Aquatic Ecotoxicologist with a weakness for music, photography, and graphic design | Research Scientist @IISD_ELA | Assoc. prof. @umanitoba | He / him
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Joined November 2009
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I have been doing research on #pharmaceuticals in the environment for over a decade now. This summer at @IISD_ELA we are taking it to the next (ecological) level. Let me tell you why below. – at Winnipeg, Manitoba
The rise of #COVID19 brought a rise in antidepressant prescriptions. How is this affecting our fresh #water? And what are researchers at @IISD_ELA planning to do about it? Our expert explains it all in 60 seconds.
iisd.org/ela/blog/video/solu…
#SolutionsIn60Seconds
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Join us on April 16th for the first instalment of our new **SETAC PNC Seminar Series**
🗣️ Dr. Benjamin Barst
🦟"Mercury dynamics, trophic transfer, and risk in northern aquatic food webs undergoing rapid change"
Please RSVP
prairienorthernchapter.org/e…
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Writing now a ERC PoC I have some thoughts I would like to share here and open ( why not?) a discussion.👇🏼
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🌊 Celebrating #science in action! For 10 years, the International Institute for Sustainable Development has managed the world’s #freshwater laboratory, helping us understand and protect #lakes and #rivers.
We are proud to support their important research work.
@IISD_ELA
ALT Bird-eye view of a lake surrounded by land with dwellings at the bottom.
ALT Bird-eye view of a lake with a small island of forest surrounded by green land.
Thank you @FrontBioeng for promoting our latests @IISD_ELA paper coming out of our Oil Spill Research Program. Kuddos to Madeline Stanley and the rest of the team for the hard work
New Research: Assessing changes to the root biofilm microbial community on an engineered floating wetland upon exposure to a controlled diluted bitumen spill frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #FrontiersIn #SyntheticBiology
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I have written a Letter to the Editor in ET&C. My message is simple: let's consider submitting our best manuscripts to journals owned by societies we care about. It is essentially a reflection of my appreciation (or love) for SETAC. Hope you like it
doi.org/10.1093/etojnl/vgae0…
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The application deadline for SITES AquaNet 2025 has been extended!
SITES AquaNet offers standardized infrastructure with mesocosms, automatic sensors and more, across 5 Swedish lakes! 📷
Apply by January 15 2025! fieldsites.se/form/aquanet-a……
More info: fieldsites.se/2024/10/28/cal…
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🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Shelley Arnott, Professor at @queensu, on receiving the 2025 Rigler Award!
@ShelleyArnott studies aquatic ecology, focusing on how plankton communities respond to environmental change. Read the announcement here: ow.ly/BNZF50UnwhB
🧵...
ALT Shelley is wearing black sunglasses, a blue t-shirt and orange life jacket while paddling on a lake.
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📢 Excited to let you know that you can now SAVE THE DATE for our 2025 Annual Meeting! See you in 🔆 Winnipeg June 19th and 20th, 2025 🔆
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Another ANOVA/model tip in #R, be careful with using numbers to describe grouping factors (e.g., labeling sites as 1, 2, 3). If R sees numeric/integer data, it will treat it as a continuous covariate (ANCOVA), even if what you wanted was a comparison of groups. 🧵
Great piece (in french!) by @icirctele on current work on the effects of microplastics in the environment, which includes some @IISD_ELA research, including our work with the @LabNielsen on 6PPD-quinone. Thank you @myhebert21 for the visit!
ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/la-…
For all my frech-speaking friends that might have been wondering what it is that we do out here at the @IISD_ELA, here is a wonderful summary by @icirctele!
ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/la-…
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"I'm here to tell you that we should we pollute the environment more in order to, ultimately, pollute it less.
I guarantee that in ten minutes, I will have you convinced..."
@GerrardPauline reps whole-lake experimentation in ten lil mins @TEDxWinnipeg... bit.ly/ELATedX24
Congratulations to @ChelseaRochman and the whole pELAstics team for making it to the cover of @EnvSciTech with their work at @IISD_ELA!
From the cover of ES&T: @ChelseaRochman and team at @eebtoronto @UofT used in-lake closed-bottom #mesocosms to investigate the effect, transport and exposure concentrations of #microplastics on pelagic freshwater ecosystems.
Read #openaccess: go.acs.org/9ml
ALT TOC image from the article
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📣 Tomorrow, Sunday May 5th, is the last day for SETAC PNC Abstract Submission for oral presentations!
You have till May 24 for posters!
More info ⬇️
prairienorthernchapter.org/a…
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Human activity is threatening the health of our planet's freshwater resources.
As the world’s population grows, clean water has never been more important.
This #WorldWaterDay, we’re sharing how we’re working towards clean, safe water for all.
Read more: iisd.org/topics/water
ALT Water pumps out into a field.
I owe a bunch of my R knowledge to the @R4DScommunity. I use it every day for my science and my teaching. The #TidyTuesday is even a par of the University-level #rstats course I teach. If you can help, you will be helping the next generation of data scientist.
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As @girls_can notes below, a comment article we co-wrote back at the end of 2021 came out TODAY. This process - my first comment piece - was hard in many ways, but we felt it was needed.
I co-authored a Comment on a paper looking at effects of the #herbicide #glyphosate. It took YEARS. I’ve never bothered before: seems petty to criticize other people’s work in public. But our audience is the whole discipline and our message is: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi… #academia
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As one legacy of Covid-19 leaves people more likely to use sanitizing and disinfecting products, our @IISD_ELA expert @pitrod explores what this means for our river and lakes in @Newsweek.
newsweek.com/dangers-cleanin…
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We now use more cleaning products than ever—and it's easy to see why.
But what is this doing to the health of our water supplies?
Our very own @pitrod poses the question for @Newsweek...
The Dangers of Cleaning Products We Don't Discuss newsweek.com/dangers-cleanin…