Kubwabo, C., Rasmussen, P.E., Fan, X., et al (2013) Analysis of selected phthalates in Canadian indoor dust collected using household vacuum and standardized sampling techniques” Indoor Air, DOI: 10.1111/ina.12048.
Bradham, K.D., Laird, B., Rasmussen, P.E., Schoof, R.A. Serda, S.M., Siciliano, S.D., and Hughes, M.F. (2013). Assessing the Bioavailability and Risk from Metal Contaminated Soils and Dusts, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2013.802633.
Levallois, P., St-Laurent, J., Gauvin, D., Courteau, M., Prevost, M., Campagna, C., Lemieux, F., Nour, S., D’Amour, M., Rasmussen, P.E., (2013). The Impact of Drinking Water, Indoor Dust and Paint on Blood Lead Levels of Children Aged 1–5 Years in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology doi:10.1038/jes.2012.129.
Johnson, M.,MacNeill, M., Grgicak-Mannion, A., Nethery, E., Xu, X., Dales, R.,, Rasmussen, P.E., Wheeler, A., (2013) Development of temporally refined land-use regression models predicting daily household level air pollution in a panel study of lung function among asthmatic children, Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 23, 3, 259-267.
Rasmussen PE, Levesque, C., Chénier, M., Gardner, H.D., Jones-Otazo, H., Petrovic, S. (2013) Canadian House Dust Study: Population-based concentrations, loads and loading rates of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, lead, and zinc inside urban homes, Sci Total Environ, 443: 520–529.
Koch, I., Reimer, K.J., Bakker, M.I., Basta, N.T., Cave, M.R., Denys, S., Dodd, M., Hale, B.A., Irwin, R., Lowney, Y.W., Moore, M.M., Paquin, V., Rasmussen, P.E., Repaso-Subang, T., Stephenson, G.L., Siciliano, S.D., Wragg, J., Zagury, G.J. (2013) Variability of bioaccessibility results using seventeen different methods on a standard reference material, NIST 2710, Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A, 48, 641–655.
Niu, J., Rasmussen, P.E., and Chénier, M. (2013) Ultrasonic dissolution for ICP-MS determination of trace elements in lightly loaded airborne PM filters. International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry 93, 6, 661-678.
Dodd, M., Rasmussen, P.E., and Chénier, M., (2013) Comparison of two in vitro extraction protocols for assessing metal bioaccessibility. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment19, 4, 1014-1027.
MacLean, L., Beauchemin, S., and Rasmussen, P.E. (2013) Chemical transformations of lead compounds under humid conditions: implications for bioaccessibility. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 35 (1): 153-159.
Kubwabo, C., Fan, X., Rasmussen, P.E., Wu, F. (2012) Determination of synthetic musk compounds in indoor house dust by gas chromatography–ion trap mass spectrometry. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 404 (2): 467-477.
McDonald, LT, Rasmussen, PE, Chenier, M., and Levesque, C. (2011). Extending Wipe Sampling Methodologies to Elements Other Than Lead. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 13, 377-383.
Rasmussen, P.E., Beauchemin, S., Chénier, M., Levesque, C., MacLean, L.C.W., Marro, L., Jones-Otazo, H., Petrovic, S., McDonald, L.T., Gardner, H.D. (2011) Canadian House Dust Study: Lead Bioaccessibility and Speciation. Environ. Sci. Technol. 45 (11), 4959–4965.
Beauchemin, S., MacLean, LCW, and Rasmussen, P.E. (2011) Lead In Indoor Dust: An In Situ Speciation Study To Assess Old Paint Contribution. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 33, 343–352.
Jamieson, H.E., Walker, S.R., Andrade, C.F., Wrye, L.A., Rasmussen, P.E., Lanzirotti, A., Parsons, M.B. (2011), Characterization Of Arsenic And Metal Compounds In Contaminated Soil, Mine Tailings And House Dust Using Synchrotron-Based Microanalysis. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 17, 1-17.
MacLean, L.C.W, Beauchemin, S., and Rasmussen, P.E. (2011) Lead speciation in house dust from Canadian urban homes using EXAFS, micro-XRF and micro-XRD. Environ. Sci. Technol. 45 (13), 5491–5497.
Walker, S.R., Jamieson, H.E., Rasmussen, P.E. (2011) Application of Synchrotron Microprobe Methods to Solid-Phase Speciation of Metals and Metalloids in House Dust. Environ. Sci. Technol., 45 (19), 8233–8240.
Wallace, L., Wheeler, A.J., Kearney, J., Van Ryswyk, K., You, H., Kulka, R., Rasmussen, P.E., Brook, J.R. and Xu, X. (2011). Validation of Continuous Particle Monitors for Personal, Indoor, and Outdoor Exposures. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 21, 49–64.
Wheeler A.J., Xu X., Kulka R., You H., Wallace L., Mallach G., Van Ryswyk K., MacNeill M., Kearney J., Rasmussen P.E., Dabek – Zlotorzynska E., Wang D., Poon R., Williams R., Stocco C., Anastassopoulos A., Miller J.D., Dales R. and Brook J.R. (2011). Windsor, Ontario Exposure Assessment Study: Design and Methods Validation of Personal, Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution Monitoring. Journal of Air and Waste Management, 61, 324–338.
Fan, X., Kubwabo, C., Rasmussen, P.E., Jones-Otazo, H. (2010) Simultaneous Quantitation of Parabens, Triclosan, and Methyl Triclosan in Indoor House Dust Using Solid-Phase Extraction and GC/ITMS (2010). Journal of Environmental Monitoring.12: 1891–1897.
Niu, J, Rasmussen, PE, Hassan, N., Vincent, R. (2010) Concentration distribution and bioaccessibility of trace elements in nano and fine urban airborne particulate matter: influence of particle size. Journal of Water, Air and Soil Pollution.213 (1) p.211.
Niu, J., Rasmussen, P.E., Wheeler, A., Williams, R., Chénier, M. (2010) Evaluation of airborne particulate matter and metals data in personal, indoor and outdoor environments using ED-XRF and ICP-MS and co-located duplicate samples. Atmospheric Environment.44:235-245.
Rasmussen, P.E., Gardner, H.D., and Niu, J. (2010) Buoyancy-Corrected Gravimetric Analysis of Lightly Loaded Filters. Journal of Air and Waste Management, 60: 1065-1077.
Wallace, L., Wheeler, A.J., Kearney, J., Van Ryswyk, K., You, H., Kulka, R., Rasmussen, P.E., Brook, J.R. and Xu, X. (2010). Validation of Continuous Particle Monitors for Personal, Indoor, and Outdoor Exposures. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, May 2010: 1–16.
Chen, H., Dabek-Zlotorzynska, E., Rasmussen, P.E., Hassan, N., Lanouette, M. (2008) Evaluation of semiquantitative analysis mode in ICP-MS. Talanta. 741547–1555.
Rasmussen, P.E., S. Beauchemin, M. Nugent, R. Dugandzic, M. Lanouette and M . Chénier. (2008). Influence of matrix composition on bioaccessible copper, zinc and nickel in urban residential dust and soil. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 14(2) 351-371.
Rasmussen, P.E. and Gardner, H.D. (2008) Earth and Health – Building a Safer Canadian Environment. Geoscience Canada 35 (2/3): 61-72.
Hassan N. M, Rasmussen, P.E., Dabek-Zlotorzynska, E., Celo, V., Chen, H. (2007) Analysis of environmental samples using microwave-assisted acid digestion and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry: maximizing total element recoveries. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 178: 323-334.
Rasmussen, P.E., Wheeler, A.J., Hassan, N.M., Filiatreault, A., and Lanouette, M. (2007) Monitoring personal, indoor, and outdoor exposures to metals in airborne particulate matter: risk of contamination during sampling, handling and analysis. Atmospheric Environment. 41: 5897-5907.
Rasmussen, P.E., Dugandzic, R., Hassan, N., Murimboh, J. , Grégoire, C. (2006) Challenges in Analysing Airborne Metal Concentrations in Residential Environments. Canadian Journal of Analytical Science and Spectroscopy. 51:1 pp. 1- 8.
Edwards, G. C., P. E. Rasmussen, W. H. Schroeder, D. M. Wallace, L. Halfpenny Mitchell, G. M. Dias, R. J. Kemp, and S. Ausma, (2005) Development and evaluation of a sampling system to determine gaseous mercury fluxes using an aerodynamic micrometeorological gradient method, Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres) 110 (10) 1-11.
Schroeder, W.H., S. Beauchamp, G.C. Edwards, L. Poissant, P.E. Rasmussen, R. Tordon, G.M. Dias, J. Kemp, B. Van Heyst and C.M. Banic (2005) Gaseous mercury emissions from natural sources in Canadian landscapes. Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres) 110 (18) 1- 13.
Plouffe, A., Rasmussen, P.E., Hall, G. Pierre, P. (2004) Mercury and antimony in soils and non vascular plants near two past producing mercury mines, British Columbia, Canada. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis 4 (4) 353 364.
Rasmussen, P.E. (2004). Can metal concentrations in indoor dust be predicted from soil geochemistry? Canadian Journal of Analytical Science and Spectroscopy, 49 (23): 166- 174.
El Bilali, L., Rasmussen, P.E., Fortin, D. (2002) Role of sediment composition in trace metal distribution in lake sediments. Applied Geochemistry, 17: 1171-1181.
Rasmussen, P.E., Subramanian, K.S., and Jessiman, B.J., 2001. A multi-element profile of house dust in relation to exterior dust and soils in the city of Ottawa, Canada. Science of the Total Environment, 267:125-140.
Edwards, G.C., Rasmussen, P.E., Schroeder, W.H., Kemp, R.J., Fitzgerald-Hubble, C.R., Wong, E.K., Dias, G.M., L. Halfpenny-Mitchell, and Gustin, M.S., 2001. Sources of variability in mercury flux measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), Vol. 106 (D6): 5421-5435.
Gustin, M.S., Rasmussen, P.E., Biester, H., Edwards, G.C., Schroeder, W.H., and Kemp, R.J., (1999). Application of a laboratory gas exchange chamber for assessment of in situ mercury emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 104 (D17): 21,873 to 21,878.
Lindberg, S.E., Zhang, H., Gustin, M.S., Vette, A., Owens, J., Marsik, F., Casimir, A., Ebinghaus, R., Edwards, G.C., Fitzgerald-Hubble, C.R., Kemp, R.J, Kock, H.H., London, J., Majewski, M., Poissant, L., Pilote, M., Rasmussen, P.E., Schaedlich, F., Schneeberger, D., Sommar, J., Turner, R., Walshlager, D., and Xiao, Z., (1999). Increases in mercury emissions from desert soils in response to rainfall and irrigation. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 104 (D17) 21,879 to 21,888.
Gustin, M.S., Lindberg, S.E., Marsik, F., Casimir, A., Ebinghaus, R., Edwards, G.C., Fitzgerald-Hubble, C.R., Kemp, R.J, Kock, H.H., Leonard, T., London, J., Majewski, M., Owens, J., Pilote, M., Poissant, L., Rasmussen, P.E., Schaedlich, F., Schneeberger, D., Schroeder, W.H., Sommar, J., Turner, R., Vette, A., Walshlaeger, D., and Xiao, Z. (1999). Nevada StoRMS project: Measurement of mercury emissions from naturally enriched surfaces. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 104 (D17): 21,831 to 21,844.
Rasmussen, P.E., Villard, D.J., Gardner, H.D., Fortescue, J.A.C., Schiff, S.L, and Shilts, W.W., (1998). Mercury in lake sediments of the Precambrian Shield near Huntsville, Ontario, Canada. Environmental Geology, 33/2-3: 96-108.
Rasmussen, P.E., (1998). Long-range atmospheric transport of trace metals: the need for geoscience perspectives. Environmental Geology, 33/2-3: 170-182.
Larocque, A.C.L. and Rasmussen, P.E., (1998). An overview of trace metals in the environment. Environmental Geology, 33/2-3: 85-91.
Rasmussen, P.E., Friske, P.W.B., Azzaria, L.M., and Garrett, R.G. (1998). Mercury in the Canadian Environment: Current Research Challenges. Geoscience Canada, 25: 1-8.
Rasmussen, P.E., (1995). Temporal variation of mercury in vegetation. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 80: 1039-1042.
Rasmussen, P.E., (1994). Current methods of estimating atmospheric mercury fluxes in remote areas. Environmental Science and Technology, 28(13): 2233-2241.
Rasmussen, P.E., Mierle, G. and Nriagu, J.O., (1991). The analysis of vegetation for total mercury. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. 56: 379-390.
Rasmussen, P.E., Schiff, S.L. and Nesbitt, H.W., (1991). The determination of exchangeable cations in acid soils: errors caused by weathering during neutral salt extraction. Canadian Journal of Soil Science. 71: 155-163.
Refereed Proceedings, Book Chapters, Review Articles
Rasmussen, P.E., 2013. Urban Environments and Natural Hazards, Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pp. 1063-1065.
Rasmussen, P.E., 2013. Release Rates, Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pp. 835-836.
Rasmussen, P.E., Woldemichael, M., Lalonde, A. et al., (2012) Dust, In Imperfect Health: The Medicalization Of Architecture, Book accompanying CCA exhibition, 25 October 2011 – 1 April 2012. (Eds. Mirko Zardini and Giovanna Borasi), Published by Canadian Centre for Architecture and Lars Müller, Montreal, Canada. pp: 160-163.
Rasmussen, P.E., Gardner, H.D., and Camus, (in press). M. Geology and Health, In Four Billion Years and Counting: Canada’s Geological Heritage. (Eds. A. Achab, J. Clague, D. Corrigan, R. Fensome, J. Monger, G. Nowlan, G. Williams). Geological Association of Canada (accepted January 2012).
Maclean, L., Beauchemin, S., and Rasmussen, P.E. (2010) Application Of Synchrotron X-Ray Techniques For The Determination Of Metal Speciation In (House) Dust Particles. In Urban Airborne Particulate Matter: Origins, Chemistry, Fate and Health Impacts. (Eds. F. Zereini and C. Wiseman) Springer Publ. Ltd. 17p with illustrations.
McDonald, L.T., Rasmussen, P.E., Chénier, M., Levesque, C. (2010) Wipe Sampling Methodologies To Assess Exposure To Lead And Cadmium In Urban Canadian Homes. 25th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, October 19-22, 2009, Vol. 15 (Article 6). available at: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/soilsproceedings/vol15/iss1/6
Rasmussen, P.E. (2009) Review of the RIVM-TNO report ‘Oral bioavailability of lead in Dutch made grounds (Hagens et al. 2009) in 'In vitro modeling of humane bioavailability of lead from soils' (Eds. Martine I. Bakker and Werner I. Hagens). Proceedings of the Netherlands TNO-Quality of Life and RIVM Workshop. May 14, 2009.
Rasmussen, P.E. (2006) Review: Essentials of Medical Geology. Economic Geology, 100 (1) 1263-1264.
Rasmussen, P.E., Edwards, G.C, Schroeder, W.H., Ausma, S., Steffen, A., Kemp, J., Hubble Fitzgerald, C.,El Bilali, E., Dias, G. (2005) Measurement of Gaseous Mercury Flux in Terrestrial Environments. In Mercury: Sources, Measurements, Cycles, and Effects. (Eds. M.B.Parsons & J.B.Percival). Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course Series 34 (7), pp 123-138.
Rasmussen, P.E. (2004). Elements and their Compounds in Indoor Environments. In Elements and their Compounds in the Environment. (Eds. E. Merian, M. Anke, M. Ihnat and M. Stoeppler). Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 11, pp 215-234.
Rasmussen. P.E. (2002). Review: Health Effects of Chrysotile Asbestos. Geoscience Canada.29(3) 132-134.
Edwards, G., Rasmussen, P.E., Ausma, S., Hazlewood, P., Steffan, S. (2002) The assessment of the evasion of mercury from a mercuriferous shale deposit using both micrometeorological and dynamic chamber methods..In Conference Proceedings - Joint 2002 CSCE/ASCE International Conference on Environmental Engineering - An International Perspective on Environmental Engineering 2002, 4p.
Edwards, G.C., Rasmussen, P.E., Ausma, S., Hazlewood, P., Steffen, S., Schroeder, W.H. (2002). Use of micrometeorological and dynamic chamber methods for the measurement of air-surface exchange of gaseous elemental mercury. In Proceedings of the American Meteorological Society 25th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 20-24 May 2002, Norfolk Virginia. 4 p.
Dias G.M., Edwards, G.C., Rasmussen, P.E., Schroeder, W.H., Kemp, R.J., Hubble, C.F., Mitchell, L.H., (2001). Developing relationships between fluxes of natural sources of mercury and environmental and biogeochemical parameters for the purpose of scaling up fluxes. Proceedings of the Silver Jubilee Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, August 8-11, 2000, Ann Arbour, Michigan, USA.
Gustin, M.S., Maxey, R., Rasmussen, P.E., and Biester, H., (1999). Mechanisms influencing the volatile loss of mercury from soil. In Proceedings Air and Waste Management Assoc. Meeting on Measurement of Toxics and Related Air Pollutants 1998, North Carolina USA.Vol 1, pp 224-235.
Rasmussen, P.E., Edwards, G.C., Kemp, J., Hubble-Fitzgerald, C., and Schroeder, W.H., (1998). Towards an improved natural sources inventory for mercury. In Proceedings of Metals and the Environment: An International Symposium. (Ed. J. Skeaff). CIMMP, Montreal, May 5-6, 1998: 73-83.
Rasmussen, P.E., (1995). Natural sources of mercury: field methods for characterizing monitoring sites. In Proceedings of Canadian Mercury Network Symposium, September 29-30, 1995.
Bonham-Carter, G.F., Rasmussen, P.E., Rencz, A.N., and Sangster, D.F. (1995). Mass balance model for mercury applied to Huntsville Lakes: A GIS Study. In Proceedings of Canadian Mercury Network Symposium, September 29-30, 1995.
Rasmussen, P.E. (1994). Mercury in vegetation of the Precambrian Shield; in Mercury Pollution: Integration and Synthesis. (Eds. C.J. Watras and J.W. Huckabee) Lewis Publishers/CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA. Chapter IV-5, pp. 417-425.
Rasmussen, P.E. (1993). A soil mercury survey in a Precambrian Shield watershed. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment. (R.J. Allan and J.O. Nriagu eds.). Toronto, Canada, 12-17 September 1993. Environment Canada. 2:62-65.
Rasmussen, P.E. and Gardner H.D. (1992). Remote sensing used in a mercury biogeochemical survey, Huntsville, Ontario; in Proceedings of the 15th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing. (J.K. Hornsby, D.J. King and N.A. Prout eds.). Toronto, Canada, 1-4 June 1992, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, pp. 287-292.