Conference and Invited Presentations

59th Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research. 5-7 January 2006. Calgary, AB.

• Curry, C., D.J. Baird, and R.A. Curry. 2006. Measuring the relative importance of distance and habitat characteristics on beta-diversity of Dragonflies and Damselflies (Insecta: Odonata).

92nd Annual Pulp & Paper Technical Alliance of Canada. February 2006. Montreal, QC.

• Hewitt, L.M., Belknap, A.M., Dubé, M.G., and MacLatchy, D.L. 2006. Identification of chemicals in bleached kraft chemical recovery condensates associated with testosterone depressions in fish.
• Kovacs, T., Martel, P., Paice, M., Browne, T., Hewitt, M., Dubé, M., Parrott, J., McMaster, M. and MacLatchy, D. 2006. Towards the elimination of changes in reproductive indicators of fish associated with exposure to pulp and paper mill effluents.
• MacLatchy, D.L., Shaughnessy, K.S., Belknap, A.M., Dubé, M.G. and Hewitt, L.M. 2006. Reproductive steroid responses in fish exposed to pulp mill condensates.

Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists, May 2006, Edmonton, AB.

• Sharpe, R.L. , Woodhouse, A., Moon, T.W., Trudeau, V. and MacLatchy, D,L. 2006. Disrupted StAr: a mechanism for β-sitosterol endocrine effects in goldfish.

Atlantic Canada Coastal Estuarine Science Society (ACCESS) Meeting, 16-17 May 2006, Fredericton, NB.

• Arciszewski, T., K. Kidd and K. Munkittrick. 2006. Responses of fish and invertebrate populations to industrial and municipal effluents in the upper Saint John River.
• Breau, C., and R.A. Cunjak. Behaviour at high water temperatures: can physiology explain movement of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) to cool water sources?
• Dalton, S. 2006. Social assessment tools and techniques for estuarine resource managers:examples from the US national estuarine research reserve network.
• McGraw, M., and D. Methven. Latitudinal variation in egg type and mean egg diameter of marine teleosts from the north western Atlantic.
• Skinner, M.A., and S.C. Courtenay. Examining the influence of suspended oyster (Crassostrea virginica) aquaculture on estuarine epibenthic communities.
• Thériault, M-H., S.C. Courtenay, K.R. Munkittrick, A.G. Chiasson. 2006. Testing of two monitoring approaches to quantify ecological impacts of fish processing plants discharging effluents into coastal waters of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, New-Brunswick, Canada.

Canadian Rivers Institute Day, 18 May 2006. Fredericton, NB.

• Adams, J., Munkittrick, K. and MacLatchy, D. 2006. Investigating the response of fish to chronic exposures to oil refinery effluent.
• Alexander, A., J. Culp, K. Liber, D. Baird, and A. Cessna. 2006. Sublethal effects of larval insecticide exposure on adult mayfly body-size.
• Arens, C.J., D.A. Methven, and K.R. Munkittrick. 2006. Seasonal and regional variation in the nearshore fish assemblage of the southwest Bay of Fundy.
• Casselman, J., D. Methven, and K. Munkittrick. 2006. Spatial scale and development of a fish sampling protocol in Saint John Harbour.
• Curry, C., D.J. Baird, and A. Curry. 2006. Measuring the relative importance of distance and habitat characteristics on beta-diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta: Odonata).
• Danielescu, S., K. MacQuarrie, and D. Connor. 2006. Nitrogen fluxes from watersheds to nutrient sensitive estuaries.
• Foster, E. 2006. Nutrient status variability in the Kennebecasis and Nashwaak watersheds.
• Gallant, M.J, K.E. Haralampides, R.A. Cunjak, and P.W. Emerson. 2006. An ecohydraulics approach to increasing riverine production of juvenile wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).
• Gautreau, M. and A. Curry. 2006. Ecology of the redbreast sunfish Lepomis auritus in two New Brunswick Lakes: a species of concern (COSEWIC).
• Heard, K., J. Culp, A. Alexander, E. Luiker, R.A. Curry, and D. Baird. 2006. Non-target effects of an insecticide on the benthic invertebrate community.
• Horrigan, N. 2006. Methods to derive pressure specific sensitivity information using biomonitoring and distributional data.
• Jardine, T.D., K.A. Kidd, P.A. Arp, and R.A. Cunjak. 2006. Mercury in streams and rivers: lessons from sentinel species and stable isotopes.
• Kassie, R.S., and J.D. Kieffer. 2006. Just go with the flow: recovery from exhaustive exercise in brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis).
• Kullman, M., K. Kidd, and C. Podemski. 2006. Aquaculture waste from freshwater cage cultures: Is it a source of food for native biota?
• Kullman, M., K. Kidd, and C. Podemski. 2006. Food web incorporation of freshwater aquaculture waste.
• Lamson, H., D. Cairns, and A. Curry. 2006. Growth rates of American eels (Anguilla rostrata) in relation to habitat salinity, based on otolith microchemistry.
• Linnansaari, T., and R. Cunjak. 2006. Movements and behaviour by juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in relation to ice conditions in small rivers in Canada and Norway.
• Luiker, E., J.M. Culp, L. Noel, E. Foster, R. A. Curry, and D. Hryn. 2006. Status and effects of nutrient loading on the Saint John River.
• Mitchell, S., and R. Cunjak. 2006. Streamflow, salmon and beavers: Interactions structuring fish assemblages in Catamaran Brook.
• Monk, W.A., Curry, R.A., Craig, N., O’Keefe, J. and Duke, N. 2006. New Brunswick’s Water Classification: An environmental program using benthic macroinvertebrates.
• Noel, L., and J. Culp. 2006. Community resilience and resistance in regulated rivers.
• Newbury, R. , M. Gallant, and R. Cunjak. 2006. River restorations studies at the Canadian Rivers Institute.
• Sharpe, R.L., A.W. Woodhouse, T.W. Moon, V.L. Trudeau, and D.L. MacLatchy. 2006. Disrupted StAR: a mechanism for β-sitosterol endocrine effects in goldfish (Carassius auratus).
• Skinner, M.A., and S.C. Courtenay. 2006. Examining the influence of suspended oyster (Crassostrea virginica) aquaculture on estuarine epibenthic communities.
• Thériault, M-H., S.C. Courtenay, K.R. Munkittrick, and A.G. Chiasson. 2006. Testing of two monitoring approaches to quantify ecological impacts of fish processing plants discharging effluents into coastal waters of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, New-Brunswick, Canada.
• Walker, E.M. and S. Peake. 2006. The effects of suspended sediments on circulating glucose, in two Percids: Johnny darter (Etheostoma nigrum) and yellow perch (Perca flavescens).

54th Annual North American Benthological Society Meeting, 4-6 June 2006. Anchorage, AK.

• Alexander AC, Culp JM, Liber K, Baird DJ and AJ Cessna. 2006. Sublethal effects of larval insecticide exposure on adult mayfly body-size.
• Culp JM, Liber K, Cessna A, Luiker E, Alexander AC, Heard K, Baird DJ and PJ Van Den Brink. 2006. Comparison of press versus pulse exposure to insecticides: the role of sublethal effects.
• Luiker E, Culp JM, Alexander AC, Heard KS and RA Curry. 2006. Cumulative ecological effects of agricultural stressors on stream benthic ecosystems.
• Logan, O., Curry, R.A., Culp, J.C. and Heard, K. 2006. Effects of sediment depositionon benthic invertebrate community structure and biological trait composition.

Jardine, T.D., Kidd, K.A., and Fisk, A.T. 2006. Applications and assumptions of stable isotope analysis in ecotoxicology. Society of Toxicology and Chemistry - North Atlantic Chapter 12th annual meeting, June 7-9, Portland, Maine.

7th Biannual Fish Biology Congress. 18-22 July 2006. St. John’s, NL

• Sharpe, R.L. , Woodhouse, A., Moon, T.W., Trudeau, V. and MacLatchy, D.L. 2006. Beta-sitosterol alters gonadal steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) expression in goldfish (Carassius auratus).
• Sharpe, R.L., Drolet, M. and MacLatchy, D.L. 2006. Investigation of de novo cholesterol biosynthetic capacity in the gonads of goldfish (Carassius auratus) exposed to beta-sitosterol.

** Rainie Sharpe won best poster and best oral for these two presentations at the Fish Biology Congress**

8th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant. August 6-11, 2006. Madison, Wisconsin.

• Campbell, L., R. Hecky, K. Kidd, M. Evans and D. Muir. 2006. Assessing biomagnification of mercury in food webs using stable isotopes: a global perspective.
• Evans, M.S., D. Muir, K. Kidd, L. Lockhart, L. Doetzel, R. Anderson, M. Whittle 2006. Biological and anthropogenic factors affecting longitudinal and latitudinal gradients in mercury concentrations in lake trout.
• Jardine, T.D., P.A. Arp, K.A. Kidd, R.A. Cunjak. 2006. What can water striders tell us about the movement of mercury and organic matter through aquatic systems?
• Kidd, K.A., Evans, M., M. Whittle, D.C.G. Muir 2006. Accumulation of mercury through freshwater food webs of lakes in the boreal regions of Canada.

Jardine, T.D., Kidd, K.A., Doucett, R.R., Wassenaar, L.I., R. Cunjak. 2006. Multiple stable isotopes reveal organic matter and mercury flow in a temperate river. 5th International Conference on Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies. 13-18 August 2006. Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

**Tim Jardine won 2nd place in best student oral presentation for this talk**

Riverine Hydroecology: Advances inResearch and Applications conference, 14th– 18th August 2006, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland.

• Monk, W.A., Wood, P.J., Hannah, D.M. and Wilson, D.A. 2006. The importance of taxonomic resolution in understanding the influence of flow variability upon benthic macroinvertebrate communities.

33rd Annual Aquatic Toxicity Workshop. 1-4 October, 2006. Jasper, AB.

• Alexander, A.C., J.M. Culp. K. Liber, D.J. Baird, and A.J. Cessna. 2006. Sublethal effects of larval insecticide exposure on adult mayfly body-size.
• Kidd, K., D. Muir, M. Evans, M. Whittle and T. Johnston. 2006. Factors affecting the accumulation of mercury through food webs that support lake trout.

Kidd, K.A. Effects of a potent estrogen on aquatic populations. 6 October 2006. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta.

27th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 5-9 November 2006. Montreal, QU.

• Adams, J., G. Vallières, D. MacLatchy and K. Munkittrick. 2006. Fish responses to chronic exposures in oil refinery effluent.
• Arciszewski, T., K. Munkittrick, and K. Kidd. 2006. Population-level responses of fish and invertebrates to sewage and pulp mill effluents in the Saint John River.
• Bowron, L.K., K.R. Munkittrick, M.E. McMaster, G. Tetreault and M.L. Hewitt. 2006. Investigation of the response of white suckers with decreased pulp mill effluent.
• Brasfield, S., M.A. Gray and K. R. Munkittrick. 2006. Monitoring of fish populations along a gradient of agricultural inputs in New Brunswick, Canada using a nonlethal sampling approach.
• Culp, J., K. Liber, A. Cessna, E. Luiker, A. Alexander, K. Heard, D. Baird. 2006. Effects of continuous versus pulse exposure to insecticides on benthic invertebrate assemblages
• Jardine, T., K. Kidd, P. Arp, and R. Cunjak. 2006. Assessing atmospheric mercury deposition using water striders as environmental sentinels.
• Kullman, M., Kidd, K., and C. Podemski. 2006. Exposure of Sphaerium simile (Say) (Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae) to aquculture waste in a sediment bioassay.
• Kullman, M., Kidd, K., Podemski, C., Paterson, M., and P. Blanchfield. 2006. Stable isotope evidence of the incorporation of aquaculture waste by native biota.
• MacLatchy, D.L. T. Bosker, S. Melvin, M. Hanson-Lee, M.L. Hewitt and T. Kovacs. 2006. Development of partial and full lifecycle Fundulus heteroclitus bioassays to test for hormonally-active contaminants in pulp mill effluents.
• Palace, V., K. Kidd, P. Blanchfield,, K. Mills, K. Wautier, R. Evans, J. Lazorchak, and R. Flick. 2006. A comparison of subcellular- through population-level effects of a potent estrogen mimic on fish: results from a multi-year whole-lake experiment.
• Tenzin, K. and K. Munkittrick. 2006. The design of a non-lethal fish monitoring program for rivers in Bhutan.

Kidd, K.A. A whole lake experiment to assess the effect of a potent estrogen mimic on aquatic populations. and, Using stable isotopes to understand the bioaccumulation of mercury in freshwater food webs. University of Lund, Sweden, Limnology & Ecology Departmental Seminars, 16 November 2006.

Kidd, K. Current and emerging water related threats to human health in Canada. “Watersheds and Source Protection: Governance, Science, and Health: An Exploratory Workshop.” Peter Wall Institute, University of British Columbia, 24-25 Nov 2006.