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Algal blooms in lakes linked to new environmental stressor
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological, September 2011


 

 

Striking ecological impact on Canada’s Arctic coastline linked to global climate change
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2011






 

Coastal birds funnel metals from ocean to land
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2010

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Recent changes in a remote Arctic lake are unique within the past 200,000 years
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2009.

Links to media coverage related to this story:    Ottawa Citizen    Globe & Mail    The Independent
                                                                                Daily Planet video    Quirks and Quarks
(interview near end)

 

 

Widespread planktonic diatom responses to recent warming
Published in: Global Change Biology 2008.

Lake and Diatom Image

 

The widespread threat of calcium decline in fresh waters
Published in: Science, November 2008.
Plastic Lake

 

Crossing the final ecological threshold in some high Arctic ponds
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2007.

 

Arctic seabirds transport marine-derived contaminants
Published in: Sc
ience Vol 309 15 July 2005

 

 

 

 

 

Climate-driven regime shifts in the biological communities of Arctic lakes
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Volume February 2005

  

 

 

 

 

 

Thule whalers and Arctic freshwater ecosystems
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Volume 101: 1613-1617, Feb. 10, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

Water taste and odour problems in Ontario Cottage Country lakes
Published in: Freshwater Biology Volume 49:199-207, 2004