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Overview

Karsten Liber is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, producing a significant body of work focused on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nutrition and Dietetics, Pollution, Analytical Chemistry, and Water Science and Technology. Their research primarily addresses Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, with additional emphasis on topics such as mercury impact and mitigation studies, selenium in biological systems, heavy metals in the environment, petroleum processing and analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and water quality and pollution assessment.

They have published in several scientific venues, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their work. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
  • Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • Environmental Research
  • Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
  • Aquatic Toxicology

Their recent notable scientific papers include:

  • "Binding properties to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors can explain differential toxicity of neonicotinoid insecticides in Chironomidae," 2020, Aquatic Toxicology
  • "Investigating the mechanism of vanadium toxicity in freshwater organisms," 2020, Aquatic Toxicology
  • "Chronic Toxicity of Surface Water from a Canadian Oil Sands End Pit Lake to the Freshwater Invertebrates Chironomus dilutus and Ceriodaphnia dubia," 2020, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
  • "Trophic dynamics of selenium in a boreal lake food web," 2021, Environmental Pollution
  • "Multiple Linear Regression Modeling Predicts the Effects of Surface Water Chemistry on Acute Vanadium Toxicity to Model Freshwater Organisms," 2020, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Karsten Liber frequently collaborates with a range of researchers, including:

  • Banamali Panigrahi
  • David M. Janz
  • Maíra Peixoto Mendes
  • Lorne E. Doig
  • Beatriz Cupe-Flores

The body of their work contributes to the understanding of environmental toxicity mechanisms, especially involving heavy metals, selenium, and aquatic toxicology. This focus integrates chemical analysis, ecological risk assessment, and toxicological impacts in freshwater and boreal ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • Neonicotinoid contamination of global surface waters and associated risk to aquatic invertebrates: A review

    Christy A. Morrissey;Pierre Mineau;James H. Devries;Francisco Sanchez-Bayo

  • Human Health Effects From Chronic Arsenic Poisoning–A Review

    Simon Kapaj;Hans Peterson;Karsten Liber;Prosun Bhattacharya

  • Removal of hexavalent chromium from aqueous solutions by a novel biochar supported nanoscale iron sulfide composite.

    Honghong Lyu;Jingchun Tang;Yao Huang;Longshuang Gai

  • Acute and subchronic mammalian toxicity of naphthenic acids from oil sands tailings

    Vincent V. Rogers;Mark Wickstrom;Karsten Liber;Michael D. MacKinnon

  • Isolation and characterization of naphthenic acids from Athabasca oil sands tailings pond water.

    Vincent V. Rogers;Karsten Liber;Michael D. MacKinnon

  • Direct and indirect responses of a freshwater food web to a potent synthetic oestrogen

    Karen A. Kidd;Michael J. Paterson;Michael D. Rennie;Cheryl L. Podemski

  • Acute and Chronic Toxicity of Imidacloprid to the Aquatic Invertebrates Chironomus tentans and Hyalella azteca under Constant- and Pulse-Exposure Conditions

    Sarah J. Stoughton;Karsten Liber;Joseph Culp;Allan Cessna

  • Effects of insecticide exposure on feeding inhibition in mayflies and oligochaetes.

    Alexa C. Alexander;Joseph M. Culp;Karsten Liber;Allan J. Cessna

  • Comparative chronic toxicity of imidacloprid, clothianidin, and thiamethoxam to Chironomus dilutus and estimation of toxic equivalency factors.

    Michael C. Cavallaro;Christy A. Morrissey;John V. Headley;Kerry M. Peru

  • The Impact of Metallic Coagulants on the Removal of Organic Compounds from Oil Sands Process-Affected Water

    Parastoo Pourrezaei;Przemysław Drzewicz;Yingnan Wang;Mohamed Gamal El-Din

  • Effectiveness of ozonation treatment in eliminating toxicity of oil sands process-affected water to Chironomus dilutus.

    J. C. Anderson;S. B. Wiseman;N. Wang;A. Moustafa

  • Effects of Chironomus tentans larval growth retardation on adult emergence and ovipositing success: implications for interpreting freshwater sediment bioassays

    Karsten Liber;Daniel J. Call;Timothy D. Dawson;Frank W. Whiteman

  • Effects of exposure to oil sands process-affected water from experimental reclamation ponds on Chironomus dilutus.

    Julie Anderson;Steve B. Wiseman;Ahmed Moustafa;Mohamed Gamal El-Din

  • A comprehensive support vector machine-based classification model for soil quality assessment

    Yong Liu;Huifeng Wang;Hong Zhang;Karsten Liber;Karsten Liber

  • An integrated evaluation of the persistence and effects of 4-nonylphenol in an experimental littoral ecosystem

    Karsten Liber;Michael L. Knuth;Frank S. Stay

  • Experimental designs for aquatic mesocosm studies: A comparison of the “anova” and “regression” design for assessing the impact of tetrachlorophenol on zooplankton populations in limnocorrals

    Karsten Liber;Narinder K. Kaushik;Keith R. Solomon;John H. Carey

  • Toxicity of uranium, molybdenum, nickel, and arsenic to Hyalella azteca and Chironomus dilutus in water-only and spiked-sediment toxicity tests

    Karsten Liber;Lorne E. Doig;Suzanne L. White-Sobey

  • Cumulative toxicity of neonicotinoid insecticide mixtures to Chironomus dilutus under acute exposure scenarios.

    Erin M. Maloney;Christy A. Morrissey;John V. Headley;Kerry M. Peru

  • Nickel speciation in the presence of different sources and fractions of dissolved organic matter.

    Lorne E. Doig;Karsten Liber

  • Effects of acid-volatile sulfide on zinc bioavailability and toxicity to benthic macroinvertebrates: A spiked-sediment field experiment

    Karsten Liber;Daniel J. Call;Thomas P. Markee;Kurt L. Schmude

  • Reproductive, immune, and physiological end points in tree swallows on reclaimed oil sands mine sites

    Judit E. Smits;Mark E. Wayland;Michael J. Miller;Karsten Liber

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Giesy
John P. Giesy University of Saskatchewan
John V. Headley
John V. Headley Environment and Climate Change Canada
Keith R. Solomon
Keith R. Solomon University of Guelph
Kerry M. Peru
Kerry M. Peru Environment and Climate Change Canada
Ingrid J. Pickering
Ingrid J. Pickering University of Saskatchewan
Markus Hecker
Markus Hecker University of Saskatchewan
Joseph M. Culp
Joseph M. Culp Wilfrid Laurier University
Gerald T. Ankley
Gerald T. Ankley Environmental Protection Agency
Steve Wiseman
Steve Wiseman University of Lethbridge
Jonathan W. Martin
Jonathan W. Martin Stockholm University

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