Selected publications by year

For a comprehensive list of Dr. Liber's publications and contributions, visit his Google Scholar page.

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 Toxicology90(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 Toxicology89(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 Research272, 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 Research61(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 Research14(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 Science105, 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 Toxicology88(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 Management21(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. Chemosphere368, 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. FACETS9(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. Chemosphere362, 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 Assessment196(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 Toxicology87(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 Toxicology86(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 Preprintshttps://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 Research244, 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 Environment912, 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 Research234, 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. Fishes8(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 Management19(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 Chemistry41(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 Research212, 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 chemistry41(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 chemistry41(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 Environment791, 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 Pollution280, 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 Toxicology230, 105701. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2020.105701