• Airborne emissions of microplastic fibres from domestic laundry dryers 

      O'Brien, Stacey; Okoffo, Elvis D.; O'Brien, Jake W.; Ribeiro, Francisca; Wang, Xianyu; Wright, Stephanie L.; Samanipour, Saer; Rauert, Cassandra; Yessenia Alajo Toapanta, Tania; Albarracin, Rizsa; Thomas, Kevin V (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      An emission source of microplastics into the environment is laundering synthetic textiles and clothing. Mechanical drying as a pathway for emitting microplastics, however, is poorly understood. In this study, emissions of ...
    • From Centroided to Profile Mode: Machine Learning for Prediction of Peak Width in HRMS Data 

      Samanipour, Saer; Choi, Phil; O'Brien, Jake W.; Pirok, Bob W. J.; Reid, Malcolm James; Thomas, Kevin V. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Centroiding is one of the major approaches used for size reduction of the data generated by high-resolution mass spectrometry. During centroiding, performed either during acquisition or as a pre-processing step, the mass ...
    • From Molecular Descriptors to Intrinsic Fish Toxicity of Chemicals: An Alternative Approach to Chemical Prioritization 

      Samanipour, Saer; O'Brien, Jake W.; Reid, Malcolm James; Thomas, Kevin V; Praetorius, Antonia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The European and U.S. chemical agencies have listed approximately 800k chemicals about which knowledge of potential risks to human health and the environment is lacking. Filling these data gaps experimentally is impossible, ...
    • In-Sewer Stability Assessment of Anabolic Steroids and Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators 

      Shimko, Katja M.; O'Brien, Jake W.; Li, Jiaying; Tscharke, Benjamin J.; Brooker, Lance; Thai, Phong; Choi, Phillip; Samanipour, Saer; Thomas, Kevin V (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Wastewater-based epidemiology is a potential complementary technique for monitoring the use of performance- and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs), such as anabolic steroids and selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs), ...
    • Naive Bayes classification model for isotopologue detection in LC-HRMS data 

      van Herwerden, Denice; O'Brien, Jake W.; Choi, Phil M.; Thomas, Kevin V; Schoenmakers, Peter J.; Samanipour, Saer (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Isotopologue identification or removal is a necessary step to reduce the number of features that need to be identified in samples analyzed with non-targeted analysis. Currently available approaches rely on either predicted ...
    • Plastics in biosolids from 1950 to 2016: A function of global plastic production and consumption 

      Okoffo, Elvis D.; Donner, Erica; McGrath, Steve P.; Tscharke, Benjamin J.; O'Brien, Jake W.; O'Brien, Stacey; Ribeiro, Francisca; Burrows, Stephen D.; Toapanta, Tania; Rauert, Cassandra; Samanipour, Saer; Mueller, Jochen F.; Thomas, Kevin V (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Plastics are ubiquitous contaminants that leak into the environment from multiple pathways including the use of treated sewage sludge (biosolids). Seven common plastics (polymers) were quantified in the solid fraction of ...