Jeffrey Farner

Pronouns: he/him

Contact Overview Publications

Contact

Faculty of Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept

Email: farner@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Environmental Nanotechnology Micro- and Nanoplastics Photochemistry Water Treatment CEE-MP Adjunct Faculty Member

Research

Farner Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/farnerlab/home

Featured Publications

Sustainable granular materials improve removal of natural organic matter, turbidity and microplastics during adsorption, ballasted flocculation and granular filtration

Mathieu Lapointe, Heidi Jahandideh, Olubukola S. Alimi, Jeffrey M. Farner, Nathalie Tufenkji

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. 2025 April; 10.1016/j.jece.2025.116012

Environmental weathering transforms plastic pollution

Jeffrey M Farner

Open Access Government. 2024 October; 10.56367/OAG-044-11601

Sorption Behavior of Trace Organic Chemicals on Carboxylated Polystyrene Nanoplastics

Afrida Nurain, Yueyang Zhang, Demi Meier, Jeffrey M. Farner, Greg Goss, Maricor J. Arlos

ACS ES&T Water. 2024 September; 10.1021/acsestwater.4c00329

Analysis of ultraviolet and thermal degradations of four common microplastics and evidence of nanoparticle release

Laura M. Hernandez, Joel Grant, Parvin Shakeri Fard, Jeffrey M. Farner, Nathalie Tufenkji

Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters. 2023 November; 10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100078

Optimizing the Concentration of Nile Red for Screening of Microplastics in Drinking Water

Laura M. Hernandez, Jeffrey M. Farner, Dominique Claveau-Mallet, Mira Okshevsky, Heidi Jahandideh, Sara Matthews, Ranjan Roy, Varoujan Yaylayan, Nathalie Tufenkji

ACS ES&T Water. 2023 April; 10.1021/acsestwater.2c00503

Mechanistic understanding of the aggregation kinetics of nanoplastics in marine environments: Comparing synthetic and natural water matrices

Olubukola S. Alimi, Jeffrey M. Farner, Laura Rowenczyk, Adamo R. Petosa, Dominique Claveau-Mallet, Laura M. Hernandez, Kevin J. Wilkinson, Nathalie Tufenkji

Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances. 2022 August; 10.1016/j.hazadv.2022.100115

Super-bridging fibrous materials for water treatment

Mathieu Lapointe, Heidi Jahandideh, Jeffrey M. Farner, Nathalie Tufenkji

npj Clean Water. 2022 April; 10.1038/s41545-022-00155-4

Exposure of nanoplastics to freeze-thaw leads to aggregation and reduced transport in model groundwater environments

Olubukola S. Alimi, Jeffrey M. Farner, Nathalie Tufenkji

Water Research. 2021 February; 10.1016/j.watres.2020.116533

Understanding and Improving Microplastic Removal during Water Treatment: Impact of Coagulation and Flocculation

Mathieu Lapointe, Jeffrey M. Farner, Laura M. Hernandez, Nathalie Tufenkji

Environmental Science & Technology. 2020 June; 10.1021/acs.est.0c00712

Biofilm formation by marine bacteria is impacted by concentration and surface functionalization of polystyrene nanoparticles in a species‐specific manner

Mira Okshevsky, Eva Gautier, Jeffrey M. Farner, Lars Schreiber, Nathalie Tufenkji

Environmental Microbiology Reports. 2020 April; 10.1111/1758-2229.12824

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