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    • Moving forward in microplastic research: A Norwegian perspective 

      Lusher, Amy; Hurley, Rachel; Arp, Hans Peter H; Booth, Andy; Bråte, Inger Lise Nerland; Gabrielsen, Geir W.; Gomiero, Alessio; Gomes, Tania; Grøsvik, Bjørn Einar; Green, Norman; Haave, Marte; Hallanger, Ingeborg G.; Halsband, Claudia; Herzke, Dorte; Joner, Erik J; Kögel, Tanja; Rakkestad, Kirsten; Ranneklev, Sissel Brit; Wagner, Martin; Olsen, Marianne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Given the increasing attention on the occurrence of microplastics in the environment, and the potential envi-ronmental threats they pose, there is a need for researchers to move quickly from basic understanding to applied ...

    • Moving from the traditional paradigm of pathogen inactivation to controlling antibiotic resistance in water - Role of ultraviolet irradiation 

      Umar, Muhammad; Roddick, Felicity; Fan, Linhua (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Ultraviolet (UV) irradiation has proven an effective tool for inactivating microorganisms in water. There is, however, a need to look at disinfection from a different perspective because microbial inactivation alone may ...

    • Multi-Actor Platforms in the Water–Agriculture Nexus: Synergies and Long-Term Meaningful Engagement 

      Nesheim, Ingrid; Sundnes, Frode; Enge, Caroline; Graversgaard, Morten; van den Brink, Cors; Farrow, Luke; Glavan, Matjaž; Hansen, Birgitte; Leitão, Inês A.; Rowbottom, Jenny; Tendler, Linda (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Solutions to current complex environmental challenges demand the consultation and involvement of various groups in society. In light of the WFD’s requirements of public participation, this paper presents an analysis of the ...

    • Multi-laboratory validation of a new marine biodegradation screening test for chemical persistence assessment 

      Ott, Amelie; Martin, Timothy J.; Acharya, Kishor; Lyon, Delina Y.; Robinson, Nik; Rowles, Bob; Snape, Jason R.; Still, Ian; Whale, Graham F.; Albright, Vurtice C.; Bäverbäck, Petra; Best, Nicola; Commander, Ruth; Eickhoff, Curtis; Finn, Sarah; Hidding, Björn; Maischak, Heiko; Sowders, Katherine A.; Taruki, Masanori; Walton, Helen E.; Wennberg, Aina Charlotte; Davenport, Russell J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Current biodegradation screening tests are not specifically designed for persistence assessment of chemicals, often show high inter- and intra-test variability, and often give false negative biodegradation results. Based ...

    • Multi-year inter-laboratory exercises for the analysis of illicit drugs and metabolites in wastewater: Development of a quality control system 

      van Nuijs, Alexander L.N.; Lai, Foon Yin; Been, Frederic; Andres-Costa, Maria Jesus; Barron, Leon; Baz-Lomba, Jose Antonio; Berset, Jean-Daniel; Benaglia, Lisa; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Burgard, Dan; Castiglioni, Sara; Christophoridis, Christophoros; Covaci, Adrian; de Voogt, Pim; Emke, Erik; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Fick, Jerker; Hernandez, Felix; Gerber, Cobus; González-Mariño, Iria; Grabic, Roman; Gunnar, Teemu; Kannan, Kurunthachalam; Karolak, Sara; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Kokot, Zenon; Krizman-Matasic, Ivona; Li, Angela; Li, Xiqing; Löve, Arndis S.C.; Lopez de Alda, Miren; McCall, Ann-Kathrin; Meyer, Markus R.; Oberacher, Herbert; O'Brien, Jake; Quintana, Jose Benito; Reid, Malcolm James; Schneider, Serge; Simoes, Susana Sadler; Thomaidis, Nikolaos S.; Thomas, Kevin V; Yargeau, Viviane; Ort, Christoph (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Thirty-seven laboratories from 25 countries present the development of an inter-laboratory testing scheme for the analysis of seven illicit drug residues in standard solutions, tap- and wastewater. Almost 10 000 concentration ...

    • A multibiomarker approach in the caged neotropical fish to assess the environment health in a river of central Brazilian Cerrado 

      dos Santos Silva, Douglas; Gonçalves, Bruno; Carvalho Rodrigues, Cândido; Cirqueira Dias, Felipe; Silvestre de Souza Trigueiro, Nicholas; Soares Moreira, Izabella; de Melo e Silva, Daniela; Maria Teixeira Sabóia-Morais, Simone; Gomes, Tania; Lopes Rocha, Thiago (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Water safety is a world-wide concern and several efforts have been made in order to ensure the conservation of aquatic ecosystems. Water quality monitoring must be performed with an integrated approach using biomonitor ...

    • A multilevel dataset of microplastic abundance in the world’s upper ocean and the Laurentian Great Lakes 

      Isobe, Atsuhiko; Azuma, Takafumi; Cordova, Muhammad Reza; Cózar, Andrés; Galgani, Francois; Hagita, Ryuichi; Kanhai, La Daana; Imai, Keiri; Iwasaki, Shinsuke; Kako, Shin’ichro; Kozlovskii, Nikolai; Lusher, Amy L; Mason, Sherri A; Michida, Yutaka; Mituhasi, Takahisa; Morii, Yasuhiro; Mukai, Tohru; Popova, Anna; Shimizu, Kenichi; Tokai, Tadashi; Uchida, Keiichi; Yagi, Mitsuharu; Zhang, Weiwei (Journal article, 2021)
      A total of 8218 pelagic microplastic samples from the world’s oceans were synthesized to create a dataset composed of raw, calibrated, processed, and gridded data which are made available to the public. The raw microplastic ...

    • Multiomics Point of Departure (moPOD) Modeling Supports an Adverse Outcome Pathway Network for Ionizing Radiation 

      Song, You; Zheng, Keke; Brede, Dag Anders; Gomes, Tania; Xie, Li; Kassaye, Yetneberk Ayalew; Salbu, Brit; Tollefsen, Knut-Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      While adverse biological effects of acute high-dose ionizing radiation have been extensively investigated, knowledge on chronic low-dose effects is scarce. The aims of the present study were to identify hazards of low-dose ...

    • Multiple-stressor effects of warming and acidification on the embryonic development of an estuarine fiddler crab 

      Pardo, Juan CF; Costa, Tânia M (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Predicted effects of anthropogenic climate change on estuarine and coastal organisms are complex, and early life history stages of calcified ectotherms are amongst the most sensitive groups. Despite the importance of ...

    • Multiplex PCR for the simultaneous detection of the Enterobacterial gene wecA, the Shiga Toxin genes (stx1 and stx2) and the Intimin gene (eae) 

      Anglès d'Auriac, Marc B; Sirevåg, Reidun (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The aetiology of several human diarrhoeas has been increasingly associated with the presence of virulence factors rather than with the bacterial species hosting the virulence genes, exemplified by the sporadic emergence ...

    • Multitrophic biodiversity patterns and environmental descriptors of sub-Arctic lakes in northern Europe 

      Lau, Danny C.P.; Christoffersen, Kirsten S.; Erkinaro, Jaakko; Hayden, Brian; Heino, Jani; Hellsten, Seppo; Holmgren, Kerstin; Kahilainen, Kimmo Kalevi; Kahlert, Maria; Karjalainen, Satu Maaria; Karlsson, Jan; Forsström, Laura; Lento, Jennifer; Mjelde, Marit; Ruuhijärvi, Jukka; Sandøy, Steinar; Schartau, Ann Kristin; Svenning, Martin; Vrede, Tobias; Goedkoop, Willem (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      1. Arctic and sub-Arctic lakes in northern Europe are increasingly threatened by climate change, which can affect their biodiversity directly by shifting thermal and hydrological regimes, and indirectly by altering landscape ...

    • Municipal Solid Waste Fly Ash-Derived Zeolites as Adsorbents for the Recovery of Nutrients and Heavy Metals—A Review 

      Vogelsang, Christian; Umar, Muhammad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Though fly ash from the incineration of municipal solid waste (MSW-FA) is considered hazardous waste, its huge and increasing volumes and potential value due to high concentrations of salts and heavy metals such as copper ...

    • Mytilus spp. as sentinels for monitoring microplastic pollution in Norwegian coastal waters: A qualitative and quantitative study. 

      Bråte, Inger Lise Nerland; Hurley, Rachel; Iversen, Karine; Beyer, Jonny; Thomas, Kevin V; Steindal, Calin Constantin; Green, Norman Whitaker; Olsen, Marianne; Lusher, Amy (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Microplastic (MP) contamination is ubiquitous in the environment and many species worldwide have been shown to contain MP. The ecological impact of MP pollution is still unknown, thus there is an urgent need for more ...

    • N2 yields from monochloramine conversion by granular activated carbons are decisive for effective swimming pool water treatment 

      Skibinski, Bertram; Worch, Eckhard; Uhl, Wolfgang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Inorganic chloramines (mono-, di- and trichloramine) are formed in swimming pool water from the unintended reaction of free chlorine with ammonia that is introduced by bathers. Monochloramine is of particular interest as ...

    • 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 ...

    • A National Scale “BioBlitz” Using Citizen Science and eDNA Metabarcoding for Monitoring Coastal Marine Fish 

      Agersnap, Sune; Sigsgaard, Eva Egelyng; Jensen, Mads Reinholdt; Ávila, Marcelo De Paula; Carl, Henrik; Møller, Peter Rask; Krøs, Simon Leed; Knudsen, Steen Wilhelm; Wisz, Mary S.; Thomsen, Philip Francis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Marine biodiversity is threatened by human activities. To understand the changes happening in aquatic ecosystems and to inform management, detailed, synoptic monitoring of biodiversity across large spatial extents is needed. ...

    • Natural organic matter fractions and their removal in full-scale drinking water treatment under cold climate conditions in Nordic capitals 

      Krzeminski, Pawel; Vogelsang, Christian; Meyn, Thomas; Köhler, Stephan; Poutanen, Heikki; de Wit, Heleen; Uhl, Wolfgang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) designed to remove natural organic matter (NOM) are challenged as concentrations of NOM in raw waters are increasing. Here, we assess seasonal differences in NOM quality and quantity, ...

    • Nature-Based Units as Building Blocks for Resource Recovery Systems in Cities 

      van Hullebusch, Eric D.; Bani, Aida; Carvalho, Miguel; Cetecioglu, Zeynep; De Gusseme, Bart; Di Lonardo, Sara; Djolic, Maja; van Eekert, Miriam; Bulc, Tjaša Griessler; Haznedaroglu, Berat Z.; Istenič, Darja; Kisser, Johannes; Krzeminski, Pawel; Melita, Sanna; Pavlova, Dolja; Płaza, Elżbieta; Schoenborn, Andreas; Thomas, Geraldine; Vaccari, Mentore; Wirth, Maria; Hartl, Marco; Zeeman, Grietje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Cities are producers of high quantities of secondary liquid and solid streams that are still poorly utilized within urban systems. In order to tackle this issue, there has been an ever-growing push for more efficient ...

    • The Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Impairs Learning, Locomotor Activity Levels, and Sucrose Solution Consumption in Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) 

      Paus-Knudsen, Julie Sørlie; Sveinsson, Henrik Andersen; Grung, Merete; Borgå, Katrine; Nielsen, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Bumblebees carry out the complex task of foraging to provide for their colonies. They also conduct pollination, an ecosystem service of high importance to both wild plants and entomophilous crops. Insecticides can alter ...

    • A Neural Network-Based Analysis of the Seasonal Variability of Surface Total Alkalinity on the East China Sea Shelf 

      Liu, Jie; Bellerby, Richard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Total alkalinity (AT) is an important variable in the regulation of the seawater carbonate chemistry system, determining the capacity to buffer changes in pH. In the coastal oceans, carbonate system dynamics are controlled ...