The Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER) is multidisciplinary with faculty and collaborators from many disciplines, including biology, geology, chemistry, engineering, marine biology, molecular biology, genetics and ecology.
Researchers at GLIER address complex environmental problems that cross conventional disciplinary boundaries such as the effects of multiple environmental stressors on large lakes, their watersheds and marine environments.
GLIER's multidisciplinary focus on research and graduate training has faculty and graduate students conducting research both locally within the Great Lakes Basin and around the world.
The institute has extensively equipped laboratories, core facilities, and dedicated research vessels.
GLIER researchers hold NSERC Canada Research Chairs in Great Lakes Research, Trophic Ecology, and Environmental Genomics, as well as a Department of Fisheries and Oceans Research Chair in Invasion Biology.
The Scientific Director of the Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network (CAISN) is a faculty member at GLIER.
Submissions from 2001
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in a small, herbivorous, Arctic marine zooplankton (Calanus hyperboreus): Trends from April to July and the Influence of lipids and trophic transfer, Aaron T. Fisk, Gary A. Stern, Keith A. Hobson, William J. Strachan, Mark D. Loewen, and Ross J. Norstrom
Influence of chemical and biological factors on trophic transfer of persistent organic pollutants in the Northwater Polynya marine food web, A. T. Fisk, K. A. Hobson, and R. J. Norstrom
Chlordane components and metabolites in seven species of Arctic seabirds from the Northwater Polynya: Relationships with stable isotopes of nitrogen and enantiomeric fractions of chiral components, A. T. Fisk, J. Moisey, K. A. Hobson, N. J. Karnovsky, and R. J. Norstrom
Genetic structure and relationships among steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) populations in British Columbia, Daniel D. Heath, Susan Pollard, and Christophe Herbinger
Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) isomers and chiral signatures of α-HCH in the arctic marine food web of the Northwater Polynya, John Moisey, Aaron T. Fisk, Keith A. Hobson, and Ross J. Norstrom
Short Chain Chlorinated Paraffins: Are They Persistent and Bioaccumulative?, Derek Muir, Don Bennie, Camilla Teixeira, Aaron Fisk, Gregg Tomy, Gary Stern, and Mike Whittle
Submissions from 2000
A mesoscale phytoplankton bloom in the polar Southern Ocean stimulated by iron fertilization, Philip W. Boyd, Andrew J. Watson, Cliff S. Law, Edward R. Abraham, Thomas Trull, Rob Murdoch, Dorothee C.E. Bakker, Andrew R. Bowie, K. O. Buesseler, Hoe Chang, Matthew Charette, Peter Croot, Ken Downing, Russell Frew, Mark Gall, Mark Hadfield, Julie Hall, and Mike Harvey
Heritability of fluctuating asymmetry for multiple traits in chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), Colleen A. Bryden and Daniel D. Heath
Comparison of tricane methanesulphonate (MS222) and clove oil anaesthesia effects on the physiology of juvenile chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), G. K. Cho and D. D. Heath
Dietary accumulation and quantitative structure-activity relationships for depuration and biotransformation of short (C10), medium (C14), and long (C18) carbon-chain polychlorinated alkanes by juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Aaron T. Fisk, Gregg T. Tomy, Chris D. Cymbalisty, and Derek C.G. Muir
Vertical migration by Rhizosolenia spp. (Bacillariophyceae): Implications for FE acquisition, R. Michael L. McKay, Tracy A. Villareal, and Julie La Roche
Submissions from 1999
Role of iron, light, and silicate in controlling algal biomass in subantarctic waters SE of New Zealand, Philip Boyd, Julie LaRoche, Mark Gall, Russell Frew, and R. Michael L. McKay
Octanol/water partition coefficients of toxaphene congeners determined by the 'slow-stirring' method, Aaron T. Fisk, Bruno Rosenberg, Chris D. Cymbalisty, Gary A. Stern, and Derek C.G. Muir
Toxicity of C10-, C11-, C12-, and C14-polychlorinated alkanes to Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) embryos, Aaron T. Fisk, Gregg T. Tomy, and Derek C.G. Muir
Maternal effects on offspring size: variation through early development in chinook salmon, Daniel D. Heath, Charles W. Fox, and John W. Heath
Immunological and molecular probes to detect phytoplankton responses to environmental stress in nature, J. La Roche, R. M.L. McKay, and P. Boyd
Accumulation of ferredoxin and flavodoxin in a marine diatom in response to Fe, R. Michael L. McKay, Julie La Roche, Alexander F. Yakunin, Dion G. Durnford, and Richard J. Geider
Interlaboratory study on quantitative methods of analysis of C10- C13 polychloro-n-alkanes, Gregg T. Tomy, John B. Westmore, Gary A. Stem, Derek C.G. Muir, and Aaron T. Fisk
Submissions from 1998
Dietary accumulation and depuration of individual C10-, C11- and C14-polychlorinated alkanes by juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Aaron T. Fisk, Chris D. Cymbalisty, Gregg T. Tomy, and Derek C.G. Muir
Maternal transfer of organochlorines to eggs of walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) in Lake Manitoba and western Lake Superior, Aaron T. Fisk and Thomas A. Johnston
Dietary accumulation and depuration of hydrophobic organochlorines: Bioaccumulation parameters and their relationship with the octanol/water partition coefficient, Aaron T. Fisk, Roos J. Norstrom, Chris D. Cymbalisty, and Derek G.G. Muir
Accumulation and depuration of sediment-sorbed C12- and C16- polychlorinated alkanes by oligochaetes (Lumbriculus variegatus), Aaron T. Fisk, Susanna C. Wiens, G. R. Barrie Webster, Åke Bergman, and Derek C.G. Muir
Responses of the photosynthetic apparatus of dunaliella tertiolecta (chlorophyceae) to nitrogen and phosphorus limitation, Richard J. Geider, Hugh L. Macintyre, Lisa M. Graziano, and R. Michael L. McKay
Responses of the photosynthetic apparatus of Dunaliella tertiolecta (Chlorophyceae) to nitrogen and phosphorus limitation, Richard J. Geider, Hugh L. Macintyre, Lisa M. Graziano, and R. Michael L. McKay
Mytilus protamine-like sperm-specific protein genes are multi-copy, dispersed, and closely associated with hypervariable RFLP regions, Daniel D. Heath and T. J. Hilbish
A novel method for estimating heritability using molecular markers, Timothy A. Mousseau, Kermit Ritland, and Daniel D. Heath
Iron stress in the Pacific region of the Southern Ocean: Evidence from enrichment bioassays, K. R. Timmermans, M. A. Van Leeuwe, J. T.M. De Jong, R. M.L. McKay, R. F. Nolting, H. J. Witte, J. Van Ooyen, M. J.W. Swagerman, H. Kloosterhuis, and H. J.W. De Baar
Environmental chemistry and toxicology of polychlorinated n-alkanes, G. T. Tomy, A. T. Fisk, J. B. Westmore, and D. C.G. Muir
Submissions from 1997
Genetic analysis of lysozyme activity and resistance to vibriosis in farmed chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), S. K. Balfry, D. D. Heath, and G. K. Iwama
Accumulation, depuration and hepatic mixed-function oxidase enzyme induction in juvenile rainbow trout and lake whitefish exposed to dietary 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, Aaron T. Fisk, Alvin L. Yarechewski, Donald A. Metner, Robert E. Evans, W. Lyle Lockhart, and Derek C.G. Muir
Physiological and biochemical response of the photosynthetic apparatus of two marine diatoms to Fe stress, R. Michael L. McKay, Richard J. Gelder, and Julie LaRoche
Quantifying C10-C13 Polychloroalkanes in Environmental Samples by High-Resolution Gas Chromatography/Electron Capture Negative Ion High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry, Gregg T. Tomy, Gary A. Stern, Derek C.G. Muir, Aaron T. Fisk, Chris D. Cymbalisty, and John B. Westmore
Submissions from 1996
Dietary accumulation of C12- and C16-chlorinated alkanes by juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Aaron T. Fisk, Chris D. Cymbalisty, Åke Bergman, and Derek C.G. Muir
Growth and hormonal changes associated with precocious sexual maturation in adult male chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), Daniel D. Heath, Robert H. Devlin, John W. Heath, Ruston M. Sweeting, Brian A. McKeown, and George K. Iwama
The role of trophic bottlenecks in stunting: a field test of an allocation model of the growth and reproduction in yellow perch (Perca flavescens), Daniel D. Heath and Derek A. Roff
Ecological interaction between sympatric Mytilus species on the west coast of Canada investigated using PCR markers, D. D. Heath, D. R. Hatcher, and T. J. Hilbish
Flavodoxin as an in situ marker for iron stress in phytoplankton, J. La Roche, P. W. Boyd, R. M.L. McKay, and R. J. Geider
Photosynthesis and regulation of rubisco activity in net phytoplankton from Delaware Bay 1, Hugh L. MacIntyre, Richard J. Gelder, and R. Michael McKay
Submissions from 1995
Multilocus DNA fingerprints in seven species of salmonids, Daniel D. Heath, R. H. Devlin, T. J. Hilbish, and G. K. Iwama
PCR-based nuclear markers identify alien blue mussel (Mytilus spp.) genotypes on the west coast of Canada, Daniel D. Heath, Paul D. Rawson, and Thomas J. Hilbish
A single-locus minisatellite discriminates chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) populations, D. D. Heath, J. Bernier, and T. A. Mousseau
Submissions from 1994
Reply to comment on "Genetic, environmental, and interaction effects on growth and stress response of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) fry" by Silverstein, Daniel D. Heath, Nicholas J. Bernier, John W. Heath, and George K. Iwama
Genetic, environmental, and interaction effects on the incidence of jacking in Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (chinook salmon), Daniel D. Heath, Robert H. Devlin, John W. Heath, and George K. Iwama
DNA fingerprinting used to test for family effects on precocious sexual maturation in two populations of Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (chinook salmon), Daniel D. Heath, George K. Iwama, and Robert H. Devlin
Submissions from 1993
Repeat sexual maturation of precocious male chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) transferred to seawater, Nicholas J. Bernier, Daniel D. Heath, David J. Randall, and George K. Iwama
Genetic, environmental, and interaction effects on growth and stress response of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) fry, Daniel D. Heath, Nicholas J. Bernier, John W. Heath, and George K. Iwama
Effect of dissolved inorganic carbon on the expression of carboxysomes, localization of Rubisco and the mode of inorganic carbon transport in cells of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus UTEX 625, R. Michael L. McKay, Sarah P. Gibbs, and George S. Espie
Submissions from 1992
Immunogold localization of photosystem I and photosystem II light-harvesting complexes in cryptomonad thylakoids, Christiane Lichtlé, R. Michael L. McKay, and Sarah P. Gibbs
IMMUNOCYTOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE INTRAPYRENOID THYLAKOIDS OF CRYPTOMONADS, R. Michael L. McKay, Christiane Lichtlé, and Sarah P. Gibbs
Submissions from 1991
Maturation in chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha: early identification based on the development of a bimodal weight-frequency distribution, D. D. Heath, J. W. Heath, and G. K. Iwama
RuBisCo activase is present in the pyrenoid of green algae, R. M.L. McKay, Sarah P. Gibbs, and K. C. Vaughn
Immunocytochemical Localization of Phosphoribulokinase in Microalgae, R. M.L. McKay and S. P. Gibbs
Submissions from 1990
Phycoerythrin is absent from the pyrenoid of Porphyridium cruentum: photosynthetic implications, R. Michael L. McKay and Sarah P. Gibbs
Submissions from 1989
Immunocytochemical localization of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase in light-limited and light-saturated cells of Chlorella pyrenoidosa, R. M.L. McKay and Sarah P. Gibbs
Submissions from 1988
The use of positron emission tomography for studies of long‐distance transport in plants: uptake and transport of 18F, R. M.L. McKAY, G. R. PALMER, X. P. MA, D. B. LAYZELL, and B. T.A. McKEE