[HTML][HTML] Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) in the Canadian environment: A review of sampling techniques, strategies and instrumentation

JME Ahad, RW Macdonald, JL Parrott, Z Yang… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
A wide variety of sampling techniques and strategies are needed to analyze polycyclic
aromatic compounds (PACs) and interpret their distributions in various environmental media …

[HTML][HTML] A latest Pleistocene and Holocene composite tephrostratigraphic framework for northeastern North America

BJL Jensen, LJ Davies, C Nolan… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lakes and bogs in northeastern North America preserve tephra deposits sourced from
multiple volcanic systems in the Northern Hemisphere. However, most studies of these …

Widespread recent ecosystem state shifts in high‐latitude peatlands of northeastern Canada and implications for carbon sequestration

G Magnan, NK Sanderson, S Piilo, S Pratte… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Northern peatlands are a major component of the global carbon (C) cycle. Widespread
climate‐driven ecohydrological changes in these ecosystems can have major …

Unequal anthropogenic enrichment of mercury in Earth's northern and southern hemispheres

C Li, JE Sonke, G Le Roux, N Piotrowska… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Remote Northern Hemisphere (NH) and Southern Hemisphere (SH) lake sediment and peat
records of mercury (Hg) deposition have shown a× 3 to× 5 Hg enrichment since pre …

Trace elements in peat bog porewaters: indicators of dissolution of atmospheric dusts and aerosols from anthropogenic and natural sources

W Shotyk, F Barraza, S Butt, N Chen… - … : Water Research & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Peat bogs are often used as archives of atmospheric deposition of trace elements (TEs).
However, chemical analyses of TEs in peat provide little information about their ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Trace elements in the Athabasca Bituminous Sands: A geochemical explanation for the paucity of environmental contamination by chalcophile elements

W Shotyk, B Bicalho, C Cuss, M Donner… - Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Athabasca Bituminous Sands (ABS) in northern Alberta, Canada, represent
one of the largest reserves of hydrocarbons on the planet, yet there is remarkably little …

How Joannites' economy eradicated primeval forest and created anthroecosystems in medieval Central Europe

M Lamentowicz, K Marcisz, P Guzowski, M Gałka… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
During European states' development, various past societies utilized natural resources, but
their impact was not uniformly spatially and temporally distributed. Considerable changes …

Environmental significance of trace elements in the Athabasca Bituminous Sands: facts and misconceptions

W Shotyk - Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The bituminous sands of Alberta, Canada, represent the second largest reserves of
hydrocarbons on earth. Open pit bitumen mining and upgrading of the Athabasca …

A practical method for assigning uncertainty and improving the accuracy of alpha-ejection corrections and eU concentrations in apatite (U–Th)∕ He chronology

SD Zeigler, JR Metcalf, RM Flowers - Geochronology, 2023 - gchron.copernicus.org
Apatite (U–Th)/He (AHe) dating generally assumes that grains can be accurately and
precisely modeled as geometrically perfect hexagonal prisms or ellipsoids in order to …

Permafrost microbial community structure changes across the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary

A Saidi-Mehrabad, P Neuberger… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Despite the presence of well-documented changes in vegetation and faunal communities at
the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, it is unclear whether similar shifts occurred in soil …