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Robert Letcher
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Latest papers
Temporal trends of persistent organic pollutants in Arctic marine and freshwater biota.
The Science of the total environment · 2019
Age and seasonal variation in testis and baculum morphology in East Greenland polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in relation to high concentrations of persistent organic pollutants
Environmental Research · 2019
F2-isoprostanes in Fish mucus: A new, non-invasive method for analyzing a biomarker of oxidative stress
Chemosphere · 2019
Latest funding
- $1,484,070
NSERC CREATE for Research in Environmental, Analytical Chemistry and Toxicology (REACT)
NSERC · 2014 · Co-investigator
- $130,000
New Generation Organic Flame Retardants and the Role of Biotransformation in Bioaccumulation in Convergent Food Webs of Top Predator Birds and Fish
NSERC · 2012 · Principal investigator
- $86,600
Biotransformation and thyroidogenic effects of organochlorine and organobromine pollutants in avian and mammalian top predator sentinel species
NSERC · 2007 · Principal investigator
6 publications.
Temporal trends of persistent organic pollutants in Arctic marine and freshwater biota.
Rigét F, Bignert A, Braune B, Dam M, Dietz R, Evans M, Green N, Gunnlaugsdóttir H, Hoydal KS, Kucklick J, Letcher R, Muir D, Schuur S, Sonne C, Stern G, Tomy G, Vorkamp K, Wilson S
Age and seasonal variation in testis and baculum morphology in East Greenland polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in relation to high concentrations of persistent organic pollutants
Ellinor Spörndly‐Nees, Lena Holm, Floris M. van Beest, Azadeh Fakhrzadeh, Elisabeth Ekstedt, Robert James Letcher, Ulf Magnusson, Jean-Pierre W. Desforges, Runé Dietz, Christian Sonne
F2-isoprostanes in Fish mucus: A new, non-invasive method for analyzing a biomarker of oxidative stress
Patrique Bulloch, Sara Schur, Dhasni Muthumuni, Zhe Lin Xia, Wesley Johnson, Mitchell Chu, Vince P. Palace, Guanyong Su, Robert James Letcher, Gregg T. Tomy
Mercury in the marine environment of the Canadian Arctic: review of recent findings.
Braune B, Chételat J, Amyot M, Brown T, Clayden 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
Brain region-specific perfluoroalkylated sulfonate (PFSA) and carboxylic acid (PFCA) accumulation and neurochemical biomarker responses in east Greenland polar bears (Ursus maritimus).
Eggers Pedersen K, Basu N, Letcher R, Greaves AK, Sonne C, Dietz R, Styrishave B
Recent progress on our understanding of the biological effects of mercury in fish and wildlife in the Canadian Arctic
Anton M. Scheuhammer, Birgit M. Braune, Hing Man Chan, Héloïse Frouin‐Mouy, Anke Krey, Robert James Letcher, Lisa L. Loseto, Marie Noël, Sonja Ostertag, Peter S. Ross, Mark E. Wayland
NSERC CREATE for Research in Environmental, Analytical Chemistry and Toxicology (REACT)
Principal investigators: Chan, Laurie
New Generation Organic Flame Retardants and the Role of Biotransformation in Bioaccumulation in Convergent Food Webs of Top Predator Birds and Fish
Principal investigators: Letcher, Robert
Biotransformation and thyroidogenic effects of organochlorine and organobromine pollutants in avian and mammalian top predator sentinel species
Principal investigators: Letcher, Robert
Chlorinated/brominated organic pollutants in aquatic birds and mammals: species- and food web-specific fate, biotransformation, trends and thyroid system effects
Principal investigators: Letcher, Robert
Environmental aromatic organohalogen contaminants in wildlife: chemistry, biotransformation, metabolites and endocrine-related effects
Principal investigators: Letcher, Robert
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Bailey McMeans and Aaron Fisk: 33 shared papers
- Alexandre Poulain and Marc Amyot: 29 shared papers
- Gary Stern and Gregg Tomy: 29 shared papers
- Gregg Tomy and Aaron Fisk: 20 shared papers
- Marc Amyot and Catherine Girard: 10 shared papers
- Gary Stern and Aaron Fisk: 9 shared papers
- Gary Stern and Marlene Evans: 5 shared papers
- Alexandre Poulain and Igor Lehnherr: 4 shared papers
- Niladri Basu and Jean-Pierre Desforges: 4 shared papers
- Sonja Ostertag and Gary Stern: 3 shared papers
- Alexandre Poulain and Catherine Girard: 3 shared papers
- Igor Lehnherr and Marc Amyot: 3 shared papers
- Igor Lehnherr and Bailey McMeans: 3 shared papers
- Igor Lehnherr and Catherine Girard: 3 shared papers
- Marc Amyot and Nelson O'Driscoll: 3 shared papers
- Gregg Tomy and Bailey McMeans: 3 shared papers
- Sonja Ostertag and Niladri Basu: 2 shared papers
- Alexandre Poulain and Marlene Evans: 2 shared papers
- Igor Lehnherr and Marlene Evans: 2 shared papers
- Gary Stern and Niladri Basu: 2 shared papers
- Gary Stern and Jean-Pierre Desforges: 2 shared papers
- Gary Stern and Robert Letcher: 2 shared papers
- Gregg Tomy and Robert Letcher: 2 shared papers
- Robert Letcher and Marlene Evans: 2 shared papers
- Sonja Ostertag and Robert Letcher: 1 shared paper
- Alexandre Poulain and Nelson O'Driscoll: 1 shared paper
- Alexandre Poulain and Jean-Pierre Desforges: 1 shared paper
- Alexandre Poulain and Robert Letcher: 1 shared paper
- Igor Lehnherr and Nelson O'Driscoll: 1 shared paper
- Igor Lehnherr and Robert Letcher: 1 shared paper
- Marc Amyot and Robert Letcher: 1 shared paper
- Bailey McMeans and Robert Letcher: 1 shared paper
- Aaron Fisk and Robert Letcher: 1 shared paper
- Nelson O'Driscoll and Robert Letcher: 1 shared paper
- Niladri Basu and Robert Letcher: 1 shared paper
- Catherine Girard and Robert Letcher: 1 shared paper
- Jean-Pierre Desforges and Robert Letcher: 1 shared paper
- Department of Biology
- Department of Environment and Geography
- Chemistry
- Great Lakes Inst. for Environmental Res. (GLIER)
- Centre for Urban Environments
- Département des sciences fondamentales
- Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment
- Other
Co-authors at Carleton University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Marlene Evans
Department of Biology
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Gregg Tomy
Chemistry
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Gary Stern
Department of Environment and Geography
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Igor Lehnherr
Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Marc Amyot
Département de sciences biologiques
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Bailey McMeans
Centre for Urban Environments
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Aaron Fisk
Great Lakes Inst. for Environmental Res. (GLIER)
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Nelson O'Driscoll
Earth and Environmental Science
1 shared papers, latest 2015
John Chetelat
Ecotoxicology and Wildlife Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Niladri Basu
Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment, Natural Resource Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Catherine Girard
Département des sciences fondamentales
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Sonja Ostertag
School of Public Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Jean-Pierre Desforges
Environmental Studies and Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Alexandre Poulain
Department of Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2015
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