Recent Publications
Saiz-Lopez et al., Role of the stratosphere in the global mercury cycle, Science Advances, 11, eads1459, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads1459, 2025
Breuninger, E. S., Tolu, J., Aemisegger, F., Thurnherr, I., Bouchet, S., Mestrot, A., Ossola, R., McNeill, K., Tukhmetova, D., Vogl, J., Meermann, B., Sonke, J. E., and Winkel, L. H. E.: Marine and terrestrial contributions to atmospheric deposition fluxes of methylated arsenic species, Nature Communications, 15, 9623, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53974-z, 2024.
Jeroen E. Sonke, Alkuin M Koenig, Théo Segur, Nadiia Yakovenko (2024) Global environmental plastics dispersal under OECD policy scenarios towards 2060. EarthArXiv preprint https://eartharxiv.org/repository/dashboard/6902/
Jeroen E. Sonke, Alkuin M Koenig, Nadiia Yakovenko, Oskar Hagelskjær, Henar Margenat, Sophia V. Hansson, Francois De Vleeschouwer, Olivier Magand, Gael Le Roux, Jennie L. Thomas. (2022) A mass budget and box model of global plastics cycling, degradation and dispersal in the land-ocean-atmosphere system. Microplastics & Nanoplastics https://doi.org/10.1186/s43591-022-00048-w
Médieu, A., Point, D., Sonke, J. E., Angot, H., …and Lorrain, A.: Stable Tuna Mercury Concentrations since 1971 Illustrate Marine Inertia and the Need for Strong Emission Reductions under the Minamata Convention, Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett., 11, 250–258, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00949, 2024.
Sonke, J. E., Angot, H., Zhang, Y., Poulain, A., Björn, E., and Schartup, A.: Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling, Ambio, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01855-y, 2023.
Torres-Rodriguez, N., Yuan, J., Petersen, S., Dufour, A., González-Santana, D., Chavagnac, V., Planquette, H., Horvat, M., Amouroux, D., Cathalot, C., Pelleter, E., Sun, R., Sonke, J. E., Luther, G. W., and Heimbürger-Boavida, L.-E.: Mercury fluxes from hydrothermal venting at mid-ocean ridges constrained by measurements, Nature Geoscience, 17, 51–57, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01341-w, 2024.
Zrelli, R. E., Yacoubi, L., Castet, S., Grégoire, M., Josse, C., Olive, J.-F., Courjault-Radé, P., Beek, P. van, Zambardi, T., Souhaut, M., Sonke, J. E., and Rabaoui, L.: (2023) PET plastics as a Trojan horse for radionuclides, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 129886, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129886
Araujo, B. F., Osterwalder, S., …Dommergue, A., and Sonke, J. E.: Mercury isotope evidence for Arctic summertime re-emission of mercury from the cryosphere, Nature Communications, 13, 4956, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32440-8, 2022.
Médieu Anaïs, Point David, Itai Takaaki, Angot Hélène, Buchanan Pearse J., Allain Valérie, Fuller Leanne, Griffiths Shane, Gillikin David P., Sonke Jeroen E., et al., Evidence that Pacific tuna mercury levels are driven by marine methylmercury production and anthropogenic inputs, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2113032119, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113032119, 2022.
Martin Jiskra, Lars-Eric Heimburger-Boavida, Marie-Maelle Desgranges, Mariia Petrova, Aurelie Dufour, Beatriz Ferreira-Araujo, Jeremy Masbou, Jerome Chmeleff, Melilotus Thyssen, David Point, Jeroen E Sonke (2021) Mercury stable isotope composition of seawater suggests important net gaseous elemental mercury uptake. Nature, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03859-8
Allen, S., Allen., D., Le Roux, G., Baladima, F., Thomas, J., Sonke, J.E. (2021) Evidence of free tropospheric and long-range transport of microplastic at the Pic du Midi Observatory. Nature Communications, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27454-7
Saiz-Lopez, A., Travnikov, O., Sonke, J. E., Thackray, C. P., Jacob, D. J., Carmona-García, J., Francés-Monerris, A., Roca-Sanjuán, D., Acuña, A. U., Dávalos, J. Z., Cuevas, C. A., Jiskra, M., Wang, F., Bieser, J., Plane, J. M. C. and Francisco, J. S.: Photochemistry of oxidized Hg(I) and Hg(II) species suggests missing mercury oxidation in the troposphere, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., doi:10.1073/pnas.1922486117, 2020.
Allen, S., Allen, D., Moss, K., Le Roux, G., Phoenix, V. R., and Sonke, J. E.: Examination of the ocean as a source for atmospheric microplastics, Plos One, https://doi.org/doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232746, 2020.
Li, C., Sonke, J. E., Le Roux, G., Piotrowska, N., Van der Putten, N., Roberts, S. J., Daley, T., Rice, E., Gehrels, R., Enrico, M., Mauquoy, D., Roland, T. P. and De Vleeschouwer, F.: Unequal Anthropogenic Enrichment of Mercury in Earth’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres, ACS Earth Space Chem., 4(11), 2073–2081, doi:10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00220, 2020.
Sun, R., Yuan, J., Sonke, J. E., Zhang, Y., Zhang, T., Zheng, W., Chen, S., Meng, M., Chen, J., Liu, Y., Peng, X. and Liu, C.: Methylmercury produced in upper oceans accumulates in deep Mariana Trench fauna, Nat. Commun., 11(1), 3389, doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17045-3, 2020.
Lim, A. G., Jiskra, M., Sonke, J. E., Loiko, S. V., Kosykh, N. and Pokrovsky, O. S.: A revised northern soil Hg pool, based on western Siberia permafrost peat Hg and carbon observations, Biogeosciences, 2020, 1–35, doi:10.5194/bg-2019-483, 2020.
Jeroen E. Sonke, Roman Teisserenc, Lars-Eric Heimbürger, et al. (2018), Eurasian river spring flood observations support net Arctic Ocean mercury export to the atmosphere and Atlantic Ocean. PNAS, doi/10.1073/pnas.1811957115
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, Jeroen E. Sonke et al. (2018) Photoreduction of gaseous oxidized mercury changes global atmospheric mercury speciation, transport and deposition Nature Communications DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07075-3
Martin Jiskra,Jeroen E. Sonke, et al. (2018) A vegetation control on seasonal variations in global atmospheric mercury. Nature Geoscience. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0078-8
Daniel Obrist, Yannick Agnan, Martin Jiskra, Christine Hedge, Dominique Colegrove, Jacques Hueber, Christopher Moore, Jeroen E. Sonke, Detlev Helmig, (2017) Tundra uptake of atmospheric elemental mercury drives arctic mercury pollution. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature22997
Enrico, M., Le Roux, G., Marusczak, N., Heimburger, L-E., Claustres, A., Fu, X., Sun, R.,Sonke, J.E.(2016) Atmospheric mercury transfer to peat bogs dominated by gaseous elemental mercury dry deposition. ES&T, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04669
Rousseau, T.C.C.,J.E. Sonke, J. Chmeleff, P. van Beek, M. Souhaut, G. Boaventura , P. Seyler, & C. Jeandel (2015) Rapid neodymium release to marine waters from lithogenic sediments in the Amazon estuary. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8592.
Masbou, J., Point, P., Guillou, G.,Sonke, J. E. Lebreton, B., Richard, P. (2015) Carbon stable isotope analysis of methylmercury toxin in biological materials by gas chromatography isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02918
Heimbürger, L.E.,Sonke, J.E., Cossa, D., Point, D., Lagane, C., Laffont, L., Galfond, D., Nicolaus, M., Rabe, B., Rutgers van der Loeff, M., (2015) Shallow methylmercury production in the marginal sea ice zone of the central Arctic Ocean. Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/srep10318.
Amos, H.,Sonke. J.E.,Obrist, D., Robins, N., Hagan, N., Horowitz, H.M., Mason, R.P., Witt, M., Hedgecock, I., Corbitt, E.S., Sunderland, E.M., (2015) Observational and modeling constraints on global anthropogenic enrichment of mercury. ES&T, DOI: 10.1021/es5058665.
Sun, R., Sonke, J.E., Liu, G. (2015) Biogeochemical controls on mercury stable isotope compositions of world coal deposits: A review. Earth Science Reviews. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.11.005
