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Christa S. McArdell is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a notable concentration on pollution and water-related technologies.

Their work spans several subfields including pollution, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, industrial and manufacturing engineering, water science and technology, and molecular medicine. These areas intersect with main topics such as pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, water treatment and disinfection, wastewater treatment and reuse, advanced oxidation water treatment, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, ethics in clinical research, and adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal.

Recent publications by McArdell include the following papers:

  • Unraveling the riverine antibiotic resistome: The downstream fate of anthropogenic inputs (2021, Water Research)
  • Wood-based activated biochar to eliminate organic micropollutants from biologically treated wastewater (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Formation of transformation products during ozonation of secondary wastewater effluent and their fate in post-treatment: From laboratory- to full-scale (2021, Water Research)
  • Oxidation of 51 micropollutants during drinking water ozonation: Formation of transformation products and their fate during biological post-filtration (2021, Water Research)
  • Characterization of advanced wastewater treatment with ozone and activated carbon using LC-HRMS based non-target screening with automated trend assignment (2021, Water Research)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with McArdell include:

  • Urs von Gunten
  • Juliane Hollender
  • Kai M. Udert
  • Andreas Maccagnan
  • Marc Böhler

The scientist's publications are commonly found in venues such as:

  • Water Research
  • Water Research X
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Resources Conservation and Recycling

Overall, Christa S. McArdell's research addresses critical issues related to chemical contaminants and antibiotic resistance in aquatic environments, including the transformation, treatment, and fate of micropollutants in water systems.

Best Publications

  • Urban wastewater treatment plants as hotspots for the release of antibiotics in the environment: a review

    I. Michael;L. Rizzo;C.S. McArdell;C.M. Manaia

  • Biological degradation of pharmaceuticals in municipal wastewater treatment: proposing a classification scheme.

    Adriano Joss;Sebastian Zabczynski;Anke Göbel;Burkhard Hoffmann

  • Oxidation of pharmaceuticals during ozonation of municipal wastewater effluents: a pilot study.

    Marc M. Huber;Anke Göbel;Adriano Joss;Nadine Hermann

  • Removal of pharmaceuticals and fragrances in biological wastewater treatment.

    Adriano Joss;Elvira Keller;Alfredo C. Alder;Anke Göbel

  • Elimination of organic micropollutants in a municipal wastewater treatment plant upgraded with a full-scale post-ozonation followed by sand filtration.

    Juliane Hollender;Saskia G. Zimmermann;Stephan Koepke;Martin Krauss

  • Fate of sulfonamides, macrolides, and trimethoprim in different wastewater treatment technologies

    Anke Göbel;Christa S. McArdell;Adriano Joss;Hansruedi Siegrist

  • Occurrence and sorption behavior of sulfonamides, macrolides, and trimethoprim in activated sludge treatment.

    Anke Göbel;Angela Thomsen;Christa S. McArdell;and Adriano Joss

  • Consolidated vs new advanced treatment methods for the removal of contaminants of emerging concern from urban wastewater.

    Luigi Rizzo;Sixto Malato;Demet Antakyali;Vasiliki G. Beretsou

  • Environmental toxicology and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals from hospital wastewater.

    Beate I. Escher;Rebekka Baumgartner;Mirjam Koller;Karin Treyer

  • Occurrence and Fate of Macrolide Antibiotics in Wastewater Treatment Plants and in the Glatt Valley Watershed, Switzerland

    Christa S McArdell;Eva Molnar;Marc J F Suter;Walter Giger

  • Evaluation of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant upgraded with ozonation and biological post-treatments: Abatement of micropollutants, formation of transformation products and oxidation by-products

    Marc Bourgin;Birgit Beck;Marc Boehler;Ewa Borowska

  • Hospital wastewater treatment by membrane bioreactor: performance and efficiency for organic micropollutant elimination.

    Lubomira Kovalova;Hansruedi Siegrist;Heinz Singer;Anita Wittmer

  • Quantification of veterinary antibiotics (sulfonamides and trimethoprim) in animal manure by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.

    Michel Y Haller;Stephan R Müller;Christa S McArdell;Alfredo C Alder

  • Occurrence and fate of antibiotics as trace contaminants in wastewaters, sewage sludges, and surface waters

    Walter Giger;Alfredo C. Alder;Eva M. Golet;Hans-Peter E. Kohler

  • Wastewater treatment plant resistomes are shaped by bacterial composition, genetic exchange, and upregulated expression in the effluent microbiomes

    Feng Ju;Karin Beck;Xiaole Yin;Andreas Maccagnan

  • Elimination of Micropollutants during Post-Treatment of Hospital Wastewater with Powdered Activated Carbon, Ozone, and UV

    Lubomira Kovalova;Hansruedi Siegrist;Urs von Gunten;Urs von Gunten;Jakob Eugster

  • Trace determination of macrolide and sulfonamide antimicrobials, a human sulfonamide metabolite, and trimethoprim in wastewater using liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray tandem mass spectrometry.

    Anke Göbel;Christa S. Mcardell;Marc J.-F. Suter;Walter Giger

  • Extraction and determination of sulfonamides, macrolides, and trimethoprim in sewage sludge.

    Anke Göbel;Angela Thomsen;Christa S. McArdell;Alfredo C. Alder

  • Multiresidue analysis of 88 polar organic micropollutants in ground, surface and wastewater using online mixed-bed multilayer solid-phase extraction coupled to high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

    Sebastian Huntscha;Heinz P. Singer;Christa S. McArdell;Carolin E. Frank

  • The fate of selected micropollutants in a single-house MBR

    Christian Abegglen;Christian Abegglen;Adriano Joss;Christa S. McArdell;Guido Fink

  • Trace Determination of Macrolide and Sulfonamide Antimicrobials, a Human Sulfonamide Metabolite, and Trimethoprim In Wastewater Using Liquid Chromatography

    Christa S. McArdell;Anke Göel;Walter Giger;Marc J.-F. Suter

Frequent Co-Authors

Urs von Gunten
Urs von Gunten Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Hansruedi Siegrist
Hansruedi Siegrist Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Juliane Hollender
Juliane Hollender Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Heinz Singer
Heinz Singer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Adriano Joss
Adriano Joss Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Walter Giger
Walter Giger Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Alfredo C. Alder
Alfredo C. Alder Nankai University
Martin Krauss
Martin Krauss Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Thomas A. Ternes
Thomas A. Ternes Federal Institute of Hydrology
Christoph Ort
Christoph Ort Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

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