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Overview

Marc Amyot is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their research predominantly contributes to the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis, comprising the largest portion of their scholarly output. Additional subfields of Amyot's work include ecology, pollution, geochemistry and petrology, and environmental chemistry.

Their main research topics highlight studies related to mercury impact and mitigation, heavy metals in the environment, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, toxic organic pollutants, marine animal studies, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Marc Amyot has authored several papers across notable scientific journals. Recent publications include:

  • Climate change and mercury in the Arctic: Abiotic interactions (2022), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Experimental evidence for recovery of mercury-contaminated fish populations (2021), published in Nature
  • Selenium Interactions with Algae: Chemical Processes at Biological Uptake Sites, Bioaccumulation, and Intracellular Metabolism (2020), published in Plants
  • Rare earth elements (REEs) behavior in a large river across a geological and anthropogenic gradient (2023), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Hydrologic control on winter dissolved oxygen mediates arsenic cycling in a small subarctic lake (2020), published in Limnology and Oceanography

Frequent co-authors of Amyot include Dominic E. Ponton, Jean-François Lapierre, Maikel Rosabal, François Bilodeau, and Paul A. del Giorgio. These collaborations indicate a network established in diverse environmental science topics.

Their work is regularly published in venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, SSRN Electronic Journal, Environmental Pollution, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Chemosphere. The Science of The Total Environment is the leading journal for Amyot's contributions, with eleven publications.

Best Publications

  • THE CHEMICAL CYCLE AND BIOACCUMULATION OF MERCURY

    François M. M. Morel;Anne M. L. Kraepiel;Marc Amyot

  • Reviews and syntheses: Effects of permafrost thaw on Arctic aquatic ecosystems

    J. E. Vonk;S. E. Tank;W. B. Bowden;I. Laurion

  • 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

  • A synthesis of atmospheric mercury depletion event chemistry in the atmosphere and snow

    A. Steffen;T. Douglas;M. Amyot;P. Ariya

  • Mercury physicochemical and biogeochemical transformation in the atmosphere and at atmospheric interfaces: a review and future directions.

    Parisa A. Ariya;Marc Amyot;Ashu Dastoor;Daniel Deeds

  • Sunlight-induced formation of dissolved gaseous mercury in lake waters.

    Marc. Amyot;Donald J. McQueen;Greg. Mierle;David R. S. Lean

  • Methanogens: Principal Methylators of Mercury in Lake Periphyton

    Stéphanie Hamelin;Marc Amyot;Tamar Barkay;Yanping Wang

  • Production and Loss of Dissolved Gaseous Mercury in Coastal Seawater

    Marc Amyot;Gary A. Gill;François M. M. Morel

  • The Arctic: a sink for mercury

    Parisa A. Ariya;Ashu P. Dastoor;Marc Amyot;William H. Schroeder

  • The role of mercury redox reactions in snow on snow-to-air mercury transfer.

    Janick D. Lalonde;and Alexandre J. Poulain;Marc Amyot

  • Photooxidation of Hg(0) in artificial and natural waters.

    Janick D. Lalonde;Marc Amyot;and Anne M. L. Kraepiel;François M. M. Morel

  • New directions: The role of bioaerosols in atmospheric chemistry and physics

    Parisa A Ariya;Marc Amyot

  • Widespread occurrence and spatial distribution of glyphosate, atrazine, and neonicotinoids pesticides in the St. Lawrence and tributary rivers

    Juan Manuel Montiel-León;Gabriel Munoz;Sung Vo Duy;Dat Tien Do

  • Mercury Water−Air Exchange over the Upper St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario

    Laurier Poissant;Marc Amyot;Martin Pilote;David Lean

  • Mercury in the marine environment of the Canadian Arctic: Review of recent findings

    Birgit Braune;John Chételat;Marc Amyot;Tanya Brown

  • New evidence on variations of human body burden of methylmercury from fish consumption.

    René Canuel;Sylvie Boucher de Grosbois;Laura Atikessé;Marc Lucotte

  • Effects of various cooking methods and food components on bioaccessibility of mercury from fish

    Ousséni Ouédraogo;Marc Amyot

  • Microbiological degradation of atmospheric organic compounds

    Parisa A. Ariya;Oleg Nepotchatykh;Olga Ignatova;Marc Amyot

  • The fate of mercury in Arctic terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, a review

    Thomas A. Douglas;Lisa L. Loseto;Robie W. Macdonald;Peter Outridge

  • Photochemical Formation of volatile mercury in high Arctic lakes

    Marc Amyot;David Lean;Greg Mierle

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandre J. Poulain
Alexandre J. Poulain University of Ottawa
Parisa A. Ariya
Parisa A. Ariya McGill University
Dolors Planas
Dolors Planas University of Quebec at Montreal
Holger Hintelmann
Holger Hintelmann Trent University
David R. S. Lean
David R. S. Lean University of Ottawa
Laurier Poissant
Laurier Poissant Environment and Climate Change Canada
Tamar Barkay
Tamar Barkay Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
François M. M. Morel
François M. M. Morel Princeton University
Aurélien Dommergue
Aurélien Dommergue Grenoble Alpes University
Christophe Ferrari
Christophe Ferrari Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur

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