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Select articles (trainees*):

Dimitrovas I*, Sivarajah B*, Kidd KA, Edge CB, Kurek J. 2026. Ecological risk from legacy DDT in lake sediments at the landscape scale. Environmental Advances
 
Chapman WM*, Lieske DJ, Richards C, Clements JC, Kurek J. 2026. Rapidly warming waters drive Vibrio parahaemolyticus abundance in a northern gulf. Global Change Biology Communications1: no. 2: e70024.

Armstrong I, Jones A*, Would JA, Graves EL, Dysart AJ*, Kurek J, Cumming BF. 2025. Allometry improves water flea (Crustacea: Cladocera) size-structure interpretations in lake sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology 73: 433–444.

Sugden S, White AB, Lento J, Kurek J, Dimitrovas I*, Emry S, Hua X, Ijzerman MM, Kidd KA, Morrow KL*, Ollinik JE, Schnell L, Thormeyer M, Edge CB. 2025. Legacy effects of four decades of insecticide applications on contemporary riverine benthic macroinvertebrates. Environmental Pollution 376: 126397.

Kurek J, Fraser MP*, Nakamoto BJ, Kidd KA, Edge CB. 2025. Legacy DDT and its metabolites in Brook Trout from lakes within forested watersheds treated with aerial applications of insecticides. PLoS ONE 20(4): e0320665.

Chapman WM*, Francis G, Kurek J. 2025. Indigenous-language communication as an opportunity for engagement in the aquatic sciences. FACETS 10: 1-8.

Sivarajah B*, Campbell LM, Smol JP, Vermaire J, Kurek J. 2024. Historical gold mining altered paleotoxicity of lake sediments in Nova Scotia, Canada. FACETS 9: 1-14.  dx.doi.org/10.1139/facets-2023-0063

Doucet C, Johnston L, Hiscock A, Bermarija T, Hammond M, Holmes B, Smith T, Lalonde B, Parent D, Deacoff C, Scott R, Kurek J, Jamieson R. 2023. Synoptic snapshots: monitoring lake water quality over four decades in an urbanizing region. Lake and Reservoir Management 39 (2): 101-119.

Jones A*, Labaj A*, Campbell JM*, Libera N, Kurek J. 2022. Zooplankton assemblage and body size responses to severe lake eutrophication from agricultural activities near mink farms in Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Plankton Research 44 (3): 464-474.

Labaj AL*, LeBlanc AD*, Doucet CV*, Tardif C, Kurek J. 2022. Microlitter in the water, sediments, and mussels of the Saint John River (Wolastoq) watershed, Atlantic Canada. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 79(4): 566-575.

Campbell JM*, Libera N, Smol JP, Kurek J. 2022. Historical impacts of mink fur farming on chironomid assemblages of shallow lakes in Nova Scotia, Canada. Lake and Reservoir Management 38: 80-94. doi.org/10.1080/10402381.2021.2018631

Provencher J, Au S, Horn D, Mallory ML, Walker TR, Kurek J, Weiss J, Erdle L, Lusher A. 2022. Animals and microplastics – ingestion, transport, breakdown, and trophic transfer. In Polluting Textiles: The Problem with Microfibres. Taylor & Francis Group. doi: 10.4324/9781003165385-4

Clark AJ*, Labaj AL*, Smol JP, Campbell LM, Kurek J. 2021. Arsenic and mercury contamination and complex aquatic bioindicator responses to historical gold mining and modern watershed stressors in urban Nova Scotia, Canada. Science of the Total Environment 787: 147374. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147374

Doucet CV*, Labaj AL*, Kurek J. 2021. Microfiber content in freshwater mussels from rural tributaries of the Saint John River, Canada. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 232: 32. doi.org/10.1007/s11270-020-04958-4

Kurek J, MacKeigan PW*, Veinot S, Mercer A, Kidd K. 2019. Ecological legacy of DDT archived in lake sediments from eastern Canada. Environmental Science & Technology 53 (13): 7316-7325.

 Daly M*, Kurek J, Gregory-Eaves I, Patoine A. 2019. Reorganization of aquatic communities from low-nutrient lakes in northwestern New Brunswick, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology 61(2): 185-200.

Armstrong I*, Kurek J. 2019. Sensitivity and response of low-nutrient lakes to post twentieth century environmental change in New Brunswick, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology 61(1): 85-98.