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Chris D. Metcalfe

Chris D. Metcalfe

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Chemistry
Canada
2025
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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
86
Citations
24917
World Ranking
2563
National Ranking
54

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
87
Citations
25572
World Ranking
687
National Ranking
29

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Chris D. Metcalfe is affiliated with Trent University in Canada and conducts research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, Water Science and Technology, and Physiology.

The research topics covered by Metcalfe focus on areas such as Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, Water Treatment and Disinfection, Reproductive Biology and Impacts on Aquatic Species, Effects and Risks of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Metcalfe include Viviane Yargeau, Tamanna Sultana, Cassandra Johannessen, Paul A. Helm, and Lauren D. Hayhurst.

The scientist has contributed articles to several publication venues, with the most common being Chemosphere, Environmental Research, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, and Environmental Pollution.

Notable recent papers authored by or involving Metcalfe include:

  • The Tire Wear Compounds 6PPD-Quinone and 1,3-Diphenylguanidine in an Urban Watershed (2021), Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
  • Impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals on reproduction in wildlife and humans (2021), Environmental Research
  • Detection of selected tire wear compounds in urban receiving waters (2021), Environmental Pollution
  • An introduction to the sources, fate, occurrence and effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals released into the environment (2022), Environmental Research
  • Effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on gonad development: Mechanistic insights from fish and mammals (2021), Environmental Research

Metcalfe has authored books published by Springer International Publishing, including "The Ecotoxicology of Aquatic Macrophytes" (2023) and "Building Resilience to Climate Change in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean" (2023).

Best Publications

  • Fish micronuclei for assessing genotoxicity in water

    Kabil Al-Sabti;Chris D. Metcalfe

  • Occurrence of antimicrobials in the final effluents of wastewater treatment plants in Canada.

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  • Estrogenic potency of chemicals detected in sewage treatment plant effluents as determined by in vivo assays with Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes).

    Chris D. Metcalfe;Tracy L. Metcalfe;Yiannis Kiparissis;Brenda G. Koenig

  • Potential scenarios for nanomaterial release and subsequent alteration in the environment

    Bernd Nowack;James F. Ranville;Stephen Diamond;Julian A. Gallego-Urrea

  • Distribution of acidic and neutral drugs in surface waters near sewage treatment plants in the lower Great Lakes, Canada

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  • Occurrence of neutral and acidic drugs in the effluents of Canadian sewage treatment plants.

    Chris D. Metcalfe;Brenda G. Koenig;Don T. Bennie;Mark Servos

  • Antidepressants and their metabolites in municipal wastewater, and downstream exposure in an urban watershed

    Chris D. Metcalfe;Shaogang Chu;Colin Judt;Hongxia Li

  • Carbamazepine and its metabolites in wastewater and in biosolids in a municipal wastewater treatment plant.

    Xiu-Sheng Miao;Jian-Jun Yang;Chris D Metcalfe

  • Induction of testis-ova in Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) exposed to p-nonylphenol

    Michelle A. Gray;Chris D. Metcalfe

  • Ecotoxicity test methods for engineered nanomaterials: Practical experiences and recommendations from the bench

    Richard D. Handy;Geert Cornelis;Teresa Fernandes;Olga Tsyusko

  • Determination of carbamazepine and its metabolites in aqueous samples using liquid chromatography-electrospray tandem mass spectrometry.

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  • Pharmaceutical and personal care products in groundwater, subsurface drainage, soil, and wheat grain, following a high single application of municipal biosolids to a field

    N. Gottschall;E. Topp;C. Metcalfe;M. Edwards

  • Assessing the environmental fate of chemicals of emerging concern: a case study of the polybrominated diphenyl ethers

    Anna Palm;Ian T. Cousins;Donald Mackay;Mats Tysklind

  • Analysis of acidic drugs in the effluents of sewage treatment plants using liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry.

    Xiu-Sheng Miao;Brenda G Koenig;Chris D Metcalfe

  • Impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals on reproduction in wildlife and humans.

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  • The human lipid regulator, gemfibrozil bioconcentrates and reduces testosterone in the goldfish, Carassius auratus.

    C. Mimeault;A.J. Woodhouse;X.-S. Miao;C.D. Metcalfe

  • Runoff of pharmaceuticals and personal care products following application of biosolids to an agricultural field

    Edward Topp;Sara C. Monteiro;Andrew Beck;Bonnie Ball Coelho

  • Sampling in the Great Lakes for pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and endocrine-disrupting substances using the passive polar organic chemical integrative sampler.

    Hongxia Li;Paul A. Helm;Chris D. Metcalfe

  • Reduction of pharmaceutically active compounds by a lagoon wetland wastewater treatment system in Southeast Louisiana.

    Jeremy L. Conkle;John R. White;Chris D. Metcalfe

  • A comparison of flavonoid glycosides by electrospray tandem mass spectrometry

    Raymond E. March;Errol G. Lewars;Christopher J. Stadey;Xiu-Sheng Miao

  • Determination of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs in aqueous samples using liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry.

    Xiu-Sheng Miao;Chris D. Metcalfe

  • Analysis of paroxetine, fluoxetine and norfluoxetine in fish tissues using pressurized liquid extraction, mixed mode solid phase extraction cleanup and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

    Shaogang Chu;Chris D. Metcalfe

  • Illicit drugs in Canadian municipal wastewater and estimates of community drug use.

    Chris Metcalfe;Kathryn Tindale;Hongxia Li;Angela Rodayan

  • Chronic, low concentration exposure to pharmaceuticals impacts multiple organ systems in zebrafish.

    Michal Galus;Nina Kirischian;Sarah Higgins;James Purdy

Frequent Co-Authors

Viviane Yargeau
Viviane Yargeau McGill University
Edward Topp
Edward Topp Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Vance L. Trudeau
Vance L. Trudeau University of Ottawa
Mark R. Servos
Mark R. Servos University of Waterloo
Thomas W. Moon
Thomas W. Moon University of Ottawa
David R. Lapen
David R. Lapen Government of Canada
Paul A. Helm
Paul A. Helm Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Holger Hintelmann
Holger Hintelmann Trent University
Derek C. G. Muir
Derek C. G. Muir Environment and Climate Change Canada

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