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Overview

Thomas A. Edge is affiliated with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Canada. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

Their work concentrates on topics including fecal contamination and water quality, water treatment and disinfection, microbial community ecology and physiology, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, wastewater treatment and reuse, marine and coastal ecosystems, and environmental justice and health disparities.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Thomas A. Edge include Herb E. Schellhorn, Faizan Saleem, Enze Li, Kevin L. Tran, and Jennifer L. Jiang. The scientist's publications appear regularly in venues such as the Journal of Great Lakes Research, Toxins, Water, Processes, and Microorganisms.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Thomas A. Edge are:

  • Microbial source tracking to identify fecal sources contaminating the Toronto Harbour and Don River watershed in wet and dry weather, 2020, Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Biological Indicators for Fecal Pollution Detection and Source Tracking: A Review, 2021, Processes
  • Cyanobacterial Algal Bloom Monitoring: Molecular Methods and Technologies for Freshwater Ecosystems, 2023, Microorganisms
  • Spatio-temporal connectivity of the aquatic microbiome associated with cyanobacterial blooms along a Great Lake riverine-lacustrine continuum, 2023, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Same-day Enterococcus qPCR results of recreational water quality at two Toronto beaches provide added public health protection and reduced beach days lost, 2023, Canadian Journal of Public Health

Best Publications

  • Seasonal relationships among indicator bacteria, pathogenic bacteria, Cryptosporidium oocysts, Giardia cysts, and hydrological indices for surface waters within an agricultural landscape.

    Graham Wilkes;Thomas Edge;Victor Gannon;Cassandra Jokinen

  • Quo vadis source tracking? Towards a strategic framework for environmental monitoring of fecal pollution.

    Jorge W. Santo Domingo;Dustin G. Bambic;Thomas A. Edge;Stefan Wuertz

  • Phylogenetic Diversity and Molecular Detection of Bacteria in Gull Feces

    Jingrang Lu;Jorge W. Santo Domingo;Regina Lamendella;Thomas Edge

  • Vulnerability of waterborne diseases to climate change in Canada: a review.

    Dominique Charron;M Thomas;David Waltner-Toews;Jeffery Aramini

  • Associations among pathogenic bacteria, parasites, and environmental and land use factors in multiple mixed-use watersheds.

    G. Wilkes;T.A. Edge;V.P.J. Gannon;C. Jokinen

  • Distribution and characteristics of Listeria monocytogenes isolates from surface waters of the South Nation River watershed, Ontario, Canada.

    Emilie Lyautey;Emilie Lyautey;David R. Lapen;Graham Wilkes;Katherine McCleary

  • Microbes in beach sands: integrating environment, ecology and public health

    Richard L. Whitman;Valerie J. Harwood;Thomas A. Edge;Meredith B. Nevers

  • Occurrence of virulence and antimicrobial resistance genes in Escherichia coli isolates from different aquatic ecosystems within the St. Clair River and Detroit River areas.

    Katia Hamelin;Katia Hamelin;Guillaume Bruant;Abdel El-Shaarawi;Stephen Hill

  • Multiple lines of evidence to identify the sources of fecal pollution at a freshwater beach in Hamilton Harbour, Lake Ontario

    Thomas A. Edge;Stephen Hill

  • Faecal indicator bacteria enumeration in beach sand: a comparison study of extraction methods in medium to coarse sands

    A.B. Boehm;J. Griffith;C. McGee;T.A. Edge

  • Tracking host sources of Cryptosporidium spp. in raw water for improved health risk assessment.

    Norma J. Ruecker;Shannon L. Braithwaite;Edward Topp;Thomas Edge

  • Beach sand and the potential for infectious disease transmission: observations and recommendations

    Helena M. Solo-Gabriele;Valerie J. Harwood;David Kay;Roger S. Fujioka

  • Occurrence of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli from surface waters and fecal pollution sources near Hamilton, Ontario.

    Thomas A Edge;Stephen Hill

  • Development of a rapid quantitative PCR assay for direct detection and quantification of culturable and non-culturable Escherichia coli from agriculture watersheds.

    Izhar U.H. Khan;Vic Gannon;Rob Kent;Wendell Koning

  • Distribution and Diversity of Escherichia coli Populations in the South Nation River Drainage Basin, Eastern Ontario, Canada

    Emilie Lyautey;Zexun Lu;David R. Lapen;Graham Wilkes

  • Characteristics and frequency of detection of fecal Listeria monocytogenes shed by livestock, wildlife, and humans

    Emilie LyauteyE. Lyautey;Alain HartmannA. Hartmann;Franco PagottoF. Pagotto;Kevin TylerK. Tyler

  • Global Distribution of Human-Associated Fecal Genetic Markers in Reference Samples from Six Continents

    René E. Mayer;Georg H. Reischer;Georg H. Reischer;Simone K. Ixenmaier;Julia Derx

  • Biological Indicators for Fecal Pollution Detection and Source Tracking: A Review

    Enze Li;Faizan Saleem;Thomas A. Edge;Herb E. Schellhorn

  • Evidence of Naturalized Stress-Tolerant Strains of Escherichia coli in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants

    Shuai Zhi;Graham Banting;Qiaozhi Li;Thomas A. Edge

  • Microbial Diversity and Host-Specific Sequences of Canada Goose Feces

    Jingrang Lu;Jorge W. Santo Domingo;Stephen Hill;Thomas A. Edge

  • Multiple lines of evidence to identify the sources of fecal pollution at a freshwater beach in Hamilton Harbour

    Thomas A. Edge;Stephen Hill

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward Topp
Edward Topp Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
David R. Lapen
David R. Lapen Government of Canada
Richard L. Whitman
Richard L. Whitman United States Geological Survey
Helena M. Solo-Gabriele
Helena M. Solo-Gabriele University of Miami
Alexandria B. Boehm
Alexandria B. Boehm Stanford University
Jorge W. Santo Domingo
Jorge W. Santo Domingo Environmental Protection Agency
Michael J. Sadowsky
Michael J. Sadowsky University of Minnesota
Valerie J. Harwood
Valerie J. Harwood University of South Florida
Roland Brousseau
Roland Brousseau National Research Council Canada
Warish Ahmed
Warish Ahmed Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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