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Michèle Prévost

Michèle Prévost

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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
62
Citations
13091
World Ranking
2621
National Ranking
112

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Michèle Prévost is affiliated with Polytechnique Montréal in Canada and has an extensive research profile in environmental science and related disciplines. Their work encompasses key domains such as Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Endocrinology, Water Science and Technology, Molecular Biology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of critical areas connected to water quality and ecosystems. Major themes in their work include:

  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Legionella and Acanthamoeba research
  • Fecal contamination and water quality
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Prévost has contributed to notable scientific journals and publication venues. The most frequent outlets for their publications are:

  • Water Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Toxins
  • Water
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Prévost demonstrate an emphasis on water quality, pathogen research, and contaminant monitoring. Selected titles include:

  • "Considerations for large building water quality after extended stagnation," 2020, AWWA Water Science
  • "Tenets of a holistic approach to drinking water-associated pathogen research, management, and communication," 2021, Water Research
  • "Assessment of automated off-line solid-phase extraction LC-MS/MS to monitor EPA priority endocrine disruptors in tap water, surface water, and wastewater," 2022, Talanta
  • "Unravelling the importance of the eukaryotic and bacterial communities and their relationship with Legionella spp. ecology in cooling towers: a complex network," 2020, Microbiome
  • "Occurrence and seasonal distribution of steroid hormones and bisphenol A in surface waters and suspended sediments of Quebec, Canada," 2022, Environmental Advances

Collaboration is a noteworthy aspect of their career, with frequent co-authors including Émilie Bédard, Sarah Dorner, Sébastien Sauvé, Sébastien P. Faucher, and Hana Trigui.

Best Publications

  • LIVE/DEAD® BacLight™: application of a new rapid staining method for direct enumeration of viable and total bacteria in drinking water

    Lina Boulos;Michèle Prévost;Benoit Barbeau;Josée Coallier

  • Ozone oxidation of pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors and pesticides during drinking water treatment.

    R. Broséus;S. Vincent;K. Aboulfadl;A. Daneshvar

  • A prospective epidemiological study of gastrointestinal health effects due to the consumption of drinking water

    Pierre Payment;Jack Siemiatycki;Lesley Richardson;Gilles Renaud

  • Kinetic and thermodynamic aspects of adsorption of arsenic onto granular ferric hydroxide (GFH).

    Kashi Banerjee;Gary L. Amy;Michele Prevost;Shokoufeh Nour

  • Toxic cyanobacterial breakthrough and accumulation in a drinking water plant: a monitoring and treatment challenge.

    Arash Zamyadi;Sherri L MacLeod;Yan Fan;Natasha McQuaid

  • Assessing the public health risk of microbial intrusion events in distribution systems: Conceptual model, available data, and challenges

    Marie-Claude Besner;Michèle Prévost;Stig Regli

  • Impact of temperature on nitrification in biological activated carbon (BAC) filters used for drinking water treatment

    Anneli Andersson;Patrick Laurent;Anne Kihn;Michèle Prévost

  • Evaluating pharmaceuticals and caffeine as indicators of fecal contamination in drinking water sources of the Greater Montreal region

    Atlasi Daneshvar;Khadija Aboulfadl;Liza Viglino;Romain Broséus

  • Analysis of natural and synthetic estrogenic endocrine disruptors in environmental waters using online preconcentration coupled with LC-APPI-MS/MS.

    L. Viglino;K. Aboulfadl;K. Aboulfadl;M. Prévost;S. Sauvé

  • Oxidation of Microcystis aeruginosa and Anabaena flos-aquae by ozone: Impacts on cell integrity and chlorination by-product formation

    Lucila A Coral;Arash Zamyadi;Benoit Barbeau;Fatima J Bassetti

  • Occurrence of pathogenic microorganisms in the Saint Lawrence River (Canada) and comparison of health risks for populations using it as their source of drinking water.

    Pierre Payment;Aminata Berte;Michèle Prévost;Bruno Ménard

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa in premise plumbing of large buildings

    Emilie Bédard;Emilie Bédard;Michèle Prévost;Eric Déziel

  • Fecal coliforms, caffeine and carbamazepine in stormwater collection systems in a large urban area.

    Sébastien Sauvé;Khadija Aboulfadl;Sarah Dorner;Pierre Payment

  • Use of in vivo phycocyanin fluorescence to monitor potential microcystin-producing cyanobacterial biovolume in a drinking water source.

    N. McQuaid;A. Zamyadi;M. Prévost;D. F. Bird

  • Temporal variability of combined sewer overflow contaminants: evaluation of wastewater micropollutants as tracers of fecal contamination.

    Anne-Sophie Madoux-Humery;Sarah Dorner;Sébastien Sauvé;Khadija Aboulfadl

  • Seasonal variations in the occurrence and fate of basic and neutral pharmaceuticals in a Swedish river-lake system.

    Atlasi Daneshvar;Jesper Svanfelt;Leif Kronberg;Michèle Prévost

  • Evaluating bacterial aerobic spores as a surrogate for Giardia and Cryptosporidium inactivation by ozone.

    Nathalie Facile;Benoit Barbeau;Michèle Prévost;Boniface Koudjonou

  • Fate of toxic cyanobacterial cells and disinfection by-products formation after chlorination.

    Arash Zamyadi;Lionel Ho;Gayle Newcombe;Heriberto Bustamante

  • Source and occurrence of particulate lead in tap water.

    Elise Deshommes;Laurent Laroche;Shokoufeh Nour;Clément Cartier

  • On-line solid-phase extraction of large-volume injections coupled to liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for the quantitation and confirmation of 14 selected trace organic contaminants in drinking and surface water.

    Araceli Garcia-Ac;Pedro A. Segura;Liza Viglino;Alexandra Fürtös

Frequent Co-Authors

Sébastien Sauvé
Sébastien Sauvé University of Montreal
Benoit Barbeau
Benoit Barbeau Polytechnique Montréal
Pierre Servais
Pierre Servais Université Libre de Bruxelles
Pierre Payment
Pierre Payment Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Eric Déziel
Eric Déziel Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Marc Edwards
Marc Edwards Virginia Tech
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University
Gertjan Medema
Gertjan Medema Michigan State University
Charles W. Greer
Charles W. Greer National Research Council Canada
Graham A. Gagnon
Graham A. Gagnon Dalhousie University

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