Lauren Emily Barth
Ph.D., M.Sc.
Lauren Emily Barth
Ph.D., M.Sc.
Principal consultant Lauren Emily Barth is a limnologist and data analyst with expertise in water quality and freshwater ecosystem science. LEB’s expertise spans pelagic food webs, lake physical processes, as well as the impacts of watershed urbanization and climate change on river water quality and lakes. LEB is dedicated to transforming complex scientific data into clear, actionable insights for public and private sectors.
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Publications
Barth, L.E., Howell, E.T., Jackson, D.A., Sorichetti R.J. River-lake linkages in chloride loading to Lake Ontario across an urban-rural gradient. In prep.
Barth, L.E., Howell, E.T., Jackson, D.A., Sorichetti R.J., Salerno, J., Thibeau, J., Smith, D., Hitch, C., Smith, M. Annual, seasonal, and extreme-event phosphorus loads across an urbanization gradient from western Lake Ontario tributaries. Under review - ACS ES&T Water.
Barth, L.E., Howell, E.T., Jackson, D.A., Sorichetti R.J., Thibeau, J., Smith, D., Hitch, C., Smith, M., Kaltenecker, G. 2025. Seasonal interplay of discharge and phosphorus concentration: year-round areal loads to western basin Lake Ontario from urban and urbanizing tributaries. Journal of Great Lakes Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2025.102665.
Lawson, L., Giles, R.K., Barth, L.E., Richter, I.A., Howell, E.T., Jackson, D.A. From rivers to receiving waters: urban river impacts to the nearshore of large receiving waterbodies. Revisions submitted. Journal of Great Lakes Research.
Barth, L.E., Shuter, B.J., Sprules, W.G., Minns, C.K., Rusak, J.A. 2021. Evaluation of the responsiveness of the crustacean zooplankton community size spectrum to environmental change and an exotic invader in a sample of Canadian Shield lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 78(8):197-217, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2020-0038.
Barth, L.E., Shuter, B.J., Sprules, W.G., Minns, C.K., Rusak, J.A. 2019. Calibration of the zooplankton community size spectrum as an indicator of change in Canadian Shield lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 76(12): 2268-2287, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0371.
Sprules, W.G., Barth, L.E. 2016. Surfing the biomass size spectrum: some remarks on history, theory, and application. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 73(4): 477-495, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2015-0115.
Barth, L.E., Sprules, W.G., Wells, M., and Coman, M. 2014. Seasonal changes in the diel vertical migration of Chaoborus punctipennis larval instars. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 71(5): 665-674, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2013-0440.