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Media Releases

Accelerated recent warming has pushed Great Slave Lake, one of the world’s iconic “Arctic Great Lakes”, across important ecological thresholds.

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Links to Media coverage of this paper: The Globe and Mail, CBC North (television) at the 10:34 mark, CBC News, Quirks and Quarks,
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Over two thousand years of Andean Condor poop reveals a history of volcanism, diet change, contaminants, and human impacts in Argentina

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B

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Linking 19th century European settlement to the disruption of a seabird's natural population dynamics

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Links to Media coverage of this paper: The CQnversation


Hundreds of years of bird droppings provide clues to the long-term dynamics of a vulnerable seabird

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society

A panoramic photo of Brister Pond, the Atlantic Ocean and Baccalieu Island. Photo by Matthew Duda

Links to the media coverage of this paper: The Times Colonist, The Toronto Star, Richmond News, Phys.Org,  Queen's Gazette,  Canadian Geographic


Aerosol-weakened monsoons during the period of anthropogenic warming can be linked to marked changes in freshwater ecosystems on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Published in: Nature Climate Change 27 Feb 2017

Lake Gonghai and its catchment in the Chinese Loess Plateau. Image source Dr. Zongli Wang.

Links to the media coverage of this paper: PHYS.ORG    Media coverage from China


Climate warming trumps the effects of decades of industry in driving algal bloom production in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region

Published in: PLOS One, May 2, 2016

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Where have all the crayfish gone?

Published in: Freshwater Science, Vol. 34, No. 3, September 2015

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Climate Change Forces New Ecological States in Tropical Andean Lakes

Published in: PLOS One, February 3, 2015 Versión española

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The Jellification of North Temperate Lakes

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological, 2014



“Rock snot” algae not invasive to salmon rivers of eastern Canada

Published in: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2014

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CBC online    CBC News    New Brunswick    MSN News Canada    Telegraph Journal 04 March 2014    Live Science: http://www.livescience.com/43859-rock-snot-climate-warming.html

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Oil and gas exploration leaves environmental footprint on pristine Arctic lakes

Published in: PLOS ONE, November 2013

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Rapid warming in the Hudson Bay Lowlands has resulted in the loss of a key Arctic refugium

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological, 2013

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The legacy of a half century of Athabasca oil sands development recorded by lake ecosystems

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2012

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Historical pesticide applications coincided with an altered diet of aerially-foraging insectivorous chimney swifts

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological, 18 April 2012

chimney swift in flight, credit Mike Veltri

 Inside chimney sampling, credit Chris Grooms Swift in chimney photo credit Chirs Grooms Swift in chimney photo credit Bruce Di Labio
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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 aremote Arctic lake are unique within the past 200,000 years

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2009

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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: Science 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

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