List of works - Jake O'Brien

A National Wastewater Monitoring Program for a better understanding of public health: A case study using the Australian Census

article

A cleaner river: long term use of semipermeable membrane devices demonstrate that concentrations of selected organochlorines and PAHs in the Brisbane River estuary, Queensland have reduced substantially over the past decade.

scientific article

A comparison of trends in wastewater-based data and traditional epidemiological indicators of stimulant consumption in three locations

scientific article published on 29 November 2019

A miniature bioassay for testing the acute phytotoxicity of photosystem II herbicides on seagrass

scientific article

A model to estimate the population contributing to the wastewater using samples collected on census day.

scientific article

A pilot wastewater-based epidemiology assessment of anabolic steroid use in Queensland, Australia.

scientific article published on 22 March 2019

A sensitive analytical method for the measurement of neurotransmitter metabolites as potential population biomarkers in wastewater

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

Analysis of N,N-dimethylamphetamine in wastewater - a pyrolysis marker and synthesis impurity of methamphetamine

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

Analysis of sugarcane herbicides in marine turtle nesting areas and assessment of risk using in vitro toxicity assays.

scientific article published on 9 July 2017

Analytical performance comparison of four SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR primer-probe sets for wastewater samples

scientific article published on 25 September 2021

Annual release of selected UV filters via effluent from wastewater treatment plants in Australia

scientific article published on 10 January 2020

Assessment of drugs and personal care products biomarkers in the influent and effluent of two wastewater treatment plants in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

scientific article published on 9 March 2018

Assessment of drugs of abuse in a wastewater treatment plant with parallel secondary wastewater treatment train

scientific article published on 14 December 2018

Association between purity of drug seizures and illicit drug loads measured in wastewater in a South East Queensland catchment over a six year period

article by Raimondo Bruno et al published 1 September 2018 in Science of the Total Environment

Calibration and validation of a microporous polyethylene passive sampler for quantitative estimation of illicit drug and pharmaceutical and personal care product (PPCP) concentrations in wastewater influent

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Can wastewater-based epidemiology be used to evaluate the health impact of temperature? - An exploratory study in an Australian population

scientific article published on 22 March 2017

Chlorinated paraffins in indoor dust from Australia: Levels, congener patterns and preliminary assessment of human exposure

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

Cocaine, MDMA and methamphetamine residues in wastewater: Consumption trends (2009-2015) in South East Queensland, Australia.

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Commentary on Burgard et al. (2019): Wastewater based estimates of the size of illicit markets for psychoactive drugs

scientific article published on 19 July 2019

Commentary on Ort et al. (2014): What next to deliver on the promise of large scale sewage-based drug epidemiology?

scientific article published in August 2014

Comparative measurement and quantitative risk assessment of alcohol consumption through wastewater-based epidemiology: An international study in 20 cities

scientific article

Comparing methamphetamine, MDMA, cocaine, codeine and methadone use between the Auckland region and four Australian states using wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE)

article

Considerations for assessing stability of wastewater-based epidemiology biomarkers using biofilm-free and sewer reactor tests

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Correction to Quantitative Analysis of Selected Plastics in High-Commercial-Value Australian Seafood by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

Could wastewater analysis be a useful tool for China? - A review.

scientific article

Degradability of creatinine under sewer conditions affects its potential to be used as biomarker in sewage epidemiology.

scientific article published on 25 February 2014

Degradation of Herbicides in the Tropical Marine Environment: Influence of Light and Sediment

scientific article

Enantiomeric profiling of amphetamine and methamphetamine in wastewater: A 7-year study in regional and urban Queensland, Australia

article

Evaluating the in-sewer stability of three potential population biomarkers for application in wastewater-based epidemiology

scientific article published on 16 March 2019

Evaluating the stability of three oxidative stress biomarkers under sewer conditions and potential impact for use in wastewater-based epidemiology

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Evaluation of Monitoring Schemes for Wastewater-Based Epidemiology to Identify Drug Use Trends Using Cocaine, Methamphetamine, MDMA and Methadone.

scientific article

Harnessing the Power of the Census: Characterizing Wastewater Treatment Plant Catchment Populations for Wastewater-Based Epidemiology

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Impact of in-Sewer Degradation of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) Population Markers on a Population Model.

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

LC-HRMS suspect screening to show spatial patterns of New Psychoactive Substances use in Australia

article

Measuring biomarkers in wastewater as a new source of epidemiological information: Current state and future perspectives

scientific article

Measuring selected PPCPs in wastewater to estimate the population in different cities in China

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

Measuring spatial and temporal trends of nicotine and alcohol consumption in Australia using wastewater-based epidemiology.

scientific article published on 14 January 2018

Medium-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins (CPs) Dominate in Australian Sewage Sludge

scientific article published on 20 February 2017

Monitoring temporal changes in use of two cathinones in a large urban catchment in Queensland, Australia.

scientific article published on 31 December 2015

Multi-year inter-laboratory exercises for the analysis of illicit drugs and metabolites in wastewater: Development of a quality control system

scholarly article by Alexander L.N. van Nuijs et al published June 2018 in Trends in Analytical Chemistry

New approach for the measurement of long-term alcohol consumption trends: Application of wastewater-based epidemiology in an Australian regional city

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Per capita loads of organic UV filters in Australian wastewater influent

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Population histamine burden assessed using wastewater-based epidemiology: The association of 1,4‑methylimidazole acetic acid and fexofenadine

scientific article published on 07 August 2018

Refining the excretion factors of methadone and codeine for wastewater analysis - Combining data from pharmacokinetic and wastewater studies

scientific article

Release of Plastics to Australian Land from Biosolids End-Use

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Response to Comment on "Quantitative Analysis of Selected Plastics in High-Commercial-Value Australian Seafood by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry"

scientific article published on 15 November 2020

Self Adjusting Algorithm for the Nontargeted Feature Detection of High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Coupled with Liquid Chromatography Profile Data

scientific article published on 08 August 2019

Social, demographic, and economic correlates of food and chemical consumption measured by wastewater-based epidemiology

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

Spatial variations in the consumption of illicit stimulant drugs across Australia: A nationwide application of wastewater-based epidemiology

scientific article published on 3 June 2016

Spatio-temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Systematic and day-to-day effects of chemical-derived population estimates on wastewater-based drug epidemiology.

scientific article published on January 2015

The NORMAN Suspect List Exchange (NORMAN-SLE): facilitating European and worldwide collaboration on suspect screening in high resolution mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 21 October 2022

The underlying challenges that arise when analysing short-chain chlorinated paraffins in environmental matrices

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Trends in methamphetamine residues in wastewater in metropolitan and regional cities in south-east Queensland, 2009–2015

scientific article published on 01 March 2016

Trends in nicotine consumption between 2010 and 2017 in an Australian city using the wastewater-based epidemiology approach

scientific article published on 02 February 2019

Urinary Concentrations of Bisphenols in the Australian Population and Their Association with the Per Capita Mass Loads in Wastewater

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Using quantitative wastewater analysis to measure daily usage of conventional and emerging illicit drugs at an annual music festival ⬇️

scientific article published on June 19, 2013

Wastewater analysis of Census day samples to investigate per capita input of organophosphorus flame retardants and plasticizers into wastewater

scientific article

List of works by Jake O'Brien

A National Wastewater Monitoring Program for a better understanding of public health: A case study using the Australian Census

A cleaner river: long term use of semipermeable membrane devices demonstrate that concentrations of selected organochlorines and PAHs in the Brisbane River estuary, Queensland have reduced substantially over the past decade.

A comparison of trends in wastewater-based data and traditional epidemiological indicators of stimulant consumption in three locations

A miniature bioassay for testing the acute phytotoxicity of photosystem II herbicides on seagrass

A model to estimate the population contributing to the wastewater using samples collected on census day.

A pilot wastewater-based epidemiology assessment of anabolic steroid use in Queensland, Australia.

A sensitive analytical method for the measurement of neurotransmitter metabolites as potential population biomarkers in wastewater

Analysis of N,N-dimethylamphetamine in wastewater - a pyrolysis marker and synthesis impurity of methamphetamine

Analysis of sugarcane herbicides in marine turtle nesting areas and assessment of risk using in vitro toxicity assays.

Analytical performance comparison of four SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR primer-probe sets for wastewater samples

Annual release of selected UV filters via effluent from wastewater treatment plants in Australia

Assessment of drugs and personal care products biomarkers in the influent and effluent of two wastewater treatment plants in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Assessment of drugs of abuse in a wastewater treatment plant with parallel secondary wastewater treatment train

Association between purity of drug seizures and illicit drug loads measured in wastewater in a South East Queensland catchment over a six year period

Calibration and validation of a microporous polyethylene passive sampler for quantitative estimation of illicit drug and pharmaceutical and personal care product (PPCP) concentrations in wastewater influent

Can wastewater-based epidemiology be used to evaluate the health impact of temperature? - An exploratory study in an Australian population

Chlorinated paraffins in indoor dust from Australia: Levels, congener patterns and preliminary assessment of human exposure

Cocaine, MDMA and methamphetamine residues in wastewater: Consumption trends (2009-2015) in South East Queensland, Australia.

Commentary on Burgard et al. (2019): Wastewater based estimates of the size of illicit markets for psychoactive drugs

Commentary on Ort et al. (2014): What next to deliver on the promise of large scale sewage-based drug epidemiology?

Comparative measurement and quantitative risk assessment of alcohol consumption through wastewater-based epidemiology: An international study in 20 cities

Comparing methamphetamine, MDMA, cocaine, codeine and methadone use between the Auckland region and four Australian states using wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE)

Considerations for assessing stability of wastewater-based epidemiology biomarkers using biofilm-free and sewer reactor tests

Correction to Quantitative Analysis of Selected Plastics in High-Commercial-Value Australian Seafood by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry

Could wastewater analysis be a useful tool for China? - A review.

Degradability of creatinine under sewer conditions affects its potential to be used as biomarker in sewage epidemiology.

Degradation of Herbicides in the Tropical Marine Environment: Influence of Light and Sediment

Enantiomeric profiling of amphetamine and methamphetamine in wastewater: A 7-year study in regional and urban Queensland, Australia

Evaluating the in-sewer stability of three potential population biomarkers for application in wastewater-based epidemiology

Evaluating the stability of three oxidative stress biomarkers under sewer conditions and potential impact for use in wastewater-based epidemiology

Evaluation of Monitoring Schemes for Wastewater-Based Epidemiology to Identify Drug Use Trends Using Cocaine, Methamphetamine, MDMA and Methadone.

Harnessing the Power of the Census: Characterizing Wastewater Treatment Plant Catchment Populations for Wastewater-Based Epidemiology

Impact of in-Sewer Degradation of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) Population Markers on a Population Model.

LC-HRMS suspect screening to show spatial patterns of New Psychoactive Substances use in Australia

Measuring biomarkers in wastewater as a new source of epidemiological information: Current state and future perspectives

Measuring selected PPCPs in wastewater to estimate the population in different cities in China

Measuring spatial and temporal trends of nicotine and alcohol consumption in Australia using wastewater-based epidemiology.

Medium-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins (CPs) Dominate in Australian Sewage Sludge

Monitoring temporal changes in use of two cathinones in a large urban catchment in Queensland, Australia.

Multi-year inter-laboratory exercises for the analysis of illicit drugs and metabolites in wastewater: Development of a quality control system

New approach for the measurement of long-term alcohol consumption trends: Application of wastewater-based epidemiology in an Australian regional city

Per capita loads of organic UV filters in Australian wastewater influent

Population histamine burden assessed using wastewater-based epidemiology: The association of 1,4‑methylimidazole acetic acid and fexofenadine

Refining the excretion factors of methadone and codeine for wastewater analysis - Combining data from pharmacokinetic and wastewater studies

Release of Plastics to Australian Land from Biosolids End-Use

Response to Comment on "Quantitative Analysis of Selected Plastics in High-Commercial-Value Australian Seafood by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry"

Self Adjusting Algorithm for the Nontargeted Feature Detection of High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Coupled with Liquid Chromatography Profile Data

Social, demographic, and economic correlates of food and chemical consumption measured by wastewater-based epidemiology

Spatial variations in the consumption of illicit stimulant drugs across Australia: A nationwide application of wastewater-based epidemiology

Spatio-temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring

Systematic and day-to-day effects of chemical-derived population estimates on wastewater-based drug epidemiology.

The NORMAN Suspect List Exchange (NORMAN-SLE): facilitating European and worldwide collaboration on suspect screening in high resolution mass spectrometry

The underlying challenges that arise when analysing short-chain chlorinated paraffins in environmental matrices

Trends in methamphetamine residues in wastewater in metropolitan and regional cities in south-east Queensland, 2009–2015

Trends in nicotine consumption between 2010 and 2017 in an Australian city using the wastewater-based epidemiology approach

Urinary Concentrations of Bisphenols in the Australian Population and Their Association with the Per Capita Mass Loads in Wastewater

Using quantitative wastewater analysis to measure daily usage of conventional and emerging illicit drugs at an annual music festival ⬇️

Wastewater analysis of Census day samples to investigate per capita input of organophosphorus flame retardants and plasticizers into wastewater