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Christian Gagnon is affiliated with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Canada, contributing extensively to the field of environmental science. Their body of research covers a diverse range of topics, primarily focused on environmental toxicology, pollution, and geochemistry, with a significant emphasis on the impact of contaminants and nanoparticles in ecosystems.

The main fields of study within Gagnon's work center on Environmental Science. Subfields include Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Materials Chemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Environmental Chemistry. These areas reflect a focus on understanding the chemical and toxicological processes affecting environmental health.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity

Christian Gagnon has published in several recognized venues. The most frequent journals include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Talanta
  • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Gagnon cover various environmental and chemical subjects such as nanoparticle occurrence and contaminant screening:

  • Occurrence and size distribution of silver nanoparticles in wastewater effluents from various treatment processes in Canada, 2021, Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Non-targeted screening of trace organic contaminants in surface waters by a multi-tool approach based on combinatorial analysis of tandem mass spectra and open access databases, 2021, Talanta
  • Impact of Climate Change on Soil Hydro-Climatic Conditions and Base Cations Weathering Rates in Forested Watersheds in Eastern Canada, 2020, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Effects of climate and atmospheric deposition on a boreal lake chemistry: A synthesis of 36 years of monitoring data, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Evaluation of general stress, detoxification pathways, and genotoxicity in rainbow trout exposed to rare earth elements dysprosium and lutetium, 2020, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Frequent collaborators in Gagnon's research include:

  • François Gagné
  • Patrice Turcotte
  • J. L. Auclair
  • Daniel Houle
  • Houda Hanana

Best Publications

  • Review of the Occurrence of Anti-infectives in Contaminated Wastewaters and Natural and Drinking Waters

    Pedro A. Segura;Matthieu François;Christian Gagnon;Sébastien Sauvé

  • Distribution of antidepressant residues in wastewater and biosolids following different treatment processes by municipal wastewater treatment plants in Canada.

    A. Lajeunesse;S.A. Smyth;K. Barclay;S. Sauvé

  • Ecotoxicity of CdTe quantum dots to freshwater mussels: Impacts on immune system, oxidative stress and genotoxicity

    F Gagné;J Auclair;P Turcotte;M Fournier

  • Behaviour of anthropogenic mercury in coastal marine sediments

    Christian Gagnon;Émilien Pelletier;Alfonso Mucci

  • Distribution of antidepressants and their metabolites in brook trout exposed to municipal wastewaters before and after ozone treatment – Evidence of biological effects

    André Lajeunesse;Christian Gagnon;François Gagné;Séverine Louis

  • Diagenetic behavior of methylmercury in organic-rich coastal sediments

    Christian Gagnon;Emilien Pelletier;Alfonso Mucci;William F. Fitzgerald

  • Changes in water extractable metals, pH and organic carbon concentrations at the soil-root interface of forested soils

    Véronique Séguin;Christian Gagnon;François Courchesne

  • Anomalous accumulation of acid-volatile sulphides (AVS) in a coastal marine sediment, Saguenay Fjord, Canada

    Christian Gagnon;Alfonso Mucci;Émilien Pelletier

  • Bioavailability of Sediment-Bound Methyl and Inorganic Mercury to a Marine Bivalve

    Christian Gagnon;Nicholas S. Fisher

  • On-line solid-phase extraction of large-volume injections coupled to liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for the quantitation and confirmation of 14 selected trace organic contaminants in drinking and surface water.

    Araceli Garcia-Ac;Pedro A. Segura;Liza Viglino;Alexandra Fürtös

  • The bioavailability of sediment-bound Cd, Co, and Ag to the mussel Mytilus edulis

    Christian Gagnon;Nicholas S. Fisher

  • Degradation of the pharmaceuticals diclofenac and sulfamethoxazole and their transformation products under controlled environmental conditions

    S. Poirier-Larabie;P.A. Segura;C. Gagnon

  • The relationships of soil total nitrogen concentrations, pools and C:N ratios with climate, vegetation types and nitrate deposition in temperate and boreal forests of eastern Canada

    C. Marty;C. Marty;D. Houle;C. Gagnon;F. Courchesne

  • Degradation of Selected Acidic and Neutral Pharmaceutical Products in a Primary-Treated Wastewater by Disinfection Processes

    Christian Gagnon;André Lajeunesse;Patrick Cejka;François Gagné

  • Toxicity of silver nanoparticles to rainbow trout: a toxicogenomic approach.

    F. Gagné;C. André;R. Skirrow;M. Gélinas

  • Detection and confirmation of saxitoxin analogues in freshwater benthic Lyngbya wollei algae collected in the St. Lawrence River (Canada) by liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

    André Lajeunesse;Pedro A. Segura;Malorie Gélinas;Christiane Hudon

  • Increases of dissolved organic carbon in temperate and boreal lakes in Quebec, Canada

    Suzanne Couture;Daniel Houle;Christian Gagnon

  • Use of an ion-selective electrode for free copper measurements in low salinity and low ionic strength matrices

    Julien Rachou;Christian Gagnon;Sébastien Sauvé

  • Biomarker study of a municipal effluent dispersion plume in two species of freshwater mussels.

    F. Gagné;C. Blaise;I. Aoyama;R. Luo

  • Bioavailability of inorganic and methylmercury to a marine deposit-feeding polychaete

    Wen-Xiong Wang;Ian Stupakoff;Christian Gagnon;Nicholas S. Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

François Gagné
François Gagné Environment and Climate Change Canada
Daniel Houle
Daniel Houle Environment and Climate Change Canada
Sébastien Sauvé
Sébastien Sauvé University of Montreal
Christian Blaise
Christian Blaise Environment and Climate Change Canada
Michel Fournier
Michel Fournier Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Émilien Pelletier
Émilien Pelletier Université du Québec à Rimouski
Alfonso Mucci
Alfonso Mucci McGill University
Nicholas S. Fisher
Nicholas S. Fisher Stony Brook University
Michael A. Quilliam
Michael A. Quilliam National Research Council Canada
Christian Messier
Christian Messier University of Quebec at Montreal

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