PUBLICATIONS
Nicole M Hayes, Heather A Haig, Gavin L Simpson, Peter R Leavitt. Local and regional effects of lake warming on the seasonal risk of toxic cyanobacteria exposure Limnology and Oceanography Letters. (Submitted November 2019)
Heather A Haig, Nicole M Hayes, Gavin L. Simpson, Yi Yi, Bjoern Wissel, Kyle R. Hodder, Peter R. Leavitt. Relative importance of seasonal-, and interannual -scale, hydrological variability in a chain of seven sub-humid lakes measured using water isotopes (δ2H, δ18O). Journal of Hydrology. (Moderate revisions- Manuscript Number HYDROL32338)
Heather A Haig, Nicole M Hayes, Gavin L. Simpson, Yi Yi, Bjoern Wissel, Kyle R. Hodder, Peter R. Leavitt. 2019. Comparison of isotopic mass balance and instrumental techniques as estimates of basin hydrology in seven connected lakes over 12- years. Journal of Hydrology. DOI: 10.1016/j.hydroa.2019.100046
Heather A Haig. and Peter R Leavitt. 2019, The Qu'Appelle Long‐Term Ecological Research Program: A 26‐Yr Hierarchical Platform to Study Freshwater Ecosystems of the Northern Great Plains. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, 28: 99-103. DOI:10.1002/lob.10337
Jackie R. Webb, Peter R. Leavitt, Gavin L. Simpson, Helen Baulch, Heather A. Haig, Kyle R. Hodder, and Kerri Finlay.2019. Regulation of carbon dioxide and methane in small agricultural reservoirs: Optimizing potential for greenhouse gas uptake. Biogeosciences DOI:10.5194/bg-16-4211-2019.
Kenny E. Wallen, Karen Filbee-Dexter, Jeremy Pittman, Stephen Posner, Steven M. Alexander, Chelsie Romulo, Drew Bennett, Elizabeth Clark, Stella J.M. Cousins, Brad A. Dubik, Margaret Garcia, Heather A Haig, Elizabeth A. Koebele, Jiangxiao Qiu,, Ryan C. Richards, Celia C. Symons, Samuel C. Zipper. 2019. Integrating team science into interdisciplinary graduate education: an exploration of the SESYNC Graduate Pursuit. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences DOI:10.1007/s13412-019-00543-2
Nicole M. Hayes, Alain Patoine, Heather A. Haig, Gavin L. Simpson, Vanessa J. Swarbrick, Emma Wiik, and Peter R. Leavitt. 2019. Spatial and temporal variation in nitrogen fixation and its importance to phytoplankton in phosphorus-rich lakes. Freshwater Biology 64: 269–283. DOI: 10.1111/fwb.13214
Heather A Haig. 2019. Analysis of lakewater isotopes in the Northern Great Plains: Insights from long-term monitoring and spatial surveys. PhD University of Regina, SK
Emma Wiik, Heather A Haig, Nicole M. Hayes, Kerri Finlay, Gavin L. Simpson, Richard J. Vogt, Peter R. Leavitt. 2018. Generalized Additive Models of Climatic and Metabolic Controls of Subannual Variation in pCO2 in Productive Hardwater Lakes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 123: 1940-1959. DOI : 10.1029/2018JG004506
Karen Filbee-Dexter, Celia C. Symons, Kristal Jones, Heather A. Haig, Jeremy Pittman, Steven M. Alexander, Matthew Burke. 2018. Quantifying ecological and social drivers of ecological surprise. Journal of Applied Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13171
Hiroya Araie, Hideto Nakamura, Jaime L. Toney, Heather A. Haig, Julien Plancq, Takashi Shiratori, Peter R. Leavitt, Osamu Seki, Kenichiro Ishida, Ken Sawada, Iwane Suzuki, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa. Novel alkenone-producing strains of genera Isochrysis (Haptophyta) isolated from Canadian saline lakes show temperature sensitivity of alkenones and alkenoates. Organic Geochemistry 121: 89-103. DOI 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.04.008
Julien Plancq, Bianca Cavazzin, Steve Juggins, Heather A. Haig, Peter R. Leavitt, Jaime L. Toney. 2018. Environmental controls on the distribution of long-chain alkenones in the Canadian Prairies. Organic Geochemistry.117, 43-55. DOI 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.12.005.
Karen Filbee-Dexter, Jeremy Pittman, Heather A. Haig, Steven Alexander, Celia Symons, Matthias Bass, Matt Burke. 2017. Ecological Surprise: Concept, Synthesis, and Social Dimensions. Ecosphere. 8, 12, 1-12. DOI 10.1002/ecs2.2005.
Moumita Karmakar, Joshua Kurek, Heather A. Haig, Brian F. Cumming. 2014. Consensus among multiple trophic levels during high- and low-water stands over the last two millennia in a northwest Ontario lake. Quaternary Research. 81, 2, 251-259. DOI:10.1016/j.yqres.2013.12.006.
Heather A. Haig, Melanie V. Kingsbury, Peter R. Leavitt, Kathleen R. Laird, Brian F. Cumming. 2013. Assessment of drought over the past two millennia using near-shore sediment cores from a Canadian boreal lake. Journal of Paleolimnology. 50, 175-190, DOI 10.1007/s10933-013-9712-z
Kathleen R. Laird, Heather A. Haig, Susan Ma, Melanie V. Kingsbury, Thomas A. Brown, C.F. Michael Lewis, Robert J. Oglesby, Brian F Cumming. 2012. Expanded spatial extent of the Medieval Climatic Anomaly in lake-sediment records across the boreal region in northwest Ontario. Global Change Biology. 18, 2869–2881, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02740.x
Heather A Haig. 2011. Diatom-inferred changes in effective moisture from Gall Lake, northwestern, Ontario, over the past two millennia. MSc Queen's University Kingston, ON.
Journal Publications
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS
Jackie R. Webb, Kerri Finlay*, Peter R. Leavitt, Helen M. Baulch, Gavin L. Simpson, Heather A. Haig, Kyle R. Hodder. Greenhouse gas dynamics in small agricultural water bodies in the Northern Great Plains. Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Science. February 2019
Nathanael T. Bergbusch*, Zoraida J. Quiñones-Rivera, Heather A. Haig, Vanessa J. Swarbrick, Nicole M. Hayes, Peter R. Leavitt. Unintended effects of nitrogen-rich discharge from a tertiary wastewater treatment plant on primary producers in phosphorus-rich streams of the Northern Great Plains. Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Science. February 2019
Julien Plancq*., Bianca Cavazzin, Steve Juggins, Heather A. Haig, Peter R. Leavitt, Hiroya Araie, Hideto Nakamura, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa, Jillian M. Couto, Jaime L. Toney. Alkenone distribution and producers in Canadian lakes: Implications for palaeotemperature reconstructions. American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C. (USA), December 2018, Poster.
Mike M. Zwick*, Peter R. Leavitt, Heather A. Haig, Bianca Cavazzin, Jaime L. Toney. Long-chain diols of the Canadian Prairies – Occurrence and relationship with environmental parameters. Goldschmidt, Boston, MA, USA, August 2018. Poster.
Julien Plancq*., and Jaime L. Toney, Bianca Cavazzin, Steve Juggins, Heather A. Haig, Peter R. Leavitt, Hiroya Araie, Hideto Nakamura, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa, Jillian M. Couto. Alkenone distribution and producers: insights from Canadian lakes. British Organic Geochemistry Society Meeting, Bristol (UK), July 2018. Oral.
Julien Plancq*., and Jaime L. Toney, Bianca Cavazzin, Steve Juggins, Heather A. Haig, Peter R. Leavitt, Hiroya Araie, Hideto Nakamura, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa, Jillian M. Couto. Distribution et producteurs d’alcénones lacustres: apports de l’étude de lacs canadiens. Réunion des Géochimistes Organiciens Français, Lyon, France, July 2018. Oral.
Peter R. Leavitt*, Helen M. Baulch, Nathanael Bergbush, Mathew J. Bogard, Lynda Bunting, Donald B. Donald, Donald B. Donald (Sr), Kerri Finlay, Heather A. Haig, Roland I. Hall, Nicole M. Hayes, Zoraida J. Quiñones-Rivera, Vanessa J. Swarbrick, Alain Patoine, James A. Rusak, Susanne McGowan, Gavin L. Simpson, Richard V. Vogt, Jackie R., Webb, Bjoern Wissel,. Coupled carbon and nitrogen biochemistry in productive hardwater lakes: insights from ass fluxes of gases, solutes and particles over 25 years. Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Science Meeting, Victoria, BC, Canada, June 2018. Oral.
Celia Symons*, Karen Filbee-Dexter, Kristal Jones, Heather A. Haig, Jeremy Pittman, Steven Alexander, Matt Burke. Quantifying the socio-ecological dynamics of ecological surprise in aquatic ecosystems reveals mismatch between management and ecological processes Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Science Meeting, Victoria, BC, Canada, June 2018. Oral
Judith Bjorndahl, Peter Leavitt, Heather A. Haig, Kerri Finlay*. 2018. Impact of climate-induced water level fluctuations on aquatic phototropic communities in Saskatchewan. Society Canadian Limnologists, Edmonton, AB, January 2018. Oral.
Julien Plancq*., Bianca Cavazzin, Heather A. Haig, Peter R. Leavitt, Jillian M. Couto, Jaime L. Toney. Environmental controls on the distribution of long-chain alkenones in the Canadian Prairies: Insights for the development of the lacustrine alkenone-based temperature proxy. Tsukuba Global Science Week, Tsukuba (Japan), September 2017. Invited talk.
Bianca Cavazzin*, Mike M. Zwick, Heather A. Haig, Peter R. Leavitt, Stephen Juggins, Emma Pearson, Stefan Schouten, Jaime L. Toney. Development of lacustrine biomarkers to reconstruct Late Holocene temperature change in the Saskatchewan Great Plains. Goldschmidt conference, Paris (France), August 2017. Poster.
Julien Plancq*, Bianca Cavazzin, Heather A. Haig, Peter R. Leavitt, Jillian M. Couto, Jaime L. Toney. Environmental controls on the distribution of long-chain alkenones in the Canadian Prairies: Insights for the development of the lacustrine alkenone-based temperature proxy. Goldschmidt conference, Paris (France), August 2017. Oral
Heather A Haig*, Nicole M Hayes, Gavin L. Simpson, Kyle Hodder, Peter R. Leavitt. Quantifying the relative effects of climate and catchment controls upon isotopic mass balances in lakes of the North American Great Plains. Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Science Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, February 2017, Oral.
Nicole M Hayes*, Heather A Haig, Gavin L. Simpson, Peter R. Leavitt. Climatic and urban control of the timing and magnitude of microcystin peaks in harwater eutrophic lakes. Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Science Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, February 2017, Oral.
Julien Plancq*, Jaime L. Toney, Heather A Haig, Peter R. Leavitt. The ALKENoNE project: Developing the lacustrine alkenone-based temperature proxy. , Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, University Lyon 1 (France), February 2017. Invited talk.
Julien Plancq*, Jaime L. Toney, Heather A Haig, Peter R. Leavitt. Development of the alkenone-based temperature proxy: insights from lakes in the Canadian prairies. American Geophysical Union , San Francisco, USA, December 2016, Poster.
Bianca Cavazzin*, Emma Pearson, Heather A Haig, Peter Leavitt, Stefan Schouten, Jaime Toney. Application of lacustrine biomarkers to reconstruct Late Holocene temperature change in the Saskatchewan prairies. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 2016
Heather A Haig*, Gavin L. Simpson, Nicole M Hayes, Bjoern Wissel Peter R. Leavitt. Quantification of hydrological variability in riverine lakes using stable isotopes of water. Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Science Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 2016, Oral.
Peter R. Leavitt*, Heather A. Haig, Emma Wiik, Kerri Finlay, Samantha V. Pham, Gavin L. Simpson, Bjoern Wissel, Brian F. Cumming, and Kathleen R. Laird. Spatial and temporal analysis of the role of headwater and saline lakes in atmospheric CO2 exchange. Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Science Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 2016, Oral.
Heather A Haig*, Celia Symons*, Jeremy Pittman, Karen Filbee-Dexter, Steven Alexander, Matthias Bass, Matt Burke. What drives surprise in socio-ecological systems? Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Science Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 2016, Poster.
Shin'ie Hiro*, Hideto Nakamura, Ken Sawada, Heather A Haig, J. Toney, P. Leavitt, Suzuki Ishine, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa. Discovery and isolation of alkenone-synthetizing algal species of from Canada inland lakes. Meeting of Japanese Marine Biotechnology. 2016 Oral
*Celia Symons, Karen Filbee-Dexter, Steven Alexander, Matthias Bass, Matt Burke, Heather A Haig, Jeremy Pittman. Conceptualizing ecological surprise in social-ecological systems. Western Society of Naturalists, Sacramento, California, 2015, Poster
*Heather A Haig, Bjoern Wissel, Gavin L Simpson, Peter R Leavitt. Mechanism of climate regulation of lake hydrology revealed by stable isotopes of water: Insights from decadal-scale landscape analysis. Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Science, Granada, Spain 2015, Oral
*Heather A Haig, Richard V Vogt, Bjoern Wissel, Peter R Leavitt. Linking water isotopes to hydrological variability in a chain of Canadian lakes. Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Science, New Orleans, LA,USA, 2013, Oral
*Heather A Haig, Melanie V Kingsbury, Kathleen R Laird, Brian F Cumming, Peter R Leavitt. Relative effects of wave-induced mixing, irradiance regime, and thermocline depth on the distribution of phytoplankton across a depth gradient. International Paleolimnolgy Symposium, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2012. Poster
Kathleen R Laird, *Heather A Haig, Susan Ma, Melanie Kingsbury, C.F. Michael Lewis, Robert J Oglesby, Brian F Cumming. Expanded spatial extent of the medieval climate anomaly revealed in lake-sediment records across the boreal region in northwest Ontario. International Paleolimnolgy Symposium, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2012. Poster
*Kathleen R Laird, Heather A Haig, Susan Ma, Melanie Kingsbury, C.F. Michael Lewis, Robert J Oglesby, Brian F Cumming. Expanded spatial extent of the medieval climate anomaly revealed in lake-sediment records across the boreal region in northwest Ontario. American Quaternary Association Conference Duluth, MN, USA, 2012. Poster
*Heather A Haig, Melanie V Kingsbury, Kathleen R Laird, Brian F Cumming, Peter R Leavitt. Relative effects of wave-induced mixing, irradiance regime, and thermocline depth on the distribution of phytoplankton across a depth gradient: Implications for future global change. Society Canadian Limnologists, Moncton, NB, 2012. Oral
*Kathleen R Laird, Heather A Haig, Susan Ma, Melanie Kingsbury, C.F. Michael Lewis, Robert J Oglesby, Brian F Cumming. Medieval Climate Anomaly signal in sediment records from drainage lakes in the boreal region of northwestern Ontario. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 2011. Poster
*Heather A Haig, Robyn Laing, Melanie Kingsbury, Kathleen Laird, Brian Cumming. Shits in effective moisture based on diatom and chrysophyte assemblages in Gall Lake, northwestern, Ontario. Queen's University Limnology Seminar Series, Kingston, ON, 2011. Oral
*Heather A Haig, Robyn Laing, Kathleen Laird, Melanie Kingsbury, Brian Cumming. Diatom- and chrysophyte-inferred changes in effective moisture over the past two millennia from northwestern Ontario, Canada. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2011. Poster
*Heather A Haig, Robyn Laing, Melanie Kingsbury, Kathleen Laird, Brian Cumming. Large magnitude shifts in effective moisture based on diatom and chrysophyte assemblages in a climatically sensitive region of northwestern Ontario. Society Canadian Limnologists, Toronto, Ontario, 2011. Oral
*Heather A Haig, Melanie Kingsbury, Kathleen Laird, Brian Cumming. Diatom inferred depth reconstructions from Gall Lake, Northwestern Ontario. Québec-Ontario Paleolimnology Symposium, Kingston, Ontario, 2010. Oral