Conference Abstracts

 

Seminars presented or co-authored by

Dr. W.P. Gates.

 

 

SmecTech      Curriculum Vitae         Publication Abstracts

 

 

2007

 

1.      Gates, W.P. 2007. Geosynthetic clay liner technology: Understanding bentonites.  National Landfill and Transfer Station Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 2007

 

2.      Thomson, A, Cashion, JD, Gates, W P. 2007.  Mössbauer analysis of iron sites in four Na- and Ca-saturated nontronites, Conference on Solid State Physics. Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, February 2007

 

3.      Gates, W.P., Cashion, J.D. 2007. Combined Mössbauer and infrared spectroscopic examination of site occupancy in ferruginous smectites.  , 44th Annual Meetings of The Clay Minerals Society. Santa Fe, New Mexico, June, 2007

 

4.      Wallis, P.J., Gates, W.P., Patti, A.F., Scott, J.L. 2007. Altering the hydrohobicity of iron(III) exchanged clay catalysts to improve substrate specificity.  44th Annual Meetings of The Clay Minerals Society. Santa Fe, New Mexico, June, 2007

 

 

2006

 

5.        Gates WP. 2006 Applications of synchrotron-based X-ray absorption spectroscopy in clay sciences.  Monash University Synchrotron Postgraduate Symposium, Sept, 2006

 

6.      Wallis, PJ, AF Patti, JL Scott, WP Gates. 2006 Mixed organic-inorganic cation montmorillonite as catalysts for 2-napthol dimerisation.  Annual Meeting of The Clay Minerals Society, Orlean, France, June 2006.

 

 

2005

 

7.      Gates WP, AP Hitchcock. 2005 Application of STXM to study cation exchange reactions in saline clays.  ASRP Users Workshop, Melbourne, December 2005. [ASRP2.pdf]

 

8.      Gates WP, AP Hitchcock. 2005 Soft X-ray STXM study of clay-salt interactions. International X-ray Microscopy Conference, Hemiji, Japan, July 2005.

 

9.      F Barker-Reid, WP Gates, K Wilson, R Baigent, IE Galbally, CP Meyer, IA Weeks, RJ Eckard. 2005 Soil nitrous oxide emissions from rainfed wheat in SE Australia. International Conference of the National Committees on Climate Change, The Netherlands, July 2005

 

10.      Galbally I, M Meyer, S Bentley, I Weeks, R Leuning, K Kelly, F Phillips, F Barker-Reid, WP Gates, R Baigent, R Eckard, P Grace. 2005 A study of environmental and management drivers of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions in Australian agro-ecosystems.  International Conference of the National Committees on Climate Change, The Netherlands, July 2005.

 

11. Gates WP, F Barker-Reid, K Wilson, CM Meyer, I weeks, R Baigent, I Galbally. 2005  Soil N2O emissions from SE Australian dryland wheat systems.  GRDC Research Updates, Perth, WA February 2005

 

12.  Gates WP. 2005 Micro-polarised-XAFS: New possibilities?  Synchrotron Applications workshop, Australain Microbeam Analysis Symposium, Melbourne, February, 2005.

 

 

2004

 

13.      Gates WP. 2004 Advanced physical and chemical methods for monitoring electron transfer: Putting state-of-the-art into practice. 2004 Bouyoucos Conference on Electron Transfer and Biogeochemistry at the Clay-Water Interface, San Antonio, Texas, January, 2004.

 

 

2003

 

14.  Gates WP. 2003 Infrared spectroscopy and the chemistry of dioctahedral smectites.  Workshop Lecture. The Clay Minerals Society Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia

 

15.   Gates WP. 2003 Clays as Environmental Barriers. Geological Field Club of South Australia.

 

 

2002

 

16.  Gates WP. 2002 Structures of organo-clays: Implications for self-assembly and design of nanocomposites. AIST, CSIRO Workshop on Nanotechnology.

 

 

2001

 

17.  Gates WP. 2001 Applications of Nanotechnology in agriculture and the environment.  CSIRO Science Forum Workshop on Future Science, Applications and Needs for Nanotechnology in CSIRO and Australia. Science Investment Focus Group, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.

 

18.  Gates WP. 2001 Clays as environmental barriers: an ancient resource for today’s needs.  Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia.

 

2000

 

19. Gates WP. 2000 Dehydroxylation of reduced iron-bearing smectites.  Symposium on Redox Processes, 37th Annual Meeting of The Clay Minerals Society, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois.

 

20.  Gates WP, MD Raven, JL Keeling, PG Self.  2000.  Two nontronites from Erye Penninsula, South Australia, 37th Annual Meeting of The Clay Minerals Society, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois.

 

21. Gates WP, PG Slade. 2000. Factors that influence the design of modified clays. 17th Biennial Conference of the Australian Clay Minerals Society, Inc.  Adelaide, Australia.

 

22. Gates WP. 2000.  The influence of layer charge density and hydration on organo-clay interactions: Insight from polarised FTIR. 2000 Bouyoucos Conference on Environmental Chemistry at the Clay-Water Interface, Honolulu, Hawaii, March, 2000.

 

1999

 

23. Orlokh, D, JD Cashion, WP Gates, M Raven and J Keeling. 1999. Mössbauer analysis of Port Linconln nontronite UGNB.

 

24.  Gates WP. 1999. Charge and space relations in organically modified clays. Euroclay 1999 post-meeting workshop on “Clays in the Environment”, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia.

 

25.  Gates WP, PG Slade. 1999. The interlayer structure of TMPA clays. Euroclay 1999, European Clay Groups Association 1999 Conference, Kraków, Poland.

 

26. Gates WP, PG Slade, A Manceau, MD Raven. 1999. Iron and aluminium distribution in nontronites. Euroclay 1999, Kraków, Poland.

 

27. Gates WP, MD Raven, J Keeling, P Self. 1999. Two nontronites from Eyre Penninsula, South Australia. Euroclay 1999, European Clay Groups Association 1999 Conference, Kraków, Poland.

 

1998

 

28. Gates WP. 1998. Physical properties of smectites influenced by microbial reduction of structural iron.  16th World Congress of Soil Science. Montpellier, France.

 

29. Gates WP, V Nzungeng, R Castillo, GL Mills, PM Bertsch. 1998. FT-IR spectroscopic study of reduced smectites.  11th ACMS conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

 

30. Gates WP, A Manceau, VA Drits, D Chateigner, JW Stucki. 1998. Structural refinement of Garfield nontronite. 11th ACMS conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

 

1997

 

31.  Gates WP, BJ Teppen, CD Jones-Butler, PM Bertsch. 1997. Orientation and sorption dynamics of benzene in surface modified clays using polarized FTIR. Agronomy Abstracts. Anaheim, California, U.S.A.

 

32. Gates WP, BJ Teppen, PM Bertsch. 1997. Organic cation orientation at smectite surfaces as revealed by polarized-FTIR spectroscopy. 11th International Conference on Fourier Transform Spectroscopy, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.

 

33. Gates WP, BJ Teppen, PM Bertsch. 1997. Aromatic sorption in the interlayer space of organo-clays.  6th Industriemineralsymposium, Neubrandenburg, Germany.

 

1996

 

34.   Gates WP, DB Hunter, PM Bertsch. 1996. Oxidation state determination of iron-bearing minerals by XANES.  Agronomy Abstracts. St Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.

 

35. Gates WP, BJ Teppen, PM Bertsch. 1996. A reinterpretation of the orientation of trimethyl-phenylammonium in the interlayer space of smectites.  14th Conference on Clay Mineralogy and Petrology,  Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia.

 

36. Gates WP, DB Hunter, PR Nuessle, PM Bertsch. 1996. A time-resoved XANES study of an organo-clay redox system. 1996 IXth International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, Grenoble, France.

 

37. Gates WP, BJ Teppen, PM Bertsch. 1996. The orientation of TMPA in the interlayer space of smectites.  1996 Annual Meeting of the Clay Minerals Society, Gatlinburg, TN, U.S.A.

 

1995

 

38. Gates WP, A Manceau, JW Stucki. 1995. Coordination environment of structural Fe in reduced nontronite. Agronomy Abstracts. Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.

 

1994

 

39.  Gates WP, J Madejová, M Janek, P Komadel. 1994. Spectroscopic study of hectorite dissolution in HCL.  XIII Conference on Clay Mineralogy and Petrology, Prague, Czech Republic.

 

40. Gates WP, JW Stucki, HT Wilkinson. 1994. Microbial reduction of smectite structural Fe. 1994 American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, California, U.S.A.