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Overview

Charles S. Wong is affiliated with the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project in the United States. Their research primarily falls within Environmental Science, with a notable focus on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry, and Analytical Chemistry.

Their most frequently covered topics include:

  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Analytical chemistry methods development
  • Biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties

Charles S. Wong has published extensively, with 58 publications in Environmental Science and substantial contributions in multiple subfields. Their work has appeared often in the following venues:

  • Chemosphere (12 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (4 publications)
  • Environmental Science & Technology (3 publications)
  • Environmental Science Processes & Impacts (3 publications)
  • Environmental Pollution (2 publications)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wong include Wenjian Lao, Eddy Y. Zeng, Stephen B. Weisberg, Chelsea M. Rochman, and Jonathan K. Challis.

Significant recent papers by Wong include:

  • "Monitoring microplastics in drinking water: An interlaboratory study to inform effective methods for quantifying and characterizing microplastics," 2022, Chemosphere
  • "Quantitative assessment of visual microscopy as a tool for microplastic research: Recommendations for improving methods and reporting," 2022, Chemosphere
  • "Patterns of microparticles in blank samples: A study to inform best practices for microplastic analysis," 2023, Chemosphere
  • "Developing Unique Nontarget High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Signatures to Track Contaminant Sources in Urban Waters," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  • "Calibration of organic-diffusive gradients in thin films (o-DGT) passive samplers for perfluorinated alkyl acids in water," 2020, Chemosphere

Best Publications

  • Interaction of toxic chemicals with microplastics: A critical review.

    Fen Wang;Charles S. Wong;Da Chen;Xingwen Lu

  • A review of methods for measuring microplastics in aquatic environments

    Lei Mai;Lian-Jun Bao;Lei Shi;Charles S. Wong;Charles S. Wong

  • Laboratory calibration and field deployment of the Polar organic chemical integrative sampler for pharmaceuticals and personal care products in wastewater and surface water

    Sherri L. MacLeod;Evelyn L. McClure;Charles S. Wong

  • Environmental fate processes and biochemical transformations of chiral emerging organic pollutants

    Charles S. Wong

  • Stereoisomer quantification of the β-blocker drugs atenolol, metoprolol, and propranolol in wastewaters by chiral high-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

    Lisa N. Nikolai;Evelyn L. McClure;Sherri L. MacLeod;Charles S. Wong

  • Biotransformation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and bioformation of hydroxylated PCBs in fish

    Andrea H. Buckman;Charles S. Wong;Elaine A. Chow;Scott B. Brown

  • A critical assessment of the photodegradation of pharmaceuticals in aquatic environments: defining our current understanding and identifying knowledge gaps

    Jonathan K. Challis;Mark L. Hanson;Ken J. Friesen;Charles S. Wong;Charles S. Wong

  • Development and Calibration of an Organic-Diffusive Gradients in Thin Films Aquatic Passive Sampler for a Diverse Suite of Polar Organic Contaminants

    Jonathan K. Challis;Mark L. Hanson;Charles S. Wong;Charles S. Wong

  • Stereoisomer analysis of wastewater-derived β-blockers, selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, and salbutamol by high-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

    Sherri L. MacLeod;Priya Sudhir;Charles S. Wong

  • Chiral polychlorinated biphenyl transport, metabolism, and distribution: a review.

    Hans Joachim Lehmler;Stuart J. Harrad;Heinrich Hühnerfuss;Izabela Kania-Korwel

  • Sediment records of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the continental shelf of China: implications for evolving anthropogenic impacts.

    Liang-Ying Liu;Ji-Zhong Wang;Gao-Ling Wei;Yu-Feng Guan

  • Accumulation, inventory, and diagenesis of chlorinated hydrocarbons in lake ontario sediments.

    Charles S. Wong;Gordon. Sanders;Daniel R. Engstrom;David T. Long

  • Monitoring microplastics in drinking water: An interlaboratory study to inform effective methods for quantifying and characterizing microplastics.

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  • Perfluorooctane sulfonate toxicity, isomer-specific accumulation, and maternal transfer in zebrafish (Danio rerio) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).

    Rainie L. Sharpe;Jonathan P. Benskin;Anne H. Laarman;Sherri L. MacLeod

  • Loadings, trends, comparisons, and fate of achiral and chiral pharmaceuticals in wastewaters from urban tertiary and rural aerated lagoon treatments.

    Sherri L. MacLeod;Charles S. Wong;Charles S. Wong

  • National-scale, field-based evaluation of the biota-sediment accumulation factor model.

    Charles S. Wong;Paul D. Capel;Lisa H. Nowell

  • Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) can eliminate chiral organochlorine compounds enantioselectively.

    Charles S. Wong;Fiona Lau;Matthew Clark;Scott A. Mabury

  • Quantum Yields for Direct Photolysis of Neonicotinoid Insecticides in Water: Implications for Exposure to Nontarget Aquatic Organisms

    Zhe Lu;Jonathan K. Challis;Charles S. Wong;Charles S. Wong

  • Solid phase microextraction of macrolide, trimethoprim, and sulfonamide antibiotics in wastewaters.

    Evelyn L. McClure;Charles S. Wong

  • Performance of a constructed wetland in Grand Marais, Manitoba, Canada: Removal of nutrients, pharmaceuticals, and antibiotic resistance genes from municipal wastewater.

    Julie C Anderson;Jules C Carlson;Jules C Carlson;Jennifer E Low;Jonathan K Challis;Jonathan K Challis

  • Chiral polychlorinated biphenyls are biotransformed enantioselectively by mammalian cytochrome P-450 isozymes to form hydroxylated metabolites.

    Nicholas A. Warner;Jonathan W. Martin;Charles S. Wong

Frequent Co-Authors

Eddy Y. Zeng
Eddy Y. Zeng South China University of Technology
Derek C. G. Muir
Derek C. G. Muir Environment and Climate Change Canada
Scott A. Mabury
Scott A. Mabury University of Toronto
Jonathan W. Martin
Jonathan W. Martin Stockholm University
Allan B. Becker
Allan B. Becker University of Manitoba
Andrew J. Halayko
Andrew J. Halayko University of Manitoba
Jonathan G. C. Veinot
Jonathan G. C. Veinot University of Alberta
Keith R. Solomon
Keith R. Solomon University of Guelph
Sean Backus
Sean Backus Environment and Climate Change Canada
Aaron T. Fisk
Aaron T. Fisk University of Windsor

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