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7823
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5585
National Ranking
240

Overview

Sean Backus is affiliated with Environment and Climate Change Canada, where their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science.

Their scholarly contributions center on several subfields within environmental science, including Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Water Science and Technology.

Main topics of Backus's research encompass:

  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts
  • Microplastics and plastic pollution
  • Toxic organic pollutants impact
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Pesticide and herbicide environmental studies
  • Radioactive contamination and transfer

Sean Backus has authored and co-authored several papers, including:

  • Bisphenol A in the Canadian environment: A multimedia analysis (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Lake Superior Has Lost over 90% of Its Pesticide HCH Load since 1986 (2021), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Tritium in Laurentian Great Lakes surface waters (2021), published in Journal of Great Lakes Research

Frequent co-authors working alongside Backus include Alice Dove, Sarah B. Gewurtz, Geneviève Tardif, Monique Power, and Karine Dubé-Roberge.

Their publications have appeared primarily in the following journals:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Great Lakes Research

Best Publications

  • Contaminants in the Canadian Arctic: 5 years of progress in understanding sources, occurrence and pathways.

    R.W. Macdonald;L.A. Barrie;T.F. Bidleman;M.L. Diamond

  • Mercury and other trace elements in a pelagic Arctic marine food web (Northwater Polynya, Baffin Bay)

    Linda M. Campbell;Ross J. Norstrom;Keith A. Hobson;Derek C.G. Muir

  • Fractionation and Bioaccumulation of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) Isomers in a Lake Ontario Food Web

    Magali Houde;Gertje Czub;Jeff M. Small;Sean Backus

  • Brominated flame retardants in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, East Greenland, and Svalbard.

    Derek C.G. Muir;Sean Backus;Andrew E. Derocher;Rune Dietz

  • Sources and Significance of Alkane and PAH Hydrocarbons in Canadian Arctic Rivers

    M.B. Yunker;S.M. Backus;E. Graf Pannatier;D.S. Jeffries

  • Fate of pharmaceutical and trace organic compounds in three septic system plumes, Ontario, Canada.

    Cherilyn Carrara;Carol J Ptacek;William D Robertson;David W Blowes

  • Total and soluble reactive phosphorus loadings to Lake Erie: A detailed accounting by year, basin, country, and tributary

    Matthew J. Maccoux;Alice Dove;Sean M. Backus;David M. Dolan

  • Detection of a cyclic perfluorinated acid, perfluoroethylcyclohexane sulfonate, in the Great Lakes of North America.

    Amila O. De Silva;Christine Spencer;Brian F. Scott;Sean Backus

  • Toxicity of oil sands to early life stages of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas)

    Maria V. Colavecchia;Sean M. Backus;Peter V. Hodson;Joanne L. Parrott

  • Flame Retardants and Legacy Chemicals in Great Lakes' Water

    Marta Venier;Alice Dove;Kevin Romanak;Sean Backus

  • Bioaccumulation of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the unionid mussel Lasmigona costata in a river receiving wastewater effluent

    S.R. de Solla;È.A.M. Gilroy;J.S. Klinck;L.E. King

  • Changes in Mercury Levels in Great Lakes Fish Between 1970s and 2007

    Satyendra P. Bhavsar;Sarah B. Gewurtz;Daryl J. McGoldrick;Michael J. Keir

  • A New Fluorinated Surfactant Contaminant in Biota: Perfluorobutane Sulfonamide in Several Fish Species.

    Shaogang Chu;Robert J. Letcher;Daryl J. McGoldrick;Sean M. Backus

  • Retrospective analysis of organophosphate flame retardants in herring gull eggs and relation to the aquatic food web in the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America

    Alana K. Greaves;Robert J. Letcher;Da Chen;Daryl J. McGoldrick

  • Organophosphate flame retardants and organosiloxanes in predatory freshwater fish from locations across Canada.

    Daryl J. McGoldrick;Robert J. Letcher;Enzo Barresi;Michael J. Keir

  • Empirical and Modeling Evidence of the Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of Decabromodiphenyl Ether

    Knut Breivik;Frank Wania;Derek C. G. Muir;Mehran Alaee

  • Determination of perchlorate in selected surface waters in the Great Lakes Basin by HPLC/MS/MS.

    S.M. Backus;P. Klawuun;S. Brown;I. D’sa

  • Organochlorine compounds in Lake Superior: chiral polychlorinated biphenyls and biotransformation in the aquatic food web.

    Charles S. Wong;Scott A. Mabury;D. Michael Whittle;Sean M. Backus

  • From the city to the Lake: loadings of PCBs, PBDEs, PAHs and PCMs from Toronto to Lake Ontario.

    Lisa Emily Melymuk;Matthew Robson;Susan A. Csiszar;Paul W. Helm;Paul W. Helm

  • Spatial trends and bioaccumulation of organochlorine pollutants in marine zooplankton from the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic

    Paul F. Hoekstra;Todd M. O'Hara;Camilla Teixeira;Sean Backus

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek C. G. Muir
Derek C. G. Muir Environment and Climate Change Canada
Robert J. Letcher
Robert J. Letcher Carleton University
Mehran Alaee
Mehran Alaee Environment and Climate Change Canada
Amila O. De Silva
Amila O. De Silva Environment and Climate Change Canada
Satyendra P. Bhavsar
Satyendra P. Bhavsar University of Toronto
Pierrette Blanchard
Pierrette Blanchard Environment and Climate Change Canada
Chris H. Marvin
Chris H. Marvin Environment and Climate Change Canada
Ronald A. Hites
Ronald A. Hites Indiana University
Ed Sverko
Ed Sverko Harbin Institute of Technology
Eric J. Reiner
Eric J. Reiner Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks

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