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Pilar Fernández is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain, with a primary focus on Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, Pollution, Plant Science, and Parasitology.

Fernández's work covers multiple topics such as Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Vector-borne Infectious Diseases, Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies, Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity, and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts.

Publications by Pilar Fernández have appeared predominantly in the journal The Science of The Total Environment, contributing four papers there. Other publication venues include BMC Public Health, Atmosphere, Journal of Chromatography Open, and Chemosphere.

Their recent papers include:

  • Atmospheric deposition of semivolatile organic pollutants in European high mountains: Sources, settling and chemical degradation, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Integrating tick density and park visitor behaviors to assess the risk of tick exposure in urban parks on Staten Island, New York, 2022, BMC Public Health
  • Source Apportionment and Toxicity of PM in Urban, Sub-Urban, and Rural Air Quality Network Stations in Catalonia, 2021, Atmosphere
  • Field comparison of passive polyurethane foam and active air sampling techniques for analysis of gas-phase semi-volatile organic compounds at a remote high-mountain site, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Occurrence and temperature dependence of atmospheric gas-phase organophosphate esters in high-mountain areas (Pyrenees), 2021, Chemosphere

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Pilar Fernández include Joan O. Grimalt, Barend L. van Drooge, Raimon M. Prats, Maria A. Diuk-Wasser, and Iohanna Filippi.

Best Publications

  • Assessment of fecal sterols and ketones as indicators of urban sewage inputs to coastal waters

    Joan O. Grimalt;Pilar Fernandez;Josep M. Bayona;Joan Albaiges

  • What’s in the Pool? A Comprehensive Identification of Disinfection By-Products and Assessment of Mutagenicity of Chlorinated and Brominated Swimming Pool Water

    Susan D. Richardson;David M. DeMarini;Manolis Kogevinas;Pilar Fernandez

  • The Historical Record of Atmospheric Pyrolytic Pollution over Europe Registered in the Sedimentary PAH from Remote Mountain Lakes

    Pilar Fernández;Rosa M. Vilanova;Carolina Martínez;Peter Appleby

  • Selective trapping of organochlorine compounds in mountain lakes of temperate areas.

    Joan O. Grimalt;Pilar Fernandez;Lourdes Berdie;Rosa M. Vilanova

  • Persistent organic pollutants in snow from European high mountain areas

    Guillem Carrera;Pilar Fernández;Rosa M Vilanova;Joan O Grimalt

  • Atmospheric gas-particle partitioning of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in high mountain regions of Europe.

    Pilar Fernandez;Joan O. Grimalt;Rosa M. Vilanova

  • Persistent organochlorine compounds in soils and sediments of European high altitude mountain lakes

    Joan O. Grimalt;Barend L. van Drooge;Alejandra Ribes;Rosa M. Vilanova

  • Sediment Fluxes of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in European High Altitude Mountain Lakes

    Pilar Fernández;Rosa M. Vilanova;Joan O. Grimalt

  • Bioassay-Directed Chemical Analysis of Genotoxic Components in Coastal Sediments

    Pilar Fernandez;Magda Grifoll;Anna Maria Solanas;Josep Maria Bayona

  • Genotoxic effects in swimmers exposed to disinfection by-products in indoor swimming pools.

    Manolis Kogevinas;Cristina M. Villanueva;Laia Font-Ribera;Danae Liviac

  • Atmospheric deposition of organochlorine compounds to remote high mountain lakes of Europe

    Guillem Carrera;Pilar Fernandez;Joan O. Grimalt;Marc Ventura

  • On the Global distribution of persistent organic pollutants

    Pilar Fernandez;Joan O. Grimalt

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon composition in soils and sediments of high altitude lakes.

    Joan O Grimalt;Barend L van Drooge;Alejandra Ribes;Pilar Fernández

  • Short-term changes in respiratory biomarkers after swimming in a chlorinated pool.

    Laia Font-Ribera;Manolis Kogevinas;Jan-Paul Zock;Federico P. Gómez

  • Differences in cytochrome P450 enzyme activities between fish and crustacea: relationship with the bioaccumulation patterns of polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs)

    Samuel Koenig;Pilar Fernández;Montserrat Solé

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in fish from remote and high mountain lakes in Europe and Greenland.

    I Vives;J O Grimalt;P Fernández;B Rosseland

  • Mercury and Organochlorine Contamination in Brown Trout ( Salmo Trutta ) and Arctic Charr ( Salvelinus Alpinus ) from High Mountain Lakes in Europe and the Svalbard Archipelago

    S. Rognerud;J. O. Grimalt;B. O. Rosseland;P. Fernandez

  • Trihalomethanes in chlorine and bromine disinfected swimming pools: air-water distributions and human exposure.

    Carolina Lourencetti;Joan O. Grimalt;Esther Marco;Pilar Fernandez

  • Factors governing the atmospheric deposition of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to remote areas.

    Pilar Fernandez;Guillem Carrera;Joan O. Grimalt;Marc Ventura

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in remote mountain lake waters.

    Rosa M. Vilanova;Pilar Fernández;Carolina Martı́nez;Joan O. Grimalt

Frequent Co-Authors

Joan O. Grimalt
Joan O. Grimalt Spanish National Research Council
Jordi Catalan
Jordi Catalan Spanish National Research Council
Lluís Camarero
Lluís Camarero Spanish National Research Council
Neil L. Rose
Neil L. Rose University College London
Peter G. Appleby
Peter G. Appleby University of Liverpool
Manolis Kogevinas
Manolis Kogevinas Pompeu Fabra University
Joan Albaigés
Joan Albaigés Spanish National Research Council
Benjamin Piña
Benjamin Piña Spanish National Research Council
Ricardo Barra
Ricardo Barra University of Concepción
Cinta Porte
Cinta Porte Spanish National Research Council

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