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Overview

James M. Lazorchak is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their scholarly output focuses on several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, and Oceanography.

Their research addresses multiple topics such as Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Marine Toxins and Detection Methods, Animal Testing and Alternatives, Water Quality and Pollution Assessment, and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with James M. Lazorchak include Alex T. Ford, Marlene Ågerstrand, Bryan W. Brooks, Tomas Brodin, and Minna Saaristo.

Regular publication venues featuring their work are Water, The Science of The Total Environment, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University), Environmental Science & Technology, and Freshwater Biology.

Recent papers associated with James M. Lazorchak include:

  • The Role of Behavioral Ecotoxicology in Environmental Protection, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Toxic benthic freshwater cyanobacterial proliferations: Challenges and solutions for enhancing knowledge and improving monitoring and mitigation, 2020, Freshwater Biology
  • Determination of Cyanotoxins and Prymnesins in Water, Fish Tissue, and Other Matrices: A Review, 2022, Toxins
  • EthoCRED: a framework to guide reporting and evaluation of the relevance and reliability of behavioural ecotoxicity studies, 2024, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Development of a Risk Characterization Tool for Harmful Cyanobacteria Blooms on the Ohio River, 2022, Water

Best Publications

  • Collapse of a fish population after exposure to a synthetic estrogen

    Karen A. Kidd;Paul J. Blanchfield;Kenneth H. Mills;Vince P. Palace

  • Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment: what are the big questions?

    Alistair B. A. Boxall;Murray A. Rudd;Bryan W. Brooks;Daniel J. Caldwell

  • Management Options for Reducing the Release of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes to the Environment

    Amy Pruden;D.G. Joakim Larsson;Alejandro Amézquita;Peter Collignon

  • Are harmful algal blooms becoming the greatest inland water quality threat to public health and aquatic ecosystems

    Bryan W. Brooks;James M. Lazorchak;Meredith D.A. Howard;Mari Vaughn V. Johnson

  • Concentrations of prioritized pharmaceuticals in effluents from 50 large wastewater treatment plants in the US and implications for risk estimation

    Mitchell S. Kostich;Angela L. Batt;James M. Lazorchak

  • HEAVY METALS STRUCTURE BENTHIC COMMUNITIES IN COLORADO MOUNTAIN STREAMS

    William H. Clements;Daren M. Carlisle;James M. Lazorchak;Philip C. Johnson

  • Saving freshwater from salts

    M. Cañedo-Argüelles;M. Cañedo-Argüelles;C. P. Hawkins;B. J. Kefford;R. B. Schäfer

  • Analysis of ecologically relevant pharmaceuticals in wastewater and surface water using selective solid-phase extraction and UPLC-MS/MS.

    Angela L. Batt;Mitch S. Kostich;James M. Lazorchak

  • Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Fish: Developing Exposure Indicators and Predictive Models of Effects Based on Mechanism of Action

    Gerald T. Ankley;David C. Bencic;Michael S. Breen;Timothy W. Collette

  • Ecotoxicological assessment of antibiotics: A call for improved consideration of microorganisms.

    Kristian K. Brandt;Alejandro Amézquita;Thomas Backhaus;Alistair B. Boxall

  • Risks to aquatic organisms posed by human pharmaceutical use

    Mitchell S. Kostich;James M. Lazorchak

  • Identification of metabolites of trenbolone acetate in androgenic runoff from a beef feedlot.

    Elizabeth J. Durhan;Christy S. Lambright;Elizabeth A. Makynen;James Lazorchak

  • The potential of an earthworm avoidance test for evaluation of hazardous waste sites

    Roger B. Yeardley;Laura C. Gast;James M. Lazorchak

  • Differential Gene Expression in Daphnia magna Suggests Distinct Modes of Action and Bioavailability for ZnO Nanoparticles and Zn Ions

    Helen C. Poynton;James M. Lazorchak;Christopher A. Impellitteri;Mark E. Smith

  • Toxicogenomic responses of nanotoxicity in Daphnia magna exposed to silver nitrate and coated silver nanoparticles.

    Helen C. Poynton;James M. Lazorchak;Christopher A. Impellitteri;Bonnie J. Blalock

  • The role of behavioral ecotoxicology in environmental protection

    Alex T. Ford;Marlene Ågerstrand;Bryan W. Brooks;Bryan W. Brooks;Joel Allen

  • Effects from filtration, capping agents, and presence/absence of food on the toxicity of silver nanoparticles to Daphnia magna

    H. Joel Allen;Christopher A. Impellitteri;Dana A. Macke;J. Lee Heckman

  • Toxic benthic freshwater cyanobacterial proliferations: Challenges and solutions for enhancing knowledge and improving monitoring and mitigation

    Susanna A. Wood;Laura T. Kelly;Keith Bouma-Gregson;Jean François Humbert

  • Presence of pharmaceuticals in fish collected from urban rivers in the U.S. EPA 2008-2009 National Rivers and Streams Assessment.

    Belinda Huerta;Sara Rodriguez-Mozaz;Jim Lazorchak;Damia Barcelo

  • Zooplankton Assemblage Responses to Disturbance Gradients

    Richard S. Stemberger;James M. Lazorchak

  • A reformulated, reconstituted water for testing the freshwater amphipod, Hyalella azteca

    Mark E. Smith;James M. Lazorchak;Lori E. Herrin;Sandra Brewer-Swartz

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald T. Ankley
Gerald T. Ankley Environmental Protection Agency
Daniel L. Villeneuve
Daniel L. Villeneuve Environmental Protection Agency
Bryan W. Brooks
Bryan W. Brooks Baylor University
Brian H. Hill
Brian H. Hill University of Minnesota
Edward Topp
Edward Topp Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Alistair B.A. Boxall
Alistair B.A. Boxall University of York
D. G. Joakim Larsson
D. G. Joakim Larsson University of Gothenburg
David B. Buchwalter
David B. Buchwalter North Carolina State University
Euan D. Reavie
Euan D. Reavie University of Minnesota, Duluth
Nancy D. Denslow
Nancy D. Denslow University of Florida

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