Sugden S, White A, Lento J, Kurek J, Dimitrovas I, Emry S, Hua X, Ijzerman M, Kidd K, Morrow K, Ollinik J, Schnell L, Thormeyer M, Edge CB. In review. Legacy effects of four decades of insecticide applications on contemporary benthic macroinvertebrates in eastern Canadian rivers.
Kurek J, Fraser MP, Nakamoto BJ, Kidd KA, Edge CB. In review. Legacy DDT and its metabolites in Brook Trout from lakes within forested watersheds treated with aerial applications of insecticides. PLOS ONE
Chapman WM, Francis G, Kurek J. In review. Scientific Communication in a Vulnerable Language. FACETS
Sivarajah B, Campbell LM, Smol JP, Vermaire J, Kurek J. 2024. Historical gold mining altered paleotoxicity of lake sediments in Nova Scotia, Canada. FACETS dx.doi.org/10.1139/facets-2023-0063
Kissinger J, Gregory B, Clarkson C, Libera N, Eickmeyer D, Kimpe L, Kurek J, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2023. Tracking pollution from fur farms using forensic paleolimnology. Environmental Pollution 335: 122307. doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122307
Libera N, Rühland KM, Kurek J, Smol JP. 2024. Before and after mink fur farming: water chemistry and sedimentary diatom assemblages in lakes in southwest Nova Scotia, Canada. Lake and Reservoir Management https://doi.org/10.1080/10402381.2024.2306639
Doucet C, Johnston L, Hiscock A, Bermarija T, Hammond M, Holmes B, Smith T, Lalonde B, Parent D, Deacoff C, Scott R, Kurek J, Jamieson R. 2023. Synoptic snapshots: monitoring lake water quality over four decades in an urbanizing region. Lake and Reservoir Management doi.org/10.1080/10402381.2023.2205355
Gregory BRB, Kissinger JA, Clarkson C, Kimpe LE, Eickmeyer DC, Kurek J, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2022. Are fur farms a potential source of persistent organic pollutants or mercury to nearby freshwater ecosystems? Science of the Total Environment 833: 155100. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155100
Jones A, Labaj A, Campbell J, Libera N, Kurek J. 2022. Zooplankton assemblage and body size responses to severe lake eutrophication from agricultural activities near mink farms in Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Plankton Research. doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbac022
Campbell JM, Libera N, Smol JP, Kurek J. 2022. Stability of midge assemblages in productive shallow lakes exposed to point and diffuse nutrient inputs. Journal of Paleolimnology 67: 259–272. doi.org/10.1007/s10933-021-00230-9
Labaj AL, LeBlanc AD, Doucet CV, Tardif C, Kurek J. 2022. Microlitter in the water, sediments, and mussels of the Saint John River (Wolastoq) watershed, Atlantic Canada. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2021-0121
Campbell JM, Libera N, Smol JP, Kurek J. 2022. Historical impacts of mink fur farming on chironomid assemblages of shallow lakes in Nova Scotia, Canada. Lake and Reservoir Management 38: 80-94. doi.org/10.1080/10402381.2021.2018631
Provencher J, Au S, Horn D, Mallory ML, Walker TR, Kurek J, Weiss J, Erdle L, Lusher A. 2021. Animals and microplastics – ingestion, transport, breakdown, and trophic transfer.In Polluting Textiles: The Problem with Microfibres. Taylor & Francis Group. doi: 10.4324/9781003165385-4
Clark AJ, Labaj AL, Smol JP, Campbell LM, Kurek J. 2021. Arsenic and mercury contamination and complex aquatic bioindicator responses to historical gold mining and modern watershed stressors in urban Nova Scotia, Canada. Science of the Total Environment 787: 147374. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147374
Patoine A, Karmakar M, Kurek J. 2021. Differential impacts of climate and land-use on 20th century phytoplankton composition among and within two temperate coastal estuaries of Atlantic Canada. Submitted to Estuaries and Coasts. doi.org/10.1007/s12237-021-01018-w
Doucet CV, Labaj AL, Kurek J. 2021. Microfiber content in freshwater mussels from rural tributaries of the Saint John River, Canada. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 232: 32. doi.org/10.1007/s11270-020-04958-4
Labaj AL, Jeziorski A, Kurek J, Bennet JR, Cumming BF, DeSellas AM, Korosi JB, Paterson AM, Sweetman JN, Thienpont JR, Smol JP. 2021. Environmental drivers of cladoceran assemblages at a continental scale: a synthesis of Alaskan and Canadian datasets. Freshwater Biology DOI: 10.1111/fwb.13689
Dunnington DW, Libera N, Kurek J, Spooner IS, Gagnon GA. 2021. tidypaleo: Visualizing paleoenvironmental archives using ggplot2. Journal of Statistical Software101: 1-20.
Dunnington DW, Roberts S, Norton SA, Spooner IS, Kurek J, Kirk JL, Muir DCG, White CE, Gagnon GA. 2020. The distribution and transport of lead over two centuries as recorded by lake sediments from northeastern North America. Science of the Total Environment 737: 140212.
Libera N, Summers JC, Rühland KM, Kurek J, Smol JP. 2020. Diatom assemblage changes in shallow lakes of the Athabasca Oil Sands Region are not tracking aerially deposited contaminants. Journal of Paleolimnology 64: 257-272.
Kurek J, MacKeigan PW, Veinot S, Mercer A, Kidd K. 2019. Ecological legacy of DDT archived in lake sediments from eastern Canada. Environmental Science & Technology 53 (13): 7316-7325.
Loder AL, Spooner IS, McLellan NR, Kurek J, Mallory ML. 2019. Water chemistry of managed freshwater wetlands on marine-derived soils in coastal Bay of Fundy, Canada. Wetlands 39: 521-532.
Wooller M, Saulnier-Talbot E, Potter B, Belmecheri S, Bigelow N, Choy K, Cwynar L, Davies K, Graham, R, Kurek J, Langdon P, Medeiros A, Rawcliffe R, Wang Y, Williams J. 2018. A new terrestrial palaeoenvironmental record from the Bering Land Bridge and context for human dispersal. Royal Society Open Science 5: 180145.
Summers JC, Rühland KM, Kurek J, Smol JP. 2019. A diatom-based paleolimnological survey of environmental changes since ~1850 in 18 shallow lakes of the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology 61(2): 147-163.
Daly M, Kurek J, Gregory-Eaves I, Patoine A. 2019. Reorganization of aquatic communities from low-nutrient lakes in northwestern New Brunswick, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology 61(2): 185-200.
Armstrong I, Kurek J. 2019. Sensitivity and response of low-nutrient lakes to post twentieth century environmental change in New Brunswick, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology 61(1): 85-98.