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Jules M. Blais

Jules M. Blais

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
11251
World Ranking
4909
National Ranking
204

Overview

Jules M. Blais is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada, specializing in environmental science with a focus on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. Their research spans diverse subfields, including ecology, atmospheric science, pollution, and environmental chemistry.

The main topics covered in their work involve toxic organic pollutants impact, geology and paleoclimatology research, isotope analysis in ecology, mercury impact and mitigation studies, heavy metals in the environment, petroleum processing and analysis, and fish ecology and management studies.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • Pharmaceutical pollution of the world's rivers, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • On "success" in applied environmental research - What is it, how can it be achieved, and how does one know when it has been achieved?, 2020, Environmental Reviews
  • Long-Term Changes in Terrestrial Vegetation Linked to Shifts in a Colonial Seabird Population, 2020, Ecosystems
  • Striking centennial-scale changes in the population size of a threatened seabird, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Health risk assessment of inorganic arsenic exposure through fish consumption in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, 2020, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Blais include Linda E. Kimpe, John P. Smol, Bruce P. Hollebone, Diane M. Orihel, and Mark L. Hanson.

Their work is primarily published in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Environmental Pollution
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers

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  • Accumulation of persistent organochlorine compounds in mountains of western Canada

    Jules M. Blais;Jules M. Blais;Jules M. Blais;David W. Schindler;Derek C. G. Muir;Derek C. G. Muir;Derek C. G. Muir;Lynda E. Kimpe

  • The influence of lake morphometry on sediment focusing

    Jules M. Blais;Jacob Kalff

  • Arctic seabirds transport marine-derived contaminants.

    Jules M. Blais;Lynda E. Kimpe;Dominique McMahon;Bronwyn E. Keatley

  • Biologically mediated transport of contaminants to aquatic systems.

    Jules M. Blais;Robie W. Macdonald;Donald Mackay;Eva Webster

  • Do spectrally inferred determinations of chlorophyll a reflect trends in lake trophic status

    Neal Michelutti;Jules M. Blais;Brian F. Cumming;Andrew M. Paterson

  • Melting glaciers: a major source of persistent organochlorines to subalpine Bow Lake in Banff National Park, Canada.

    Jules M. Blais;David W. Schindler;Derek C.G. Muir;Martin Sharp

  • Dissolved organic matter kinetically controls mercury bioavailability to bacteria

    Sophie A. Chiasson-Gould;Jules M. Blais;Alexandre J. Poulain

  • Aquatic ecology: delivery of pollutants by spawning salmon.

    E. M. Krümmel;R. W. Macdonald;L. E. Kimpe;I. Gregory-Eaves

  • Orographic cold-trapping of persistent organic pollutants by vegetation in mountains of western Canada.

    Deborah A. Davidson;and Andrew C. Wilkinson;Jules M. Blais;Lynda E. Kimpe

  • The occurrence of steroidal estrogens in south-eastern Ontario wastewater treatment plants

    Susanna K. Atkinson;Vicki L. Marlatt;Lynda E. Kimpe;David R.S. Lean

  • Seabird-driven shifts in Arctic pond ecosystems

    Neal Michelutti;Bronwyn E Keatley;Samantha Brimble;Jules M Blais

  • Dissolved organic carbon thresholds affect mercury bioaccumulation in Arctic lakes.

    Todd D. French;Adam J. Houben;Jean-Pierre W. Desforges;Linda E. Kimpe

  • Evaluation of210Pb dating in lake sediments using stable Pb,Ambrosia pollen, and137Cs

    Jules M. Blais;Jacob Kalff;R. Jack Cornett;R. Douglas Evans

  • Biological responses to permafrost thaw slumping in Canadian Arctic lakes

    Joshua R. Thienpont;Kathleen M. Rühland;Michael F. J. Pisaric;Steven V. Kokelj

  • Trophic position influences the efficacy of seabirds as metal biovectors

    Neal Michelutti;Jules M. Blais;Mark L. Mallory;Jaclyn Brash

  • Historical pesticide applications coincided with an altered diet of aerially foraging insectivorous chimney swifts

    Joseph J. Nocera;Jules M. Blais;David V. Beresford;Leah K. Finity

  • Bioaccumulation of the pharmaceutical 17α-ethinylestradiol in shorthead redhorse suckers (Moxostoma macrolepidotum) from the St. Clair River, Canada

    Ahmed M. Al-Ansari;Ammar Saleem;Linda E. Kimpe;Jim P. Sherry

  • Elevated Exposures to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Other Organic Mutagens in Ottawa Firefighters Participating in Emergency, On-Shift Fire Suppression.

    Jennifer L. A. Keir;Umme S. Akhtar;David M. J. Matschke;Tracy L. Kirkham

  • Multi-trophic level response to extreme metal contamination from gold mining in a subarctic lake

    Joshua R. Thienpont;Jennifer B. Korosi;Kathryn E. Hargan;Trisha Williams

  • Mercury in freshwater ecosystems of the Canadian Arctic: recent advances on its cycling and fate.

    John Chételat;Marc Amyot;Paul Arp;Jules M. Blais

  • Prehistoric Inuit whalers affected Arctic freshwater ecosystems.

    Marianne S. V. Douglas;John P. Smol;James M. Savelle;Jules M. Blais

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Smol
John P. Smol Queen's University
Mark L. Mallory
Mark L. Mallory Acadia University
Neal Michelutti
Neal Michelutti Queen's University
Marianne S. V. Douglas
Marianne S. V. Douglas Queen's University
David R. S. Lean
David R. S. Lean University of Ottawa
Andrew M. Paterson
Andrew M. Paterson Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Vance L. Trudeau
Vance L. Trudeau University of Ottawa
Alexandre J. Poulain
Alexandre J. Poulain University of Ottawa
Derek C. G. Muir
Derek C. G. Muir Environment and Climate Change Canada
David W. Schindler
David W. Schindler University of Alberta

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