Publications

  • Cantarella, V., Mellage, A. and Cirpka, O. A. (submitted) The electron-yielding capacity of the matrix can explain apparent zero-order reduction of electron-acceptors in aquifers at steady state. Journal: ACS ES&T Water.
  • Holdt, J. K., Cantarella, V., Buchner, D., Mellage, A., Cirpka, O. A. and Duda, J-P. (submitted) Facies and Depositional Environments of a Holocene Floodplain: Implications for Modeling Biogeochemical Reactions in Aquifers. Journal: Hydrogeology Journal. 

  • Strobel, C., Störiko, A., Cirpka, O. A. and Mellage, A. (2024) Are we there yet? A critical experimental assessment of the application of induced polarization for monitoring geochemical processes. Water Resources Research. Accepted.

  • Nikeleit,  V., Mellage, A., Bianchini, G., Sauter, L., Buessecker, S., Gotterbarm, S., Schad, M., Konhauser, K., Zerkle, A-L. Sánchez-Baracaldo, P., Kappler, A. and Bryce, C. (2024). Inhibition of photoferrotrophy by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments. Nature Geoscience. doi: 10.1038/s41561-024-01560-9.

  • Zhang, Z., Lavermann, A., Mellage, A. and Furman, A. (2024). Microbial community structure and function in a sandy soil column under dynamic hydrologic regimes. Journal of Hydrology. doi:  10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131797.
  • Rahmani, A., Franz, M., Bär, F., Backes, C., Byrne, J.M., and Mellage, A. (2024). Changing Cr-retention capacity of magnetite-coated sand captured by spectral induced polarization (SIP). ACS ES&T Water. doi: 10.1021/acsestwater.3c00824.

  • Hepach, P., Bresinsky, L., Sauter, M., Livshitz, Y., Engelhardt, I. (2024). Comparison of methods to calculate groundwater recharge for karst aquifers under a Mediterranean climate. Hydrogeology Journal. doi: 10.1007/s10040-024-02809-8.

  • Strobel, C., Doerrich, M., Stieff, E.‐H., Huisman, J. A., Cirpka, O. A., & Mellage, A. (2023). Organic matter matters — The imaginary conductivity of sediments rich in solid organic carbon. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104630. doi: 10.1029/2023GL104630.
  • Huang, J., Mellage, A., Pavon-Garcia, J., Gloeckler, D., Mahler, S., Elsner, M., Jakus, N., Mansor, M., Jiang, H., Kappler, A. (2023) Metabolic performance and fate of electrons during nitrate-reducing Fe(II) oxidation by the autotrophic enrichment culture KS grown at different initial Fe:N ratios. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 89(3), e00196-23. doi: 10.1128/aem.00196-23.
  • Strobel, C., Abramov, S., Huisman, J.A., Cirpka, O.A. and Mellage, A. (2023). Spectral induced polarization (SIP) of denitrification-driven microbial activity in column experiments packed with calcareous aquifer sediments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 128(1), e2022JG007190. doi: 10.1029/2022JG007190.

  • Bresinsky, L., Kordilla, J, Engelhardt, I., Livshitz, Y., Sauter, M. (2023). Variably saturated dual-permeability flow modeling to assess distributed infiltration and vadose storage dynamics of a karst aquifer – The Western Mountain Aquifer in Israel and the West Bank. Journal of Hydrology X. doi: 10.1016/j.hydroa.2022.100143.

    Bresinsky, L., Kordilla, J., Hector, T., Engelhardt, I., Livshitz, Y., Sauter, M. (2023). Managing climate change impacts on the Western Mountain Aquifer: Implications for Mediterranean karst groundwater resources. Journal of Hydrology X. doi:10.1016/j.hydroa.2023.100153.

  • Mellage, A., Dörrich, M. and Haderlein S.B. (2022). Capturing in situ glyphosate (de)sorption kinetics in floodplain aquifer sediment columns: Geophysical measurements and reactive transport modeling. Environmental Science & Technology. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c07119.
  • Störiko A., Pagel H., Mellage, A., Van Cappellen, P. and Cirpka, O.A. (2022). Denitrification-driven transcription and enzyme production at the river-groundwater interface: Insights from reactive-transport modeling. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2021WR031584.  
  • Ntarlagiannis, D., Wu, Y. and Mellage, A. (2022). Geophysical Monitoring and Characterization of Biomineralization Processes. In Mineral Formation by Microorganisms (pp. 63-85). Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-80807-5_3. **Book chapter**
  • Sun, F., Mellage, A., Whang, Z., Bakkaou, R., Griebler, C., Thullner, M., Cirpka, O.A. and Elsner, M. (2022). Response of BAM-degradation activity to concentration and flow changes in a bench-scale sediment tank. Environmental Science & Technology. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c05259.
  • Mellage, A., Zakai, G., Efrati, B., Pagel, H., and Schwartz, N. (2022) Paraquat sorption- and organic matter-induced modifications of subsurface spectral induced polarization (SIP) signals. Geophysical Journal International. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggab531.

  • Trùòng, T.-M., Bresinsky, L., Sauter, M. (2022). Grundwasseranreicherung mit entsalztem Meerwasser in Festgesteinsgrundwasserleitern. Wasserwirtschaft. doi: 10.1007/s35147-022-1097-3.

  • Jakus, N., Mellage, A., Hoeschen, C., Maisch, M., Byrne, J.M., Mueller, C.W., Grathwohl, P., Kappler, A. (2021) Anaerobic neutrophilic pyrite oxidation in the presence of Fe(II) carbonate by a chemolithoautotrophic nitrate-reducing iron(II)-oxidizing culture enriched from a fractured-aquifer. Environmental Science & Technology. 55 (14), 9876–9884. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c02049.

  • Mellage, A., Rezanezhad, F., and Van Cappellen, P. (2021) Biogeophysics: exploring the Earth’s subsurface biosphere. The Innovation Platform. Issue 6, 386-387. **non-peer reviewed.**

  • Störiko, A., Pagel, H., Mellage, A. and Cirpka, O.A. (2021). Does it pay off to explicitly link functional gene expression to denitrification rates in reaction models? Frontiers in Microbiology. 12:684146. doi: 0.3389/fmicb.2021.684146.
  • Sun, F., Mellage, A., Gharasoo, M., Melsbach, A., Cao, X., Zimmermann, R., Griebler, C., Thullner, M., Cirpka, O.A. and Elsner, M. (2021). Mass transfer-limited biodegradation – evidence from reactive transport modeling of isotope profiles in a mesoscale aquifer. Environmental Science & Technology. 55 (11), 7386-7397. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c08566.
  • Sorwat, J., Mellage, A., Maisch, M., Kappler, A., Cirpka, O.A. and Byrne, J.M. (2021) Chromium (VI) removal kinetics in magnetite coated sand: Small-scale flow-through column experiments. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 415: 5. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125648.
  • Linley, S., Mellage, A.,  Thomson, N., Rezanezhad, F., and Van Cappellen, P. (2021). Spatiotemporal geo-electrical sensing of a Pluronic-coated cobalt ferrite nanoparticle slug in natural sand flow-through columns. Science of the Total Environment. 769: 144522. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144522.
  • Sorwat, J., Mellage, A., Kappler, A., and Byrne, J.M. (2020). Immobilizing magnetite onto quartz sand for chromium remediation. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 400: 123139. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.123139.
  • Pronk, G.J., Mellage, A., Milojevic, T., Smeaton, C.M., Engel, K., Neufeld, J.D., Rezanezhad, F. and Van Cappellen, P. (2020). Carbon turnover and microbial activity in an artificial soil under imposed cyclic drainage and imbibition. Vadose Zone Journal. 19:e20021. doi: 10.1002/vzj2.20021.
  • Bai, Y., Mellage, A., Cirpka, O.A., Sun, T., Angenent, L., Haderlein, S.B. and Kappler, A. (2020) AQDS and redox-active NOM enables microbial Fe(III)-mineral reduction at cm-scales. Environmental Science & Technology. 54 (7): 4131–4139. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b07134.
  • Kessouri, P., Furman, A., Huisman, J. A., Martin, T., Mellage, A., Ntarlagiannis, D., Bücker, M., Ehosioke, S., Fernandez, P., Flores‐Orozco, A., Kemna, A., Nguyen, F., Pilawski, T., Saneiyan, S., Schmutz, M., Schwartz, N., Weigand, M., Wu, Y., Zhang, C. and Placencia‐Gomez, E. (2019). Induced polarization applied to biogeophysics: Recent advances and future prospects. Near Surface Geophysics. Special issue: Recent developments in induced polarization. 17 (6): 595–621 doi: 10.1002/nsg.12072.
  • Mellage, A., Smeaton, C.M., Furman, A., Atekwana, E.A., Rezanezhad, F. and Van Cappellen, P. (2019). Bacterial Stern layer diffusion: Experimental determination with spectral induced polarization (SIP) and sensitivity to nitrite toxicity. Near Surface Geophysics. Special issue: Recent developments in induced polarization. 17 (6): 623–635 doi: 10.1002/nsg.12058.
  • Mellage, A., Holmes, A.B., Linley, S., Vallée, L., Thomson, N., Rezanezhad, F., Gu, F. and Van Cappellen, P. (2018). Sensing coated iron-oxide nanoparticles with spectral induced polarization (SIP): Experiments in natural sand packed flow-through columns. Environmental Science & Technology. 52 (24): 14256-14265. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b03686.
  • Mellage, A., Smeaton, C.M., Furman, A., Atekwana, E.A., Rezanezhad, F. and Van Cappellen, P. (2018). Linking spectral induced polarization (SIP) and subsurface microbial processes: Results from sand column incubation experiments. Environmental Science & Technology. 52 (4): 2081-2090. doi:  10.1021/acs.est.7b04420.
  • Mellage, A., Eckert, D., Grösbacher, M., Inan, A.Z., Cirpka, O.A. and Griebler, C. (2015). Dynamics of suspended and attached aerobic toluene degraders in small-scale flow-through sediment systems under growth and starvation conditions. Environmental Science & Technology. 49 (12): 7161–7169. doi: 10.1021/es5058538.