Publications by Rebecca Rutler

GCxGC Quantification of Priority and Emerging Nonpolar Halogenated Micropollutants in All Types of Wastewater Matrices: Analysis Methodology, Chemical Occurrence, and Partitioning

Jimmy Westphale, Jeremy Samuel Arey, Jonas Gros, Alex Bonvin, Petros Dimitriou Christidis, Rebecca Rutler, Saer Samanipour, Juliane Hollender

We report the development and validation of a method to detect and quantify diverse nonpolar halogenated micropollutants in wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) influent, effluent, primary sludge, and secondary sludge matrices (including both the liquid and p ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Spatial extent and ecotoxicological risk assessment of a micropollutant-contaminated wastewater plume in Lake Geneva

Florence Bonvin, Jeremy Samuel Arey, Tamar Kohn, Auréline Grange, Lorenzo Martelletti, Rebecca Rutler, Yosef Akhtman

In this study, the spatial extent of a wastewater-influenced water mass originating from a wastewater treatment plant outlet in Vidy Bay (Lake Geneva) was monitored by two manned submersibles from June to August 2011. The main goal was to assess whether mi ...

Springer Verlag2014

Direct photolysis of human metabolites of the antibiotic sulfamethoxazole: Evidence for abiotic back-transformation

Florence Bonvin, Julien Omlin, Tamar Kohn, Rebecca Rutler, Timothy Strathmann

The presence of potentially persistent and bioactive human metabolites in surface waters gives rise to concern; yet little is known to date about the environmental fate of these compounds. This work investigates the direct photolysis of human metabolites o ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Pharmaceuticals and their human metabolites in Lake Geneva: occurrence, fate and ecotoxicological relevance

Florence Bonvin, Tamar Kohn, Rebecca Rutler

This study assesses the presence, fate and effects of five environmentally relevant pharmaceuticals and eight of their corresponding human metabolites in Lake Geneva. Over a 10-month period, lake samples were taken at various depths and locations in the Vi ...

2012

Robust algorithm for aligning two-dimensional chromatograms

Jeremy Samuel Arey, Jonas Gros, Deedar Nabi, Petros Dimitriou Christidis, Rebecca Rutler

Comprehensive, two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC x GC) chromatogram's typically exhibit run-to-run retention time variability. Chromatogram alignment is often a desirable step prior to further analysis of the data, for example, in studies of environme ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Spatial and temporal presence of a wastewater-derived micropollutant plume in Lake Geneva

Florence Bonvin, Tamar Kohn, Rebecca Rutler

This study discusses the occurrence and environmental risk associated with a micropollutant plume originating from the direct discharge of treated wastewater into the Vidy Bay of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. The temporal variations and spatial extent of the p ...

2011