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Steve E. Hrudey

Steve E. Hrudey

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
64
Citations
13618
World Ranking
2342
National Ranking
95

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Steve E. Hrudey is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Infectious Diseases. They have published prominently in subfields such as Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, including:

  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Among recent papers involving or authored by Steve E. Hrudey are:

  • "Comparison of approaches to quantify SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater using RT-qPCR: Results and implications from a collaborative inter-laboratory study in Canada" (2021), published in Journal of Environmental Sciences
  • "COVID-19: urgent actions, critical reflections and future relevance of 'WaSH': lessons for the current and future pandemics" (2020), published in Journal of Water and Health
  • "Wastewater-based surveillance as a tool for public health action: SARS-CoV-2 and beyond" (2023), published in Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  • "Does normalization of SARS-CoV-2 concentrations by Pepper Mild Mottle Virus improve correlations and lead time between wastewater surveillance and clinical data in Alberta (Canada): comparing twelve SARS-CoV-2 normalization approaches" (2022), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Ethics Guidance for Environmental Scientists Engaged in Surveillance of Wastewater for SARS-CoV-2" (2021), published in Environmental Science & Technology

Steve E. Hrudey has collaborated frequently with a core group of coauthors, including:

  • Xiaoli Pang
  • Bonita E. Lee
  • Casey R. J. Hubert
  • Michael D. Parkins
  • Kevin J. Frankowski

Their research appears consistently in several key publication venues, such as:

  • Journal of Environmental Sciences
  • Journal of Water and Health
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

In addition to journal articles, Steve E. Hrudey has authored a book published by The Groundwater Project eBooks titled "Public Health Risk Assessment and Risk Management for Safe Drinking Water" (2024).

The scientist has been recognized with awards including Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada in 2006 and membership in The Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Best Publications

  • Chlorination disinfection by-products, public health risk tradeoffs and me.

    Steve E. Hrudey

  • A fatal waterborne disease epidemic in Walkerton, Ontario: comparison with other waterborne outbreaks in the developed world.

    S.E. Hrudey;P. Payment;P.M. Huck;R.W. Gillham

  • Socioeconomic Determinants of Health‐ and Food Safety‐Related Risk Perceptions

    Donna M. Dosman;Wiktor L. Adamowicz;Steve E. Hrudey

  • Potential carcinogenic hazards of non-regulated disinfection by-products: Haloquinones, halo-cyclopentene and cyclohexene derivatives, N-halamines, halonitriles, and heterocyclic amines

    Richard J. Bull;David A. Reckhow;Xingfang Li;Andrew R. Humpage

  • Safe Drinking Water: Lessons from Recent Outbreaks in Affluent Nations

    Steve E. Hrudey;Elizabeth J. Hrudey

  • Adsorption of microcystin-LR by activated carbon and removal in full scale water treatment

    Timothy W Lambert;Charles F.B Holmes;Steve E Hrudey

  • Characterization of New Nitrosamines in Drinking Water Using Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry

    Yuan-Yuan Zhao;Jessica Boyd;Steve E Hrudey;Xing-Fang Li

  • VARIABILITY OF THE HEPATOTOXIN MICROCYSTIN‐LR IN HYPEREUTROPHIC DRINKING WATER LAKES1

    Brian G. Kotak;Angeline K-Y. Lam;Ellie E. Prepas;Sandra L. Kenefick

  • The effects of phenol and some alkyl phenolics on batch anaerobic methanogenesis

    Phillip M. Fedorak;Steve E. Hrudey

  • Detecting N-Nitrosamines in Drinking Water at Nanogram per Liter Levels Using Ammonia Positive Chemical Ionization

    Jeffrey W A Charrois;Markus W Arend;Kenneth L Froese;Steve E Hrudey

  • Chemical control of hepatotoxic phytoplankton blooms: Implications for human health

    Angeline K.-Y. Lam;Ellie E. Prepas;David Spink;Steve E. Hrudey

  • Risk management for assuring safe drinking water.

    Steve E. Hrudey;Elizabeth J. Hrudey;Simon J.T. Pollard

  • A simple apparatus for measuring gas production by methanogenic cultures in serum bottles

    Phillip M. Fedorah;Steve E. Hrudey

  • Occurrence and toxicological evaluation of cyanobacterial toxins in Alberta lakes and farm dugouts

    Brian G. Kotak;Sandra L. Kenefick;David L. Fritz;Colin G. Rousseaux

  • Formation of N-nitrosamines from eleven disinfection treatments of seven different surface waters.

    Yuan-Yuan Zhao;Jessica M. Boyd;Matthew Woodbeck;Robert C. Andrews

  • Occurrence and formation of chloro- and bromo-benzoquinones during drinking water disinfection.

    Yuli Zhao;Janna Anichina;Xiufen Lu;Richard J. Bull

  • Role of chemical and physical variables in regulating microcystin-LR concentration in phytoplankton of eutrophic lakes

    Brian G. Kotak;Angeline K.-Y. Lam;Ellie E. Prepas;Steve E. Hrudey

  • Hepatic and renal pathology of intraperitoneally administered microcystin-LR in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).

    Brian G. Kotak;Souleh Semalulu;David L. Fritz;Ellie E. Prepas

  • Risk Management Frameworks for Human Health and Environmental Risks

    Cindy Jardine;Steve Hrudey;John Shortreed;Lorraine Craig

  • Breakpoint chlorination and free-chlorine contact time: Implications for drinking water N-nitrosodimethylamine concentrations

    Jeffrey W.A. Charrois;Steve E. Hrudey

  • Physiological toxicity, cell membrane damage and the release of dissolved organic carbon and geosmin by Aphanizomenon flos-aquae after exposure to water treatment chemicals

    Hans G. Peterson;Steve E. Hrudey;Ilene A. Cantin;Terrina R. Perley

Frequent Co-Authors

Xing-Fang Li
Xing-Fang Li University of Alberta
Simon J. T. Pollard
Simon J. T. Pollard Cranfield University
Phillip M. Fedorak
Phillip M. Fedorak University of Alberta
Ellie E. Prepas
Ellie E. Prepas Lakehead University
Charles F. B. Holmes
Charles F. B. Holmes University of Alberta
Stuart W. Krasner
Stuart W. Krasner Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Murray R. Gray
Murray R. Gray University of Alberta
Peter M. Huck
Peter M. Huck University of Waterloo
Jamie Bartram
Jamie Bartram University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Wiktor L. Adamowicz
Wiktor L. Adamowicz University of Alberta

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