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Overview

Jeroen E. Sonke is affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering as subfields.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Recent publications by this scientist illustrate their research focus. Notable papers include:

  • "Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling," 2023, published in AMBIO
  • "Evidence of free tropospheric and long-range transport of microplastic at Pic du Midi Observatory," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Mercury stable isotopes constrain atmospheric sources to the ocean," 2021, Nature
  • "Examination of the ocean as a source for atmospheric microplastics," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "The Transpolar Drift as a Source of Riverine and Shelf-Derived Trace Elements to the Central Arctic Ocean," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Jeroen E. Sonke frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common coauthors include:

  • David Point
  • Gaël Le Roux
  • Lars-Éric Heimbürger-Boavida
  • Aurélien Dommergue
  • Oskar Hagelskjær

Their work appears regularly in several scientific venues, particularly:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Tundra uptake of atmospheric elemental mercury drives Arctic mercury pollution

    Daniel Obrist;Yannick Agnan;Martin Jiskra;Christine L. Olson

  • Humic Ion-Binding Model VII: a revised parameterisation of cation-binding by humic substances

    E. Tipping;S. Lofts;J. E. Sonke

  • Examination of the ocean as a source for atmospheric microplastics.

    Steve Allen;Steve Allen;Deonie Allen;Deonie Allen;Kerry Moss;Gaël Le Roux

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Evidence of free tropospheric and long-range transport of microplastic at Pic du Midi Observatory

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  • Mercury isotope fractionation during liquid–vapor evaporation experiments

    Nicolas Estrade;Nicolas Estrade;Jean Carignan;Jeroen E. Sonke;Olivier F.X. Donard

  • A vegetation control on seasonal variations in global atmospheric mercury concentrations

    Martin Jiskra;Martin Jiskra;Jeroen E. Sonke;Daniel Obrist;Johannes Bieser

  • Atmospheric Mercury Transfer to Peat Bogs Dominated by Gaseous Elemental Mercury Dry Deposition.

    Maxime Enrico;Gaël Le Roux;Nicolas Marusczak;Lars-Eric Heimbürger

  • Evidence of Zn isotopic fractionation in a soil-plant system of a pristine tropical watershed (Nsimi, Cameroon)

    Jérôme Viers;Priscia Oliva;Anthony Nonell;Alexandre Gélabert

  • Lanthanide–humic substances complexation. I. Experimental evidence for a lanthanide contraction effect

    Jeroen E. Sonke;Vincent J.M. Salters

  • Mercury emissions and stable isotopic compositions at Vulcano Island (Italy)

    T. Zambardi;J. E. Sonke;J. P. Toutain;F. Sortino

  • Zn isotopes as tracers of anthropogenic pollution from Zn-ore smelters The Riou Mort–Lot River system

    Y. Sivry;Jean Riotte;J. E. Sonke;S. Audry

  • Observational and Modeling Constraints on Global Anthropogenic Enrichment of Mercury

    Helen M. Amos;Jeroen E. Sonke;Daniel Obrist;Nicholas Robins

  • A global model of mass independent mercury stable isotope fractionation

    Jeroen E. Sonke

  • Mercury stable isotopes constrain atmospheric sources to the ocean.

    Martin Jiskra;Martin Jiskra;Lars-Eric Heimbürger-Boavida;Lars-Eric Heimbürger-Boavida;Marie-Maëlle Desgranges;Mariia V. Petrova

  • Historical variations in the isotopic composition of atmospheric zinc deposition from a zinc smelter

    Jeroen E. Sonke;Yann Sivry;Jérôme Viers;Remi Freydier

  • Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric Mercury in China: New Evidence for Sources and Transformation Processes in Air and in Vegetation.

    Ben Yu;Xuewu Fu;Runsheng Yin;Hui Zhang

  • Methylmercury photodegradation influenced by sea-ice cover in Arctic marine ecosystems

    D. Point;D. Point;J. E. Sonke;R. D. Day;D. G. Roseneau

  • Rapid neodymium release to marine waters from lithogenic sediments in the Amazon estuary

    Tristan C. C. Rousseau;Jeroen E. Sonke;Jérôme Chmeleff;Pieter van Beek

  • Sedimentary mercury stable isotope records of atmospheric and riverine pollution from two major European heavy metal refineries

    Jeroen E. Sonke;Jörg Schäfer;Jérôme Chmeleff;Stéphane Audry

  • Effects of in situ remediation on the speciation and bioavailability of zinc in a smelter contaminated soil

    M. Nachtegaal;M.A. Marcus;J.E. Sonke;J. Vangronsveld

  • Photoreduction of gaseous oxidized mercury changes global atmospheric mercury speciation, transport and deposition.

    Alfonso Saiz-Lopez;Sebastian P. Sitkiewicz;Sebastian P. Sitkiewicz;Daniel Roca-Sanjuán;Josep M. Oliva-Enrich

  • Tracing Sources and Bioaccumulation of Mercury in Fish of Lake Baikal− Angara River Using Hg Isotopic Composition

    Vincent Perrot;Vladimir N Epov;Mikhail V Pastukhov;Valentina I Grebenshchikova

Frequent Co-Authors

Xuewu Fu
Xuewu Fu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Oleg S. Pokrovsky
Oleg S. Pokrovsky National Research Tomsk State University
David Amouroux
David Amouroux University of Pau and the Adour Region
Daniel Obrist
Daniel Obrist University of Massachusetts Lowell
Jérôme Viers
Jérôme Viers Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Vincent J. M. Salters
Vincent J. M. Salters Florida State University
Olivier F. X. Donard
Olivier F. X. Donard University of Pau and the Adour Region
Michiel M Rutgers van der Loeff
Michiel M Rutgers van der Loeff Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Elsie M. Sunderland
Elsie M. Sunderland Harvard University
Géraldine Sarthou
Géraldine Sarthou French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea

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