2024:
Hargan KE, Duda MP, Michelutti N, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2024. Assessing long-term diatom changes in sub-Arctic ponds receiving high fluxes of seabird nutrients. Ecology and Evolution accepted on Feb 1, 2024.
Cheney CL, Eccles KM, Kimpe LE, Lehnherr I, Blais JM. 2024. Mercury deposition to lake sediments near historic gold mines in northern Canada. Environmental Pollution 342: 123038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.123038
2023:
Walsh SJ, Bond M, Guérin N, Blais JM, Rowan D. 2023. A sensitive method to determine 210Po and 210Pb in environmental samples by alpha spectrometry using CuS micro-precipitation. Scientific Reports, 13:19754. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46230-9
Keir JLA, Papas W, Wawrzynczak A, Arande-Rodriguez R, Blais JM, White PA. 2023. Use of silicone wristbands to measure firefighters’ exposures to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) during live fire training. Environmental Research 239: 117306 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.117306
Kissinger JA, Gregory B, Clarkson C, Libera N, Eickmeyer DC, Kimpe LE, Kurek J, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2023. Tracking pollution from fur farms using forensic paleolimnology. Environmental Pollution 335: 122307 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122307 http://hdl.handle.net/10393/45316
Duda MP, Grooms C, Sympson L, Blais JM, Dagodzo D, Feng W, Hayward KM, Julius ML, Kimpe LE, Lambertucci SA, Layton-Matthews D, Lougheed SC, Massaferro J, Michelutti N, Pufahl PK, Vuletich A, Smol JP. 2023. A ~2200-year record of Andean Condor diet and nest site usage reflects natural and anthropogenic stressors. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290: 20230106. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0106
Graves SD, Mason JJ, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Séguin JY, Blais JM, Hanson ML, Hollebone BP, Palace VP, Clark I, Cundall L, Layton-Matthews D, Leybourne MI, Orihel DM. 2023. Radio- and stable isotope analysis reveals minimal assimilation of petrogenic carbon into an oligotrophic freshwater food web after experimental spills of diluted bitumen. Chemosphere, 138608. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138608
Stoyanovich SS, Saunders LJ, Yang Z, Hanson ML, Hollebone BP, Orihel DM, Palace V, Rodriguez-Gil JR, Mirnaghi FS, Shah K, Blais JM. 2023. Chemical weathering patterns of diluted bitumen spilled into freshwater limnocorrals. Environmental Science & Technology 57 (25): 9266-9276. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c05468
Gregory BRB, Bell MA, Sproule A, Shields SW, Overy DP, Blais JM. 2023. Exploring within-ecodistrict lake organic matter variability and identifying possible environmental organic biomarkers using sedimentomics. Science of the Total Environment, 871: 161981 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161981
Black TA, Paterson MJ, Timlick L, Cederwall J, Blais JM, Hollebone B, Orihel DM, Palace VP, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Hanson ML. 2023. The challenges of characterizing the zooplankton community response following simulated spills of diluted bitumen into Boreal lake limnocorrals. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 110: 46 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-022-03680-7
Keir JLA, Kirkham TL, Aranda-Rodriguez R, White PA, Blais JM. 2023. Effectiveness of reducing firefighters’ exposure to PAHs and genotoxins by implementing dermal cleaning interventions. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, https://doi.org/10.1080/15459624.2022.2150768
2022:
Séguin JY, Mason J, Hanson ML, Hollebone BP Orihel DM, Palace VP, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Blais JM. 2022. Bioaccumulation and toxicokinetics of polycyclic aromatic compounds and metals in giant floater mussels (Pyganodon grandis) exposed to a simulated diluted bitumen spill. Aquatic Toxicology, 252: 106316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2022.106316
Timlick L, Dearnley J, Blais JM, Hanson M, Hollebone B, Orihel D, Rodriguez Gil J, Peters L, Stoyanovich S, Palace V. 2022. Responses of wild finescale dace (Phoxinus neogaeus) to experimental spills of Cold Lake Blend diluted bitumen at IISD Experimental Lakes Area, northwestern Ontario. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5457
Cheney C, Pothier M, Thomas PJ, Sarma SN, Poulain AJ, Blais JM. 2022. Paleoecotoxicology: Developing methods to assess the toxicity of lake sediment records influenced by legacy gold mining. Aquatic Toxicology 250: 106248 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2022.106248
Savarajah B, Korosi JB, Thienpont JR, Kimpe LE, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2022. Algal responses to metal(loid) pollution, urbanization, and climatic changes in sub-Arctic lakes around Yellowknife, Canada. Arctic Science http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/AS-2021-0052
Azdajic M, Blais JM, Poulain AJ. 2022. Arsenate decreases production of methylmercury across increasing sulfate concentration amendments in freshwater lake sediments. Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts 24, 1508-1516. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EM00543J
Gregory BRB, Kissinger JA, Clarkson C, Kimpe LE, Eickmeyer DC, Kurek J, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2022. Are fur farms a source of persistent organic pollutants or mercury to nearby freshwater ecosystems? Science of the Total Environment 833: 155100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155100
Michelutti N, Hargan K, Kimpe LE, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2022. Using stable water isotope composition (d18O and d2H) to track the interannual responses of Arctic and tropical Andean waterbodies to rising air temperatures. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 127, e2021JG006719. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006719
Duda MP, Cyr F, Robertson GJ, Michelutti N, Meyer-Jacob C, Hedd A, McFarlane LT, Montevecchi WA, Kimpe LE, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2022. Climate oscillations drive millennial-scale changes in seabird colony size. Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16171
Patterson SA, Denton DTJ, Hasler CT, Blais JM, Hanson ML, Hollebone BP, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Langlois VS, Patey G, and Orihel DM. 2022. Resilience of wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) to hydrocarbons and other compounds released from naturally weathered diluted bitumen in a boreal lake. Aquatic Pollution, 245: 106128 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2022.106128
Wilkinson JL, Boxall ABA, Kolpin DW, Leung KMY, … Blais JM, Kimpe LE, ….Teta C (125 authors). 2022. Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 119 No. 8 e2113947119 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113947119
Stoyanovich S, Yang Z, Hanson M, Hollebone B.P, Orihel D.M, Palace V, Rodriguez-Gil JR, Mirnaghi F, Shah K, Blais JM. 2022. Fate of polycyclic aromatic compounds from diluted bitumen spilled into freshwater limnocorrals. Science of the Total Environment 819: 151993. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151993
Smythe KK, Cooke CA, Drevnik PE, Cornett RJ, Blais JM. 2022. Tracking historical sources of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) in dated lake sediment cores near in-situ bitumen operations of Cold Lake, Alberta. Environmental Pollution 294: 118567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118567
Saunders LJ, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Stoyanovich SS, Kimpe LE, Hanson ML, Hollebone BP, Orihel DM, Blais JM. 2022. Effect of spilled diluted bitumen on chemical air-water exchange in experimental lake enclosures. Chemosphere, 291: 132708 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.132708
Thomas PJ, Eickmeyer DC, Eccles KM, Kimpe LE, Felzel E, Brouwer A, Letcher RJ, Maclean BD, Chan HM, Blais JM. 2022. Paleotoxicity of petrogenic and pyrogenic hydrocarbon mixtures in sediment cores from the Athabasca oil sands region, Alberta (Canada). Environmental Pollution 292: 118271 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118271
2021:
Duda MP, Hargan KE, Michelutti N, Blais JM, Grooms C, Gilchrist HG, Malory ML, Robertson GJ, Smol JP. 2021. Reconstructing long-term changes in avian populations using lake sediments: Opening a window onto the past. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: Article 698175 https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.698175
Black TA, White MS, Blais JM, Hollebone B, Orihel DM, Palace VP, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Hanson ML. 2021. Surface oil is the primary driver of macroinvertebrate impacts following spills of diluted bitumen in freshwater. Environmental Pollution 290: 117929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117929
Aždajić M, Yumvihoze E, Blais JM, Poulain AJ. 2021. The effect of legacy gold mining on methylmercury cycling and microbial community structure in northern freshwater lakes. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts https://doi.org/10.1039/d1em00129a
Stoyanovich SS, Rodríguez-Gil JR, Hanson M, Hollebone BP, Orihel DM, Palace V, Faragher R, Mirnaghi FS, Shah K, Yang Z, Blais JM. 2021. Simulating bitumen spills in Boreal Lake limnocorrals – Part 2: Factors affecting the physical characteristics and submergence of diluted bitumen. Science of the Total Environment 790: 148580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148580
Rodriguez-Gil JL, Stoyanovich S, Hanson ML, Hollebone B, Palace V, Orihel DM, Black T, Cederwell J, Mason J, Patterson S, Timlick L, Séguin J, Blais JM. 2021. Simulating diluted bitumen spills in boreal lake limnocorrals - Part 1: Experimental design and responses of hydrocarbons, metals, and water quality parameters. Science of the Total Environment 790: 148537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148537
Thienpont JR, Yang Z, Hall RI, Wolfe BB, Hollebone BP, Blais JM. 2021. Tracking petrogenic hydrocarbons in lakes of the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Alberta, Canada using petroleum biomarkers. Environmental Pollution 286: 117286 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117286
Clyde N, Hargan KE, Forbes MR, Iverson SA, Blais JM, Smol JP, Bump JK, Gilchrist, H.G. 2021. Seaduck engineers in the Arctic Archipelago: Nesting eiders deliver marine nutrients and transform the chemistry of island soils, plants, and ponds. Oecologia https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-04889-9
Salat A, Williams K, Chiu S, Eickmeyer D, Kimpe LE, Blais JM, Crump D. 2021. Extracts from dated lake sediment cores in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region alter EROD activity and gene expression in avian hepatocytes. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry 40: 1883-1893. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5040
Gallant LR, Fenton MB, Grooms C, Bogdanowicz W, Stewart RS, Clare EL, Smol JP; Blais JM. 2021. A 4,300-year history of dietary changes in a bat roost determined from a tropical guano deposit. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 126, e2020JG006026 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG006026
Perrett M, Sivarajah B, Cheney C, Korosi J Kimpe LE, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2021. Impacts on aquatic biota from salinization and metal(loid) contamination by gold mine tailings in sub-Arctic lakes. Environmental Pollution 278 ; 116815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116815
Persaud AA, Cheney CL, Sivarajah B, Blais JM, Smol JP, Korosi JB. 2021. Regional changes in Cladocera (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) assemblages in subarctic (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada) lakes impacted by historic gold mining activities. Hydrobiologia, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-04534-9
Salat APJ, Eickmeyer DC, Kimpe LE, Hall RI, Wolfe BB, Mundy LJ, Trudeau VL, Blais JM. 2021. Integrated analyses of petroleum biomarkers and polycyclic aromatic compounds in lake sediment cores from an oil sands region. Environmental Pollution 270: 116060 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.116060
Cheng W, Kimpe LE, Mallory ML, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2021. An ~1,100-year sediment record of Arctic seabird occupation. Geology v. 49: 510-514. https://doi.org/10.1130/G48215.1 2020:
2020:
Duda MP, Allen-Mahé S, Barbraud C, Boudreau A, Bryant R, Blais JM, Grooms C, Delord K, Kimpe LE, Letournel B, Lim JE, Lormée H, Michelutti N, Robertson GJ, Urtizbéréa F, Wilhelm SI, Smol JP. 2020. Linking 19th century European settlement to the disruption of a seabird’s natural population dynamics. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 51: 32484-32492 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2016811117
Stewart EM, Hargan KE, Michelutti N, Kimpe LE, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2020. The impacts of waterbird-mediated elemental enrichment on chironomid assemblages on islands in Lake Ontario. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 194: 107-124. https://doi.org/10.1127/fal/2020/1328
Thienpont J, Eickmeyer D, Kimpe LE, Blais JM. 2020. Thermokarst disturbance drives concentration and composition of metals and polycyclic aromatic compounds in lakes of the western Canadian Arctic. Journal Geophysical Research 125: e2020JG005834 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005834
Cooke SJ, Rytwinski T, Taylor JJ, Nyboer EA, Nguyen VM, Bennett JR, Young N, Aitken S, Auld G, Lane JF, Prior KA, Smokorowski KE, Smith PA, Jacob AL, Browne DR, Blais JM, Kerr JT, Ormeci B, Alexander SM, Burn CR, Buxton RT, Orihel DM, Vermaire JC, Murray DL, Simon P, Edwards KA, Clarke J, Xenopoulos MA, Gregory-Eaves I, Bennett EM, Smol JP. 2020. On "success" in applied environmental research - What is it, how can it be achieved, and how does one know when it has been achieved? Environmental Reviews 28: 357-372. https://doi.org/10.1139/er-2020-0045
Bell MA, Blais JM. 2020. Paleolimnology in support of archeology: a review of past investigations and a proposed framework for future study design. Journal of Paleolimnology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-020-00156-8
Bogdanowicz W, Worobiec E, Grooms C, Kimpe LE, Smol JP, Stewart RF, Suchecka E, Pomorski JJ, Blais JM, Clare EL, Fenton MB. 2020. Pollen assemblage and environmental DNA changes: a 4300-year-old bat guano deposit from Jamaica. Quaternary International 558: 47-58.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.09.003
Tanamal C, Blais JM, Yumvihoze E, Chan HM. 2020. Health risk assessment of inorganic arsenic exposure through fish consumption in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal https://doi.org/10.1080/10807039.2020.1799187
Korosi JB, Thienpont JR, Eickmeyer DC, Kimpe LE, Blais JM. 2020. A paleolimnological approach for interpreting Aquatic Effects Monitoring at the Diavik Diamond Mine (Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories, Canada). Lake and Reservoir Management https://doi.org/10.1080/10402381.2020.1777232
Gallant LR, Kimpe LE, Hargan KE, Blais JM. 2020. Tracking the history of cultural eutrophication in High Arctic waterbodies. Anthropocene 100250, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2020.100250
Bell MA, Overy D, Blais JM. 2020. A continental scale spatial investigation of lake sediment organic carbon compositions using sedimentomics. Science of the Total Environment 719: 137746.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137746
Cheney CL, Eccles KM, Kimpe LE, Thienpont JR, Korosi JB, Blais JM. 2020. Determining the effects of past gold mining using a sediment palaeotoxicity model. Science of the Total Environment 718: 137308.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137308
Sivarajah B, Cheney C, Perrett M, Kimpe LE, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2020. Regional gold mining activities and recent climate warming alter diatom assemblages in deep sub-Arctic lakes. Polar Biology,
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02635-0
Duda MP, Glew JR, Michelutti N, Robertson GJ, Kissinger J, Eickmeyer DC, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2020. Long-term changes in terrestrial vegetation driven by shifts in a colonial seabird population. Ecosystems, Ecosystems 23: 1643–1656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-020-00494-8
Keir JLA, Cakmak S, Blais JM, White PA. 2020. The influence of demographic and lifestyle factors on urinary levels of PAH metabolites - empirical analyses of Cycle 2 (2009-2011) CHMS data. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 31: 386–397 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-020-0208-4
Duda MP, Robertson GJ, Lim JE, Kissinger JA, Eickmeyer DC, Grooms C, Kimpe LE, Montevecchi WA, Michelutti N, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2020. Striking millennial-scale changes in the population size of a threatened seabird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 20192234 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2234
Azdajic M, Belzile N, Gunn J, Blais JM, Poulain AP. 2020. Effects of a decade of selenium emission reductions on mercury accumulation in aquatic biota. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 77: 848-856. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2019-0196
Cederwall J, Black T, Blais JM, Hanson M, Hollebone B, Palace V, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Greer C, Maynard C, Ortmann A, Rooney R, Orihel D. 2020. Life under an oil slick: Response of a freshwater food web to simulated spills of diluted bitumen in field mesocosms. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 77: 779-788. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2019-0224
Gallant LR, Grooms C, Kimpe LE, Smol JP, Bogdanowicz W, Stewart RS, Clare EL, Fenton BM, Blais JM. 2020. A bat guano deposit in Jamaica recorded agricultural changes and metal exposure over the last > 4,300 years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 538: 109470.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109470
Keir JLA, Akhtar US, Matschke DMJ, White PA, Kirkham TL, Chan, Blais JM. 2020. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and metal contamination of air and surfaces exposed to combustion emissions during emergency fire suppression: Implications for firefighters’ exposures. Science of the Total Environment 698:134211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134211
2019:
Stoyanovich S, Yang Z, Hanson M, Hollebone BP, Orihel DM, Palace V, Rodriguez-Gil JR, Faragher R, Mirnaghi FS, Shah K, Blais JM. 2019. Simulating spills of diluted bitumen: Environmental weathering and sub-mergence in model freshwater system. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 38: 2621-2628. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4600
Sarma S, Kimpe LE, Doyon V, Blais JM, Chan HM. 2019. A metabolomics study on effects of polyaromatic compounds in oil sand extracts on the respiratory, hepatic, and nervous systems using three human cell lines. Environmental Research 178: 108680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2019.108680
Gutierrez-Villagomez JM, Matyniuk CJ, Xing L, Langlois V, Pauli BD, Blais JM, Trudeau VL. 2019. Transcriptome Analysis Reveals that Naphthenic Acids Perturb Gene Networks Related to Metabolic Processes, Membrane Integrity, and Gut Function in Silurana (Xenopus) Tropicalis Embryos. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: Article 533; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00533
Wang L, Chen G, Liu Y, Li R, Kong L, Huang L, Wang J, Kimpe LE, Blais JM. 2019. Environmental legacy and catchment erosion modulate sediment records of trace metals in alpine lakes of southwest China. Environmental Pollution 254: 113090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113090
Saleem A, Bell M, Kimpe LE, Korosi JB, Arnason JT, Blais JM. 2019. Identifying novel treeline biomarkers in lake sediments using an untargeted screening approach. Science of the Total Environment 694: 133684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133684
Sivarajah B, Korosi JB, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2019. Multiple environmental variables influence diatom assemblages across an arsenic gradient in 33 subarctic lakes near abandoned gold mines. Hydrobiologia, 841: 133-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-04014-1
Bell M, Blais JM. 2019. “-Omics” workflow for paleolimnological and geological archives: A review. Science of the Total Environment 672: 438-455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.477
Thienpont JR, Perreault JT, Korosi JB, Pisaric MFJ, Blais JM. 2019. Have natural lake expansion and landscape inundation resulted in mercury increases in flooded lakes of the Great Slave Lowlands (Northwest Territories, Canada)? Journal of Paleolimnology 61: 345-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-018-0063-7
Hargan KE, Gilchrist HG, Clyde N, Iverson S, Forbes M, Kimpe LE, Mallory M, Michelutti N, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2019. Multi-century perspective assessing the sustainability of the historical harvest of seaducks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 116 (17) 8425-8430. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/03/26/1814057116
Coleman KA, Palmer MJ, Korosi JB, Thienpont JR, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2019. Assessing long-term changes in aquatic ecosystems near a small conventional oil and gas operation in the Cameron Hills, southern Northwest Territories, Canada. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 192: 181-197 https://doi.org/10.1127/fal/2019/1191
Pilon S, Zastepa A, Taranu Z, Gregory-Eaves I, Racine M, Blais JM, Poulain A, Pick FR. 2019. Contrasting histories of microcystin-producing cyanobacteria in two temperate lakes as inferred from quantitative sediment DNA analyses. Lake and Reservoir Management 35 : 102-117; https://doi.org/10.1080/10402381.2018.1549625
Bilodeau JC, Gutierrez Villagomez JM, Kimpe LE, Thomas PJ, Pauli BD, Trudeau VL, Blais JM. 2019. Toxicokinetics and bioaccumulation of polycyclic aromatic compounds in wood frog tadpoles (Lithobates sylvaticus) exposed to Athabasca oil sands sediment. Aquatic Toxicology, 207: 217-225 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2018.11.006
Schuh CE, Jamieson HE, Palmer MJ, Martin AJ, Blais JM. 2019. Controls governing the spatial distribution of sediment arsenic concentrations and solid-phase speciation in a lake impacted by legacy mining pollution. Science of the Total Environment 654: 563-575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.065
Stewart EM, Michelutti N, Vu M, Hargan K, Grooms C, Kimpe LE, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2019. Pond sediments on nesting islands in eastern Lake Ontario provide insights into the population dynamics and impacts of waterbird colonies, Journal of Great Lakes Research 45: 350-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2019.01.009
Kang W, Chen G, Wang J, Huang L, Li R, Hu Y, Tao J, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2019. Assessing the impact of long-term changes in climate and atmospheric deposition on a shallow alpine lake from southeast Tibet. Science of the Total Environment, 650: 713-724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.066
Mundy LJ, Bilodeau JC, Schock DM, Thomas PJ, Blais JM, Pauli BD. 2019. Utilizing wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) tadpoles and semipermeable membrane devices to monitor polycyclic aromatic compounds in boreal wetlands in the oil sands region of northern Alberta, Canada. Chemosphere, 214: 148-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.09.034
2018:
Pretorius TR, Charest C, Kimpe LE, Blais JM. 2018. Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils by Echinacea purpurea and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi. PLoS One e0208325. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208325
Duda MP, Hargan KE, Michelutti N, Kimpe LE, Clyde N, Gilchrist HG, Mallory ML, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2018. Breeding eider ducks strongly influence subarctic coastal pond chemistry. Aquatic Sciences 80:40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-018-0591-2
Stewart EM, Hargan KE, Sivarajah B, Kimpe LE, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2018. A paleoenvironmental study tracking eutrophication, metal pollution, and climate change in Niven Lake (NT), Yellowknife’s first sewage lagoon. Arctic, 71: 201-217.
Korosi JB, Griffiths K, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2018. Trends in historical mercury deposition inferred from lake sediment cores across a climate gradient in the Canadian High Arctic. Environmental Pollution, 241: 459-467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.05.049
Hargan KE, Stewart EM, Michelutti N, Grooms C, Kimpe LE, Mallory ML, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2018. Incorporating sterols and stanols as sediment markers for tracking waterbird impacts to temperate ponds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 285: 20180631. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0631
2017:
Lefebvre C, Kimpe LE, Metcalfe C, Trudeau V, Blais JM. 2017. Bioconcentration of polycyclic musks in fathead minnows caged in a wastewater effluent plume. Environmental Pollution, 231: 1593-1600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2017.09.062
Keir JLA, Akhtar US, Matschke DMJ, Kirkham TL, Chan HM, Ayotte P, White PA, Blais JM. 2017. Elevated exposures to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other organic mutagens in Ottawa firefighters participating in emergency, on-shift fire suppression. Environmental Science & Technology, 51: 12745-12755 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b02850
Thienpont JR, Desjardins CM, Kimpe LE, Korosi JB, Kokelj SV, Palmer MJ, Muir DCG, Kirk JL, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2017. Comparative histories of polycyclic aromatic compound accumulation in lake sediments near petroleum operations in western Canada. Environmental Pollution 231: 13-21.
Korosi JB, Thienpont JR, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2017. Paleo-ecotoxicology: what can lake sediments tell us about ecosystem responses to environmental pollutants? Environmental Science & Technology 51: 9446-9457. DOI 10.1021/acs.est.7b02375
Cheng W, Blais JM, Xie Z, Li M, Sun L. 2017. Response of polar regions to emerging organic pollutant organophosphorus esters (OPEs) Advances in Polar Science. 28: 13-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.13679/j.advps.2017.1.00013
Zastepa A, Pick FR, Blais JM. 2017. Distribution and flux of microcystin congeners in lake sediments. Lake and Reservoir Management 33:444-451. https://doi.org/10.1080/10402381.2017.1362491
Sarma SN, Blais JM, Chan LHM. 2017. Neurotoxicity of alkylated polycyclic aromatic compounds in human neuroblastoma cells. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A: 80: 285-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/15287394.2017.1314840
Korosi JB, Thienpont JR, Smol JM, Blais JM.2017. Paleolimnology can provide the missing long-term perspective in ecotoxicology research. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 13(5): 957-959. DOI: 10.1002/ieam.1935
Korosi JB, Thienpont JR, Pisaric MFJ, deMontigny P; Perreault JT, McDonald J, Simpson MJ, Armstrong T, Kokelj SJ, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2017. Broad scale lake expansion and flooding inundates critical wood bison habitat. Nature Communications 8: Article # 14510. http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14510
Zastepa A, Taranu ZE, Zurawell RW, Kimpe LE, Blais JM, Gregory-Eaves I, Pick FR. 2017. Reconstructing a long-term record of microcystins from the analysis of lake sediments. Science of the Total Environment, 579: 893-901. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.211
Hargan K, Coleman K, Grooms C, Blais JM, Kimpe LE, Gilchrist G, Mallory M, Smol JP. 2017. Cliff-nesting seabirds influence production and sediment chemistry of lakes situated above their colony. Science of the Total Environment 576: 85-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.024
2016:
Houben AJ, French TD, Kokelj SV, Wang X, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2016. The impacts of permafrost thaw slump events on limnological variables in upland Tundra lakes, Mackenzie Delta region. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 189: 11-35. https://doi.org/10.1127/fal/2016/0921.
Thienpont JR, Korosi JB, Williams T, Hargan K, Eickmeyer D, Kimpe LE, Palmer M, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2016. Multi-trophic level response to extreme metal contamination from gold mining in a subarctic lake. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 283: 20161125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1125
Korosi JB, Cooke CA, Eickmeyer DC, Kimpe LE, Blais JM. 2016. In-situ bitumen extraction associated with increased petrogenic polycyclic aromatic compounds in lake sediments. Environmental Pollution 218: 915-922. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2016.08.032.
Cheng W, Sun L, Kimpe LE, Mallory ML, Smol JP, Gallant LR, Li J, Blais JM. 2016. Sterols and stanols preserved in pond sediments track seabird biovectors in a High Arctic environment. Environmental Science & Technology 50: 9351-9360. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02767..
Drevnik PE, Cooke CA, Barraza D, Blais JM, Coale KH, Cumming BF, Curtis CJ, and 26 others. 2016. Spatiotemporal patterns of mercury accumulation in lake sediments of western North America. Science of the Total Environment, 568: 1157-1170. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.167.
Houben AJ, D’Onofrio R, Kokelj SV, Blais JM. 2016. Factors affecting elevated arsenic and methyl mercury concentrations in small shield lakes surrounding gold mines near the Yellowknife, NT, (Canada) region. PLoS One, 11(4): e0150960. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150960.
Korosi JB, Eickmeyer DC, Chin KS, Palmer MJ, Kimpe LE, and Blais JM. 2016. Examining spatial trends in polycyclic aromatic compounds measured in stream macroinvertebrates near a small subarctic oil and gas operation. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Accepted Feb. 10, 2016.
Korosi JB, Eickmeyer DC, Thienpont JR, Palmer MJ, Kimpe LE, Blais JM. 2016. Assessing the contribution of combustion-derived contaminants to a remote subarctic environment from traffic on the Tibbitt to Contwoyto winter road (Northwest Territories, Canada). Science of the Total Environment, 553: 96-106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.054
Eickmeyer DC, Kimpe LE, Kokelj SV, Pisaric MFJ, Smol JP, Sanei H, Thienpont JR, Blais JM. 2016. Interactions of polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides with sedimentary organic matter of retrogressive thaw slump-affected lakes of the Mackenzie River Delta uplands, NT, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 121: 411-421, doi: 10.1002/2015JG003069.
Stewart EM, Coleman KA, Korosi JB, Thienpont JR, Palmer M, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2016. Using lake sediments to infer past environmental conditions in relation to a commercial walleye fishery in Tathlina Lake (NT, Canada), a large, shallow northern ecosystem. Journal of Great Lakes Research 42: 217-222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2015.04.010
2015:
Bennett JR, Shaw JD, Terauds A, Smol JP, Aerts R, Bergstrom DM, Blais JM, Cheung WWL, Chown SL, Lea MA, Nielsen UN, Pauly D, Reimer KJ, Riddle MJ, Snape I, Stark JS, Tulloch VJ, Possingham HP. Polar lessons learned: Informing long-term management based on shared threats in Arctic and Antarctic environments. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 13(6): 316–324, doi:10.1890/140315
Stewart EM, Michelutti N, Shenstone-Harris S, Grooms C, Weseloh DVC, Kimpe LE, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2015. Tracking the history and ecological impacts of rising double-crested cormorant populations using pond sediments from islands in eastern Lake Ontario. PLoS One DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0134167.
Poulain AJ, Aris-Brosou S, Blais JM, Brazeau M, Keller W, Paterson A. 2015. Mercuric reductase gene sequences retrieved from lake sediments track the onset of the industrial revolution. ISME Journal, 1-10, doi:10.1038/ismej.2015.86
Blais JM, Donahue WF. 2015. Comment on “Sphagnum Mosses from 21 Ombrotrophic Bogs in the Athabasca Bituminous Sands Region Show No Significant Atmospheric Contamination of “Heavy Metals”” Environmental Science & Technology, 49: 6352-6353. DOI: 10.1021/es503751v
Korosi JB, McDonald J, Coleman K, Palmer M, Smol JP, Simpson MJ, Blais JM. 2015. Long-term changes in organic matter and mercury transport to lakes in the sporadic discontinuous permafrost zone related to peat subsidence. Limnology and Oceanography Accepted April 28, 2015. DOI: 10.1002/lno.10116
Zastepa A, Pick FR, Blais JM, Saleem A. 2015. Analysis of intracellular and extracellular microcystin variants in sediments and pore waters by accelerated solvent extraction and high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Analytica Chimica Acta, 872: 26-34. DOI:10.1016/j.aca.2015.02.056
Coleman K, Palmer M, Korosi JB, Kokelj SV, Jackson K, Hargan K, Courtney C, Mustaphi C, Thienpont JR, Kimpe LE, Blais JM, Pisaric MFJ, and Smol JP. 2015. Tracking the impacts of recent warming and thaw of permafrost peatlands on aquatic ecosystems: a multi-proxy approach using remote sensing and lake sediments. Boreal Environment Research 20: 363-377.
Blais JM, Rosen MR, Smol JP. 2015. Using natural archives to track sources and long-term trends of pollution: An introduction. Blais, J.M., Rosen, M.R. and Smol, J.P. [Editors]. Environmental Contaminants: Using Natural Archives to Track Sources and Long-Term Trends of Pollution. Springer, Dordrecht. 509 p. DOI: DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9541-8_1
Korosi J, Cheng W, Blais JM. 2015. Organic pollutants in lake and coastal sediment archives. Blais, J.M., Rosen, M.R. and Smol, J.P. [Editors]. Environmental Contaminants: Using Natural Archives to Track Sources and Long-Term Trends of Pollution. Springer, Dordrecht. 509 p. DOI:10.1007/978-94-017-9541-8
Kallenborn R, Blais JM. 2015. Tracking contaminant transport from biovectors. Blais, J.M., Rosen, M.R. and Smol, J.P. [Editors]. Environmental Contaminants: Using Natural Archives to Track Sources and Long-Term Trends of Pollution. Springer, Dordrecht. 509 p. . DOI:10.1007/978-94-017-9541-8
Blais JM, Rosen MR, Smol JP. 2015. Using natural archives to track sources and long-term trends of pollution: Some final thoughts and suggestions for future directions. Blais, J.M., Rosen, M.R. and Smol, J.P. [Editors]. Environmental Contaminants: Using Natural Archives to Track Sources and Long-Term Trends of Pollution. Springer, Dordrecht. 509 p. . DOI:10.1007/978-94-017-9541-8
Chételat J, Amyot M, Arp P, Blais JM, Depew D, van der Velden S, Emmerton C, Evans M, Gamberg M, Gantner N, Girard C, Graydon J, Kirk J, Lean D, Lehnherr I, Muir D, Nasr M, Poulain A, Power M, Roach P, Stern G, Swanson H. 2015. Mercury in freshwater ecosystems of the Canadian Arctic: Recent advances on its cycling and fate. Science of the Total Environment 509-510: 41-66. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.05.151
2014:
Lessard CR, Poulain AJ, Ridal JJ, Doyle JR, Blais JM. 2014. A dynamic mass balance model for mercury in the St. Lawrence River near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. Science of the Total Environment, 500-501: 131-138. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.08.080
Fillion M, Blais JM, Yumvihoze E, Nakajima M, Workman P, Osborne G, Chan HM. 2014. Identification of environmental sources of lead exposure in Nunavut (Canada) using stable isotopes analysis. Environment International 71: 63-73. DOI:10.1016/j.envint.2014.06.004
Qin XY, Sun LG, Blais JM, Wang YH, Huang T, Huang W, Xie ZQ. 2014. From sea to land: Assessment of the bio-transport of phosphorus in Antarctica. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology 32: 148-154. DOI: DOI
10.1007/s00343-014-3115-5
Keller W, Paterson AM, Rühland KM, Blais JM. 2014. Introduction - Environmental change in the Hudson and James Bay region. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 46: 2-5. DOI: 10.1657/1938-4246-46.1.2
Irvine G, Blais JM, Doyle JR, Kimpe LE, White PA. 2014. Cancer risk to First Nations’ people from exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons near in-situ bitumen extraction in Cold Lake, Alberta. Environmental Health 13: 7; Open Access URL: http://www.ehjournal.net/content/13/1/7 DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-13-7
Seabert T, Pal S, Pinet B, Haman F, Robidoux M, Imbeault P, Krummel E, Kimpe LE, Blais JM. 2014. Elevated contaminants contrasted with diversity of polyunsaturated fatty acids in wild food consumers of two remote First Nations communities in Northern Ontario, Canada. PLoS One 9: e90351. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090351
Chiasson-Gould SA, Blais JM, Poulain, AJ. 2014. Dissolved organic matter kinetically controls mercury bioavailability to bacteria. Environmental Science & Technology 48: 3153-3161. DOI: 10.1021/es4038484
French TD, Houben AJ, Desforges J-PW, Kimpe LE, Kokelj SV, Poulain AJ, Smol JP, Wang X, Blais JM. 2014. Dissolved organic carbon thresholds affect mercury bioavailability in Arctic lakes. Environmental Science & Technology 48: 3162-3168. DOI: 10.1021/es403849d
Zastepa A, Pick FR, Blais JM. 2014. Fate and persistence of particulate and dissolved microcystin-LA from Microcystis blooms. Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, doi 10.1080/10807039.2013.854138. DOI:10.1080/10807039.2013.854138
Irvine G, Doyle JR, White PA, Blais JM. 2014. Soil ingestion rate determination in a rural population of Alberta Canada practicing a wilderness lifestyle. Science of the Total Environment, 470-471: 138-146. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.09.037
2013:
Foster K, Blais JM. 2013. Biovector transport of contaminants. In Muir D, Kurt-Karakus P, Stow J. (Eds) Canadian Arctic Contaminants Assessment Report III: Northern Contaminants Program, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Ottawa, ON. pp. 248-252. http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2014/aadnc-aandc/R74-2-2-2013-eng.pdf
Seabert T, Pal S, Krümmel EM, Blais JM, Imbeault P, Robidoux MA, Haman F. 2013. Dietary practices in isolated First Nations communities of Northern Canada: Combined isotopic and lipid markers provide a good qualitative assessment of store-bought vs locally harvested foods consumption. Nutrition & Diabetes 3(10):e92. DOI:10.1038/nutd.2013.34
Sun LG, Emslie SD, Huang T, Blais JM, Xie ZQ, Liu XD, Yin XB, Wang YH, Huang W, Hodgson DA, Smol JP. 2013. Vertebrate records in polar sediments: biological responses to past climate change and human activities. Earth Science Reviews 126: 147-155. DOI:10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.08.004
Korosi JB, Irvine G, Skierszkan EK, Doyle JR, Kimpe LE, Janvier J, Blais JM. 2013. Localized enrichment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soil and lake sediments linked to in-situ bitumen extraction near Cold Lake, Alberta. Environmental Pollution 182: 307-315. DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2013.07.012
Thienpont JR, Kokelj SV, Korosi JB, Cheng E, Desjardins C, Kimpe LE, Blais JM, Pisaric MFJ, Smol JP. 2013. Exploratory hydrocarbon drilling impacts to Arctic lake ecosystems. PLoS One, 8: e78875. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078875
Brazeau ML, Blais JM, Paterson AM, Keller W, Poulain AJ. 2013. Evidence for microbially mediated production of elemental mercury (Hg0) in subarctic lake sediments. Applied Geochemistry 37: 142-148. DOI:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2013.07.020
Michelutti N, McCleary KM, Antoniades D, Sutherland P, Blais JM, Douglas MSV, Smol JP. 2013. Using paleolimnology to track the impacts of early Arctic peoples on freshwater ecosystems from southern Baffin Island, Nunavut. Quaternary Science Reviews. 76: 82-95. DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.027
Cheng W, Xie Z, Blais JM, Zhang P, Li M, Yang C, Huang W, Ding R, Sun LG. 2013. Organophosphorus esters in the oceans and possible relation with ocean gyres. Environmental Pollution 180: 159-164. DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.032
Silva de Assis HC, Simmons DBD, Zamora JM, Lado WE, Al-Ansari AM, Sherry JP, Blais JM, Metcalfe CD, Trudeau VL. 2013. Estrogen-like effects in male goldfish co-exposed to fluoxetine and 17α-ethinylestradiol. Environmental Science & Technology 47: 5372-5382. DOI: 10.1021/es3044888
Al-Ansari AM, Atkinson SK, Doyle JR, Trudeau VL, Blais JM. 2013. Dynamics of uptake and elimination of 17-ethinylestradiol in male goldfish (Carassius auratus). Aquatic Toxicology, 132-133: 134-140. DOI:10.1016/j.aquatox.2013.02.006
Pal S, Blais JM, Robidoux MA, Haman F, Krümmel E, Seabert TA, Imbeault P. 2013. The association of Type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance/secretion with persistent organic pollutants in two First Nations communities in northern Ontario. Diabetes and Metabolism 39: 497-504. DOI:10.1016/j.diabet.2013.01.006
Skierszkan EK, Irvine G, Doyle JR, Kimpe LE, Blais JM. 2013. Is there widespread metals contamination from the in-situ bitumen extraction at Cold Lake, Alberta heavy oil field? Science of the Total Environment 447: 337-344. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.12.097
Fathi M, Ridal JJ, Lean DRS, Blais JM. 2013. Do wood fibers from a pulp mill affect the distribution of total and methyl mercury in river sediments? Journal of Great Lakes Research 39: 66-73 DOI:10.1016/j.jglr.2012.12.018
Lessard CR, Poulain AJ, Ridal JJ, Blais JM. 2013. Steady-state mass balance model for mercury in the St. Lawrence River near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. Environmental Pollution 174: 229-235. DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2012.12.001
Brazeau ML, Poulain AJ, Paterson A, Keller W, Sanei H, Blais JM. 2013. Recent changes in mercury deposition and primary productivity inferred from sediments of lakes from the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Ontario, Canada. Environmental Pollution 173: 52-60. DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2012.09.017
Stewart EM, Michelutti N, Blais JM, Mallory M, Douglas MSV, Smol JP. 2013. Contrasting the effects of climatic, nutrient, and oxygen dynamics on subfossil chironomid assemblages: A paleolimnological experiment from eutrophic high Arctic ponds. J. Paleolimnol. 49: 205-219. DOI: 10.1007/s10933-012-9658-6
Thienpont JR, Rühland KM, Pisaric MFJ, Kokelj SV, Kimpe LE, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2013. Biological responses to permafrost thaw slumping in lakes of the Mackenzie Delta uplands (Northwest Territories, Canada). Freshwater Biology 58: 37-353. DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12061
2012:
Deison R, Smol JP, Kokelj SV, Pisaric MFJ, Kimpe LE, Poulain AJ, Sanei H, Thienpont JR, Blais JM. 2012. Spatial and temporal assessment of mercury and organic matter in lakes affected by thawing permafrost in the Mackenzie Delta uplands, NT, Canada. Environmental Science & Technology 46: 8748-8755. DOI: 10.1021/es300798w
Imbeault P, Findlay CS, Robidoux MA, Haman F, Blais JM, Tremblay A, Springthorpe S, Pal S, Seabert T, Krümmel EM, Maal-Bared R, Tetro JA, Pandey S, Filion LG. 2012. Dysregulation of cytokine response in Canadian First Nations communities: Is there an association with persistent organic pollutants levels? PLoS One, 7: e39931 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039931
Atkinson SK, Marlatt VL, Lean DRS, Trudeau VL, Blais JM. 2012. Patterns of persistence and elimination of steroidal estrogens in south-eastern Ontario wastewater treatment plants. Science of the Total Environment 430: 119-125. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.04.069
Nocera JJ, Blais JM, Beresford D, Finity L, Grooms C, Kimpe LE, Kyser TK, Reudink M, Smol JP. 2012. Historical insecticide applications coincided with an altered diet of aerially-foraging insectivorous chimney swifts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 279: 3114-3120. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0445
Chapados N, Casimiro C, Robidoux MA, Haman F, Batal M, Blais JM, Imbeault P. 2012. Increased proliferative effect of organochlorine compounds on human preadipocytes. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 365: 275-278. DOI
10.1007/s11010-012-1268-0
Doyle JR, Blais JM, White PA. 2012. A survey of the traditional food consumption that may contribute to enhanced soil ingestion in a Canadian First Nation community. Science of the Total Environment. 424: 104-109. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.02.044
Doyle, JR, Blais JM, Holmes R, White PA. 2012. A soil ingestion pilot study of a population following a traditional lifestyle typical of rural or wilderness areas. Science of the Total Environment, 424: 110-120. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.02.043
Doyle JR, White PA, Blais JM. 2012. A pilot study to assess the feasibility of using naturally-occurring radionuclides as mass balance tracers to estimate soil ingestion. Submitted to Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 83: 34-40. DOI:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2012.06.005
Robidoux, M.A., Imbeault, P., Blais, J.M., Pal, S., Seabert, T., Krümmel, E., Batal, M., Haman, F. 2012. Traditional foodways in two contemporary northern First Nations communities. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 32: 59-77. http://search.proquest.com/docview/1285471668?accountid=14701
Amiguet VT, Kramp KL, Mao J, McRae C, Goulah A, Kimpe LE, Blais JM, Arnason JT. 2012. Supercritical carbon dioxide extraction of polyunsaturated fatty acids from Northern Shrimp (Pandalus borealis Kreyer) processing by-products. Food Chemistry 130: 853-858. DOI:10.1016/j.foodchem.2011.07.098
2011:
Foster KL, Kimpe LE, Brimble SK, Liu H, Mallory ML, Smol JP, Macdonald RW, Blais JM. 2011. Contaminant focusing into a High Arctic receptor site: The role of seabirds. Environmental Science and Technology 45: 10053-10060. DOI: 10.1021/es202754h
Al-Ansari A, Saleem A, Kimpe LE, Trudeau VL, Blais JM. 2011. The development of an optimized sample preparation for trace level detection of 17-ethinylestradiol and estrone in whole fish tissue. J. Chromatogr. B 879: 3649-3652. DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2011.09.033
Clair, T.A., Burns, D.A., Rosas, I.R. Blais JM, Percy K. 2011. Ecosystems, Chapter 6, in Hidy, G.M., Brook, J.R., Demerjian, K.L., Molina, L.T., Pennell, W.T., Scheffe, R.D. (eds). Technical Challenges in Multipollutant Air Quality Management. Springer Pub., Dordrecht, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0304-9, pp: 139-230.
Trudeau V, Heyne B, Blais JM, Temussi F, Atkinson SK, Pakdel F, Popesku JT, Marlatt VL, Scaiano JC, Lean DRS. 2011. Lumiestrone is photochemically derived from estrone and may be released to the environment without detection. Frontiers in Endocrinology 2: Article 83: Open Access: DOI 10.3389/2011.00083
http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/Abstract.aspx?s=418&name=experimental_endocrinology&ART_DOI=10.3389/fendo.2011.00083
Keatley BE, Blais JM, Douglas MSV, Gregory-Eaves I, Mallory, ML, Michelutti N, Smol JM. 2011. Historical seabird population dynamics and their effects on Arctic pond ecosystems: A multi-proxy paleolimnological study from Cape Vera, Devon Island, Arctic Canada. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 179: 51-66 . DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2011/0179-0051
Foster K, Mallory ML, Hill L, Blais JM. 2011. PCB and organochlorine pesticides in northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) from a High Arctic colony: Chemical exposure, fate, and transfer to predators. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 30: 2055-2064 . DOI: 10.1002/etc.592
Imbeault P, Haman F, Blais JM, Pal S, Seabert T, Krümmel EM, Robidoux MA. 2011. Obesity and type 2 diabetes prevalence in adults from two remote First Nations communities in northwestern Ontario (Canada). Journal of Obesity Article ID 267509,
Doyle JR, Al-Ansari A, Gendron RL, White PA, Blais JM. 2011. A method to estimate sediment ingestion by fish. Aquatic Toxicology 103: 121-127. DOI:10.1016/j.aquatox.2011.02.001
Johnson, K.L., Batal. M., Haman, F., Imbeault, P., Blais, J.M., Pal, S., Seabert, T.A., Krümmel, E, and Robidoux, M.A. 2011. The Life Course “Connection”: An Exploration of Women’s Dietary Choices in a Northern First Nations Community. Pimatisiwin 8(3): 27-58. http://www.pimatisiwin.com/uploads/jan_2011/02JohnsonBatal.pdf
Atkinson SK, Marlatt VK, Kimpe LE, Lean DRS, Trudeau VL, Blais JM. 2011. Environmental factors affecting the photodegradation and estrogenicity of estrone and estradiol. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 60: 1-7 DOI: 10.1007/s00244-010-9515-4
Michelutti N, Mallory ML, Blais JM, Douglas MSV, Smol JP. 2011. Chironomid assemblages from seabird-affected High Arctic ponds. Polar Biology, 34: 799-812 DOI: 10.1007/s00300-010-0934-5
Antoniades D, Michelutti N, Quinlan R, Blais JM, Bonilla S, Douglas MSV, Pienitz R, Smol JP, Vincent WF. 2011. Cultural eutrophication, anoxia, and ecosystem recovery in Meretta Lake, High Arctic Canada. Limnology and Oceanography 56: 639-650. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.2.0639
2010:
Foster KL, Wang SW, Mackay D, Mallory ML, Blais JM. 2010. Preliminary assessment of avian stomach oils: A vector of contaminants to chicks and potential for diet analysis and biomonitoring. Environmental Science and Technology, 44: 6869-6874. DOI: 10.1021/es1009983
Desforges JPW, Peachey BDL, Sanderson PM, White PA, Blais JM. 2010. Plasma vitellogenin in male teleost fish from 43 rivers worldwide is correlated with the upstream human population size. Environmental Pollution 158 : 3279-3284. DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2010.07.017
Bourdon JA, Bazinet TM, Arnason TT, Kimpe LE, Blais JM, White PA. 2010. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) contamination and aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) agonist activity of Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplements: Implications for daily intake of dioxins and PCBs. Food and Chemical Toxicology, DOI:10.1016/j.fct.2010.07.051.
Haman F, Fontaine-Bisson B, Batal M, Imbeault P, Blais JM, Robidoux M. In Press. Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in northern Canada’s remote First Nations communities: The dietary dilemma. International Journal of Obesity, accepted June 14, 2010. DOI:10.1038/ijo.2010.236
Choy ES, Kimpe LE, Mallory ML, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2010. Contamination of an arctic terrestrial food web with marine-derived persistent organic pollutants transported by breeding seabirds. Environmental Pollution 158: 3431-3438. DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2010.07.014
Al-Ansari A, Saleem A, Kimpe LE, Sherry J, McMaster M, Trudeau VL, Blais JM. 2010. Bioaccumulation of the pharmaceutical 17a-ethinyl estradiol in shorthead redhorse suckers (Moxostoma macrolepidotum) from the St. Clair River, Canada. Environmental Pollution 158: 2566-2571. DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2010.05.020
Michelutti N, Blais JM, Mallory ML, Brash J, Thienpont J, Kimpe LE, Douglas MSV, Smol JP. 2010. Trophic position influences the efficacy of seabirds as metal biovectors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107: 10543-10548. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001333107
Doyle J, Blais JM, White PA. 2010. Mass balance soil ingestion estimating methods and their application to inhabitants of rural and wilderness areas: A critical review. Science of the Total Environment 408: 2181-2188. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.02.007
Marlatt VL, Lakoff J, Crump K, Martinyuk CJ, Watt J, Jewell L, Atkinson S, Blais JM, Sherry J, Moon TW, Trudeau VL. 2010. Sex- and tissue-specific effects of waterborne estrogen on estrogen receptor subtypes and E2-mediated gene expression in the reproductive axis of goldfish. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 156: 92-101. DOI:10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.01.001
Hadley, KR, Douglas MSV, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2010. Nutrient enrichment in the High Arctic associated with Thule Inuit whalers: A paleolimnological investigation from Ellesmere Island (Nunavut, Canada). Hydrobiologia 649: 129-138. DOI
10.1007/s10750-010-0235-6
Delongchamp TM, Ridal JJ, Lean DRS, Poissant L, Blais JM. 2010. Mercury transport between sediments and the overlying water of the St. Lawrence River Area of Concern near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. Environmental Pollution 158: 1487-1493. DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2009.12.030
Choy, ES, Gauthier M, Mallory ML, Smol JP, Douglas MSV, Lean DRS, Blais JM. 2010. An isotopic investigation of mercury accumulation in terrestrial food webs adjacent to an Arctic seabird colony. Science of the Total Environment 408: 1858-1867. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.01.014
Hadley KR, Douglas MSV, McGhee, RH, Blais JM, Smol JP. 2010. Ecological influences of Thule Inuit whalers on high Arctic pond ecosystems: A comparative paleolimnological study from Bathurst Island (Nunavut, Canada). Journal of Paleolimnology 44: 85-93. DOI: 10.1007/s10933-009-9388-6
Michellutti, N., Blais, J.M., Cumming, B.F., Paterson, A.M., Rühland, K., Wolfe, A.P., Smol, J.M. 2010. Do spectrally inferred determinations of chlorophyll a reflect trends in lake trophic status? Journal of Paleolimnology 43: 205-217. DOI:
10.1007/s10933-009-9325-8
Ridal, JJ, Yanch E, Fowlie A, Razavi R, Fathi M, Choy E, Hodson P, Campbell L, Blais JM, Hickey MBC, Lean DRS. 2010. Potential causes of enhanced transfer of mercury to St. Lawrence River biota: Implications for sediment management strategies at Cornwall, Ontario Canada. Hydrobiologia, 647: 81-98
DOI:10.1007/s10750-009-9951-1
Ethier ALM, Scheuhammer AM, Blais JM, Paterson AM, Mierle G, Ingram R, Lean DRS. 2010. Mercury empirical relationships in sediments from three Ontario lakes. Science of the Total Environment 408: 2087-2095. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.12.037
Griffiths K, Michelutti N, Blais JM, Kimpe LE, Smol JP. 2010. Comparing nitrogen isotopic signals between bulk sediments and invertebrate remains in High Arctic seabird-influenced ponds. Journal of Paleolimnology 44: 405-412. DOI:
10.1007/s10933-009-9354-3
2009:
Brimble SK, Foster KL, Mallory ML, Macdonald RW, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2009. High Arctic ponds receiving biotransported nutrients from a nearby seabird colony are also subject to potentially toxic loadings of arsenic, cadmium and zinc. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 28: 2426-2433. DOI: 10.1897/09-235.1
St-Amand, A., P. Mayer, J.M. Blais. 2009. Modeling PAH uptake by vegetation from the air using field measurements. Atmospheric Environment 43: 4283-4288. DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.06.011
Mills RB, Bodek T, Paterson AM, Blais JM, Lean DRS. 2009. Temporal analysis of net fluvial methylmercury loading in a dystrophic and a clear water lake. Science of the Total Environment 407: 4696-4702. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.03.034
Michelutti, N., Liu, H., Smol, J.P., Kimpe, L.E., Keatley, B., Mallory, M., Douglas, M.S.V., Blais, J.M. 2009. Accelerated delivery of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in recent sediments near a large seabird colony in Arctic Canada. Environmental Pollution 157: 2769-2775. DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2009.04.025
Mills RB, Paterson AM, Lean DRS, Smol JP, Mierle G, Blais JM. 2009. Dissecting the spatial scales of mercury accumulation in Ontario lake sediment. Environmental Pollution 157: 2949-2956. DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2009.06.009
Delongchamp T, Lean DRS, Ridal JJ, Blais JM. 2009. Sediment mercury dynamics and historical trends of mercury emissions to the St Lawrence River area of concern near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. Science of the Total Environment 407: 4095-4104. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.03.010
St-Amand, A., P. Mayer, J.M. Blais. 2009. Prediction of SVOC vegetation and atmospheric concentrations using calculated deposition velocities. Environment International 35: 851-855. DOI:10.1016/j.envint.2009.02.002
Krümmel, EM, Scheer M, Gregory-Eaves, I, Macdonald RW, Kimpe LE, Smol JP, Finney B, Blais JM. 2009. Historical analysis of salmon-derived polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in lake sediments. Science of the Total Environment 407: 1977-1989. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.11.028
Brimble, S.K., Blais, J.M., Kimpe, L.E., Mallory, M.L., Keatley, B.E., Douglas, M.S.V., and Smol, J.P. 2009. Bioenrichment of trace elements in a series of ponds near a northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) colony at Cape Vera, Devon Island. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66: 949-958. DOI: 10.1139/F09-053
Michelutti N, Keatley, BE, Brimble S, Blais JM, Liu H, Douglas MSV, Mallory ML, Smol JP. 2009. Seabird-driven shifts in Arctic pond ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276: 591-596. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1103
Keatley BE, Douglas MSV, Blais JM, Mallory ML & Smol JP. 2009. Impacts of seabird-derived nutrients on water quality and diatom assemblages from Cape Vera, Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic Hydrobiologia 621: 191-205. DOI:10.1007/s10750-008-9670-z
Mills RB, Paterson AM, Blais JM, Lean DRS, Smol JP, Mierle, G. 2009. Factors influencing the achievement of steady state in mercury contamination among lakes and catchments of south-central Ontario. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66: 187-200. DOI: 10.1139/F08-204
2008:
Haman F, Robidoux M, Imbeault P, Blais J, Kruemmel E, Seabert T, Pal S. 2008. Exogenous glucose oxidation in First Nations communities of Northwestern Ontario (Canada): Effects of wild-food consumption and Type II diabetes. Obesity 16: 510-P, S195.
Schindler, D.W., Wolfe, A., Vinebrooke, R., Crowe, A., Blais, J.M., Miskimmin, B., Freed, R. Perren, B. 2008. The cultural eutrophication of Lac Labiche in the 20th Century: A paleoecological study. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 65: 2211-2223. DOI: 10.1139/F08-117
Michelutti, N., J.M. Blais, H. Liu, B.E. Keatley, M.S.V. Douglas, M.L. Mallory, J.P. Smol. 2008. The influence of seabird activity on the 210Pb flux in high Arctic ponds at Cape Vera, Devon Island, Nunavut: Implications for radiochronology. Journal of Paleolimnology 40: 783-791. DOI:
10.1007/s10933-008-9198-2
St-Amand, A., Mayer, P., Blais, J.M. 2008. Seasonal trends in vegetation and atmospheric concentrations of PAHs and PBDEs near a sanitary landfill. Atmospheric Environment. 42: 2948-2958. DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.12.050
Canário J., L. Poissant, N. O’Driscoll, J.J. Ridal, T. Delongchamp, M. Pilote, P. Constant, J.M. Blais, D. Lean. 2008. Mercury partitioning in surface sediments of the upper St. Lawrence River (Canada): Evidence of the importance of the sulphur chemistry. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 187: 219-231. DOI
10.1007/s11270-007-9510-1
2007:
Tolley, C., J.M. Blais. 2007. PCBs and PCDD/Fs in white-tailed deer near a smelter: Distance effects and human health risk assessment. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 26: 2650-2659. DOI: 10.1897/07-107.1
St.-Amand, A., P. Mayer, J.M. Blais. 2007. Modeling atmospheric vegetation uptake of PBDEs using field measurements. Environmental Science and Technology 41: 4234-4239. DOI: 10.1021/es0624467
Demers, M.J., E.N. Kelly, J.M. Blais, F.R. Pick, V.L. St. Louis, D.W. Schindler. 2007. Accumulation of persistent organic pollutants in trout from lakes spanning a 1600 meter elevation gradient in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Environmental Science and Technology 41: 2723-2729. DOI: 10.1021/es062428p
Gregory-Eaves, I., M. Demers, L.E. Kimpe, E.M. Krümmel, R.W. Macdonald, B.P. Finney, J.M. Blais. 2007. Tracing salmon-derived nutrients and contaminants in freshwater food webs across a pronounced spawner density gradient. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 26: 1100-1108. DOI: 10.1897/06-402R.1
Blais, J.M., Macdonald, R.W., Mackay, D., Webster, E., Harvey, C., Smol, J.P. 2007. Biologically mediated transport of contaminants in aquatic systems. “Critical Review” Environmental Science and Technology 41: 1075-1084. DOI: 10.1021/es061314a
2006:
Lafreniere, M.J., J.M. Blais, M.J. Sharp, D.W. Schindler. 2006. Organochlorine pesticide and polychlorinated biphenyl concentrations in snow, snowmelt and runoff at Bow Lake. Environmental Science and Technology, 40: 4909-4915. DOI: 10.1021/es060237g
Blais, J.M., S. Charpantier, F. Pick, C. Regnault-Roger. 2006. Mercury, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, organochlorine pesticides, and polychlorinated biphenyl concentrations in fish from lakes along a valley-to-mountain transect in the French Pyrenees. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 63: 91-99. DOI:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2005.08.008
2005:
Krümmel, E., I. Gregory-Eaves, R. Macdonald, L.E. Kimpe, J.P. Smol, B. Finney, J.M. Blais. 2005. Concentrations and fluxes of salmon derived polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in lake sediments. Environmental Science and Technology 39: 7020-7026. DOI: 10.1021/es050657q
Blais, J.M., L.E. Kimpe, D. McMahon, B.E. Keatley, M.L. Mallory, M.S.V. Douglas, J.P. Smol. 2005. Tracing contaminants using d15N measurements: Response. Science 310: 443. DOI: 10.1126/science.310.5747.443a
Blais, J.M., L.E. Kimpe, D. McMahon, B.E. Keatley, M.L. Mallory, M.S.V. Douglas, J.P. Smol. 2005. Arctic seabirds transport marine-derived contaminants. Science 309: 445. DOI: 10.1126/science.1112658
Poon, C., I. Gregory-Eaves, L.A. Connell, G. Guillore, P.M. Mayer, J. Ridal, J.M. Blais. 2005. Air-vegetation partitioning of PCBs near a point source. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 24: 3153-3158. DOI: 10.1897/04-395R.1
Blais, J.M. 2005. Biogeochemistry of persistent bioaccumulative toxicants: Processes affecting the transport of contaminants to remote areas. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62: 236-243. DOI: 10.1139/er-2013-0038
Wilkinson, A.C., L.E. Kimpe, J.M. Blais. 2005. Air-water gas exchange of chlorinated pesticides in four lakes spanning a 1205 m elevation range in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 24: 61-69. DOI: 10.1897/04-071R.1
2004:
Douglas, M.S.V., J.P. Smol, J.M. Savelle, J.M. Blais. 2004. Environmental effects of Thule Inuit whalers (ca A.D. 1200 – 1600) on a High Arctic pond. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101: 1613-1617. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0307570100
Davidson, D.A., A.C. Wilkinson, L.E. Kimpe, J.M. Blais. 2004. Persistent organic pollutants in vegetation from the mountains of western Canada. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23: 540-549. DOI: 10.1897/02-581
2003:
Krümmel, E., R. Macdonald, L.E. Kimpe, I. Gregory-Eaves, M.J. Demers, J.P. Smol, B. Finney, J.M. Blais. 2003. Delivery of pollutants by spawning salmon. Nature 425: 255-256. DOI:10.1038/425255a
Blais, J.M., F. Wilhelm, K.A. Kidd, D.C.G. Muir, D.B. Donald, D.W. Schindler. 2003. Concentrations of organochlorine pesticides and PCBs in amphipods (Gammarus lacustris) along an elevation gradient in mountain lakes of western Canada. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 22, No. 11: 2605-2613. DOI: 10.1897/02-389
Davidson, D.A., A.C. Wilkinson, J.M. Blais, L.E. Kimpe, D.W. Schindler. 2003. Orographic cold-trapping of persistent organic pollutants by vegetation in mountains of western Canada. Environmental Science and Technology 37: 209-215. DOI: 10.1021/es020605q
Mbongwe, B., M. Legrand, J.M. Blais, L.E. Kimpe, J.J. Ridal, D.R.S. Lean. 2003. DDT in the Okavango, Botswana (Africa) aquatic ecosystem after 50 years of use. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 22: 7-19. DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620220102
Blais, J.M., K. L. Froese, L.E. Kimpe, D.C.G. Muir, D.W. Schindler. 2003. Assessment and characterization of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) near a hazardous waste incinerator: Analysis of vegetation, snow, and sediments. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 22: 126-133. DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620220116
Earlier:
Blais, J.M., D.W. Schindler, M. Sharp, E. Braekevelt, M. Laferniere, D.C.G. Muir, W. Strachan. 2001. Fluxes of semi-volatile organochlorines in Bow Lake, a remote high altitude, glacier-fed sub-alpine lake in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Limnology and Oceanography 46: 2019-2031. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2001.46.8.2019
Blais, J.M., D.W. Schindler, D.C.G. Muir, M. Sharp, D. Donald, M. Lafreniere, E. Braekevelt, M. Comba, S. Backus. 2001. Glaciers are a dominant source of persistent organochlorines to a subalpine lake in Banff National Park, Canada. Ambio 30: 410-415. DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-30.7.410
Blais, J.M. and D.C.G. Muir. 2001. Paleolimnological methods and applications for organic contaminants. In: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research Vol. 2: Physical and Chemical Approaches (Chapter 10, pp. 271-298). B. Last and J.P.Smol (Eds). Kluwer Academic Press. Dordrecht, The Netherlands. DOI
10.1007/0-306-47670-3_10
Blais, J.M., K. Duff, D.W. Schindler, J.P. Smol, P.R. Leavitt , M. Agbeti. 2000. Assessment of recent eutrophication histories in Lac Ste. Anne and Lake Isle, Alberta, Canada, using paleolimnological methods. Lake and Reservoir Management 16: 292-304. DOI:10.1080/07438140009354237
Blais, J.M., K. Duff, T. Laing, J.P. Smol. 1999. Regional contamination in lakes from the Noril'sk smelters in Siberia, Russia. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 110: 389-404. DOI: 10.1023/A:1005059325100
Paterson, A.M., B.F. Cumming, J.P. Smol, J.M. Blais, R.L. France. 1998. Assessment of large-scale watershed disturbances on lakes in northwestern Ontario: A 30-year paleolimnological perspective. Canadian Journal of Forestry Research 28: 1546-1556. DOI: 10.1139/x98-138
Blais, J.M., D.W. Schindler, D.C.G. Muir, L.E.Kimpe, D.B. Donald, B. Rosenberg. 1998. Accumulation of persistent organochlorines in mountains of western Canada. Nature. 395: 585-588. DOI: 10.1038/26944
Blais, J.M., R.L. France, L.E. Kimpe, R.J. Cornett. 1998. Climatic changes have had a greater effect on erosion and sediment accumulation than logging and fire: Evidence from 210Pb chronology in lake sediments. Biogeochemistry 43: 235-252. DOI:10.1023/A:1006065109925
France, R. and J.M. Blais. 1998. Lead concentrations and stable isotopic evidence for trans-polar contamination of plants in the Canadian High Arctic. Ambio 27: 506-508. DOI: 10.2307/4314781
Larsen, C.P.S., R.Pienitz, J.P. Smol , K.A. Moser, B.F. Cumming, J.M. Blais, R.I. Hall, and G.M. Macdonald. 1997. Relations between lake morphometry and the presence of laminated sediments: A re-examination of Larsen and Macdonald (1993). Quaternary Science Reviews, 17: 711-717. DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(97)00043-7
Blais, J.M. 1996. Using isotopic tracers in lake sediments to assess atmospheric transport of lead in eastern Canada. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 92: 329-342. DOI:10.1007/BF00283566
Blais, J.M. and J. Kalff. 1995. The influence of lake morphometry on sediment focusing. Limnology and Oceanography 40: 582-588. DOI: 10.4319/lo.1995.40.3.0582
Blais, J.M., J. Kalff, R.J. Cornett, and R.D. Evans. 1995. Evaluating 210Pb dating in lake sediments using stable Pb, Ambrosia pollen, and 137Cs. Journal of Paleolimnology 13: 169-178. DOI:10.1007/BF00678105
Blais, J.M. and J. Kalff. 1993. Atmospheric loading of Zn, Cu, Ni, Cr, and Pb to lake sediments: The role of catchment, lake morphometry, and physico-chemical properties of the elements. Biogeochemistry 23: 1-22. DOI:10.1007/BF00002920
Blais, J.M. and E.J. Maly. 1993. Differential predation by Chaoborus americanus on males and females of two species of Diaptomus. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 50: 410-415.DOI: 10.1139/f93-046
