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Joshua Kurek
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Research
Latest papers
Legacy effects of four decades of insecticide applications on contemporary riverine benthic macroinvertebrates
Environmental Pollution · 2025
Legacy DDT and its metabolites in Brook Trout from lakes within forested watersheds treated with aerial applications of insecticides
PLoS ONE · 2025 · first author
A century of tailings migration from silver mining reduced biodiversity in a Boreal Shield lake.
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2025
Latest funding
- $129,000
Lake sediments and legacy environmental stressors
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $147,415
Germanium gamma-ray spectrometer for high resolution dating of lake sediment records
NSERC · 2017 · Co-investigator
- $520,000
New assessment tools combining forensic paleolimnology, biotransport, and predictive modelling to determine potential impacts of mink farming in rural Nova Scotia
NSERC · 2017 · Co-investigator
10 publications.
Legacy effects of four decades of insecticide applications on contemporary riverine benthic macroinvertebrates
Sugden S, White AB, Lento J, Kurek J, Dimitrovas I, Emry S, Hua X, Ijzerman MM, Kidd KA, Morrow KL
Legacy DDT and its metabolites in Brook Trout from lakes within forested watersheds treated with aerial applications of insecticides
A century of tailings migration from silver mining reduced biodiversity in a Boreal Shield lake.
Sivarajah B, Sprague DD, Hyden D, Smol JP, Kurek J, Vermaire JC
Tracking pollution from fur farms using forensic paleolimnology.
Kissinger JA, Gregory BRB, Clarkson C, Libera N, Eickmeyer DC, Kimpe LE, Kurek J, Smol JP, Blais JM
Arsenic and mercury contamination and complex aquatic bioindicator responses to historical gold mining and modern watershed stressors in urban Nova Scotia, Canada.
Clark AJ, Labaj AL, Smol JP, Campbell LM, Kurek J
The distribution and transport of lead over two centuries as recorded by lake sediments from northeastern North America.
Dunnington DW, Roberts S, Norton SA, Spooner IS, Kurek J, Kirk JL, Muir DCG, White CE, Gagnon GA
Ecological Legacy of DDT Archived in Lake Sediments from Eastern Canada
Kurek J, MacKeigan PW, Veinot S, Mercer A, Kidd KA
A new terrestrial palaeoenvironmental record from the Bering Land Bridge and context for human dispersal.
Wooller MJ, Saulnier-Talbot É, Potter BA, Belmecheri S, Bigelow N, Choy K, Cwynar LC, Davies K, Graham RW, Kurek J, Langdon P, Medeiros A, Rawcliffe R, Wang Y, Williams JW
Assessment of multi-trophic changes in a shallow boreal lake simultaneously exposed to climate change and aerial deposition of contaminants from the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Canada.
Summers JC, Kurek J, Rühland KM, Neville EE, Smol JP
Recent Warming, Rather than Industrial Emissions of Bioavailable Nutrients, Is the Dominant Driver of Lake Primary Production Shifts across the Athabasca Oil Sands Region.
Summers JC, Kurek J, Kirk JL, Muir DC, Wang X, Wiklund JA, Cooke CA, Evans MS, Smol JP
Lake sediments and legacy environmental stressors
Principal investigators: Kurek, Joshua
Keywords: paleolimnology; lake sediments; bioindicators; benthic invertebrates; zooplankton; geochemistry; climate change; aquatic science; environmental change; water quality
Germanium gamma-ray spectrometer for high resolution dating of lake sediment records
Principal investigators: Vermaire, Jesse
New assessment tools combining forensic paleolimnology, biotransport, and predictive modelling to determine potential impacts of mink farming in rural Nova Scotia
Principal investigators: Smol, John
Paleoenvironmental investigation of an emerging stressor to Canadian salmon rivers
Principal investigators: Kurek, Joshua
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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