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Holger Hintelmann

Holger Hintelmann

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Chemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
13616
World Ranking
5713
National Ranking
142

Overview

Holger Hintelmann is affiliated with Trent University in Canada and specializes in environmental science, with a research focus that spans several interconnected subfields.

Their principal areas of study include:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Pollution
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • General Health Professions

Hintelmann's research addresses topics primarily related to mercury contamination and its ecological and toxicological impacts. The main themes they explore are:

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Indigenous Studies and Ecology

Their publication record includes numerous contributions to journals and conferences. Frequent publication venues are:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Nature Food
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts
  • Nature

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hintelmann include:

  • Experimental evidence for recovery of mercury-contaminated fish populations, 2021, Nature
  • Alteration of Crop Yield and Quality of Three Vegetables upon Exposure to Silver Nanoparticles in Sludge-Amended Soil, 2020, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Sources of riverine mercury across the Mackenzie River Basin; inferences from a combined Hg C isotopes and optical properties approach, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Mercury Isotope Variations in Lake Sediment Cores in Response to Direct Mercury Emissions from Non-Ferrous Metal Smelters and Legacy Mercury Remobilization, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Soil Geobacteraceae are the key predictors of neurotoxic methylmercury bioaccumulation in rice, 2024, Nature Food

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Hintelmann's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • João Canário
  • Shengliu Yuan
  • Huan Zhong
  • Wenli Tang
  • Jane L. Kirk

Best Publications

  • Whole-ecosystem study shows rapid fish-mercury response to changes in mercury deposition

    Reed C. Harris;John W. M. Rudd;Marc Amyot;Christopher L. Babiarz

  • Mercury isotope fractionation during photoreduction in natural water is controlled by its Hg/DOC ratio

    Wang Zheng;Holger Hintelmann

  • Reactivity and Mobility of New and Old Mercury Deposition in a Boreal Forest Ecosystem during the First Year of the METAALICUS Study

    Holger Hintelmann;Reed Harris;Andrew Heyes;James P. Hurley

  • Unusual fractionation of both odd and even mercury isotopes in precipitation from Peterborough, ON, Canada

    JiuBin Chen;JiuBin Chen;Holger Hintelmann;XinBin Feng;Brian Dimock

  • Application of stable isotopes in environmental tracer studies – Measurement of monomethylmercury (CH3Hg+) by isotope dilution ICP-MS and detection of species transformation

    H. Hintelmann;R. D. Evans

  • Methylation of inorganic mercury in polar marine waters

    Igor Lehnherr;Vincent L. St. Louis;Holger Hintelmann;Jane L. Kirk;Jane L. Kirk

  • Constants of mercury methylation and demethylation rates in sediments and comparison of tracer and ambient mercury availability

    Holger Hintelmann;Katherine Keppel-Jones;R. Douglas Evans

  • How does climate change influence Arctic mercury

    Gary A. Stern;Gary A. Stern;Robie W. Macdonald;Robie W. Macdonald;Peter M. Outridge;Peter M. Outridge;Simon Wilson

  • Isotope fractionation of mercury during its photochemical reduction by low-molecular-weight organic compounds.

    Wang Zheng;Holger Hintelmann

  • Nuclear Field Shift Effect in Isotope Fractionation of Mercury during Abiotic Reduction in the Absence of Light

    Wang Zheng;Holger Hintelmann

  • Determination of mercury methylation potentials in the water column of lakes across Canada.

    Chris S. Eckley;Holger Hintelmann

  • Determination of artifactual formation of monomethylmercury (CH3Hg+) in environmental samples using stable Hg2+ isotopes with ICP-MS detection: Calculation of contents applying species specific isotope addition

    Holger Hintelmann;Ralf Falter;Gunter Ilgen;R. D. Evans

  • Measurement of mercury methylation in sediments by using enriched stable mercury isotopes combined with methylmercury determination by gas chromatography–inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Holger Hintelmann;R. Douglas Evans;Janice Y. Villeneuve

  • Tracing mercury contamination from the Idrija mining region (Slovenia) to the gulf of trieste using hg isotope ratio measurements.

    Delphine Foucher;Ogrinc;Holger Hintelmann

  • Mercury isotope fractionation during volatilization of Hg(0) from solution into the gas phase

    Wang Zheng;Delphine Foucher;Holger Hintelmann

  • Tracing Mercury Contamination Sources in Sediments Using Mercury Isotope Compositions

    Xinbin Feng;Delphine Foucher;Holger Hintelmann;Haiyu Yan

  • Measurement of Complexation of Methylmercury(II) Compounds by Freshwater Humic Substances Using Equilibrium Dialysis

    Holger Hintelmann;Pamela M. Welbourn;R. Douglas Evans

  • High-precision measurement of mercury isotope ratios in sediments using cold-vapor generation multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Delphine Foucher;Holger Hintelmann

  • Long-Term Wet and Dry Deposition of Total and Methyl Mercury in the Remote Boreal Ecoregion of Canada

    Jennifer A Graydon;Vincent L St Louis;Holger Hintelmann;Steve E Lindberg

  • Determination of stable mercury isotopes by ICP/MS and their application in environmental studies.

    H. Hintelmann;N. Ogrinc;Y. Cai;O. C. Braids

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul J. Blanchfield
Paul J. Blanchfield Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Jiubin Chen
Jiubin Chen Tianjin University
Alexandre J. Poulain
Alexandre J. Poulain University of Ottawa
Marc Amyot
Marc Amyot University of Montreal
Michael J. Paterson
Michael J. Paterson International Institute for Sustainable Development
Steve E. Lindberg
Steve E. Lindberg Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Chris D. Metcalfe
Chris D. Metcalfe Trent University
Vincent L. St. Louis
Vincent L. St. Louis University of Alberta
John W. M. Rudd
John W. M. Rudd University of Alberta
Xinbin Feng
Xinbin Feng Chinese Academy of Sciences

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