Selected publications by year
2026
Ezugba, I. O., Doig, L., Panigrahi, B., Davila-Arenas, C., & Liber, K. (2026, May). Integrated Hazard Assessment of Permanent Aquatic Storage Strategy-Treated Fluid Tailings in a Canadian Pilot-scale Oil Sands Pit Lake. In SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting. SETAC.
Leppanen, M., Ahkola, H., Järvistö, J., Sysoeva, L., Peters, A., Merrington, G., ... & Aronsson, A. (2026, May). Uranium toxicity to algae and water flea in natural freshwaters. Validating Biotic Ligand Model for uranium. In SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting. SETAC.
Kennelly, L., Trenfield, M., Harford, A., Peters, A., Merrington, G., Lofts, S., ... & Aronsson, A. (2026, May). The Development and Regulatory Implementation of a Bioavailability Model for Uranium. In SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting. SETAC.
Trenfield, M., Harford, A., Peters, A., Merrington, G., Kennelly, L., Lofts, S., ... & Karlsson, T. (2026, May). Uranium toxicity to freshwater biota at varying pH, hardness and dissolved organic carbon. In SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting. SETAC.
Liber, K., Hecker, M., Niyogi, S., Peters, A., Merrington, G., Kennelly, L., ... & Arnosson, A. (2026, May). Uranium Toxicity to Zebrafish in Reconstituted Freshwater at Different pH and Ionic Composition. In SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting. SETAC.
Liber, K., Benson, S., & Janz, D. (2026). Chronic Uranium Toxicity to Early Life Stage Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) Under Laboratory Conditions. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 90(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-025-01181-2
2025
Liu, D., & Liber, K. (2025). The effects of alkalinity and hardness on uranium speciation and toxicity to Daphnia pulex. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 89(3), 386-394. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-025-01147-4
Panigrahi, B., Doig, L. E., Ezugba, I., Davila-Arenas, C. E., & Liber, K. (2025). Water quality assessment of a novel pilot-scale pit lake in the alberta oil sands region. Environmental Research, 272, 121142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.121142
Panigrahi, B., Razavi, S., Doig, L. E., Cordell, B., Gupta, H. V., & Liber, K. (2025). On robustness of the explanatory power of machine learning models: Insights from a new explainable AI approach using sensitivity analysis. Water Resources Research, 61(3), e2024WR037398. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR037398
Lacroix-Durand, C., Janz, D., & Liber, K. (2025). Chronic Radium-226 toxicity to and oxidative stress in the aquatic invertebrate Chironomus dilutus. Toxicology Research, 14(1), tfaf001. https://doi.org/10.1093/toxres/tfaf001
Diederichsen, A., House, M., Cloutier, S., & Liber, K. (2025). Variation in cadmium concentration in seed and its association with phenotypic traits of 166 diverse flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) pure lines grown in western Canada. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, 105, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2024-0105
Lacroix-Durand, C., Janz, D., & Liber, K. (2025). Chronic radium-226 bioaccumulation and toxicity in the aquatic invertebrate Daphnia magna. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 88(1), 123-133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-024-01109-2
Peixoto Mendes, M., Cupe‐Flores, B., Woolhouse, K., Fernandes, S., & Liber, K. (2025). The influence of sampling method and season on modeling of selenium into coldwater fish and implications on tissue‐based water quality benchmarks. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 21(1), 39-51. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4859
2024
Panigrahi, B., Doig, L. E., Davila-Arenas, C. E., Ezugba, I., & Liber, K. (2024). Spatio-temporal analysis of water chemistry and ecotoxicological risk characterisation for a constructed pilot-scale pit lake in the Athabasca oil sands region, Canada. Chemosphere, 368, 143679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.143679
Taylor, M. K., Irwin, H., Tomy, G. T., Irvine, F., Yole, M., Despatie, S., & Liber, K. (2024). Determining reasonable response actions following a fly ash spill in the headwaters of Banff National Park, Canada. FACETS, 9(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2023-0219
Yan, M., Chen, X., Jiang, T., Xue, J., Liber, K., Liu, H., & Yang, J. (2024). Copper induces cytotoxicity in freshwater bivalve Anodonta woodiana hemocytes. Chemosphere, 362, 142595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142595
Davila-Arenas, C. E., Doig, L. E., Ji, X., Panigrahi, B., Ezugba, I., Liu, X., & Liber, K. (2024). Selenium bioaccumulation in Daphnia pulex via aqueous and dietary exposure. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196(7), 628. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-024-12761-5
Davila-Arenas, C. E., Doig, L., Ji, X., Panigrahi, B., Ezugba, I., & Liber, K. (2024). Toxicity evaluation of water and pore water from a pilot-scale Pit Lake in the Alberta oil sands region to Daphnia species. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 87(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-024-01071-z
Peixoto Mendes, M., Flores, B. C., & Liber, K. (2024). Laboratory and in situ selenium bioaccumulation assessment in the benthic macroinvertebrates Hyalella azteca and Chironomus dilutus. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 86(3), 249-261. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-024-01056-y
Panigrahi, B., Razavi, S., Doig, L. E., Cordell, B., Gupta, H. V., & Liber, K. (2024). On Robustness of the Explanatory Power of Machine Learning Models. Authorea Preprints. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.171052510.02996233/v1
Cupe-Flores, B., Mendes, M., Phillips, I., Panigrahi, B., Liu, X., & Liber, K. (2024). Effects of diluted effluent on aquatic macroinvertebrate communities at the McClean Lake uranium operation in northern Saskatchewan. Environmental Research, 244, 117951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.117951
Green, D., Bluhm, K., Brinkmann, M., Raes, K., Lane, T., Liber, K., ... & Hecker, M. (2024). Cross-species apical microinjected selenomethionine toxicity in embryo-larval fishes. Science of The Total Environment, 912, 169338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169338
2023
Mendes, M. P., Cupe-Flores, B., & Liber, K. (2023). Sampling method and season influence selenium dynamics at the base of a boreal lake food chain. Environmental Research, 234, 116157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116157
Chen, X., Liu, H., Liber, K., Jiang, T., & Yang, J. (2023). Copper-induced ionoregulatory disturbance, histopathology, and transcriptome responses in freshwater mussel (Anodonta woodiana) gills. Fishes, 8(7), 368. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes8070368
Peixoto Mendes, M., Cupe‐Flores, B., Panigrahi, B., & Liber, K. (2023). Application of autonomous sensor technology to estimate selenium exposure and a site‐specific selenium threshold in a Canadian boreal lake. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 19(2), 395-411. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4644
2022
Peixoto Mendes, M., Cupe‐Flores, B., & Liber, K. (2022). Selenium distribution and trophic transfer in the periphyton–benthic macroinvertebrate food chain in boreal lakes downstream from a milling operation. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 41(9), 2181-2192. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5422
Ankley, P. J., Graves, S. D., Xie, Y., DeBofsky, A., Weber, A., Brinkmann, M., ... & Giesy, J. P. (2022). Effects of in situ experimental selenium exposure on finescale dace (Phoxinus neogaeus) gut microbiome. Environmental Research, 212, 113151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113151
Cupe‐Flores, B., Mendes, M., Panigrahi, B., & Liber, K. (2022). Delineating effluent exposure and cumulative ecotoxicological risk of metals downstream of a Saskatchewan uranium mill using autonomous sensors. Environmental toxicology and chemistry, 41(7), 1765-1777. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5341
Graves, S. D., Liber, K., Palace, V., Hecker, M., & Janz, D. M. (2022). Response of crustacean zooplankton and benthic macroinvertebrate communities to selenium additions in a boreal lake. Environmental toxicology and chemistry, 41(1), 95-107. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5239
2021
Chen, X., Liu, H., Huang, H., Liber, K., Jiang, T., & Yang, J. (2021). Cadmium bioaccumulation and distribution in the freshwater bivalve Anodonta woodiana exposed to environmentally relevant Cd levels. Science of the Total Environment, 791, 148289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148289
Graves, S. D., Liber, K., Palace, V., Hecker, M., Doig, L. E., & Janz, D. M. (2021). Trophic dynamics of selenium in a boreal lake food web. Environmental Pollution, 280, 116956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116956
House, M. A., Young, L., Liu, X., Liber, K., Diederichsen, A., & Booker, H. (2021). Comparative Analysis of Cadmium Uptake and Distribution in Flax. https://hdl.handle.net/10388/14621
Creed, I., Ramaswamy, M., Wolsfeld, M., Calvez, S., Fulton, M., Liber, K., ... & McKay, J. (2021). Radical Transformation of Universities to Prepare the Next Generation of Climate Champions. In Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action: Toward an SDG 4.7 Roadmap for Systems Change. Brill.
Maloney, E. M., Taillebois, E., Gilles, N., Morrissey, C. A., Liber, K., Servent, D., & Thany, S. H. (2021). Binding properties to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors can explain differential toxicity of neonicotinoid insecticides in Chironomidae. Aquatic Toxicology, 230, 105701. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2020.105701