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Overview

James P. Hurley is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with notable emphasis on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The scientist's recent work includes several papers published in prominent journals. These are:

  • Experimental evidence for recovery of mercury-contaminated fish populations, 2021, Nature
  • Resolving Atmospheric Mercury Loading and Source Trends from Isotopic Records of Remote North American Lake Sediments, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Enhanced Susceptibility of Methylmercury Bioaccumulation into Seston of the Laurentian Great Lakes, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Isotopic tracing of mercury sources in estuarine-inner shelf sediments of the East China Sea, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Methylmercury Stable Isotopes: New Insights on Assessing Aquatic Food Web Bioaccumulation in Legacy Impacted Regions, 2022, ACS ES&T Water

Frequent coauthors in their publications are:

  • Ryan F. Lepak
  • Michael T. Tate
  • David P. Krabbenhoft
  • Sarah E. Janssen
  • Jacob M. Ogorek

James P. Hurley has published predominantly in these venues:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • ACS ES&T Water
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Nature
  • Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Their main fields of study include environmental science and its subfields, such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, ecology, pollution, neurology, and general health professions.

The primary topics in their research are:

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement

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

  • Influences of Watershed Characteristics on Mercury Levels in Wisconsin Rivers

    James P. Hurley;Janina M. Benoit;Christopher L. Babiarz;Martin M. Shafer

  • 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

  • Microalgal Pigment Assessments Using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography: A Synopsis of Organismal and Ecological Applications

    David F. Millie;Hans W. Paerl;James P. Hurley

  • A biophysical model for buzz pollination in angiosperms

    Stephen L. Buchmann;James P. Hurley

  • Isotopic signatures of mercury contamination in latest Permian oceans

    Stephen E. Grasby;Stephen E. Grasby;Wenjie Shen;Runsheng Yin;Runsheng Yin;James D. Gleason

  • Mercury biogeochemical cycling in a stratified estuary

    R. P. Mason;W. F. Fitzgerald;J. Hurley;A. K. Hanson

  • Seasonal influences on partitioning and transport of total and methylmercury in rivers from contrasting watersheds

    Christopher L. Babiarz;James P. Hurley;James P. Hurley;Janina M. Benoit;Martin M. Shafer

  • Mercury methylation in periphyton of the Florida Everglades

    Lisa B. Cleckner;Cynthia C. Gilmour;James P. Hurley;David P. Krabbenhoft;David P. Krabbenhoft

  • Diel variability of mercury phase and species distributions in the Florida Everglades

    David P. Krabbenhoft;James P. Hurley;Mark L. Olson;Lisa B. Cleckner

  • Mercury cycling in the Allequash Creek watershed, northern Wisconsin

    David P. Krabbenhoft;Janina M. Benoit;Christopher L. Babiarz;James P. Hurley

  • The influence of dissolved organic carbon, suspended particulates, and hydrology on the concentration, partitioning and variability of trace metals in two contrasting Wisconsin watersheds (U.S.A.)

    Martin M. Shafer;Joel T. Overdier;James P. Hurley;James P. Hurley;David Armstrong

  • Trophic transfer of methyl mercury in the northern Florida Everglades

    Lisa B. Cleckner;Paul J. Garrison;James P. Hurley;Mark L. Olson

  • Flow scintillation counting of 14C-labeled microalgal photosynthetic pigments

    J. L. Pinckney;D. F. Millie;K. E. Howe;Hans W Paerl

  • Sources and fates of mercury and methylmercury in Wisconsin lakes

    C.J. Watras;N.S. Bloom;R.J.M. Hudson;S. Gherini

  • Partitioning of Total Mercury and Methylmercury to the Colloidal Phase in Freshwaters

    Christopher L. Babiarz;James P. Hurley;Stephen R. Hoffmann;Anders W. Andren

  • Factors affecting enhanced mercury bioaccumulation in inland lakes of Isle Royale National Park, USA.

    Patrick R Gorski;Lisa B Cleckner;James P Hurley;James P Hurley;Michael E Sierszen

  • Effects of mercury and thallium concentrations on high precision determination of mercury isotopic composition by Neptune Plus multiple collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Runsheng Yin;Runsheng Yin;David P. Krabbenhoft;Bridget A. Bergquist;Wang Zheng

  • Distribution and Fluxes of Total and Methylmercury in Lake Superior

    Rolfhus Kr;Sakamoto He;Cleckner Lb;Stoor Rw

  • Influence of natural dissolved organic carbon on the bioavailability of mercury to a freshwater alga.

    P.R. Gorski;D.E. Armstrong;J.P. Hurley;D.P. Krabbenhoft

  • Impact of acidification on the methylmercury cycle of remote seepage lakes

    Nicolas S Bloom;Carl J. Watras;James P. Hurley

  • Fluxes and transformations of aquatic pigments in Lake Mendota, Wisconsin

    James P. Hurley;David E. Armstrong

Frequent Co-Authors

David P. Krabbenhoft
David P. Krabbenhoft United States Geological Survey
Runsheng Yin
Runsheng Yin Chinese Academy of Sciences
David E. Armstrong
David E. Armstrong University of Wisconsin–Madison
Martin M. Shafer
Martin M. Shafer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Cynthia C. Gilmour
Cynthia C. Gilmour Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Xinbin Feng
Xinbin Feng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Carl J. Watras
Carl J. Watras University of Wisconsin–Madison
Holger Hintelmann
Holger Hintelmann Trent University
Thomas M. Frost
Thomas M. Frost University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brian A. Branfireun
Brian A. Branfireun University of Western Ontario

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