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Overview

Karin Wiberg is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their primary field of research is Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The main topics of Karin Wiberg's work revolve around Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) research, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Water Treatment and Disinfection, Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wiberg include:

  • Wide-scope screening of polar contaminants of concern in water: A critical review of liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry-based strategies (2020), published in Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry
  • What's in the water? - Target and suspect screening of contaminants of emerging concern in raw water and drinking water from Europe and Asia (2021), published in Water Research
  • Pilot-Scale Continuous Foam Fractionation for the Removal of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) from Landfill Leachate (2022), published in ACS ES&T Water
  • Spatial distribution and load of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in background soils in Sweden (2022), published in Chemosphere
  • Electrochemical Oxidation for Treatment of PFAS in Contaminated Water and Fractionated FoamA Pilot-Scale Study (2023), published in ACS ES&T Water

Karin Wiberg has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Environmental Pollution
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Chemosphere
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • ACS ES&T Water

Collaborations feature several frequent co-authors including Lutz Ahrens, Pablo Gago-Ferrero, Foon Yin Lai, Oksana Golovko, and Frank Menger.

Best Publications

  • Removal efficiency of multiple poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in drinking water using granular activated carbon (GAC) and anion exchange (AE) column tests

    Philip McCleaf;Sophie Englund;Anna Östlund;Klara Lindegren

  • Enantiomer Fractions Are Preferred to Enantiomer Ratios for Describing Chiral Signatures in Environmental Analysis

    Tom Harner;Karin Wiberg;Ross Norstrom

  • Overview on environmental fate of chlorinated dioxins and dibenzofurans. Sources, levels and isomeric pattern in various matrices

    Christoffer Rappe;Rolf Andersson;Per-Anders Bergqvist;Christina Brohede

  • Influence of dissolved organic matter concentration and composition on the removal efficiency of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) during drinking water treatment

    Dolly N. Kothawala;Dolly N. Kothawala;Stephan J. Köhler;Anna Östlund;Karin Wiberg

  • Micropollutants in drinking water from source to tap - Method development and application of a multiresidue screening method

    Rikard Tröger;Philipp Klöckner;Lutz Ahrens;Karin Wiberg

  • Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Swedish Groundwater and Surface Water: Implications for Environmental Quality Standards and Drinking Water Guidelines.

    Laura Gobelius;Johanna Hedlund;Wiebke Dürig;Rikard Tröger

  • Non-target screening and prioritization of potentially persistent, bioaccumulating and toxic domestic wastewater contaminants and their removal in on-site and large-scale sewage treatment plants.

    Kristin M. Blum;Patrik L. Andersson;Gunno Renman;Lutz Ahrens

  • The Enantioselective Bioaccumulation of Chiral Chlordane and α-HCH Contaminants in the Polar Bear Food Chain

    Karin Wiberg;Robert J Letcher;Courtney D Sandau;Ross J Norstrom

  • Fate of pharmaceuticals and pesticides in fly larvae composting.

    C. Lalander;J. Senecal;M. Gros Calvo;L. Ahrens

  • Spatial distribution and source tracing of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in surface water in Northern Europe

    Minh A. Nguyen;Karin Wiberg;Erik Ribeli;Sarah Josefsson

  • Impact of on-site, small and large scale wastewater treatment facilities on levels and fate of pharmaceuticals, personal care products, artificial sweeteners, pesticides, and perfluoroalkyl substances in recipient waters.

    Pablo Gago-Ferrero;Meritxell Gros;Lutz Ahrens;Karin Wiberg

  • Trace analysis of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans and WHO polychlorinated biphenyls in food using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography with electron-capture detection

    Conny Danielsson;Karin Wiberg;Peter Korytár;Sture Bergek

  • Screening and prioritization of micropollutants in wastewaters from on-site sewage treatment facilities.

    Meritxell Gros;Kristin M. Blum;Henrik Jernstedt;Gunno Renman

  • Pilot-Scale Continuous Foam Fractionation for the Removal of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) from Landfill Leachate

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  • Suspect Screening and Regulatory Databases: A Powerful Combination To Identify Emerging Micropollutants.

    Pablo Gago-Ferrero;Agnes Krettek;Agnes Krettek;Stellan Fischer;Karin Wiberg

  • New strategies for extraction and clean-up of persistent organic pollutants from food and feed samples using selective pressurized liquid extraction

    Erland Björklund;Sune Sporring;Karin Wiberg;Peter Haglund

  • Comparative Analysis of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxin and Dibenzofuran Congeners in Great Lakes Fish Extracts by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry and In Vitro Enzyme Induction Activities

    Timothy Zacharewski;Lorna Safe;Stephen Safe;Brock Chittim

  • Brominated Dibenzo-p-Dioxins: A New Class of Marine Toxins?

    Peter Haglund;Anna Malmvärn;Sture Bergek;Anders Bignert

  • Bioturbation-driven Release of Buried PCBs and PBDEs From Different Depths in Contaminated Sediments

    Sarah Josefsson;Kjell Leonardsson;Jonas S. Gunnarsson;Karin Wiberg

  • Freely dissolved concentrations and sediment-water activity ratios of PCDD/Fs and PCBs in the open Baltic Sea

    Gerard Cornelissen;Karin Wiberg;Dag Broman;Hans Peter H. Arp

  • Absorption of polychlorinated biphenyls, dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans by breast-fed infants

    P. Dahl;G. Lindström;K. Wiberg;C. Rappe

  • Soil as a Source of Atmospheric Heptachlor Epoxide

    T. F. Bidleman;L. M. M. Jantunen;K. Wiberg;T. Harner

Frequent Co-Authors

Lutz Ahrens
Lutz Ahrens Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Peter Haglund
Peter Haglund Umeå University
Mats Tysklind
Mats Tysklind Umeå University
Gerard Cornelissen
Gerard Cornelissen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Meritxell Gros
Meritxell Gros Catalan Institute for Water Research
Anders Bignert
Anders Bignert Swedish Museum of Natural History
Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Terry F. Bidleman
Terry F. Bidleman Umeå University
Tom Harner
Tom Harner Environment and Climate Change Canada
Christoffer Rappe
Christoffer Rappe Umeå University

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