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John W. M. Rudd

John W. M. Rudd

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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
63
Citations
15816
World Ranking
2458
National Ranking
99

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

John W. M. Rudd is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and conducts research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work focuses on various subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research topics prominently feature mercury impact and mitigation studies, marine animal studies, toxic organic pollutants impact, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, and wildlife conservation and criminology analyses.

Among their recent scholarly contributions are two papers published in 2021: Experimental evidence for recovery of mercury-contaminated fish populations appearing in Nature, and Why the English-Wabigoon river system is still polluted by mercury 57 years after its contamination published in FACETS.

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include:

  • Carol A. Kelly
  • Paul J. Blanchfield
  • Lee E. Hrenchuk
  • Marc Amyot
  • Christopher L. Babiarz

John W. M. Rudd's publications have appeared predominantly in Nature and FACETS, representing the main venues for their research dissemination.

Best Publications

  • Reservoir Surfaces as Sources of Greenhouse Gases to the Atmosphere: A Global Estimate

    Vincent L. St. Louis;Carol A. Kelly;Éric Duchemin;John W. M. Rudd

  • Importance of Wetlands as Sources of Methyl Mercury to Boreal Forest Ecosystems

    Vincent L. St. Louis;John W. M. Rudd;Carol A. Kelly;Ken G. Beaty

  • Food as the Dominant Pathway of Methylmercury Uptake by Fish

    B. D. Hall;R. A. Bodaly;R. J. P. Fudge;J. W. M. Rudd

  • 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

  • Photodegradation of methylmercury in lakes

    P. Sellers;C.A. Kelly;J.W.M. Rudd;A.R. MacHutchon

  • Environmental factors affecting the formation of methylmercury in low pH lakes

    Michael R. Winfrey;John W. M. Rudd

  • Increases in Fluxes of Greenhouse Gases and Methyl Mercury following Flooding of an Experimental Reservoir

    C. A. Kelly;J. W. M. Rudd;R. A. Bodaly;N. P. Roulet

  • Production and Loss of Methylmercury and Loss of Total Mercury from Boreal Forest Catchments Containing Different Types of Wetlands

    Vincent L. St. Louis;John W. M. Rudd;Carol A. Kelly;Ken G. Beaty

  • Methane cycling in a eutrophic shield lake and its effects on whole lake metabolism 1

    John W. M. Rudd;R. D. Hamilton

  • Large-scale impacts of hydroelectric development

    D M Rosenberg;F Berkes;R A Bodaly;R E Hecky

  • Sources of methyl mercury to freshwater ecosystems: A review

    John W. M. Rudd

  • 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

  • Mercury Concentrations in Fish Related to Size of Remote Canadian Shield Lakes

    R. A. Bodaly;J. W. M. Rudd;R. J. P. Fudge;C. A. Kelly

  • Importance of the forest canopy to fluxes of methyl mercury and total mercury to boreal ecosystems.

    Vincent L. St. Louis;John W. M. Rudd;Carol A. Kelly;Britt D. Hall

  • Influence of Dissolved Organic Carbon, pH, and Microbial Respiration Rates on Mercury Methylation and Demethylation in Lake Water

    Brenda M. Miskimmin;John W. M. Rudd;Carol A. Kelly

  • Speciation and Cycling of Mercury in Lavaca Bay, Texas, Sediments

    Nicolas S. Bloom;Gary A. Gill;Steven Cappellino;Charles Dobbs

  • Prediction of biological acid neutralization in acid-sensitive lakes

    C. A. Kelly;J. W. M. Rudd;R. H. Hesslein;D. W. Schindler

  • Measurement of microbial oxidation of methane in lake water

    John W. M. Rudd;R. D. Hamilton;N. E. R. Campbell

  • The rise and fall of mercury methylation in an experimental reservoir.

    Vincent L. St.Louis;John W. M. Rudd;Carol A. Kelly;R. A. (Drew) Bodaly

  • Measurements of Specific Rates of Net Methyl Mercury Production in the Water Column and Surface Sediments of Acidified and Circumneutral Lakes

    Luying Xun;N. E. R. Campbell;John W. M. Rudd

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol A. Kelly
Carol A. Kelly University of Manitoba
Vincent L. St. Louis
Vincent L. St. Louis University of Alberta
Holger Hintelmann
Holger Hintelmann Trent University
Michael A. Turner
Michael A. Turner University of California, San Diego
Michael J. Paterson
Michael J. Paterson International Institute for Sustainable Development
Steve E. Lindberg
Steve E. Lindberg Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Tim R. Moore
Tim R. Moore McGill University
David W. Schindler
David W. Schindler University of Alberta
David P. Krabbenhoft
David P. Krabbenhoft United States Geological Survey
Brian A. Branfireun
Brian A. Branfireun University of Western Ontario

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