| Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining JR Gerson, N Szponar, AA Zambrano, B Bergquist, E Broadbent, ... Nature communications 13 (1), 559, 2022 | 175 | 2022 |
| Senegalese artisanal gold mining leads to elevated total mercury and methylmercury concentrations in soils, sediments, and rivers JR Gerson, CT Driscoll, H Hsu-Kim, ES Bernhardt Elem Sci Anth 6, 11, 2018 | 82 | 2018 |
| Artificial lake expansion amplifies mercury pollution from gold mining JR Gerson, SN Topp, CM Vega, JR Gardner, X Yang, LE Fernandez, ... Science advances 6 (48), eabd4953, 2020 | 81 | 2020 |
| Do two wrongs make a right? Persistent uncertainties regarding environmental selenium–mercury interactions JR Gerson, DM Walters, CA Eagles-Smith, ES Bernhardt, JE Brandt Environmental science & technology 54 (15), 9228-9234, 2020 | 63 | 2020 |
| Deposition of mercury in forests across a montane elevation gradient: Elevational and seasonal patterns in methylmercury inputs and production JR Gerson, CT Driscoll, JD Demers, AK Sauer, BD Blackwell, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 122 (8), 1922-1939, 2017 | 61 | 2017 |
| Contaminant subsidies to riparian food webs in Appalachian streams impacted by mountaintop removal coal mining LC Naslund, JR Gerson, AC Brooks, DM Walters, ES Bernhardt Environmental Science & Technology 54 (7), 3951-3959, 2020 | 43 | 2020 |
| Is mercury in a remote forested watershed of the Adirondack mountains responding to recent decreases in emissions? JR Gerson, CT Driscoll Environmental science & technology 50 (20), 10943-10950, 2016 | 41 | 2016 |
| Consistent declines in aquatic biodiversity across diverse domains of life in rivers impacted by surface coal mining M Simonin, JD Rocca, JR Gerson, E Moore, AC Brooks, L Czaplicki, ... Ecological Applications 31 (6), e02389, 2021 | 40 | 2021 |
| Patterns of nutrient dynamics in Adirondack lakes recovering from acid deposition JR Gerson, CT Driscoll, KM Roy Ecological Applications 26 (6), 1758-1770, 2016 | 36 | 2016 |
| It is time to develop sustainable management of agricultural sulfur JR Gerson, ELS Hinckley Earth's Future 11 (11), e2023EF003723, 2023 | 29 | 2023 |
| Alkaline mine drainage drives stream sediment microbial community structure and function L Jin, JR Gerson, JD Rocca, ES Bernhardt, M Simonin Science of the Total Environment 805, 150189, 2022 | 19 | 2022 |
| The Fieldwork Wellness Framework: a new approach to field research in ecology AE Nordseth, JR Gerson, LK Aguilar, AE Dunham, A Gentles, Z Neale, ... Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 21 (6), 297-303, 2023 | 16 | 2023 |
| Mercury in Neotropical birds: a synthesis and prospectus on 13 years of exposure data CJ Sayers, DC Evers, V Ruiz-Gutierrez, E Adams, CM Vega, JN Pisconte, ... Ecotoxicology 32 (8), 1096-1123, 2023 | 13 | 2023 |
| Lethal impacts of selenium counterbalance the potential reduction in mercury bioaccumulation for freshwater organisms JR Gerson, R Dorman, C Eagles-Smith, ES Bernhardt, D Walters Environmental Pollution 287, 117293, 2021 | 13 | 2021 |
| Mercury and selenium loading in mountaintop mining impacted alkaline streams and riparian food webs JR Gerson, LC Naslund, YT Liu, H Hsu-Kim, CT Driscoll, MRV Ross, ... Biogeochemistry 150 (1), 109-122, 2020 | 11 | 2020 |
| Demystifying the graduate school application process CO Estien, M Chapman, CJ Schell, N Lowy, JR Gerson The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 104 (1), e02029, 2023 | 10 | 2023 |
| Education and equipment distribution lead to increased mercury knowledge and retort use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining communities in Senegal A Chen, F Danfakha, H Hausermann, JR Gerson Cleaner Production Letters 5, 100050, 2023 | 8 | 2023 |
| Chemistry of streams draining mined and unmined watersheds in the mountaintop mined landscape of Central Appalachia, USA JR Gerson, E Moore, LC Naslund, J Rocca, M Simonin Ecology 101 (9), e03093, 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
| Tracing atmospheric mercury from artisanal and small-scale gold mining N Szponar, CM Vega, J Gerson, DS McLagan, M Pillaca, S Delgado, ... Environmental Science & Technology 59 (10), 5021-5033, 2025 | 6 | 2025 |
| Chemistry of surface water, precipitation, throughfall, leaves, sediment, soil, and air near a gold mining region in P eru JR Gerson, N Szponar, A Agostini, R Alotaibi, B Bergquist, A Chen, ... Ecology 103 (5), e3666, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
