The pELAstic Project

1. McIlwraith, H. K., Dias, M., Orihel, D. M., Rennie, M. D., Harrison, A. L., Hoffman, M. J., Provencher, J. F., & Rochman, C. M. (2024). A Multicompartment Assessment of Microplastic Contamination in Semi‐remote Boreal Lakes. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 43(5), 999–1011. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5832.

2. Rochman, C. M., Bucci, K., Langenfeld, D., McNamee, R., Veneruzzo, C., Covernton, G. A., Gao, G. H. Y., Ghosh, M., Cable, R. N., Hermabesierre, L., Lazcano, R., Paterson, M. J., Rennie, M. D., Rooney, R. C., Helm, P., Duhaime, M. B., Hoellein, T., Jeffries, K. M., Hoffman, M. J., Orihel, D. M., Provencher, J. F. (2024). Informing the Exposure Landscape: The Fate of Microplastics in a Large Pelagic In-Lake Mesocosm Experiment. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(18), 7998–8008. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c08990.

3. Covernton, G. A., Metherel, A. H., McMeans, B. C., Bucci, K., Langenfeld, D., McNamee, R., Veneruzzo, C., Hoffman, M. J., Orihel, D. M., Paterson, M. J., Provencher, J. F., Rennie, M. D., & Rochman, C. M. (2024). Increasing microplastic exposure had minimal effects on fatty acid composition in zooplankton and yellow perch in a large, in-lake mesocosm experiment. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2024-0149.

4. Gene, S. M., Katzenback, B. A., Wilson, J., Mallory, M. L., Provencher, J. F., Steel, E., & Orihel, D. M. (2025). The effects of a microplastic mixture on wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) across multiple life stages in an outdoor mesocosm experiment. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1093/ETOJNL/VGAE037.

5. Langenfeld, D., Bucci, K., Veneruzzo, C., McNamee, R., Gao, G., Rochman, C. M., Rennie, M. D., Hoffman, M. J., Orihel, D. M., Provencher, J. F., Higgins, S. N., & Paterson, M. J. (2024). Microplastics at Environmentally Relevant Concentrations Had Minimal Impacts on Pelagic Zooplankton Communities in a Large In-Lake Mesocosm Experiment. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(43), 19419–19428. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c05327.

6. Graves, S., Chen, S.-M., McNamee, R., Rodrigues, T. H., Hayden, B., Rochman, C. M., Provencher, J. F., Rennie, M. D., Layton-Matthews, D., Leybourne, M., Sherwood, O. A., & Orihel, D. M. (2025). Investigating the potential uptake of microplastic-derived carbon into a boreal lake food web using carbon-13 labelled plastic. FACETS, 10, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2024-0108.

7. Rochman, C.M., Langenfeld, D., Cable, R.N., Covernton, G.A., Hermabessiere, L., McNamee, R., Veneruzzo, C., Munno, K., Omer, M., Paterson, M.J. and Rennie, M.D. (2025). Where Is All the Plastic? How Microplastic Partitions across Environmental Compartments within a Large Pelagic In-Lake Mesocosm. Environmental Science & Technology. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.5c01441

8. Kim, J., Orihel, D., Thompson, D., Katzenback, B., Rodrigues, T., & Provencher, J. (2026). A field survey of anuran species in two boreal lakes at the Experimental Lakes Area, Ontario, Canada. The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 139(2), 126–140. https://doi.org/10.22621/CFN.V139I2.3541.

9. Langenfeld, D., Veneruzzo, C., Cable, R. N., Wang, K., Rochman, C. M., Rennie, M. D., Hoffman, M. J., Orihel, D. M., Provencher, J. F., Higgins, S. N., & Paterson, M. J. (2026). Microplastics with and without chemical additives modestly affected phytoplankton and zooplankton in a large in-lake mesocosm study. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1093/ETOJNL/VGAG125.

10. Hermabessiere, L., Weinrauch, A., Zaidi, S., Hung, E. T., Covernton, G. A., Langenfeld, D., Cable, R. N., Veneruzzo, C., Orihel, D. M., Provencher, J. F., Rennie, M. D., Jeffries, K. M., & Rochman, C. M. (2026). Yellow perch (Perca flavescens) show subtle changes in the cellular stress response following exposure to microplastics in large in-lake mesocosms. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1093/ETOJNL/VGAG121.

11. Covernton, G. A., Ghosh, M., Hermabessiere, L., Bucci, K., Langenfeld, D., Mcnamee, R., Veneruzzo, C., Hoffman, M. J., Orihel, D. M., Paterson, M. J., Provencher, J. F., Rennie, M. D., & Rochman, C. M. (2026). Microplastics reach organs outside the gastrointestinal tract of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) following long-term exposure in large, in-lake mesocosms. Contaminants, Environment, and Society, 1. https://doi.org/10.1139/CES-2025-0002.