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.
Barst, B.D.; Wooller, M.J.; O’Brien, D.M.; Santa-Rios, A.*; Basu, N.; Köck, G.; J.J. Johnson, Muir, D. 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, 2020.
Ortega-Rodriguez, C.*; Chumchal, M.; Drenner, R.; Kennedy, J.; Nowlin, W.; Barst, B.D.; Polk, K.; Hall, M.; Williams, E.; Lauck, K.; Santa Rios, A.; Basu, N. Relationship between methyl mercury contamination and proportion of aquatic and terrestrial prey in diets of seven taxa of shoreline spiders. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, 2019, 38 (11), 2503-2508.
Dietz, R.; Letcher, R.J.; Desforges, J.P.; Eulaers, I.; Sonne, C.; Wilson, S.; Andersen-Ranberg, E.; Basu, N.; Barst, B.D. et al. Current state of knowledge on biological effects from contaminants on arctic wildlife and fish. Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 696, 133792.
Hudelson, K.; Muir, D.C.G.; Drevnick, P.E.; Köck, G.; Iqaluk, D.; Wang, X.; Kirk, J.; Barst, B.D.; Grgicak-Mannion, A.; Shearon, R.; Fisk, A. 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, 2019, 678, 801-812.
Lin, H.*; Santa-Rios, A*; Barst, B.D.; Basu, N. Bayen, S. Occurrence and bioaccessibility of mercury in commercial rice samples in Montreal (Canada). Food & Chemical Toxicology, 126, 72-78.
Boulanger, E.*; Barst, B.D.; Alloy, M.; Blais, S.; Houde, M.; Head, J.A. Assessment of environmentally contaminated sediment using a contact assay with early life stage zebrafish (Danio rerio). Science of the Total Environment 2019, 659, 950-962.
Barst, B.D.; Drevnick, P.E.; Muir, D.; Gantner, N.; Power, M.; Köck, G.; Chéhab**, N; Swanson, H.; Rigét, F.; Basu, N. Screening-level risk assessment of methylmercury for non-anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus). Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, 38 (3), 489-502.
Barst, B.D.; Rosabal, M.; Drevnick, P.E.; Campbell, P.G; Basu, N. Subcellular partitioning of trace elements (Cd, Pb, As, Hg, Se) in the livers of Alaskan yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus). Environmental Pollution 2018, 242, 63-72.
