I am interested in contaminant effects in fish and wildlife, their variation in time and space, their movement through food webs, and how their exposures are influenced by diet and non-chemical threats, such as climate change and invasive species. Accordingly, my research incorporates elements of ecology, ecotoxicology, analytical chemistry, limnology, and public health to provide useful information to managers so that they have a strong scientific basis for making decisions.
2024
Bishop AM, Barst BD, Rea LD (2024) Foraging niche, sex-specific resource partitioning, and mercury concentrations of male Steller sea lions in Alaska. Marine Ecology Progress Series 736:147–165. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14583.
Lacombe RM, Barst BD, Pelletier D, Guillemette M, Amyot M, Lavoie RA, Elliott KH (2024) Compound-specific stable nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids shows that bulk methods provide higher estimates of mercury biomagnification in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Environmental Pollution 340:122769.
Lacombe RM, Martigny P, Pelletier D, Barst BD, Guillemette M, Amyot M, Elliott KH, Lavoie RA (2024) Exploring the spatial variation of mercury in the Gulf of St. Lawrence using northern gannets as fish samplers. Science of The Total Environment 927:172152.
Trifari MP, Wooller MJ, Rea L, O'Hara TM, Lescord GL, Parnell AC, Barst BD (2024) Compound-specific stable isotopes of amino acids reveal influences of trophic level and primary production sources on mercury concentrations in fishes from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Science of The Total Environment 908:168242.
2023
Burke S, Muir DC, Kirk J, Barst BD, Iqaluk D, Wang X, Pope M, Lamoureux SF, Lafrenière MJ (2023) Divergent temporal trends of mercury in Arctic Char from paired lakes influenced by climate‐related drivers. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 42(12):2712-25.
Porter DE, Morris JM, Trifari MP, Wooller MJ, Westley PA, Gorman KB, Barst BD (2023) Acute toxicity of copper to three species of Pacific salmon fry in water with low hardness and low dissolved organic carbon. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 42(11):2440-52.
2022
Barst BD, Chételat J, Basu N (2022) Toxicological risk of mercury for fish and invertebrate prey in the Arctic. Science of The Total Environment 836:155702.
Barst BD, Dietz R, Basu N, Chételat J, Eulaers I, Wilson S (2022) What are the toxicological effects of mercury in Arctic biota? Part 3: Fish and invertebrates. Science of The Total Environment 836:155702.
Chastel O, Ackerman J, Albert C, Barst BD, Basu N, Boertmann D, Bustnes J, Bustamante P, Dietz R, Eagles-Smith CA, Eulaers I (2022) Mercury contamination and potential health risks to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds. Science of The Total Environment 844:156944.
Marchand H, Barst BD, Boulanger E, Vachon N, Houde M, Xia J, Liu P, Ewald JD, Bayen S, Liu L, Head JA (2022) Exposure to contaminated river water is associated with early hatching and dysregulation of gene expression in early life stages of the endangered copper redhorse (Moxostoma hubbsi). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 41(8):1950-66.
2021
Barst BD, Muir DC, O'Brien DM, Wooller MJ (2021) Validation of dried blood spot sampling for determining trophic positions of Arctic char using nitrogen stable isotope analyses of amino acids. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 35(2):e8992.
Golzadeh N, Barst BD, Baker JM, Auger JC, McKinney MA (2021) Alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are the largest contributor to polycyclic aromatic compound concentrations in traditional foods of the Bigstone Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada. Environmental Pollution 275:116625.
Golzadeh N, Barst BD, Basu N, Baker JM, Auger JC, McKinney MA (2021) Evaluating the concentrations of total mercury, methylmercury, selenium, and selenium: mercury molar ratios in traditional foods of the Bigstone Cree in Alberta, Canada. Chemosphere 250:126285.
Hannappel MP, Chumchal MM, Drenner RW, Kennedy J, Barst BD, Castellini JM (2021) Mud dauber nests as sources of spiders in mercury monitoring studies. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 40(5):1335-40.
Hannappel MP, Chumchal MM, Drenner RW, Kennedy JH, Barst BD, Castellini JM, Nolan AR, Willoughby FM, Trauffler LP (2021) Effect of body size on methylmercury concentrations in shoreline spiders: Implications for their use as sentinels. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 40(4):1149-54.
Roberts SL, Kirk JL, Muir DC, Wiklund JA, Evans MS, Gleason A, Tam A, Drevnick PE, Dastoor A, Ryjkov A, Yang F, Wang X, Lawson G, Pilote M, Keating J, Barst BD, Ahad JME, Cooke CA (2021) Quantification of spatial and temporal trends in atmospheric mercury deposition across Canada over the past 30 years. Environmental Science & Technology 55(23):15766-75.
Santa-Rios A, Barst BD, Tejeda-Benitez L, Palacios-Torres Y, Baumgartner J, Basu N (2021) Dried blood spots to characterize mercury speciation and exposure in a Colombian artisanal and small-scale gold mining community. Chemosphere 266:129001.
2020
Barst BD, Hudelson K, Lescord GL, Santa‐Rios A, Basu N, Crémazy A, Drevnick PE (2020) Effects of non‐native fish on lacustrine food web structure and mercury biomagnification along a dissolved organic carbon gradient. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 39(11):2196-207.
Barst, B.D.; Wooller, M.J.; O’Brien, D.M.; Santa-Rios, A.*; Basu, N.; Köck, G.; J.J. Johnson, Muir, D. (2020)Dried blood spot sampling of landlocked Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) for estimating mercury exposure and stable carbon isotope fingerprinting of essential amino acids. Accepted, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry,
Meachen J, Wooller MJ, Barst BD, Funck J, Crann C, Heath J, Cassatt-Johnstone M, Shapiro B, Hall E, Hewitson S, Zazula G. Zhur (2020) A mummified Pleistocene gray wolf pup (Canis lupus) from Yukon Territory, Canada. Current Biology 30(24):R1467-R1468.
Santa-Rios A, Barst BD, Basu N (2020) Mercury speciation in whole blood and dried blood spots from capillary and venous sources. Analytical chemistry 92(5):3605-12.
2019
Barst BD, Drevnick PE, Muir D, Gantner N, Power M, Köck G, Chéhab N**, Swanson H, Rigét F, Basu N (20190 Screening-level risk assessment of methylmercury for non-anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus). Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry 38(3):489-502.
Boulanger E*, Barst BD, Alloy M, Blais S, Houde M, Head JA (20190 Assessment of environmentally contaminated sediment using a contact assay with early life stage zebrafish (Danio rerio). Science of the Total Environment 659:950-962.
Dietz R, Letcher R.J, Desforges JP, Eulaers I, Sonne C, Wilson S, Andersen-Ranberg E, Basu N, Barst BD, et al.(2019) Current state of knowledge on biological effects from contaminants on Arctic wildlife and fish. Science of the Total Environment 696:133792.
Hudelson K, Muir DCG, Drevnick PE, Köck G, Iqaluk D, Wang X, Kirk J, Barst BD, Grgicak-Mannion A, Shearon R, Fisk A (2019) Temporal trends and lake-to-lake variation in Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) mercury concentrations from six High Arctic lakes in Nunavut, Canada. Science of the Total Environment 678:801-812.
Lin H*, Santa-Rios A*, Barst BD, Basu N, Bayen S (2019) Occurrence and bioaccessibility of mercury in commercial rice samples in Montreal (Canada). Food & Chemical Toxicology 126: 72-78.
Ortega-Rodriguez C*, Chumchal M, Drenner, R, Kennedy J, Nowlin W, Barst BD, Polk K, Hall M, Williams E, Lauck K, Santa Rios A, Basu N (2019) Relationship between methyl mercury contamination and proportion of aquatic and terrestrial prey in diets of seven taxa of shoreline spiders. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry 38 (11), 2503-2508.
2018
Barst BD, Rosabal M, Drevnick PE, Campbell PG, Basu N (2018) Subcellular partitioning of trace elements (Cd, Pb, As, Hg, Se) in the livers of Alaskan yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus). Environmental Pollution 242:63-72.
