My research interest focuses on environmental monitoring & biogeochemistry in freshwater, estuarine and marine waters. Research activities cover the occurence, chemical speciation & bioavailability of pollutants in natural waters, the origin and fate of naturally occuring DOM & odorants during harmful algal blooms in drinking water reservoirs & lakes, as well as the (non)target screening and risk assessment on legacy POPs & emerging contaminants (e.g. organophosphhorus flame retardants and plasticizers, PFASs, organotin compounds, microplastics) based on aquatic wildlife samples and passive samplers. 

SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS

2019-2021: Assessment of research frontiers of priority pollutants control in polar environment. Funded by the National Key Research and Development Programme. (subproject PI: HUANG Qinghui)

2017-2020: Drinking water security technology and application demonstration for Water source of Taihu Lake Basin in Changzhou City. Funded by the National Water Pollution Control and Treatment Science and Technology Major Project. (Participant, HUANG Qinghui)

2017-2019: Research and development of underwater automatic sampler for monitoring of organic pollutants in polar waters. Funded by the State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse. (PI: HUANG Qinghui)

2014-2018: Heron eggs and environmental quality in the Yangtze River Delta. Subproject #7 of CHEMSTRRES. Funded by the Swedish Research Council. (co-PI)

2013-2016: Development of method of measuring in situ growth rate of cyanobacteria and its spatio-temporal distribution in Qingcaosha Reservoir. Funded by the Science and Technology Committee of Shanghai Municipality (No. 13DJ1400103). (PI: HUANG Qinghui)

2011-2013: Behavior and effects of dissolved organic matter driven by eutrophication in river plume zones. Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41071301). (PI: HUANG Qinghui)

2009-2011: Behavior of Dissolved Organic Matter and its Response to Eutrophication. Youth Scholarship of State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse (No. PCRRY 09003). (PI: HUANG Qinghui)

2007-2009: Behavior and Effect of Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Matter in an Artificial Brackish Lake on the Estuarine Shoals. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40601095). (PI: HUANG Qinghui)

SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (*Corresponding author)

He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications (Web of Science Times Cited > 2400, SCI indexed > 50). For further information on his activities please see his ResearchGate.

Chen, C., Chen, L., Huang, Q., Yu, G., Lu, Z., & Gabrielsen, G. W. (2024). Determination of organotin compounds in marine sediments from Arctic Svalbard and West Antarctic Fildes Peninsula. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 198, 115845-115845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115845

Changtao Yang, Xiaobing Shen, Xinyi Shi, Zhijie Cui, Jing Nan, Haiming Lu, Jianhua Li, Qinghui Huang* (2023). Impact of submerged macrophytes on growth and 2-MIB release risk of Pseudanabaena sp.：from field monitoringa to cultural experiments. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 42: 130052, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.130052.

Dai, Q, Chen, L, Li, P, Xia, S, Wang, Y. and Huang, Q.*  (2022) Occurrence and risk assessment of organotin compounds in the surface water of the upper Yangtze River Estuary. Front. Environ. Sci. 10:964486. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.964486

Yang, Y., Song, L., Zhu, Z., Qiu, Y., Zhao, J., Huang, Q.*, & Bergman, Å. (2022). Human exposure to phthalic acid esters via ingestion of municipal drinking water from automatic water purifiers: levels, sources, and risks. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 8: 2843-2855. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EW00535B

Dai, Q., Wang, Y., Chen, L., Li, P., Xia, S., Huang, Q.* (2022). Contamination of 16 priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in urban source water at the tidal reach of the Yangtze River. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29(40), 61222–61235. [DOI]: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-20052-0

Bao, M., Huang, Q.*, Lu, Z. et al.(2022). Investigation of microplastic pollution in Arctic fjord water: a case study of Rijpfjorden, Northern Svalbard. Environ Sci Pollut Res,  29(37):56525-56534. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19826-3 

Chen, C. Z., Chen, L., Huang, Q. H.*, Zhang, W., Leung, K.M.Y. (2022). Pulsed distribution of organotin in the turbidity maximum zone of the Yangtze Estuary throughout a tidal cycle. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 178, 113600. [DOI] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113600 

Huang,  Q.*,  Wei, L., Bignert, A., Ye, H., Huang, F., Qiu, Y., & Bergman,  Å.  (2019). Organophosphate flame retardants in heron eggs from upper Yangtze River basin, southwest China. Chemosphere, 236, 124327. [DOI]

Chen,  C., Chen, L., Huang, Q.*,  Chen, Z., & Zhang, W.* (2019). Organotin  contamination in  commercial and wild oysters from China: Increasing  occurrence of  triphenyltin. Science of The Total Environment, 650,  2527-2534. [DOI]

Jiang, Y. L., Zhao, J. F., Li, P. H., Huang, Q. H.* 2016. Linking Optical Properties of Dissolved Organic Matter to Multiple Processes at Coastal Plume Zone in the East China Sea. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 18 (10) :1316–1324. [DOI]

Li, P.H., Chen, L., Zhang, W., Huang, Q.H. *. Spatiotemporal Distribution, Sources, and Photobleaching Imprint of Dissolved Organic Matter in the Yangtze Estuary and Its Adjacent Sea Using Fluorescence and Parallel Factor Analysis. PloS one, 2015, 10(6), e0130852. [PDF]

Xiao, Y. H., Huang, Q. H.* , Vähätalo, A. V., Li, F. P., & Chen, L. (2014). Effects of dissolved organic matter from a eutrophic lake on the freely dissolved concentrations of emerging organic contaminants. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 33: 1739–1746. [HTML]

Dong, Q.Q., Li, P.H., Huang, Q. H.*, Abdelhafez, A. A., & Chen, L. (2014). Occurrence, polarity and bioavailability of dissolved organic matter in the Huangpu River, China.  Journal of Environmental Sciences, 26(9), 1843-1850.  [HTML]

Huang, Q.H., Kaiser, K., Benner, R. A simple high performance liquid chromatography method for the measurement of nucleobases and the RNA and DNA content of cellular material. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 2012, 10: 608-616. [PDF] 

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