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Jean Remy Davée Guimarães

Jean Remy Davée Guimarães

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
47
Citations
7054
World Ranking
5881
National Ranking
36

Overview

Jean Remy Davée Guimarães is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Their research primarily centers on environmental science, with a strong focus on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis within this broader field.

The scientist's work covers several specialized subfields including pollution, plant science, general health professions, and occupational therapy. Their research topics concentrate notably on mercury impact and mitigation studies, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, and environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology. Additional topics addressed include pesticide exposure and toxicity, heavy metals in the environment, marine animal studies, and indigenous health and education.

Among their published papers are:

  • "Occupational exposure to pesticides and health symptoms among family farmers in Brazil" (2020), Revista de Saúde Pública
  • "Cyanide Contamination of the Puyango-Tumbes River Caused by Artisanal Gold Mining in Portovelo-Zaruma, Ecuador" (2020), Current Environmental Health Reports
  • "A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes" (2023), AMBIO
  • "A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 2: Anthropogenic perturbations" (2023), AMBIO
  • "Mercury in the Amazon" (2020), Elementa Science of the Anthropocene

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Rejane C. Marques, Rafael Junqueira Buralli, Áurea Regina Alves Ignácio, Wilkinson Lopes Lázaro, and Sergi Díez.

Jean Remy Davée Guimarães has published multiple works in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, AMBIO, Revista Brasileira de Ciências Ambientais, Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil, and Revista de Saúde Pública.

Best Publications

  • Human exposure to mercury due to goldmining in the Tapajos River basin, Amazon, Brazil: Speciation of mercury in human hair, blood and urine

    H. Akagi;O. Malm;F. J. P. Branches;Y. Kinjo

  • The geochemistry of mercury in central amazonian soils developed on the Alter-do-Chão formation of the lower Tapajós River Valley, Pará state, Brazil

    M. Roulet;M. Lucotte;A. Saint-Aubin;S. Tran

  • Effects of recent human colonization on the presence of mercury in amazonian ecosystems

    M. Roulet;M. Lucotte;N. Farella;G. Serique

  • A preliminary study of mercury exposure and blood pressure in the Brazilian Amazon

    Myriam Fillion;Donna Mergler;Carlos José Sousa Passos;Fabrice Larribe

  • Increase in mercury contamination recorded in lacustrine sediments following deforestation in the central Amazon1The present investigation is part of an ongoing study, the CARUSO project (CRDI-UFPa-UQAM), initiated to determine the sources, fate and health effects of the presence of MeHg in the area of the Lower Tapajós.1

    M Roulet;M Lucotte;R Canuel;N Farella

  • Total mercury in muscle tissue of five shark species from Brazilian offshore waters: effects of feeding habit, sex, and length.

    Alexandra Penedo de Pinho;Jean Remy Davée Guimarães;Agnaldo S. Martins;P.A.S. Costa

  • Methylmercury in water, seston, and epiphyton of an Amazonian river and its floodplain, Tapajós River, Brazil.

    M Roulet;M Lucotte;Jean R D Guimarães;I Rheault

  • An assessment of Hg pollution in different goldmining areas, Amazon Brazil

    Olaf Malm;Miriam B. Castro;Wanderley R. Bastos;Fernando J.P. Branches

  • Methylmercury in Fish and Hair Samples from the Balbina Reservoir, Brazilian Amazon

    Helena do Amaral Kehrig;Olaf Malm;Hirokatsu Akagi;Jean R.D. Guimarães

  • Daily mercury intake in fish-eating populations in the Brazilian Amazon

    Carlos José Sousa Passos;Delaine Sampaio Da Silva;Mélanie Lemire;Myriam Fillion

  • Mercury methylation along a lake–forest transect in the Tapajós river floodplain, Brazilian Amazon: seasonal and vertical variations

    Jean Remy Davée Guimarães;Marc Roulet;Marc Lucotte;Donna Mergler

  • Biophysical interactions in the Cabo Frio upwelling system, southeastern Brazil

    Sergio Augusto Coelho-Souza;Maria Soledad López;Jean Remy Davee Guimarães;Ricardo Coutinho

  • Mercury fluxes in a natural forested Amazonian catchment (Serra do Navio, Amapá State, Brazil).

    A.-H. Fostier;M.C. Forti;J.R.D. Guimarães;A.J. Melfi

  • Mercury methylation in macrophytes, periphyton, and water – comparative studies with stable and radio-mercury additions

    J. B. N. Mauro;J. R. D. Guimaraes;H. Hintelmann;C. J. Watras

  • Methylmercury production and accumulation in sediments and soils of an amazonian floodplain : Effect of seasonal inundation

    M. Roulet;J.-R. D. Guimarães;M. Lucotte

  • Hg methylation in sediments and floating meadows of a tropical lake in the Pantanal floodplain, Brazil

    Jean R.D. Guimarães;Markus Meili;Olaf Malm;Elcia Maria de Souza Brito

  • Fish consumption and bioindicators of inorganic mercury exposure.

    Carlos José Sousa Passos;Donna Mergler;Mélanie Lemire;Myriam Fillion

  • Epidemiologic confirmation that fruit consumption influences mercury exposure in riparian communities in the Brazilian Amazon.

    Carlos José Sousa Passos;Donna Mergler;Myriam Fillion;Mélanie Lemire

  • Challenges to measuring, monitoring, and addressing the cumulative impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Ecuador

    Rebecca Adler Miserendino;Bridget A. Bergquist;Sara E. Adler;Jean Remy Davée Guimarães

  • Sulfate-reducing bacteria in floating macrophyte rhizospheres from an Amazonian floodplain lake in Bolivia and their association with Hg methylation

    Darío Achá;Volga Iñiguez;Marc Roulet;Jean Remy Davée Guimarães

  • Follow-up of mercury levels in fish, human hair and urine in the Madeira and Tapajós basins, Amazon, Brazil

    O. Malm;J. R. D. Guimarães;M. B. Castro;W. R. Bastos

Frequent Co-Authors

Olaf Malm
Olaf Malm Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Marc Lucotte
Marc Lucotte University of Quebec at Montreal
Sergi Díez
Sergi Díez Spanish National Research Council
Fernando Barbosa
Fernando Barbosa Universidade de São Paulo
Marcello M. Veiga
Marcello M. Veiga University of British Columbia
Wolfgang C. Pfeiffer
Wolfgang C. Pfeiffer Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
João Paulo Machado Torres
João Paulo Machado Torres Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Markus Meili
Markus Meili Stockholm University
Carl J. Watras
Carl J. Watras University of Wisconsin–Madison
Alexandre Soares Rosado
Alexandre Soares Rosado King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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