Michael T. Arts

Research Scientist - Study Leader, Biochemical Indices of Ecosystem Health

Canada Centre for Inland Waters (Burlington, ON)

CURRENT S&T / RESEARCH - Contributing to Environment Canada’s Mandate to Ensure that Aquatic Ecosystems are Conserved and Protected

• Environmental Chemistry of Essential Nutrients in Aquatic Organisms
• Biochemically-Based Indicators of Nutrition / Health in Aquatic Organisms
• Identifying Threats to the Production and Transfer or Essential Nutrients in Aquatic Ecosystems
• Effects of UV Radiation on Physiological Processes in Aquatic Organisms
• Effects of Enhanced Water Temperature on Physiological Processes in Aquatic Organisms

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES / INTERESTS

Conference Workshop and session organization, e.g. "Essential Functions of Lipids and Fatty Acids in Aquatic Ecosystems" at the Advancing the Science of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) meeting, St. John's Newfoundland (2008).

Research grant and journal paper reviews and journal editorial board memebrships, e.g., Chair and panel member on NSERC Industrial Research Chair (IRC) committees, reviewer of NSERC Strategic and Operating, NSF grants, Great Lakes Fisheries Commission/Trust grants.

Supervisor of the theses of 2 MSc students (York University, Ryerson University), committee member on 2 PhD theses (York University, Purdue University).

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Arts, M.T., M.T. Brett and M.J. Kainz (eds.).  2009. Lipids in Aquatic Ecosystems.  Springer, New York, USA. 377 pgs.

Arts M.T. and C. C. Kohler.  2009. Health and condition in fish: the influence of lipids on membrane competency and immune response.  Chapter 10. In, Arts M.T., Kainz M. and M.T. Brett (eds).  Lipids in Aquatic Ecosystems. pp. 237-255..

Gladyshev M., M.T. Arts and N.N. Sushchik. 2009. Preliminary estimates of the export of omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (EPA+DHA) from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems. Chapter 8. In, Arts M.T., Kainz M. and M.T. Brett (eds).  Lipids in Aquatic Ecosystems.  pp. 179-209.

Hebert, C.E., D.V.C. Weseloh, A. Idrissi, M.T. Arts, R. O’Gorman, O.T. Gorman, B. Locke, C.P. Madenjian and E.F. Roseman. 2008. Restoring piscivorous fish populations in the Laurentian Great Lakes causes seabird dietary change.  Ecology. 89(4):891-897.

Schlechtriem, C., M.T. Arts and O.E. Johannsson.  2008.  Effect of long-term fasting on the use of fatty acids as trophic markers in the opossum shrimp Mysis relicta - a laboratory study.  Journal of Great Lakes Research. 34:143-152.

Hebert C.E., M.T. Arts and D.V.C. Weseloh. 2006. Ecological tracers can quantify food web structure and change. Environmental Science and Technology. 40(18):5618-5623.

Zellmer, I.D., M.T. Arts and V. Šustr. 2006. Food chain effects of sublethal ultraviolet radiation on subarctic Daphnia pulex – a field and laboratory study. Archives of Hydrobiology. 167(1-4):515-531.

Frenette J.-J., M.T. Arts, J. Morin, D. Gratton and C. Martin. 2006. Hydrodynamic control of the underwater light climate in fluvial Lac Saint-Pierre. Limnology and Oceanography. 51(6):2632-2645.

Schlechtriem C., M.T. Arts and I.D. Zellmer. 2006. Effect of temperature on the fatty acid composition and temporal trajectories of fatty acids in fasting Daphnia pulex (Crustacea, Cladocera). Lipids. 41(4): 397-400.

Kainz M., M.T. Arts and A. Mazumder. 2004. Essential fatty acids in the planktonic food web and their ecological role for higher trophic levels. Limnology and Oceanography. 49(5):1784-1793.

Arts M.T., R.G. Ackman and B.J. Holub. 2001. “Essential fatty acids” in aquatic ecosystems: a crucial link between diet and human health and evolution. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. (by invitation). 100th Anniversary Issue. 58(1):122-137.