Recent Publications

  1. Salter C., VanMensel D., Reid T., Birbeck J., Westrick J., Mundle S.O.C., Weisener C.G. (2021) Investigating the Microbial Dynamics of Microcystin-LR Degradation in Lake Erie Sand. Chemosphere
  2. DiCarlo A.M., Weisener C.G., Drouillard K.G. (2020) Evidence for Microbial Community Effect on Sediment Equilibrium Phosphorus Concentration (EPC 0). Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 105 (5), 736-741.
  3. Skoyles A., Chaganti S.R., Mundle S.O.C., Weisener C.G. (2020) Nitrification kinetics and microbial community dynamics of attached biofilm in wastewater treatment. Water Science and Technology, 81 (5), 891-905. 
  4. VanMensel D., Chaganti S.R., Droppo I.G., Weisener C.G. (2020) Exploring bacterial pathogen community dynamics in freshwater beach sediments: A tale of two lakes. Environmental Microbiology, 22 (2), 568-583.
  5. Crossman J., Weisener C.G. (2020) Contaminants of the Great Lakes: An Introduction. Springer, 1-12.
  6. Crossman J., Weisener C.G. (2020) Contaminants of the Great Lakes. Springer Nature.
  7. Reid T., Droppo I.G., Weisener C.G.(2020) Tracking functional bacterial biomarkers in response to a gradient of contaminant exposure within a river continuum. Water research, 168, 115167.
  8. Falk N., Reid T., Skoyles A., Grgicak-Mannion A., Drouillard K.G., Weisener C.G. (2019) Microbial metatranscriptomics investigations across contaminant gradients of the Detroit River. Science of the Total Environment 690, 121-131.
  9. Reid T., Droppo I.G., Chaganti S.R., Weisener C.G. (2019) Microbial metabolic strategies for overcoming low-oxygen in naturalized freshwater reservoirs surrounding the Athabasca Oil Sands: A proxy for End-Pit Lakes?Science of the Total Environment 665, 113-124.
  10. Colborne S.F., Maguire T.J., Mayer B., Nightingale M., Enns G.E., Fisk A.T., Drouillard K.G., Mohamed M.N., Weisener C.G., Wellen C., Mundle S.O.C. (2019) Water and sediment as sources of phosphate in aquatic ecosystems: The Detroit River and its role in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Science of the Total Environment 647, 1594-1603.
  11. Buttler S.C., Pope J., Chaganti S.R., Heath D.D., Weisener C.G.(2019) Biogeochemical Characterization of Metal Behavior from Novel Mussel Shell Bioreactor Sludge Residues. Geosciences, 9 (1), 50.
  12. Reid T., Chaganti S.R., Droppo I.G., Weisener C.G. (2018) Novel insights into freshwater hydrocarbon-rich sediments using metatranscriptomics: Opening the black box. Water Research 136, 1-11.
  13. Falk N., Chaganti S.R., Weisener C.G. (2018) Evaluating microbial community and gene regulation involved in crystallization kinetics of ZnS formation in reduced environments. Geochimica Cosmochmica Acta. 220, 201-216.
  14. Weisener C.G., Lee J., Chaganti S.R., Reid T., Drouillard K.G. (2017) Investigating sources and sinks of N2O expression from freshwater microbial communities in urban watershed sediments., Chemosphere. 188, 697-705.
  15. Weisener C.G, Reid T. (2017) Combined imaging and molecular techniques for evaluating microbial function and composition: A review. Surface and Interface Analysis, 49 (13), 1416-1421.
  16. Van Mensel D., Reid T., Ciborowski J.J., Weisener C.G. (2017) Investigating the microbial degradation potential in oil sands fluid fine tailings using gamma irradiation: A metagenomic perspective. Ecology. 74, 362-372 .
  17. Reid T., Boudens R., Ciborowski J.J., Weisener C.G. (2016) Physicochemical gradient, diffusive flux and sediment oxygen demand within oil sands tailings materials from Alberta, Canada Applied Geochemistry. 75, 90-99.
  18. Diloreto Z., Weber P., Olds W., Pope J., Trumm D., Chaganti S.R., Heath D., Weisener C.G. (2016) Novel cost effective full scale Musselshell bioreactor for metal removal and acid neutralization. of Environmental Management, 183, 601-612.
  19. Reid T., Droppo I. Weisener C.G. (2016) Symbiotic relationships of sediment and biofilm dynamics at the sediment water interface of industrial tailing ponds, Water Research, 100, 337-347.
  20. Zhou S., Polat A., Longstaffe F., Yang K.G., Fryer B., Weisener C.G. (2016) Formation of the Neoarchean Bad Vermillion Anorthosite complex and spatially associated granitic rocks at a convergent plate margin, Superior Province, Western Ontario, Canada. Gondwana Research. 33, 134-159.
  21. Diloreto Z., Weber P., Weisener C.G. (2016) Solid phase characterization and metal deportment in a Musselshell bioreactor for treatment of AMD, Stockton coal mine, New Zealand. Applied Geochemistry. 67, 133-143.
  22. Franzblau R., Daughney C., Swedland P., Weisener C.G., Moreau M., Johannessen B., Harmer S. (2016) Cu (II) removal by Anoxybacillus Flavithermus-iron oxide composites during the addition of Fe(II). Geochimica Cosmochmica Acta. 172, 139-158.
  23. Boudens R., Reid T., Van Mensel D., SP MR, Ciborowski J.J., Weisener C.G. (2016) Bio-physicochemical effects of gamma irradiation treatment for naphthenic acids in oil sands fluid fine tailings. Science of the Total Environment, 539, 114-124.
  24. Franzblau, R., Daughney C., Moreau M., Weisener, C.G. (2015) Cu(II) removal by E.coli-iron oxide composites during the addition and oxidation of Fe(II). Chemical Geology, 409, 136-148.