1.       Needham, T.P., Payne, R.P., Sowers, K.R. and Ghosh, U.  2019.  Kinetics of PCB Microbial Dechlorination Explained by Freely Dissolved Concentration in Sediment Mesocosms.  Environ. Sci Technol. 53(13): 7432-7441.

2.       Kjellerup, B., D. Kaya, K.R. Sowers; H. Demirtepe; B. Stiell; J. Baker; I. Imamoglu.  2019.  Assessment of PCB contamination, the potential for in situ microbial dechlorination and natural attenuation in an urban watershed at the East Coast of the United States.  Science of the Total Environment.  Sci. Total Environ.  683: 154-165.

3.       Payne, R.P., Ghosh, U., May, H.D., Marshall, C.W. and K.R. Sowers.  2019.  A Pilot-Scale Field Study: In Situ Treatment of PCB-Impacted Sediments with Bioamended Activated Carbon.  Environ. Sci Technol.  53(5): 2626-2634.

4.       Capozzi, S.L., Bodenreider, C., Prieto, A., Payne, R.B., Sowers, K.R., Needham, T., Ghosh, U. and Kjellerup, B.V.  2019.  Colonization and growth of dehalorespiring biofilms on carbonaceous sorptive amendments.  Biofoul. 35(1): 50-58.

5.       Payne, R.P., Ghosh, U., May, H.D., Marshall, C.W. and K.R. Sowers.  2017.  Mesocosm studies on the efficacy of bioamended activated carbon for treating PCB-impacted sediment.  Environ. Sci. Technol. 51 (18): 10691-10699.

6.       Kaya, D. I. Imamoglu, F. Delik Sanin and K.R. Sowers.  2017.  A comparative evaluation of anaerobic dechlorination of PCB 118 and Aroclor 1254 in sediment mcirocosms from three PCB-impacted environments.  J. Haz. Mat. 341: 328-335.

7.       Kaya, D., I. Imamoglu, F.D. Sanin, R.B. Payne and K.R. Sowers.  2016.  Potential risk reduction of Aroclor 1254 by microbial reductive dechlorination in anaerobic Grasse River sediment microcosms.  J. Haz. Mat. 321: 879-887.

8.       Demirtepe, Hale, Birthe Kjellerup, Kevin Sowers and Ipek Imamoglu.  2015.  Evaluation of PCB dechlorination pathways in anaerobic sediment microcosms using an anaerobic dechlorination model.  J Haz. Mat. 296: 120-127

9.       Lombard, Nathalie J., Upal Ghosh, Birthe V. Kjellerup, Kevin R. Sowers.  2014.  Kinetics and threshold level of 2,3,4,5-tetrachlorobiphenyl dechlorination by an organohalide respiring bacterium.  Env. Sci. Technol.  48 (8), pp 4353–4360

10.   Kjellerup, Birthe V., Courtney Naff, Sarah J. Edwards, Upal Ghosh, Joel E. Baker, Kevin R. Sowers.  2014.  Effects of activated carbon on reductive dechlorination of PCBs by halorespiring bacteria indigenous in sediment.  Wat. Res. 52: 1-10.

11.   Payne, Rayford B., Sonja K. Fagervold, Harold D. May and Kevin R. Sowers.  2013.  Remediation of polychlorinated biphenyl impacted sediment by concurrent bioaugmentation with anaerobic dehalorespiring and aerobic degrading bacteria.  Env. Sci & Tech. 47(8): 3807-3815. (Research featured in NIEHS Superfund Research Program New Brief) 

12.   Birthe V. Kjellerup, Piuly Paul, Upal Ghosh, Harold D. May, Kevin R. Sowers.  2012. Aroclor 1260 contaminated soils show spatial variability of dechlorinating bacteria and PCB reducing activities.  Appl. Environ. Soil  Microbiol.  Article ID 584970: 1-11.

13.   Payne, Rayford B, Chanlan Chun, Harold D May, Kevin R Sowers.  2011.  Enhanced reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyl impacted sediment by bioaugmentation with a dehalorespiring bacterium.  Env. Sci & Tech. 45(20): 8772–8779.

14.   Fagervold, Sonja K., Joy E. M. Watts Harold D. May and Kevin R. Sowers.  2011.  Bioaugmentation with dechlorinating microorganisms influences the pathways and rates of PCB dechlorination in sediment microcosms.  Wat. Res.  45: 3899-3907.

15.   May, H.D., G. S. Miller, B.V. Kjellerup, K.R. Sowers.  2008.  Dehalorespiration with Polchlorinated Biphenyls by an Anaerobic Ultramicrobacterium.  Appl. Environ. Microbiol.  74: 2089-2094.