Dr. Garth Covernton

Postdoctoral Fellow in Microplastics and Food Web Ecology

Publications

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  1. Ammendolia, J., Covernton, G. A., Skrepnyk, A., Dower, J. F., & Jacobs, S. (2025). Passing plastic: Traces of plastic in the fecal samples of a high Arctic seabird in Tunu (East Greenland). Arctic Science, 11, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2024-0014
  2. Covernton, G., Metherel, A., McMeans, B. C., Bucci, K., Langenfeld, D., McNamee, R., Veneruzzo, C., Hoffman, M. J., Orihel, D. M., Paterson, M. J., Provencher, J., 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
  3. Rochman, C. M., Bucci, K., Langenfeld, D., McNamee, R., Veneruzzo, C., Covernton, G. A., Gao, G. H. Y., Ghosh, M., Cable, R. N., Hermabessiere, 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. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c08990
  4. Covernton, G. A., Dietterle, M., Pearce, C. M., Gurney-Smith, H. J., Dower, J. F., & Dudas, S. E. (2022). Depuration of anthropogenic particles by Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas): Feasibility and efficacy. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 181, 113886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113886
  5. Lusher, A. L., & Covernton, G. A. (2022). Microplastics in Fish and Seafood Species. In A. Andrady (Ed.), Plastics and the Ocean: Origin, Characterization, Fate, and Impacts (pp. 367–388). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119768432.ch13
  6. Covernton, G. A., Cox, K. D., Fleming, W. L., Buirs, B. M., Davies, H. L., Juanes, F., Dudas, S. E., & Dower, J. F. (2022). Large size (>100-μm) microplastics are not biomagnifying in coastal marine food webs of British Columbia, Canada. Ecological Applications, 32(7), e2654. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2654
  7. Davies, H. L., Robb, H., Cox, K. D., Covernton, G. A., Eastham, T. M., Alexander, H. J., & Juanes, F. (2021). A preliminary analysis of ingestion and egestion of microplastic fibres in the acorn barnacle Balanus glandula. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 542–543, 151589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2021.151589
  8. Covernton, G. A., Davies, H. L., Cox, K. D., El-Sabaawi, R., Juanes, F., Dudas, S. E., & Dower, J. F. (2021). A Bayesian analysis of the factors determining microplastics ingestion in fishes. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 413, 125405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125405
  9. Provencher, J. F., Covernton, G. A., Moore, R. C., Horn, D. A., Conkle, J. L., & Lusher, A. L. (2020). Proceed with caution: The need to raise the publication bar for microplastics research. Science of The Total Environment, 748(15), 141426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141426
  10. Covernton, G. A., & Harley, C. D. G. (2020). Multi-scale variation in salinity: A driver of population size and structure in the muricid gastropod Nucella lamellosa. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 643, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13355
  11. Covernton, G., Collicutt, B., Gurney-Smith, H., Pearce, C., Dower, J., Ross, P., & Dudas, S. (2019). Microplastics in bivalves and their habitat in relation to shellfish aquaculture proximity in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Aquaculture Environment Interactions, 11, 357–374. https://doi.org/10.3354/aei00316
  12. Cox, K. D., Covernton, G. A., Davies, H. L., Dower, J. F., Juanes, F., & Dudas, S. E. (2019). Human consumption of microplastics. Environmental Science & Technology, 53(12), 7068–7074. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b01517
  13. Covernton, G. A., Pearce, C. M., Gurney-Smith, H. J., Chastain, S. G., Ross, P. S., Dower, J. F., & Dudas, S. E. (2019). Size and shape matter: A preliminary analysis of microplastic sampling technique in seawater studies with implications for ecological risk assessment. Science of The Total Environment, 667, 124–132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.346
  14. Holden, J. J., Collicutt, B., Covernton, G., Cox, K. D., Lancaster, D., Dudas, S. E., Ban, N. C., & Jacob, A. L. (2019). Synergies on the coast: Challenges facing shellfish aquaculture development on the central and north coast of British Columbia. Marine Policy, 101, 108–117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.01.001