Derek Muir

Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) in the Canadian environment: Links to global change.

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Environ Pollut 2021 Jan 6;273:116425. Epub 2021 Jan 6.

Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, ON, M3H 5T4, Canada.

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January 2021

Contribution of Dietary Uptake to PAH Bioaccumulation in a Simplified Pelagic Food Chain: Modeling the Influences of Continuous vs Intermittent Feeding in Zooplankton and Fish.

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Haotian Wang Xinghui Xia Zixuan Wang Ran Liu Derek C G Muir Wen-Xiong Wang

Environ Sci Technol 2021 Feb 15;55(3):1930-1940. Epub 2021 Jan 15.

School of Energy and Environment and State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, Research Centre for the Oceans and Human Health, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

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February 2021

Atmospheric trace metal deposition to remote Northwest Ontario, Canada: Anthropogenic fluxes and inventories from 1860 to 2010.

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Johan A Wiklund Jane L Kirk Derek C G Muir Amber Gleason Jacques Carrier Fan Yang

Sci Total Environ 2020 Dec 14;749:142276. Epub 2020 Sep 14.

Aquatic Contaminants Research Division, Environment Canada, Burlington, ON, Canada, L7R 4A6.

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December 2020

Data-Independent Identification of Suspected Organic Pollutants Using Gas Chromatography-Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization-Mass Spectrometry.

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Sophia A Schreckenbach Denina Simmons Adam Ladak Lauren Mullin Derek C G Muir Myrna J Simpson Karl J Jobst

Anal Chem 2021 01 23;93(3):1498-1506. Epub 2020 Dec 23.

Department of Chemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland A1B 3X7, Canada.

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January 2021

Long-term spatial and temporal trends, and source apportionment of polycyclic aromatic compounds in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region.

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Leah Chibwe Derek C G Muir Yamini Gopalapillai Dayue Shang Jane L Kirk Carlos A Manzano Beau Atkinson Xiaowa Wang Camilla Teixeira

Environ Pollut 2021 Jan 9;268(Pt A):115351. Epub 2020 Aug 9.

Aquatic Contaminants Research Division, Environment & Climate Change Canada, Burlington, ON, Canada.

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January 2021

Validation of dried blood spot sampling for determining trophic positions of Arctic char using nitrogen stable isotope analyses of amino acids.

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Benjamin D Barst Derek C G Muir Diane M O'Brien Matthew J Wooller

Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 2021 Jan;35(2):e8992

Water and Environmental Research Center, Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA.

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January 2021

Diet influences on growth and mercury concentrations of two salmonid species from lakes in the eastern Canadian Arctic.

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John Chételat Yueting Shao Murray C Richardson Gwyneth A MacMillan Marc Amyot Paul E Drevnick Hardeep Gill Günter Köck Derek C G Muir

Environ Pollut 2021 Jan 13;268(Pt B):115820. Epub 2020 Oct 13.

Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington, ON, L7S 1A1, Canada.

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January 2021

Mercury in Ringed Seals (Pusa hispida) from the Canadian Arctic in Relation to Time and Climate Parameters.

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Magali Houde Zofia E Taranu Xiaowa Wang Brent Young P Gagnon Steve H Ferguson Michael Kwan Derek C G Muir

Environ Toxicol Chem 2020 12 6;39(12):2462-2474. Epub 2020 Oct 6.

Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

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December 2020

The distribution and transport of lead over two centuries as recorded by lake sediments from northeastern North America.

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Dewey W Dunnington Sarah Roberts Stephen A Norton Ian S Spooner Joshua Kurek Jane L Kirk Derek C G Muir Chris E White Graham A Gagnon

Sci Total Environ 2020 Oct 15;737:140212. Epub 2020 Jun 15.

Centre for Water Resources Studies, Department of Civil & Resource Engineering, Dalhousie University, 1360 Barrington St., Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.

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October 2020

A one-century sedimentary record of N- and S-polycyclic aromatic compounds in the Athabasca oil sands region in Canada.

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Leah Chibwe Sarah Roberts Dayue Shang Fan Yang Carlos A Manzano Xiaowa Wang Jane L Kirk Derek C G Muir

Chemosphere 2020 Dec 10;260:127641. Epub 2020 Jul 10.

Aquatic Contaminants Research Division, Environment & Climate Change Canada, Burlington, ON, Canada. Electronic address:

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December 2020

Chlorines Are Not Evenly Substituted in Chlorinated Paraffins: A Predicted NMR Pattern Matching Framework for Isomeric Discrimination in Complex Contaminant Mixtures.

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Bo Yuan Daniel Henryk Lysak Ronald Soong Andrew Haddad Arika Hisatsune Arvin Moser Sergey Golotvin Dimitris Argyropoulos Andre J Simpson Derek C G Muir

Environ Sci Technol Lett 2020 Jul 30;7(7):496-503. Epub 2020 Apr 30.

Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, ON, Canada L7S 1A1.

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July 2020

Atmospheric Deposition of Organochlorine Pesticides and Industrial Compounds to Seasonal Surface Snow at Four Glacier Sites on Svalbard, 2013-2014.

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Mark H Hermanson Elisabeth Isaksson Richard Hann Camilla Teixeira Derek C G Muir

Environ Sci Technol 2020 08 23;54(15):9265-9273. Epub 2020 Jul 23.

Environment and Climate Change Canada, 867 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, Ontario L7S 1A1, Canada.

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August 2020

Contrasting the ecological effects of decreasing ice cover versus accelerated glacial melt on the High Arctic's largest lake.

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Neal Michelutti Marianne S V Douglas Dermot Antoniades Igor Lehnherr Vincent L St Louis Kyra St Pierre Derek C G Muir Gregg Brunskill John P Smol

Proc Biol Sci 2020 06 24;287(1929):20201185. Epub 2020 Jun 24.

Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory (PEARL), Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6.

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June 2020

Identification of Potential PBT/POP-Like Chemicals by a Deep Learning Approach Based on 2D Structural Features.

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Xiangfei Sun Xianming Zhang Derek C G Muir Eddy Y Zeng

Environ Sci Technol 2020 07 16;54(13):8221-8231. Epub 2020 Jun 16.

Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution and Health, School of Environment, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China.

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July 2020

Screening New Persistent and Bioaccumulative Organics in China's Inventory of Industrial Chemicals.

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Xianming Zhang Xiangfei Sun Ruifen Jiang Eddy Y Zeng Elsie M Sunderland Derek C G Muir

Environ Sci Technol 2020 06 3;54(12):7398-7408. Epub 2020 Jun 3.

Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4, Canada.

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June 2020

Sources of atmospheric metal(loid) pollution recorded in Thompson Manitoba lake sediment cores within the Canadian boreal biome.

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Sarah Roberts Jane L Kirk Johan A Wiklund Derek C G Muir Jonathan Keating Fan Yang Amber Gleason Greg Lawson Xiaowa Wang Marlene Evans

Sci Total Environ 2020 Aug 3;732:139043. Epub 2020 May 3.

Watershed Hydrology Ecology Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 3H5, Canada.

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August 2020

Development of a solid-phase microextraction method for fast analysis of cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes in water.

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Lifang Zhang Ruifen Jiang Wanbin Li Derek C G Muir Eddy Y Zeng

Chemosphere 2020 Jul 21;250:126304. Epub 2020 Feb 21.

Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution and Health, School of Environment, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 511443, China.

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July 2020

Long-range transport of legacy organic pollutants affects alpine fish eaten by ospreys in western Canada.

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Philippe Grenier John E Elliott Ken G Drouillard Mélanie F Guigueno Derek Muir D Patrick Shaw Mark Wayland Kyle H Elliott

Sci Total Environ 2020 Apr 6;712:135889. Epub 2019 Dec 6.

Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Ste Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada. Electronic address:

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April 2020

Contrasting Temporal Patterns of Mercury, Niche Dynamics, and Body Fat Indices of Polar Bears and Ringed Seals in a Melting Icescape.

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David J Yurkowski Evan S Richardson Nicholas J Lunn Derek C G Muir Amy C Johnson Andrew E Derocher Ashley D Ehrman Magali Houde Brent G Young Cassandra D Debets Luana Sciullo Gregory W Thiemann Steven H Ferguson

Environ Sci Technol 2020 03 21;54(5):2780-2789. Epub 2020 Feb 21.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba MB R3T 2N6, Canada.

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March 2020

Dried Blood Spot Sampling of Landlocked Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus) for Estimating Mercury Exposure and Stable Carbon Isotope Fingerprinting of Essential Amino Acids.

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Benjamin D Barst Matthew J Wooller Diane M O'Brien Andrea Santa-Rios Niladri Basu Günter Köck Jessica J Johnson Derek C G Muir

Environ Toxicol Chem 2020 04 22;39(4):893-903. Epub 2020 Mar 22.

Aquatic Contaminants Research Division, Environment Canada, Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

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April 2020

Joint effect of nanoplastics and humic acid on the uptake of PAHs for Daphnia magna: A model study.

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Wei Lin Ruifen Jiang Xiaoying Xiao Jiayi Wu Songbo Wei Yan Liu Derek C G Muir Gangfeng Ouyang

J Hazard Mater 2020 06 1;391:122195. Epub 2020 Feb 1.

KLGHEI of Environment and Energy Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China; College of Chemistry & Molecular Engineering, Center of Advanced Analysis and Computational Science, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China. Electronic address:

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June 2020

Lead contamination from gold mining in Yellowknife Bay (Northwest Territories), reconstructed using stable lead isotopes.

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Nicolas Pelletier John Chételat Brian Cousens Shuangquang Zhang Dan Stepner Derek C G Muir Jesse C Vermaire

Environ Pollut 2020 Apr 6;259:113888. Epub 2020 Jan 6.

Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada; Institute of Environmental Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada.

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April 2020

Glacial Melt Inputs of Organophosphate Ester Flame Retardants to the Largest High Arctic Lake.

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Yuxin Sun Amila O De Silva Kyra A St Pierre Derek C G Muir Christine Spencer Igor Lehnherr John J MacInnis

Environ Sci Technol 2020 03 20;54(5):2734-2743. Epub 2020 Feb 20.

Department of Chemistry, Memorial University, St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador A1B 3X7, Canada.

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March 2020

Toward a Global Understanding of Chemical Pollution: A First Comprehensive Analysis of National and Regional Chemical Inventories.

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Zhanyun Wang Glen W Walker Derek C G Muir Kakuko Nagatani-Yoshida

Environ Sci Technol 2020 03 14;54(5):2575-2584. Epub 2020 Feb 14.

Asia and the Pacific Office, United Nations Environment Programme, Bangkok 10200, Thailand.

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March 2020

Multicompartmental Toxicokinetic Modeling of Discrete Dietary and Continuous Waterborne Uptake of Two Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Zebrafish .

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Haotian Wang Xinghui Xia Ran Liu Zixuan Wang Xiaohan Lin Derek C G Muir Wen-Xiong Wang

Environ Sci Technol 2020 01 30;54(2):1054-1065. Epub 2019 Dec 30.

Department of Ocean Science and Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) , The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) , Clear Water Bay , Kowloon , Hong Kong , China.

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January 2020