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Overview

Mark D. Scrimshaw is affiliated with Brunel University London in the United Kingdom. The research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a specific emphasis on pollution and related subfields such as industrial and manufacturing engineering, physiology, nature and landscape conservation, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Their recent research topics include pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, microplastics and plastic pollution, recycling and waste management techniques, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species, fish ecology and management studies, and the effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals.

Frequent co-authors include Kofi Omare Renner, Edwin J. Routledge, Lawson Mensah, Elise Cartmell, and Mandy Fletton.

Publication venues commonly featuring their work are:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • Toxics
  • Heliyon
  • Engineering Microbiology

Selected recent publications are:

  • Steroid hormones in the aquatic environment (2021) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • A Comparison of Different Approaches for Characterizing Microplastics in Selected Personal Care Products (2021) in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • Uptake, Elimination and Effects of Cosmetic Microbeads on the Freshwater Gastropod Biomphalaria glabrata (2022) in Toxics
  • Influence of solids and hydraulic retention times on microbial diversity and removal of estrogens and nonylphenols in a pilot-scale activated sludge plant (2023) in Heliyon
  • Proactive monitoring of changes in the microbial community structure in wastewater treatment bioreactors using phospholipid fatty acid analysis (2024) in Engineering Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Heavy metal content of vegetables irrigated with mixtures of wastewater and sewage sludge in Zimbabwe: Implications for human health

    M. Muchuweti;J.W. Birkett;E. Chinyanga;R. Zvauya

  • Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants

    Frank Rahman;Katherine H Langford;Mark D Scrimshaw;John N Lester

  • Binding of Waterborne Steroid Estrogens to Solid Phases in River and Estuarine Systems

    K. M. Lai;K. L. Johnson;and M. D. Scrimshaw;J. N. Lester

  • Conditions influencing the precipitation of magnesium ammonium phosphate

    I Stratful;M.D Scrimshaw;J.N Lester

  • Future water quality monitoring--adapting tools to deal with mixtures of pollutants in water resource management.

    Rolf Altenburger;Selim Ait-Aissa;Philipp Antczak;Thomas Backhaus

  • Alternative Antifouling Biocides

    N. Voulvoulis;M. D. Scrimshaw;J. N. Lester

  • The SOLUTIONS project: challenges and responses for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management.

    Werner Brack;Rolf Altenburger;Gerrit Schüürmann;Martin Krauss

  • Prediction of the bioaccumulation factors and body burden of natural and synthetic estrogens in aquatic organisms in the river systems.

    Ka Man Lai;M. D. Scrimshaw;J. N. Lester

  • TREATMENT AND REMOVAL STRATEGIES FOR ESTROGENS FROM WASTEWATER

    Y.K.K. Koh;T.Y. Chiu;A. Boobis;E. Cartmell

  • Occurrence of Four Biocides Utilized in Antifouling Paints, as Alternatives to Organotin Compounds, in Waters and Sediments of a Commercial Estuary in the UK

    Nikolaos Voulvoulis;Mark D Scrimshaw;John N Lester

  • Biotransformation and bioconcentration of steroid estrogens by Chlorella vulgaris.

    K. M. Lai;M. D. Scrimshaw;J. N. Lester

  • From Dishwasher to Tap? Xenobiotic Substances Benzotriazole and Tolyltriazole in the Environment

    Hussein Janna;Mark D. Scrimshaw;Richard J. Williams;John Churchley

  • Determination of endocrine disrupters in sewage treatment and receiving waters

    Rachel L. Gomes;Mark D. Scrimshaw;John N. Lester

  • The significance of hazardous chemicals in wastewater treatment works effluents.

    Michael Gardner;Sean Comber;Mark D. Scrimshaw;Elise Cartmell

  • The Effects of Natural and Synthetic Steroid Estrogens in Relation to their Environmental Occurrence

    Ka Man Lai;M. D. Scrimshaw;J. N. Lester

  • Testicular dysgenesis syndrome and the estrogen hypothesis: a quantitative meta-analysis

    Olwenn Martin;Tassos Shialis;John Lester;Mark Scrimshaw

  • Comparative environmental assessment of biocides used in antifouling paints

    Nikolaos Voulvoulis;Mark D Scrimshaw;John N Lester

  • Determination of steroid estrogens in wastewater by high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

    Y.K.K. Koh;T.Y. Chiu;A. Boobis;E. Cartmell

  • Fate of conjugated natural and synthetic steroid estrogens in crude sewage and activated sludge batch studies.

    Rachel L. Gomes;Mark D. Scrimshaw;John N. Lester

  • Steroid hormones in the aquatic environment.

    J.O. Ojoghoro;M.D. Scrimshaw;J.P. Sumpter

  • Performance of UK wastewater treatment works with respect to trace contaminants

    Mike Gardner;Vera Jones;Sean Comber;Mark D. Scrimshaw

Frequent Co-Authors

John N. Lester
John N. Lester Cranfield University
Elise Cartmell
Elise Cartmell Cranfield University
Nikolaos Voulvoulis
Nikolaos Voulvoulis Imperial College London
Sean Comber
Sean Comber Plymouth State University
Henner Hollert
Henner Hollert Goethe University Frankfurt
Simon J. T. Pollard
Simon J. T. Pollard Cranfield University
Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
Thomas Backhaus
Thomas Backhaus University of Gothenburg
Gisela de Aragão Umbuzeiro
Gisela de Aragão Umbuzeiro State University of Campinas
Rolf Altenburger
Rolf Altenburger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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