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Publications

Holbert, S., Colbourne, K., Gobas, F.A.P.C., Brown, T.M. 2024. Legacy and current-use contaminants in Pacific Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) stocks and their contribution to Resident killer whale (Orcinus orca) contaminant burdens. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Submitted.​

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Simond, A.E., Lesage, V., Verreault, J., Loseto, L., Houde, M., Elliott, A., Noël, M., Brown, T.M. 2024. Contaminant-associated disruption of the skin transcriptome in the Endangered St Lawrence Estuary beluga. Environmental Science and Technology. Accepted.

 

Quindazzi, M.J., Duguid, W.D.P., Brown, T.M., Juanes, F. Tracking the marine migrations of coho salmon through otolith microchemistry. Fisheries Research. Submitted.

 

Remili, A., Morris, A.D., Muir, D.C.G., Houde, M., Brown, T.M., Ferguson, S.H., Blair, D.A.D., Letcher, R.J. 2024. Persistent pollutant exposure differentially impacts metabolomic profiles in polar bears and ringed seals from the High Arctic and Hudson Bay, Canada. Environmental Research. Submitted.

 

Williams, R., R.C. Lacy, Ashe, E., Barrett-Lennard, L., Brown, T.M., Gaydos, J.K., Gulland, F., MacDuffee, M., Nelson, B.W., Nielsen, K.A. Nollens, H., Raverty, S., Reiss, S., Ross, P.S., Collins, M.S., Stimmelmayr, R.,Paquet, P. 2024. Warning sign of an accelerating decline in critically endangered killer whales (Orcinus orca). Communications Earth & Environment. 5, 173: doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01327-5

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Holbert, S., Colbourne, K., Fisk, A.T., Ross, P.S., MacDuffee, M., Gobas, F.A.P.C., Brown, T.M. 2024. Polychlorinated biphenyl and Polybrominated diphenyl ether profiles vary with feeding ecology and marine rearing distribution among 10 Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) stocks in the North Pacific Ocean. Environmental Research. 241: 117476 doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.117476

 

Ross, A., Liao, X., Brown, T.M. 2023. Simultaneous determination of steroid hormones and pharmaceuticals in killer whale (Orcinus orca) fecal samples by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. Conservation Physiology.  doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coad081

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Monaghan, J., Jaeger, A., Jai, J.K., Tomlin, H., Atkinson, J.B., Brown, T.M., Gill, C., Krogh, E. 2023. Automated, high-throughput analysis of tire-derived p-Phenylenediamine Quinones (PPDQs) in water by online membrane sampling coupled to MS/MS. ES&T Water. 3(10): 3293-3304 doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.3c00275

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Kim. J., Delisle, K., Brown, T.M., Ross, P.S., Noël, M. 2023. Sediment Spatial Distribution and Quality Assessment of Metals in Chinook Salmon and Resident Killer Whale Marine Habitat in British Columbia, Canada. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. doi.org/10.1007/s00244-023-01013-1

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Anderson, M.A., Fisk, A.T., Laing, R., Noël, M., Angnatok, J., Kirk, J., Evans, M., Pijogge, L., Brown, T.M. 2023. Changing environmental conditions have altered the feeding ecology of two keystone Arctic marine predators. Scientific Reports. Scientific Reports. 13:14056 doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39091-9

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Simond, A.E., Ross, P.S., Cabrol, J., Lesage, V., Lair, S., Woudneh, M., Wang, D.W., Peng, H., Colbourne, K., Brown, T.M. 2023. Declining concentrations of chlorinated paraffins in Endangered St. Lawrence estuary beluga (Delphnapterus leucas): Response to regulations or a change in diet? Science of the Total Environment. 868: 161488 doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161488

 

Lo, B.P., Marlatt, V.L., Liao, X., Reger, S., Gallilee, C., Brown, T.M. 2023. Acute toxicity of 6PPD-quinone on early life stage juvenile Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) salmon. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 42(4): 815-822 doi: 10.1002/etc.5568

 

Brown, T.M., Ogloff, W.R., Yurkowski, D.J., Stenson, G., Sjare, B. 2023. Divergent habitat use and the influence of environmental conditions on the movement behaviour of ringed seals (Pusa hispida) in Labrador. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 710: 137-153 doi: 10.3354/meps14280

 

Darnis, G., Geoffroy, M., Dezutter, T., Aubry, C., Massicotte, P., Brown, T., Babin, M., Cote D., Fortier, L. 2022. Zooplankton assemblages along the North American Arctic: Ocean circulation and bathymetry shape ecological connectivity from the Chukchi Sea to Labrador Sea. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. 10(1): 00053 doi:10.1525/elementa.2022.00053

 

Simond, A.E., Noël, M., Loseto, L., Houde, M., Kirk, J., Elliott, A., Brown, T.M. 2022. A multi-matrix metabolomic approach in ringed seals and beluga whales to evaluate contaminant and climate-related stressors. Metabolites. 12(9): 813 DOI: 10.3390/metabo12090813.

 

Houde, M., Krümmel, E.M., Mustonen, T., Brammer, J., Brown, T.M., Chételat, J., Dahl, P.E.,  Dietz, R., Evans, M., Gamberg, M., Gauthier, M., Gérin-Lajoie, J., Grey, L., Hauptmann, A.L., Heath, J.P. Henri, D., Kirk, J., Laird, B., Lemire, M., Lennert, A.E., Letcher, R.J., Lord, S., Loseto, L., MacMillan, G.A., Mikaelsson, S., Mutter, E., O'Hara, T., Ostertag, S., Robards, M.,  Shadrin, V., Sudlovenick, E., Smith, M., Stimmelmayr, R., Swanson, H., Thomas, P.J., Walker, V.K., Whiting, A. 2022. Contributions and perspectives of Indigenous Peoples to the study of mercury in the Arctic. Science of the Total Environment. 841(2): 156566 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156566

 

Kim, J., Delisle, K., Brown, T.M., Leung, R., Noël, M. 2022. Characterization and interpolation of sediment PCBs and PBDEs in Resident killer whale habitat along the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 41(9): 2139-2151

 

Hamilton, C.D., Lydersen, C., Aars, J., Acquarone, M., Atwood, T., Baylis, A., Biuw, M., Boltunov, A.N., Born, E.W., Boveng, P., Brown, T.M., Cameron, M., Citta, J., Crawford, J., Dietz, R., Ferguson, S., Fisk, A., Folkow, L.P., Frost, K., Glazov, D.M., Granqust, S., Gryba, R., Harwood, L., Haug, T., Heide-Jørgensen, M.P., Laidre, K.L., Litovka, D., London, J., Loseto, L., Marcoux, M., Matthews, C., Nilssen, K., Nordøy, E.S., Øien, N., Olsen, M.T., Quakenbush, L., Rosing-Asvid, A., Semenova, V., Sheldon, K., Shpak, O.V., Stenson, G., Svegaard, S., Teilmann, J., Ugarte, F., von Duyke, A.L., Watt, C., Wiig, O., Wilson, R.R., Yurkowski, D., Kovacs, K.M. 2022. Marine mammal hotspots across the circumpolar Arctic. Diversity and Distributions. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13543

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Noël, M., Brown, T.M. 2021. Contaminants as a Conservation Threat to Marine Mammals. In: Underkoffler, S.C., Adams, H.R., Wildlife Biodiversity Conservation: Multidisciplinary and Forensic Approaches. Springer Nature, Switzerland, p. 401-420

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Kovacs, K., Citta, J., Brown, T., Dietz, R., Ferguson, S., Harwood, L., Houde, M., Lea, E., Quakenbush, L., Riget, F., Rosing-Asvid, A., Smith, T.G., Svetochev, V., Lyderson, C. 2021. Variation in body size of ringed seals (Pusa hispida hispida) across the circumpolar Arctic: evidence of mophs, ecotypes or simply extreme plasticity? Polar Research. DOI: 10.33265/polar.v40.5753

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Wei, C., Cusson, M., Archambault, P., Belley, R., Brown, T., Burd, B., Edinger, E., Kenchington, E., Gilkinson, K., Lawton, P., Link, H., Ramey-Balci, P., Scrosati, R.A., Snelgrove, P.V.R. 2019. Seafloor biodiversity of Canada’s three oceans: Patterns, hotspots and potential drivers. Diversity and Distributions, DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13013

 

Yurkowski, D.J., Auger-Méthé, M., Mallory, M.L., Wong, S.N.P., Gilchrist, H.G., Gaston, A.J., Derocher, A.E., Richardson, E., Lunn, N.J., Hussey, N.E., Marcoux, M., Togunov, R., Fisk, A.T., Harwood, L.A., Heide-Jørgensen, M.P., Dietz, R., Rosing-Asvid, A., Born, E.W., Mosbech, A., Fort, J., Loseto, L., Richard, P.R., Iacozza, J., Jean-Gagnon, F., Brown, T.M., Westdal, K.H., Orr, J., LeBlanc, B., Kessel, S.T., Blanchfield, P., Davis, S., Maftei, M., Spencer, N., McFarlane-Tranquilla, C.L., Montevecchi, W.A., Bartzen, B., Anderson, C., Ferguson, S.H. 2019. Abundance and species diversity hotspots of tracked marine predators across the North American Arctic. Diversity and Distributions, 25(3): 1-18.

 

Heddle, C., Elliott, J., Brown, T., Eng, M., Perkins, M., Basu, N., Williams, T. 2019. Continuous exposure to mercury during embryogenesis and chick development affects later survival and reproduction of zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Ecotoxicology, doi: 10.1007/s10646-019-02074-6.

 

Brown, T.M., Lord, S.I., Schindler, D.W., Elliott, J.E. 2018. Organohalogen contaminants in common loons (Gavia immer) breeding in Western Alberta, Canada. Chemosphere, 202: 438-445.

 

Brown, T.M., Macdonald, R.W., Muir, D.C.G., Letcher R.J. 2018. Implications of the distribution and trends of persistent organic pollutants and mercury in marine mammals from Canada’s Eastern Arctic. Science of the Total Environment, 618: 500-517.

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Carpenter, M., Brown, T.M., Bell, T., Martel, A., Edinger, E. 2018. Geomorphic features and benthic habitats of a subarctic fjard: Okak Bay, Nunatsiavut, Labrador. In: Harris, P.T., Baker, E.K. (Eds), Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitats: GeoHab Atlas of Seafloor Geomorphology Features and Benthic Habitats Second Edition, Elsevier, Amsterdam. In press.

 

Bell, T., Brown, T.M. 2018. From Science to Policy in the Eastern Canadian Arctic: An Integrated Regional Impact Study (IRIS) of Climate Change and Modernization. ArcticNet, Quebec City, pp. 460.

 

Brown, T.M., Macdonald, R.W., Muir, D.C.G., Letcher R.J. 2018. Chapter 10: Distribution and patterns of persistent organic pollutants and mercury. In: Bell, T., Brown, T.M. (Eds), From Science to Policy in the Eastern Canadian Arctic: An Integrated Regional Impact Study (IRIS) of Climate Change and Modernization. ArcticNet, Quebec City.

 

Brown, T.M., Bell, T. 2018. Chapter 1: Regional Geography. In: Bell, T., Brown, T.M. (Eds), From Science to Policy in the Eastern Canadian Arctic: An Integrated Regional Impact Study (IRIS) of Climate Change and Modernization. ArcticNet, Quebec City.

 

Brown, T.M., Boertmann, D., Becker Jacobsen, R., Barrette, C., Rigét, F., Bell, T. 2018. Chapter 2: General description of the BBDS region. In: AMAP 2017: Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic – Perspectives from the Baffin Bay/Davis Strait Region. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway.

 

Brown, T.M., Takada, H. 2017. Indicators of marine pollution in the North Pacific Ocean. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 73(2): 171-175.

 

Brown, T.M., Hammond, A., Behsaz, B., Veldhoen, N., Birol, I., Helbing, C.C. 2017. De novo assembly of the ringed seal (Pusa hispida) blubber transcriptome: a tool that enables identification of molecular health indicators associated with PCB exposure. Aquatic Toxicology, 185: 48-57.

 

Houde, M., Wang, X., Ferguson, S.H., Gagnon, P., Brown, T.M., Tanabe, S., Kunito, T., Kwan, M., Muir, D.C.G. 2017. Spatial and temporal trends of emerging flame retardants and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in ringed seals (Phoca hispida) across the Canadian Arctic. Environmental Pollution, 223: 266-276.

 

Yurkowski, D.J., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Harwood, L.A., Rosing-Asvid, A., Dietz, R., Brown, T.M., Clackett, S., Grgicak-Mannion, A., Fisk, A.T., Ferguson, S.H. 2016. Influence of sea ice phenology on the movement ecology of ringed seals across their latitudinal range. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 562: 237-250.

 

Yurkowski, D.J., Ferguson, S.H., Choy, E.S., Loseto, L.L., Brown, T.M., Muir, D.C.G., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Fisk, A.T. 2016. Latitudinal variation in ecological opportunity and intra-specific competition indicates differences in niche variability and diet specialization of Arctic marine predators. Ecology and Evolution, 6(6): 1666-1678.

 

Brown, T.M., Fisk, A.T., Wang, X., Ferguson, S.H., Young, B.G., Reimer, K.J., Muir, D.C.G. 2016. Mercury and cadmium in ringed seals in the Canadian Arctic: Influence of location and diet. Science of the Total Environment, 545: 503-511.

 

Brown, T.M., Ross, P.S., Reimer, K.J. 2015. Transplacental transfer of polychlorinated biphenyls, polybrominated diphenylethers, and organochlorine pesticides in ringed seals (Pusa hispida). Archives of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 70(1): 20-27. DOI 10.1007/s00244-015-0191-1.

 

Yurkowski, D.J., Ferguson, S.H., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Brown, T.M., Muir, D.C.G., Fisk, A.T. 2015. Spatial and temporal variation of an ice-adapted predator’s feeding ecology in a changing Arctic marine ecosystem. Oecologia, DOI 10.1007/s00442-015-3384-5.

 

Brown, T.M., Iverson, S.J., Fisk, A.T., Macdonald, R.W., Helbing, C.C., Reimer, K.J. 2015. Local contamination, and not feeding preferences, explains elevated PCB concentrations in Labrador ringed seals (Pusa hispida). Science of the Total Environment, 515-516: 188-197.

 

Brown, T.M., Ross, P.S., Reimer, K.J., Veldhoen, N., Dangerfield, N.J., Fisk, A.T., Helbing, C.C. 2014. PCB related effects thresholds as derived through gene transcript profiles in locally contaminated ringed seals (Pusa hispida) from Labrador, Canada. Environmental Science and Technology, 48(21): 12952-61.

 

Brown, T.M., Luque, S., Sjare, B., Fisk, A.T., Helbing, C.C., Reimer, K.J. 2014. Satellite telemetry informs PCB source apportionment in a mobile, high trophic level marine mammal – the ringed seal (Pusa hispida). Environmental Science and Technology, 48(22): 13110-9.

 

Braune, B., Chetelat, J., Amyot, M., Brown, T., Claydon, M., Evans, M., Fisk, A., Gaden, A., Girard, C., Hare, A., Kirk, J., Lehnherr, I., Letcher, R., Loseto, L., Macdonald, R., Mann, E., McMeans, B., Muir, D., O-Driscoll, N., Poulain, A., Reimer, K., Stern, G. 2014. Mercury in the marine environment of the Canadian Arctic: Review of recent findings. Science of the Total Environment, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.05.133.

 

Brown, T.M., Fisk, A.T., Helbing, C.C., Reimer, K.J. 2014. PCB profiles in ringed seals (Pusa hispida) reveal historical contamination by a military radar station in Labrador, Canada. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 33: 592-601.

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Brown, T.M., Kuzyk, Z.Z., Stow, J., Burgess, N.M., Solomon, S.M., Sheldon, T.A., Reimer, K.J. 2013. An effects-based marine Effects-based Marine Ecological Risk Assessment at a Polychlorinated Biphenyl Contaminated Site in Saglek, Labrador, Canada. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 32: 453-467.

 

Bidleman, T., Kurt-Karakus, P., Armitage, J., Brown, T., Danon-Schaffer, M., Helm, P., Hung, H., Jantunen, L., Kylin, H., Li, Y., Loock, D., Luttmer, C., Ma, J., Macdonald, R., Mackay, D., Reid, L., Reimer, K. 2013. Chapter 2 – Properties, Sources, Global Fate and Transport. In: Muir, D., Kurt-Karakus, P., Stow, J. (Eds), Canadian Arctic Contaminants Assessment Report on Persistent Organic Pollutants – 2013. Northern Contaminants Program, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Ottawa, ON, pp 19-146.

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Pufall, E.L., Jones, A.Q., McEwen, S.A., Brown, T.M., Edge, V.L., Rokicki, J., Peregrine, A.S., Simard, M. 2012. Prevalence of zoonotic anisakid nematodes, and risk factors for abundance, in Inuit caught fish and marine mammals from Nunavik and Nunatsiavut, Canada. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 11: 1002-9.

 

Brown, T., Reimer, K., Sheldon, T., Bell, T. 2012. Chapter 10. A first look at Nunatsiavut Kangidualuk (‘fjord’) ecosystems. In: Allard, M. and Lemay, M. (Eds), Nunavik and Nunatsiavut: From science to policy. An Integrated Regional Impact Study (IRIS) of climate change and modernization. ArcticNet Inc., Quebec City, Canada, pp 271-301.

 

Chételat, J., Amyot, M., Braune, B., Brown, T., Evans, M., Fisk, A., Gaden, A., Girard, C., Hare, A., Kirk, J., Lehnherr, I., Letcher, R., Loseto, L., Macdonald, R., McMeans, B., Muir, D., Poulain, A., Reimer, K., Sheldon, T., Stern, G. 2012. Chapter 6 – Marine Environment. In: Chételat, J., Braune, B. (Eds), Canadian Arctic Contaminants Assessment Report III 2012 – Mercury in Canada’s North. Northern Contaminants Program, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Ottawa, ON, pp 159-211.

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Carr, C., Hardy, S.M., Brown, T.M., Macdonald, T.A., Hebert, P.D.N. 2011. A Tri-Oceanic Perspective: DNA Barcoding Reveals Geographic Structure and Cryptic Diversity in Canadian Polychaetes. PLoS One 6: 1-12.

 

Brown, T.M., Edinger, E.E., Hooper, R.G., Belliveau, K. 2011. Benthic Marine Fauna and Flora, of Two Nearshore Coastal Locations in the Western and Central Canadian Arctic. Arctic 64: 281-301.

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Brown, T.M., Sheldon, T.A., Burgess, N.M. and Reimer, K.J. 2009. Reduction of PCB contamination in an Arctic coastal environment: a first step in assessing ecosystem recovery after the removal of a point source. Environmental Science and Technology 43: 7635-7642.

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