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210Pb and137Cs in margin sediments of the Arctic Ocean: Controls on boundary scavenging

A review of marine environmental contaminant issues in the North Pacific: The dangers and how to identify them

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Accelerated delivery of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in recent sediments near a large seabird colony in Arctic Canada

scientific article

Alkane and PAH biomarkers as tracers of terrigenous organic carbon in Arctic Ocean sediments

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Alkane and PAH depositional history, sources and fluxes in sediments from the Fraser River Basin and Strait of Georgia, Canada

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Alkane and PAH provenance and potential bioavailability in coastal marine sediments subject to a gradient of anthropogenic sources in British Columbia, Canada

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Alkane distributions in Arctic Ocean sediments. Reply to “Alkane and PAH biomarkers as tracers of terrigenous organic carbon in Arctic Ocean sediments by Mark B. Yunker, Robie W. Macdonald, Lloyd R. Snowdon, Brian R. Fowler: Comment” by Vera Petr

Alkane, terpene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon geochemistry of the Mackenzie River and Mackenzie shelf: Riverine contributions to Beaufort Sea coastal sediment

scholarly article by Mark B. Yunker et al published July 1993 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Aquatic ecology: delivery of pollutants by spawning salmon.

scientific article published in September 2003

Awakenings in the Arctic

scientific article published in Nature

Axinopsida serricata shell encrustation: a potential indicator of organic enrichment conditions in sediments in the southern Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada

scientific article

Beaufort Sea storm and resuspension modeling

article by D. Gwyn Lintern et al published November 2013 in Journal of Marine Systems

Biogeochemical controls on PCB deposition in Hudson Bay.

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Biogeochemical cycling in the Strait of Georgia

scientific article published on 11 October 2008

Biologically mediated transport of contaminants to aquatic systems

scientific article published on February 2007

Biomagnification of polychlorinated biphenyls in a harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) food web from the strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada

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Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

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CASCADE – The Circum-Arctic Sediment CArbon DatabasE

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Canadian Basin freshwater sources and changes: Results from the 2005 Arctic Ocean Section

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Carbon dynamics in sea ice: A winter flux time series

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Change at the margin of the North Water Polynya, Baffin Bay, inferred from organic matter records in dated sediment cores

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Changes in the marine carbonate system of the western Arctic: patterns in a rescued data set

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Characterization of sedimentary organic matter in recent marine sediments from Hudson Bay, Canada, by Rock-Eval pyrolysis

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Chemical–environment interactions affecting the risk of impacts on aquatic organisms: A review with a Canadian perspective — interactions affecting exposure

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Chemical–environment interactions affecting the risk of impacts on aquatic organisms: A review with a Canadian perspective — interactions affecting vulnerability

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Climate Change, Risks and Contaminants: A Perspective from Studying the Arctic

scholarly article by Robie W. Macdonald published December 2005 in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal

Climate variability and physical forcing of the food webs and the carbon budget on panarctic shelves

Comment on Climate Change and Mercury Accumulation in Canadian High and Subarctic Lakes

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Concentrations and Fluxes of Salmon-Derived Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Lake Sediments

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Constraints on the origin of sedimentary organic carbon in the Beaufort Sea from coupled molecular 13C and 14C measurements

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Contaminant amplification in the environment

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Contemporary and preindustrial mass budgets of mercury in the Hudson Bay Marine System: the role of sediment recycling

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Coupling laser ablation and atomic fluorescence spectrophotometry: an example using mercury analysis of small sections of fish scales

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Current use pesticide and legacy organochlorine pesticide dynamics at the ocean-sea ice-atmosphere interface in resolute passage, Canadian Arctic, during winter-summer transition

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

DIFFERENTIATION OF POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO-p-DIOXIN AND DIBENZOFURAN SOURCES IN COASTAL BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

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Decabrominated Diphenyl Ethers (BDE-209) in Chinese and Global Air: Levels, Gas/Particle Partitioning, and Long-Range Transport: Is Long-Range Transport of BDE-209 Really Governed by the Movement of Particles?

scientific article published on 15 December 2016

Determination of mercury biogeochemical fluxes in the remote Mackenzie River Basin, northwest Canada, using speciation of sulfur and organic carbon

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Diagenetic separation of cadmium and manganese in suboxic continental margin sediments

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Dinoflagellate cyst production over an annual cycle in seasonally ice-covered Hudson Bay

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Distant drivers or local signals: where do mercury trends in western Arctic belugas originate?

scientific article published on 28 November 2014

Distribution and Cycling of Suspended Particles Inferred from Transmissivity in the Strait of Georgia, Haro Strait and Juan de Fuca Strait

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Distribution and sources of organic biomarkers in arctic sediments from the Mackenzie River and Beaufort Shelf

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Distribution and sources of organic matter in surface marine sediments across the North American Arctic margin

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Distribution and uptake of key polychlorinated biphenyl and polybrominated diphenyl ether congeners in benthic infauna relative to sediment organic enrichment

scientific article published on 4 April 2014

Distribution, characteristics and potential impacts of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay, Canada

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Distributions of runoff, sea-ice melt and brine using δ18O and salinity data — A new view on freshwater cycling in Hudson Bay

Dynamic changes in size‐fractionated dissolved organic matter composition in a seasonally ice‐covered Arctic River

Early diagenesis and trace element accumulation in North American Arctic margin sediments

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Effect of receiving environment on the transport and fate of polybrominated diphenyl ethers near two submarine municipal outfalls

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Effect of terrestrial organic matter on ocean acidification and CO2 flux in an Arctic shelf sea

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Effect of wood waste dumping on organic matter in seawater and surficial sediments of Alberni Inlet, British Columbia

Effects of Seabird Vectors on the Fate, Partitioning, and Signatures of Contaminants in a High Arctic Ecosystem

scientific article published on 07 November 2011

Effects of future climate change on primary productivity and export fluxes in the Beaufort Sea

scholarly article

Effects of local and global change on an inland sea: the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada

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Effects of ultraviolet radiation and contaminant-related stressors on arctic freshwater ecosystems

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Elemental and stable isotopic constraints on river influence and patterns of nitrogen cycling and biological productivity in Hudson Bay

Environmental fractionation of PCBs and PBDEs during particle transport as recorded by sediments in coastal waters

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Evidence for warming of Atlantic water in the Southern Canadian Basin of the Arctic Ocean: Results from the Larsen-93 Expedition

scientific article published in 1995

Extending the use of certified reference sediments for assessment of accuracy in determinations of trace metals

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for An apparent hiatus in global warming?

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Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Crossing the final ecological threshold in high Arctic ponds

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Gulf of Mexico hypoxia: alternate states and a legacy

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Hypoxia by degrees: Establishing definitions for a changing ocean

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Life at low Reynolds number

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Locations of marine animals revealed by carbon isotopes

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Perception of climate change

scholarly article published 4 September 2012

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Response of ocean ecosystems to climate warming

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Faculty of 1000 evaluation for The evolution and future of Earth's nitrogen cycle

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for The origin of methylmercury in open Mediterranean waters

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Thresholds of hypoxia for marine biodiversity

Gas/particle partitioning of semi-volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere: Transition from unsteady to steady state

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Geochemistry and fluxes of hydrocarbons to the Beaufort Sea shelf: A multivariate comparison of fluvial inputs and coastal erosion of peat using principal components analysis

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Geoengineering with seagrasses: is credit due where credit is given?

article published in 2016

Glacial to postglacial transformation of organic input pathways in Arctic Ocean basins

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HIGH ARCTIC PONDS RECEIVING BIOTRANSPORTED NUTRIENTS FROM A NEARBY SEABIRD COLONY ARE ALSO SUBJECT TO POTENTIALLY TOXIC LOADINGS OF ARSENIC, CADMIUM, AND ZINC

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Hexachlorocyclohexanes in the Canadian archipelago. 1. Spatial distribution and pathways of alpha-, beta- and gamma-HCHS in surface water.

scientific article published in April 2007

Historical Inputs of PCDDs, PCDFs, and PCBs to a British Columbia Interior Lake: The Effect of Environmental Controls on Pulp Mill Emissions

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Historical Trends in Mercury Sedimentation and Mixing in the Strait of Georgia, Canada

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Historical alpha-HCH budget in the Arctic Ocean: the Arctic Mass Balance Box Model (AMBBM).

scientific article published in May 2004

Historical analysis of salmon-derived polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in lake sediments

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How does climate change influence Arctic mercury?

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Importance of Arctic zooplankton seasonal migrations for α-hexachlorocyclohexane bioaccumulation dynamics

scientific article published on 9 April 2013

Increasing Contaminant Burdens in an Arctic Fish, Burbot (Lota lota), in a Warming Climate

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Inferences about the modern organic carbon cycle from diagenesis of redox-sensitive elements in Hudson Bay

Interactions between climate change and contaminants

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Joined by geochemistry, divided by history: PCBs and PBDEs in Strait of Georgia sediments.

scientific article published on April 2008

Joint effects of wind and ice motion in forcing upwelling in Mackenzie Trough, Beaufort Sea

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Killer whales (Orcinus orca) face protracted health risks associated with lifetime exposure to PCBs

scientific article published in September 2007

Large and growing environmental reservoirs of Deca-BDE present an emerging health risk for fish and marine mammals

scientific article published on 16 October 2008

Local contamination, and not feeding preferences, explains elevated PCB concentrations in Labrador ringed seals (Pusa hispida).

scientific article published on 26 February 2015

Local environmental conditions determine the footprint of municipal effluent in coastal waters: a case study in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia

scientific article published on 5 December 2014

Manganese Sources and Sinks in the Arctic Ocean with Reference to Periodic Enrichments in Basin Sediments

Mechanisms and implications of α-HCH enrichment in melt pond water on Arctic sea ice.

scientific article published on 16 October 2012

Mercury Accumulation in Harbour Seals from the Northeastern Pacific Ocean: The Role of Transplacental Transfer, Lactation, Age and Location

scientific article published on 10 July 2015

Mercury Biomagnification in Marine Zooplankton Food Webs in Hudson Bay

scientific article published on 16 November 2012

Mercury Profiles in Sediments of the Arctic Ocean Basins

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Mercury in the Arctic atmosphere: an analysis of eight years of measurements of GEM at Alert (Canada) and a comparison with observations at Amderma (Russia) and Kuujjuarapik (Canada).

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Mercury in the Arctic: are we overlooking the ocean?

Mercury in the marine environment of the Canadian Arctic: review of recent findings

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Microbial degradation is a key elimination pathway of hexachlorocyclohexanes from the Arctic Ocean

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Mobilization pathways of organic carbon from permafrost to arctic rivers in a changing climate

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Modeling gas/particle partitioning of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the atmosphere: A review

scientific article published on 26 April 2020

Multimolecular tracers of terrestrial carbon transfer across the pan-Arctic:14C characteristics of sedimentary carbon components and their environmental controls

article published in 2015

Natural and anthropogenic inputs of hydrocarbons to the Strait of Georgia

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Natural and anthropogenic mercury distribution in marine sediments from Hudson Bay, Canada

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Natural rates of sediment containment of PAH, PCB and metal inventories in Sydney Harbour, Nova Scotia.

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New equation to predict size-resolved gas-particle partitioning quotients for polybrominated diphenyl ethers

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Observing the Arctic Ocean carbon cycle in a changing environment

scientific article published in 2015

On the geochemical heterogeneity of rivers draining into the straits and channels of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

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On the natural enrichment of cadmium and molybdenum in the sediments of ucluelet inlet, British Columbia

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Organic carbon and colloids in the Mackenzie River and Beaufort Sea

Organic matter compositions of rivers draining into Hudson Bay: Present-day trends and potential as recorders of future climate change

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Organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst production, composition and flux from 1996 to 1998 in the central Strait of Georgia (BC, Canada): A sediment trap study

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Oxygen in the deep Strait of Georgia, 1951-2009: The roles of mixing, deep-water renewal, and remineralization of organic carbon

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PAHs in the Fraser River basin: a critical appraisal of PAH ratios as indicators of PAH source and composition

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PBDE and PCB accumulation in benthos near marine wastewater outfalls: the role of sediment organic carbon

scientific article published on 5 September 2012

Pan-Arctic concentrations of mercury and stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ(13)C) and nitrogen (δ(15)N) in marine zooplankton

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Partitioning and bioaccumulation of PCBs and PBDEs in marine plankton from the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada

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Persistence of Nonylphenol Ethoxylate Surfactants and Their Primary Degradation Products in Sediments from near a Municipal Outfall in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada

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Persistent Organic Pollutants in British Columbia Grizzly Bears: Consequence of Divergent Diets

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Petroleum biomarker sources in suspended particulate matter and sediments from the Fraser River Basin and Strait of Georgia, Canada

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Phase associations and lipid distributions in the seasonally ice-covered Arctic estuary of the Mackenzie Shelf

article published in 1994

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Composition and Potential Sources for Sediment Samples from the Beaufort and Barents Seas

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Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) in the Canadian environment: A review of sampling techniques, strategies and instrumentation

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Preface: Special Section on Canadian Ocean Studies Conducted During International Polar Year

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Primary productivity and export fluxes on the Canadian shelf of the Beaufort Sea: A modelling study

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Punctuated recovery of sediments and benthic infauna: a 19-year study of tailings deposition in a British Columbia fjord

scientific article published in March 2000

Quantitative determination of nonylphenol polyethoxylate surfactants in marine sediment using normal-phase liquid chromatography–electrospray mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Recent climate change in the Arctic and its impact on contaminant pathways and interpretation of temporal trend data.

scientific article

References

Reply to Macreadie et al Comment on ‘Geoengineering with seagrasses: is credit due where credit is given?’

Responses of subtidal benthos of the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada to ambient sediment conditions and natural and anthropogenic depositions

scientific article published on 10 September 2008

Scavenging amphipods: sentinels for penetration of mercury and persistent organic chemicals into food webs of the deep Arctic Ocean

scientific article published on 22 May 2013

Sea ice melt and meteoric water distributions in Nares Strait, Baffin Bay, and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

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Seabird-driven shifts in Arctic pond ecosystems.

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Seasonal and spatial variations in the source and transport of sinking particles in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada

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Seasonal variability of water mass distribution in the southeastern Beaufort Sea determined by total alkalinity andδ18O

scholarly article

Sediment redox tracers in Strait of Georgia sediments--can they inform us of the loadings of organic carbon from municipal wastewater?

scientific article published on 12 August 2008

Sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change

scholarly article by Anthony David McGuire et al published November 2009 in Ecological Monographs

Sewage treatment wasted--the Victoria (BC, Canada) example.

scientific article published on 30 June 2008

Short-term variability in particle flux: Storms, blooms and river discharge in a coastal sea

scholarly article by Sophia C. Johannessen published in July 2017

Slopes and intercepts from log-log correlations of gas/particle quotient and octanol-air partition coefficient (vapor-pressure) for semi-volatile organic compounds: I. Theoretical analysis

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Slopes and intercepts from log-log correlations of gas/particle quotient and octanol-air partition coefficient (vapor-pressure) for semi-volatile organic compounds: II. Theoretical predictions vs. monitoring

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Small Rivers Could Have Big Impact on Arctic Ocean

Source and transport of terrigenous organic matter in the upper Yukon River: Evidence from isotope (δ13C, Δ14C, and δ15N) composition of dissolved, colloidal, and particulate phases

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Sources and Burden of Lead in St. Lawrence Estuary Sediments: Isotopic Evidence

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Sources and accumulation of sediment and particulate organic carbon in a subarctic fjard estuary: 210Pb, 137Cs, and δ13C records from Lake Melville, Labrador

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Sources and export fluxes of inorganic and organic carbon and nutrient species from the seasonally ice-covered Yukon River

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Sources and transport of organic carbon to shelf, slope, and basin surface sediments of the Arctic Ocean

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Sources, occurrence, trends and pathways of contaminants in the arctic physical environment: introduction to the special issue

scientific article published on 05 March 2005

Sources, pathways and sinks of particulate organic matter in Hudson Bay: Evidence from lignin distributions

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Spatial variations in geochemical characteristics of the modern Mackenzie Delta sedimentary system

scholarly article

Spatial, temporal, and source variations of hydrocarbons in marine sediments from Baffin Bay, Eastern Canadian Arctic

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Spatiotemporal patterns of mercury accumulation in lake sediments of western North America

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Subsea permafrost carbon stocks and climate change sensitivity estimated by expert assessment

scholarly article by Sayedeh Sara Sayedi et al published 1 December 2020 in Environmental Research Letters

Subsurface seawater methylmercury maximum explains biotic mercury concentrations in the Canadian Arctic

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Surface sediment dinoflagellate cysts from the Hudson Bay system and their relation to freshwater and nutrient cycling

scholarly article by Maija Heikkilä published in January 2014

TRACING SALMON-DERIVED NUTRIENTS AND CONTAMINANTS IN FRESHWATER FOOD WEBS ACROSS A PRONOUNCED SPAWNER DENSITY GRADIENT

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Temporal and spatial variability of particle transport in the deep Arctic Canada Basin

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Terrestrial and marine biomarkers in a seasonally ice-covered Arctic estuary — integration of multivariate and biomarker approaches

Tests of the fidelity of lake sediment core records of mercury deposition to known histories of mercury contamination

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The Effect of Pressure on the Solubility of CaCO3, CaF2, and SrS04 in Water

The Hudson Bay system: A northern inland sea in transition

The carbon budget of the northern cryosphere region

The delivery of mercury to the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean by the Mackenzie River

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The delivery of organic contaminants to the Arctic food web: why sea ice matters

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The distribution and trends of persistent organic pollutants and mercury in marine mammals from Canada's Eastern Arctic

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The fate of mercury in Arctic terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, a review

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The influence of global climate change on the environmental fate of persistent organic pollutants: A review with emphasis on the Northern Hemisphere and the Arctic as a receptor

scholarly article by Jianmin Ma published in November 2016

The overlooked role of the ocean in mercury cycling in the Arctic

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The role of depositional regime on carbon transport and preservation in Arctic Ocean sediments

The role of eddies and energetic ocean phenomena in the transport of sediment from shelf to basin in the Arctic

scholarly article

The role of eddies on particle flux in the Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean

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The supply and preservation of ancient and modern components of organic carbon in the Canadian Beaufort Shelf of the Arctic Ocean

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The transport of beta-hexachlorocyclohexane to the western Arctic Ocean: a contrast to alpha-HCH.

scientific article published in May 2002

The vulnerability of Arctic shelf sediments to climate change

scholarly article by Robie W. Macdonald et al published December 2015 in Environmental Reviews

There is no 1954 in that core! Interpreting sedimentation rates and contaminant trends in marine sediment cores.

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Total and Methylated Mercury in the Beaufort Sea: The Role of Local and Recent Organic Remineralization

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Towards a sediment and organic carbon budget for Hudson Bay

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Trace element and molecular markers of organic carbon dynamics along a shelf–basin continuum in sediments of the western Arctic Ocean

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Tracing the inputs and fate of marine and terrigenous organic matter in Arctic Ocean sediments: A multivariate analysis of lipid biomarkers

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Transformation of mercury at the bottom of the Arctic food web: an overlooked puzzle in the mercury exposure narrative

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Water column organic carbon in a Pacific marginal sea (Strait of Georgia, Canada)

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We Must Stop Fossil Fuel Emissions to Protect Permafrost Ecosystems

scientific article published on 01 July 2022

When noise becomes the signal: Chemical contamination of aquatic ecosystems under a changing climate

When will α-HCH disappear from the western Arctic Ocean?

α- and γ-Hexachlorocyclohexane measurements in the brine fraction of sea ice in the Canadian High Arctic using a sump-hole technique

scientific article published on 15 November 2010

α-HCH enantiomer fraction (EF): A novel approach to calculate the ventilation age of water in the Arctic Ocean?

scholarly article

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