Peer-reviewed publications with further analysis of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy’s wildlife contaminant data:

• Best, D.A., K.H. Elliot, W.W. Bowerman, M. Shieldcastle, S. Postupalsky, T.J. Kubiak, D.E. Tillitt, J.E. Elliot. 2010. Productivity, embryo and eggshell characteristics, and contaminants in bald eagles from the Great Lakes, USA, 1986 to 2000. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 29(7):1581-1592.
• Brady, S., M. Shuwal, S.L. Capozzi, C. Xia, M. Annis, K. Grasman, M. Venier. 2024. A decade of data and hundreds of analytes: legacy and emerging chemicals in North American herring gull plasma. Chemosphere 363:142797.
• Eakin, C.J., L. Williams, J. Moore, M. Annis, D. Best, S. Warner, W. Bowerman, L. Fuentes, K. Simon, B. Armstrong. 2024. Examining bald eagle contaminant exposure and reproductive risk above and below dams on Great Lakes tributaries. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 87:353-374.
• Grasman, K.A., M. Annis, C. Eakin, J. Moore, L.L. Williams. 2025. Monitoring and assessment of population, reproductive, and health effects in colonial waterbirds breeding at contaminated Great Lakes sites in Michigan. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 44:77-91.
• Hammond, M.P., S.R. de Solla, K.D. Hughes, M.E.B. Bohannon, K.G. Drouillard, G.C. Barrett, W.W. Bowerman. 2024. Legacy contaminant trends in the Great Lakes uncovered by the wildlife environmental quality index. Environmental Pollution 343: 123119.
• Simon, K.L., D.A. Best, J.G. Sikarskie, H.T. Pittman, W.W. Bowerman, T.M. Cooley, S. Stolz. 2020. Sources of mortality in Bald Eagles in Michigan, 1986 – 2017. The Journal of Wildlife Management 84(3): 553-561.
• Stubbings, W.A., J. Guo, K. Simon, K. Romanak, W. Bowerman, M. Venier. 2018. Flame retardant metabolites in addled bald eagle eggs from the Great Lakes region. Environmental Science and Technology Letters 5(6): 354-359.
• Su, G., R.J. Letcher, J.N. Moore, L.L. Williams, K.A. Grasman. 2017. Contaminants of emerging concern in Caspian tern compared to herring gull eggs from Michigan colonies in the Great Lakes of North America. Environmental Pollution 222:154-164.