Publications

Manuscripts

West, J., Paulson, E. T., Adams, H. M., Choy, C. A., Schartup, A. T. Dimethylmercury persistence reshapes the marine mercury cycle. Manuscript under review at Nature Geoscience.

Adams, H. M., West, J., Paulson, E. T., Lamborg, C. H., Schartup, A. T. Improving Dimethylmercury Measurements in Seawater. Manuscript under review at Limnology and Oceanography: Methods.

Sephus, C. D., West, J., Bowman, J. S., Klempay, B., Doran, P. T., Ingall, E. D., Paris, E. R., Akonde, P., Birminghamn, M., Buessecker, S., Fisher, L. A., Odenheimer, A., Plattner, T. A., Pozarycki, C., Quartini, E., Skrabal, S., Som, S. M., Weber, J. M., Weng, M, M., Schmidt, B. E., Schartup, A. T. Mercury reduction predominates in poly-extreme hypersaline lakes and reveals novel Hg-transforming lineages with multi-metal resistance. Manuscript under review at Environmental Science & Technology.

Ovbiebo, R., West, J., Adams, H. M., Kuang, Z., Yeboah, G. A., Magu, E., Omand, M., Arbic, B. K., Lamborg, C., Schartup, A. T. A field deployable method for measuring picomolar mercury levels in natural waters. Manuscript under review at Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. Preprint available

Peer-reviewed articles

Youssef, A. N., Janssen, S. E., Lamborg, C., Tate, M. T., Despins, M., Doting, E. L., Poulin, B. A., McCabe, D., Hopf, L. M., Kocik, E. M., Doroshow, A., Lamarche-Gagnon, G., Delaney, I., Gevers, M., Hatton, J., Kubler-Dudgeon, I., Murphy, J. G., Schartup, A. T., Stibal, M., West, J., & Hawkings, J. Mercury mobilization and export from the Greenland Ice Sheet using an ice-to-ocean approach. Communications Earth & Environment. Accepted.

Gindorf, S., West, J., Graham, A. M., & Jonsson, S. (2025). Environmental drivers of monomethylmercury photodegradation along the land-to-ocean aquatic continuum. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 27, 401–411.

West, J., Babi, D., Azaroff, A., & Jonsson, S. (2023). Dimethylmercury in natural waters—analytical and experimental considerations. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 21, 837–846.

West, J., Gindorf, S., & Jonsson, S. (2022). Photochemical degradation of dimethylmercury in natural waters. Environmental Science & Technology, 56, 5920–5928.

Norström, E., West, J., Kouli, K., Katrantsiotis, C., Hättestrand, M., & Smittenberg, R. H. (2021). Evaluation of anhydrosugars as a molecular proxy for paleofire activity: A case study on a Holocene sediment core from Agios Floros, Peloponnese, Greece. Organic Geochemistry, 153, 104193.

West, J., Graham, A. M., Liem-Nguyen, V., & Jonsson, S. (2020). Dimethylmercury degradation by dissolved sulfide and mackinawite. Environmental Science & Technology, 54, 13731–13738.

Dissertation

West, J. (2022). Degradation Pathways of Dimethylmercury in Natural Waters. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University.