Peer-reviewed publications
Also available on ResearchGate
Published
16. Nordseth EA,§ Gerson JR,§ Aguilar LK, Dunham A, Gentles A, Neale Z, and Rebol E. In press. The Fieldwork Wellness Framework: A new approach to field research in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
§ co-first authors
15. Estien CO, Chapman M, Schell CJ, Lowy N, and Gerson JR. 2022. Demystifying the graduate school application process. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. DOI: 10.1002/bes2.2029
14. Gerson JR, Szponar N, Almeyda Zambrano A, Bergquist B, Broadbent E, Driscoll CT, Erkenswick G, Evers DC, Fernandez LE, Hsu-Kim H, Inga G, Lansdale K*, Marchese MJ*, Martinez A, Moore C, Pan W, Silman M, Ury EA, Vega C, Watsa M, and Bernhardt ES. 2022. Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining. Nature Communications 13(559). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-27997-3
available in English and Spanish; covered by news outlets including The New York Times, BBC World News, Mongabay, and Science News
* undergraduate mentee
13. Naslund LC, Gerson JR, Brooks AC, Rosemond AD, Walters DM, and Bernhardt ES. 2021. Ecosystem modification and network position impact contaminant fluxes from a mountaintop mining-impacted river network. Environmental Pollution 291: 118257. DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118257
12. Jin L, Gerson JR, Rocca JD, Bernhardt ES, and Simonin M. 2021. Alkaline mine drainage drives stream sediment microbial community structure and function. Science of the Total Environment 805: 150189. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150189
11. Simonin M, Rocca JD, Gerson JR, Moore E, Brooks A, Czaplicki L, Ross MRV, Fierer N, Craine JM, and Bernhardt ES. 2021. Consistent declines in aquatic biodiversity across diverse domains of life in rivers impacted by surface coal mining. Ecological Applications. DOI: 10.1002/eap.2389
10. Gerson JR, Dorman R, Eagles-Smith CA, Bernhardt ES, and Walters DM. 2021. Lethal impacts of selenium counterbalance the potential reduction in mercury bioaccumulation for freshwater organisms. Environmental Pollution 287: 117293. DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117293
9. Gerson JR,§ Topp SN,§ Vega CM, Gardner JR, Yang X, Fernandez LE, Bernhardt ES, and Pavelsky T. 2020. Artificial lake expansion amplifies mercury pollution from gold mining. Science Advances. 6: eabd4953. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd4953
§ co-first authors
available in English and Spanish
8. Gerson JR, Walters DM, Eagles-Smith CA, Bernhardt ES, and Brandt JE. 2020. Do two wrongs make a right? Persistent uncertainties regarding environmental mercury-selenium interactions. Environmental Science and Technology Perspectives. 54(15): 9228-9234. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c01894
7. Gerson JR, Naslund LC*, Hsu-Kim H, Driscoll CT, Waters DM, and Bernhardt ES. 2020. Mercury and selenium loading in mountain-top mining impacted alkaline streams and riparian food webs. Biogeochemistry. 150(1): 109-122. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-020-00690-7
6. Naslund LC*, Gerson JR, Brooks AC, Walters DM, and Bernhardt ES. 2020. Contaminant subsidies to riparian food webs in Appalachian streams impacted by mountaintop removal coal mining. Environmental Science and Technology. 54(7): 3951-3959. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b05907
received the ACS Editors' Choice award
5. Gerson JR, Driscoll CT, Hsu-Kim H, and Bernhardt ES. 2018. Senegalese artisanal gold mining leads to elevated total and methylmercury concentrations in soils, sediments, and rivers. Elementa. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.274
available in English and French
4. Gerson JR, Driscoll CT, Demers JD, Sauer AK, Blackwell BD, Montesdeoca MR, Shanley JB, and Ross DS. 2017. Deposition of mercury in forests across a montane elevation gradient: Elevational and seasonal patterns in methylmercury inputs and production. JGR Biogeosciences. 1-18. DOI: 10.1002/2016JG003721
3. Gerson JR and Driscoll CT. 2016. Is mercury in a remote forested watershed of the Adirondack Mountains responding to recent decreases in emissions? Environmental Science and Technology, 50(20): 10943-10950. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02127
2. Gerson JR, Driscoll CT, and Roy KM. 2016. Patterns of nutrient dynamics in Adirondack lakes recovering from acid deposition. Ecological Applications, 26(6): 1758-1770. DOI: 10.1890/15-1361.1
1. Woods III E, Yi C, Gerson JR, and Zaman RA. 2012. Uptake of pyrene by NaCl, NaNO3, and MgCl2 aerosol particles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 116.15: 4137-4143. DOI: 10.1021/jp3014145
In Review
Chen A*, Danfakha F, Hausermann H, and Gerson JR. In review. Education and equipment distribution lead to increased mercury knowledge and retort use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining communities in Senegal. Environmental Health Perspectives.
Gerson JR, O’Connell CS, Gutierrez del Arroyo O, Hall SJ, Kidinda LK, and Silver WL. In review. Depth dynamics and dynamic depths in tropical forest biogeochemistry. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.
Sayers C, Evers DC, Ruiz-Gutierrez V, Adams E, Vega CM, Pisconte J, Tejeda V, Regan K, Lane OP, Tear TH, Ash AA, Cal R, Reneau S, Martínez W, Welch G, Hartwell K, Teul M, Tzul D, Arendt W, Tórrez MA, Watsa M, Erkenswick G, Moore CE, Gerson JR, Sánchez V, Pérez Purizaca R, Martínez AE, Bernhardt ES, Taylor RJ, and Fernandez LE. In review. Mercury exposure in Neotropical birds: A review and prospectus. Ecological Monographs.
Waters MN, Bernhardt ES, and Gerson JR. In review. The impacts of dam construction on elemental deposition in a mountaintop coal mining watershed. Environmental Earth Sciences.
Published Datasets
3. Gerson JR, Szponar N, Agostini A*, Alotaibi R*, Bergquist B, Chen A*, Fernandez LE, Lansdale KN*, Lee AH*, Machicao MF*, Marchese MJ*, Topp SN, Vega C, and Bernhardt ES. 2022. Chemistry of surface water, precipitation, throughfall, leaves, sediment, soil, and air near artisanal gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru. Ecology Data Papers.
2. Gerson JR, Walters DM, Eagles-Smith CA, and Dorman RA. 2021. Survival, growth, behavior and mercury concentrations of mayflies exposed to elevated dietary methylmercury and aqueous selenium. U. S. Geological Survey Data Release. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9WFOU5L.
1. Gerson JR, Moore E, Naslund L*, Rocca J, and Simonin M. 2020. Chemistry of streams draining mined and unmined watersheds in the mountaintop mined landscape of Central Appalachia, USA. Ecology Data Papers. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3093
Published
16. Nordseth EA,§ Gerson JR,§ Aguilar LK, Dunham A, Gentles A, Neale Z, and Rebol E. In press. The Fieldwork Wellness Framework: A new approach to field research in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
§ co-first authors
15. Estien CO, Chapman M, Schell CJ, Lowy N, and Gerson JR. 2022. Demystifying the graduate school application process. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. DOI: 10.1002/bes2.2029
14. Gerson JR, Szponar N, Almeyda Zambrano A, Bergquist B, Broadbent E, Driscoll CT, Erkenswick G, Evers DC, Fernandez LE, Hsu-Kim H, Inga G, Lansdale K*, Marchese MJ*, Martinez A, Moore C, Pan W, Silman M, Ury EA, Vega C, Watsa M, and Bernhardt ES. 2022. Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining. Nature Communications 13(559). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-27997-3
available in English and Spanish; covered by news outlets including The New York Times, BBC World News, Mongabay, and Science News
* undergraduate mentee
13. Naslund LC, Gerson JR, Brooks AC, Rosemond AD, Walters DM, and Bernhardt ES. 2021. Ecosystem modification and network position impact contaminant fluxes from a mountaintop mining-impacted river network. Environmental Pollution 291: 118257. DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118257
12. Jin L, Gerson JR, Rocca JD, Bernhardt ES, and Simonin M. 2021. Alkaline mine drainage drives stream sediment microbial community structure and function. Science of the Total Environment 805: 150189. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150189
11. Simonin M, Rocca JD, Gerson JR, Moore E, Brooks A, Czaplicki L, Ross MRV, Fierer N, Craine JM, and Bernhardt ES. 2021. Consistent declines in aquatic biodiversity across diverse domains of life in rivers impacted by surface coal mining. Ecological Applications. DOI: 10.1002/eap.2389
10. Gerson JR, Dorman R, Eagles-Smith CA, Bernhardt ES, and Walters DM. 2021. Lethal impacts of selenium counterbalance the potential reduction in mercury bioaccumulation for freshwater organisms. Environmental Pollution 287: 117293. DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117293
9. Gerson JR,§ Topp SN,§ Vega CM, Gardner JR, Yang X, Fernandez LE, Bernhardt ES, and Pavelsky T. 2020. Artificial lake expansion amplifies mercury pollution from gold mining. Science Advances. 6: eabd4953. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd4953
§ co-first authors
available in English and Spanish
8. Gerson JR, Walters DM, Eagles-Smith CA, Bernhardt ES, and Brandt JE. 2020. Do two wrongs make a right? Persistent uncertainties regarding environmental mercury-selenium interactions. Environmental Science and Technology Perspectives. 54(15): 9228-9234. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c01894
7. Gerson JR, Naslund LC*, Hsu-Kim H, Driscoll CT, Waters DM, and Bernhardt ES. 2020. Mercury and selenium loading in mountain-top mining impacted alkaline streams and riparian food webs. Biogeochemistry. 150(1): 109-122. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-020-00690-7
6. Naslund LC*, Gerson JR, Brooks AC, Walters DM, and Bernhardt ES. 2020. Contaminant subsidies to riparian food webs in Appalachian streams impacted by mountaintop removal coal mining. Environmental Science and Technology. 54(7): 3951-3959. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b05907
received the ACS Editors' Choice award
5. Gerson JR, Driscoll CT, Hsu-Kim H, and Bernhardt ES. 2018. Senegalese artisanal gold mining leads to elevated total and methylmercury concentrations in soils, sediments, and rivers. Elementa. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.274
available in English and French
4. Gerson JR, Driscoll CT, Demers JD, Sauer AK, Blackwell BD, Montesdeoca MR, Shanley JB, and Ross DS. 2017. Deposition of mercury in forests across a montane elevation gradient: Elevational and seasonal patterns in methylmercury inputs and production. JGR Biogeosciences. 1-18. DOI: 10.1002/2016JG003721
3. Gerson JR and Driscoll CT. 2016. Is mercury in a remote forested watershed of the Adirondack Mountains responding to recent decreases in emissions? Environmental Science and Technology, 50(20): 10943-10950. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02127
2. Gerson JR, Driscoll CT, and Roy KM. 2016. Patterns of nutrient dynamics in Adirondack lakes recovering from acid deposition. Ecological Applications, 26(6): 1758-1770. DOI: 10.1890/15-1361.1
1. Woods III E, Yi C, Gerson JR, and Zaman RA. 2012. Uptake of pyrene by NaCl, NaNO3, and MgCl2 aerosol particles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 116.15: 4137-4143. DOI: 10.1021/jp3014145
In Review
Chen A*, Danfakha F, Hausermann H, and Gerson JR. In review. Education and equipment distribution lead to increased mercury knowledge and retort use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining communities in Senegal. Environmental Health Perspectives.
Gerson JR, O’Connell CS, Gutierrez del Arroyo O, Hall SJ, Kidinda LK, and Silver WL. In review. Depth dynamics and dynamic depths in tropical forest biogeochemistry. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.
Sayers C, Evers DC, Ruiz-Gutierrez V, Adams E, Vega CM, Pisconte J, Tejeda V, Regan K, Lane OP, Tear TH, Ash AA, Cal R, Reneau S, Martínez W, Welch G, Hartwell K, Teul M, Tzul D, Arendt W, Tórrez MA, Watsa M, Erkenswick G, Moore CE, Gerson JR, Sánchez V, Pérez Purizaca R, Martínez AE, Bernhardt ES, Taylor RJ, and Fernandez LE. In review. Mercury exposure in Neotropical birds: A review and prospectus. Ecological Monographs.
Waters MN, Bernhardt ES, and Gerson JR. In review. The impacts of dam construction on elemental deposition in a mountaintop coal mining watershed. Environmental Earth Sciences.
Published Datasets
3. Gerson JR, Szponar N, Agostini A*, Alotaibi R*, Bergquist B, Chen A*, Fernandez LE, Lansdale KN*, Lee AH*, Machicao MF*, Marchese MJ*, Topp SN, Vega C, and Bernhardt ES. 2022. Chemistry of surface water, precipitation, throughfall, leaves, sediment, soil, and air near artisanal gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru. Ecology Data Papers.
2. Gerson JR, Walters DM, Eagles-Smith CA, and Dorman RA. 2021. Survival, growth, behavior and mercury concentrations of mayflies exposed to elevated dietary methylmercury and aqueous selenium. U. S. Geological Survey Data Release. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9WFOU5L.
1. Gerson JR, Moore E, Naslund L*, Rocca J, and Simonin M. 2020. Chemistry of streams draining mined and unmined watersheds in the mountaintop mined landscape of Central Appalachia, USA. Ecology Data Papers. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3093