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Thorjørn Larssen is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute for Water Research in Norway. Their research primarily centers around environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental chemistry, industrial and manufacturing engineering, atmospheric science, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their work covers several key research topics including:

  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Groundwater and isotope geochemistry
  • Aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics
  • Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment
  • Water quality and pollution assessment
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Heavy metal exposure and toxicity

Thorjørn Larssen has published research in a number of notable scientific journals. Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Eco-Environment & Health
  • National Science Review
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Thorjørn Larssen include:

  • Improvement in municipal wastewater treatment alters lake nitrogen to phosphorus ratios in populated regions, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Decreasing mercury levels in consumer fish over the three decades of increasing mercury emissions in China, 2022, Eco-Environment & Health
  • A probe into the acid deposition mitigation path in China over the last four decades and beyond, 2024, National Science Review
  • How Can the Scope of a New Global Legally Binding Agreement on Plastic Pollution to Facilitate an Efficient Negotiation Be Clearly Defined?, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Critical loads of headwater streams in China using SSWC model modified by comprehensive F-factor, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Collaboration plays a significant role in their research activities. Frequent co-authors include Lei Duan, Danni Xie, Bin Zhao, Yan Lin, and Xiaodong Ge, reflecting recurring professional partnerships across multiple studies.

Best Publications

  • First Report of a Chinese PFOS Alternative Overlooked for 30 Years: Its Toxicity, Persistence, and Presence in the Environment

    Siwen Wang;Jun Huang;Yang Yang;Yamei Hui

  • In inland China, rice, rather than fish, is the major pathway for methylmercury exposure.

    Hua Zhang;Xinbin Feng;Thorjørn Larssen;Guangle Qiu

  • Acid rain in China.

    Thorjorn Larssen;Espen Lydersen;Dagang Tang;Yi He

  • Forecasting acidification effects using a Bayesian calibration and uncertainty propagation approach.

    Thorjørn Larssen;Ragnar B. Huseby;Bernard J. Cosby;Gudmund Høst

  • Acid rain and acidification in China: the importance of base cation deposition

    T. Larssen;G.R. Carmichael

  • Decline in Chinese lake phosphorus concentration accompanied by shift in sources since 2006

    Yindong Tong;Wei Zhang;Xuejun Wang;Raoul-Marie Couture;Raoul-Marie Couture

  • Bioaccumulation of Methylmercury versus Inorganic Mercury in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Grain

    Hua Zhang;Xinbin Feng;Thorjørn Larssen;Lihai Shang

  • Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in river and ground/drinking water of the Ganges River basin: Emissions and implications for human exposure.

    Brij Mohan Sharma;Girija K. Bharat;Shresth Tayal;Thorjørn Larssen

  • Pesticide levels and environmental risk in aquatic environments in China--A review.

    Merete Grung;Yan Lin;Hua Zhang;Anne Orderdalen Steen

  • Atmospheric mercury inputs in montane soils increase with elevation: evidence from mercury isotope signatures

    Hua Zhang;Run-sheng Yin;Xin-bin Feng;Jonas Sommar

  • Acid deposition in Asia: Emissions, deposition, and ecosystem effects

    Lei Duan;Qian Yu;Qiang Zhang;Zifa Wang

  • Acid deposition and its effects in China: an overview

    Thorjørn Larssen;Hans Martin Seip;Arne Semb;Jan Mulder

  • Soil acidification in China: is controlling SO2 emissions enough?

    Yu Zhao;Lei Duan;Jia Xing;Thorjorn Larssen

  • Sulphate, Nitrogen and Base Cation Budgets at 21 Forested Catchments in Canada, the United States and Europe

    Shaun A. Watmough;Julian Aherne;Christine Alewell;Paul Arp

  • Contents of cadmium, copper, mercury and lead in fish from the Neretva river (Bosnia and Herzegovina) determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)

    Jasmina Djedjibegovic;Thorjørn Larssen;Thorjørn Larssen;Armin Skrbo;Aleksandra Marjanović

  • Improvement in municipal wastewater treatment alters lake nitrogen to phosphorus ratios in populated regions

    Yindong Tong;Mengzhu Wang;Josep Peñuelas;Xueyan Liu

  • Selenium in soil inhibits mercury uptake and translocation in rice (Oryza sativa L.).

    Hua Zhang;Xinbin Feng;Jianming Zhu;Atindra Sapkota

  • Environment and human exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in India: A systematic review of recent and historical data

    Brij Mohan Sharma;Girija K. Bharat;Shresth Tayal;Luca Nizzetto

  • Air concentrations and wet deposition of major inorganic ions at five non-urban sites in China, 2001–2003

    Wenche Aas;Min Shao;Lei Jin;Thorjørn Larssen

  • Recovery of Acidified European Surface Waters

    Richard F. Wright;Thorjørn Larssen;Lluis Camarero;Bernard J. Cosby

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf D. Vogt
Rolf D. Vogt Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Hans Martin Seip
Hans Martin Seip University of Oslo
Xinbin Feng
Xinbin Feng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Luca Nizzetto
Luca Nizzetto Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Jan Mulder
Jan Mulder Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Richard F. Wright
Richard F. Wright Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Bernard J. Cosby
Bernard J. Cosby University of Virginia
Hua Zhang
Hua Zhang City University of Hong Kong
Shuxiao Wang
Shuxiao Wang Tsinghua University
Jiming Hao
Jiming Hao Tsinghua University

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