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Bacterial and Chemical Evidence of Coastal Water Pollution from the Tijuana River in Sea Spray Aerosol

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Science & Technology, March 2023
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Title
Bacterial and Chemical Evidence of Coastal Water Pollution from the Tijuana River in Sea Spray Aerosol
Published in
Environmental Science & Technology, March 2023
DOI 10.1021/acs.est.2c02312
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Matthew A. Pendergraft, Pedro Belda-Ferre, Daniel Petras, Clare K. Morris, Brock A. Mitts, Allegra T. Aron, MacKenzie Bryant, Tara Schwartz, Gail Ackermann, Greg Humphrey, Ethan Kaandorp, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Rob Knight, Kimberly A. Prather

Abstract

Roughly half of the human population lives near the coast, and coastal water pollution (CWP) is widespread. Coastal waters along Tijuana, Mexico, and Imperial Beach (IB), USA, are frequently polluted by millions of gallons of untreated sewage and stormwater runoff. Entering coastal waters causes over 100 million global annual illnesses, but CWP has the potential to reach many more people on land via transfer in sea spray aerosol (SSA). Using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, we found sewage-associated bacteria in the polluted Tijuana River flowing into coastal waters and returning to land in marine aerosol. Tentative chemical identification from non-targeted tandem mass spectrometry identified anthropogenic compounds as chemical indicators of aerosolized CWP, but they were ubiquitous and present at highest concentrations in continental aerosol. Bacteria were better tracers of airborne CWP, and 40 tracer bacteria comprised up to 76% of the bacteria community in IB air. These findings confirm that CWP transfers in SSA and exposes many people along the coast. Climate change may exacerbate CWP with more extreme storms, and our findings call for minimizing CWP and investigating the health effects of airborne exposure.

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Unknown 27 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Student > Bachelor 2 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 7%
Student > Master 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 14 52%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 4 15%
Chemistry 4 15%
Engineering 2 7%
Neuroscience 1 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 15 56%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 830. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 February 2024.
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