2026 Harold F. Hemond: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	64	2340	2234	939	870	191	13643

Overview

Harold F. Hemond is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed to multiple research areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans environmental engineering, environmental chemistry, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, geochemistry and petrology, and oceanography.

The scientist's research focuses on topics including groundwater flow and contamination studies, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, toxic organic pollutants impact, environmental justice and health disparities, environmental and social impact assessments, indigenous knowledge systems and agriculture, as well as aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics.

Several papers illustrate the breadth of their research interests:

A case study in participatory science with mutual capacity building between university and tribal researchers to investigate drinking water quality in rural Maine (2020) published in Environmental Research
Vertical transport of sediment-associated metals and cyanobacteria by ebullition in a stratified lake (2020) published in Biogeosciences
Initial Deployment of a Mobile Sensing System for Water Quality in Urban Canals (2022) published in Water
Benthic Fluxes of Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Material, Salt, and Heat Measured by Multiple-Sensor Aquatic Eddy Covariance (2022) published in Sensors
Control system for an underwater coded aperture miniature mass spectrometer (2025) published in Green Analytical Chemistry

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include:

Environmental Research
Biogeosciences
Water
Sensors
Green Analytical Chemistry

Their frequent co-authors have included Elizabeth J. Fechner, Tchelet Segev, Abigail P. Harvey, Asha Ajmani, and Christopher M. Johnson.

Harold F. Hemond's contributions cover diverse interdisciplinary areas within environmental and earth sciences, contributing to scientific understanding through both field-specific and applied research projects.

Best Publications

Arsenic mobility and groundwater extraction in Bangladesh.

Charles F. Harvey;Christopher H. Swartz;A. B. M. Badruzzaman;Nicole Keon-Blute

1535
Citations
Validation of an Arsenic Sequential Extraction Method for Evaluating Mobility in Sediments

N. E. Keon;C. H. Swartz;D. J. Brabander;C. Harvey

666
Citations
Performance and design optimization of a low-cost solar organic Rankine cycle for remote power generation

Sylvain Quoilin;Matthew Orosz;Harold F. Hemond;Vincent Lemort

501
Citations
The role of microorganisms in elemental mercury formation in natural waters

R. P. Mason;F. M. M. Morel;H. F. Hemond

457
Citations
Microbial Mobilization of Arsenic from Sediments of the Aberjona Watershed

Dianne Ahmann;Lee R. Krumholz;Harold F. Hemond;Derek R. Lovley

384
Citations
Mobility of arsenic in a Bangladesh aquifer: Inferences from geochemical profiles, leaching data, and mineralogical characterization

Christopher H. Swartz;Nicole Keon Blute;Borhan Badruzzman;Ashraf Ali

353
Citations
Chemical fate and transport in the environment

Harold F. Hemond;Elizabeth J. Fechner

345
Citations
Trapped methane volume and potential effects on methane ebullition in a northern peatland

Elizabeth J. Fechner-Levy;Harold F. Hemond

270
Citations
Nitrate Controls on Iron and Arsenic in an Urban Lake

David B. Senn;Harold F. Hemond

263
Citations
Nonequilibrium clumped isotope signals in microbial methane

David T. Wang;David T. Wang;Danielle S. Gruen;Danielle S. Gruen;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

260
Citations
Mercury speciation in the presence of polysulfides

Jenny Ayla Jay;François M M Morel;Harold F. Hemond

246
Citations
Determination of gas exchange rate constants for a small stream on Walker Branch Watershed, Tennessee

David P. Genereux;Harold F. Hemond

246
Citations
The Nitrogen Budget of Thoreau's Bog

Harold F. Hemond

230
Citations
Biogeochemistry of Thoreau's Bog, Concord, Massachusetts

Unknown

226
Citations
Groundwater arsenic contamination on the Ganges Delta: biogeochemistry, hydrology, human perturbations, and human suffering on a large scale

Charles F. Harvey;Christopher H. Swartz;Christopher H. Swartz;Abu Bohran M. Badruzzaman;Nicole Keon-Blute

223
Citations
POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS OF THE NEW ENGLAND/MID‐ATLANTIC REGION

Marianne V. Moore;Michael L. Pace;John R. Mather;Peter S. Murdoch

215
Citations
Arsenic sequestration by ferric iron plaque on cattail roots

Nicole Keon Blute;Daniel J Brabander;Harold F Hemond;Stephen R Sutton

210
Citations
Relationship between DOC concentration and vadose zone thickness and depth below water table in groundwater of Cape Cod, U.S.A.

Wendy J. Pabich;Ivan Valiela;Harold F. Hemond

204
Citations
Importance of automobile exhaust catalyst emissions for the deposition of platinum, palladium, and rhodium in the Northern Hemisphere

Sebastien Rauch;Harold F. Hemond;Carlo Barbante;Masanori Owari

202
Citations
Speciation and fate of arsenic in three lakes of the aberjona watershed.

Anna C. Aurilio;Robert P. Mason;Harold F. Hemond

193
Citations
Transient groundwater dynamics in a coastal aquifer: The effects of tides, the lunar cycle, and the beach profile

Elena Abarca;Hanan N. Karam;Harold F. Hemond;Charles F. Harvey

192
Citations
External geophysics, Climate and Environment Groundwater arsenic contamination on the Ganges Delta: biogeochemistry, hydrology, human perturbations, and human suffering on a large scale

Charles F. Harvey;Christopher H. Swartz;Abu Bohran;M. Badruzzaman

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles F. Harvey MIT

Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Shafiqul Islam Tufts University

François M. M. Morel Princeton University

Robert P. Mason University of Connecticut

Lee R. Krumholz University of Oklahoma

Carlo Barbante Ca Foscari University of Venice

William G. Thilly MIT

Sylvain Quoilin University of Liège

David B. Schauer MIT

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