 301-317.

Singh, B. and Goulding, K.W.T. (1997). Changes with time in the potassium content and phyllosilicates in the soil of Broadbalk continuous wheat experiment at Rothamsted. European Journal of Soil Science 48, 651-659.

Singh, B. and Gilkes, R.J. (1996) Nature and properties of iron rich glaebules and mottles from some south-west Australian soils. Geoderma 71, 95-120.

Singh, B. and Gilkes, R.J. (1995) An application of AEM in identifying intercrystal variations in composition of clay minerals. The Analyst 120, 1335-1339.

Shanwal, A.V., Singh, B. and Laura, R.D. (1993). Presence of salenite in the sediments of Indo-Gangetic alluvial plain of Haryana, India. International Journal of Tropical Agriculture 11, 143-145.

Pierre, T.St., Singh, B., Webb, J. and Gilkes, R.J. (1992) Mössbauer spectroscopy study of soil kaolins from south-western Australia. Clays and Clay Minerals, 40, 341-346.

Singh, B. and Gilkes, R.J. (1992) Properties of soil kaolinites from south-western Australia. Journal of Soil Science, 43, 645-667.

Singh, B. and Gilkes, R.J. (1992) Properties and distribution of iron oxides and their association with minor elements in the soils of south-western Australia. Journal of Soil Science, 43, 77-98.

Singh, B. and Gilkes, R.J. (1991) A potassium rich beidellite from a laterite pallid zone in Western Australia. Clay Minerals, 26, 233-244.

Singh, B. and Gilkes, R.J. (1991) Concentration of iron oxides from soil clays by 5M NaOH treatment: the complete removal of sodalite and kaolin. Clay Minerals, 26, 463-472.