Yves Gélinas, PhD

      Tremblay J.D., Douglas P.M.J., Halperin C.T., Gélinas Y. (2025) Faecal sterols as tracers of human population and waste management practices at the ancient Maya city of Ucanal, Guatemala. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Submitted, January 2025.  

      Mirzaei Y., Skinner C., Gélinas Y. (2025) Integrated Machine Learning and Multivariate Analyses for Quantifying the Proportional Contribution of Organic Matter Sources to the Coastal Sediment Sink: A Case Study in Organic Geochemistry. Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation? (Submitted January 2025; 2025JH000581).

      Balind K., Ezzati M., Picard A.A., Gélinas Y. (2025) Exploring the Affinity and Selectivity of Sedimentary Mackinawite (FeS) Towards Natural Organic Matter. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, (Submitted November 2024; GCA-S-24-01262).

         Levesque-Vargas M., Ohlund L., Sleno L., Gélinas Y., Höhener P.,     
         Ponsin V. (2025) Insights from multiple stable isotopes (C, N, Cl) into
         the photodegradation of herbicides atrazine and
         metolachlor. Chemosphere, 370, 144010.

      Ezzati M., Gélinas Y. (2025) A Methodological Study on the Analysis of Organic Matter Associated with Iron Oxides in Marine Sediments. Applied Geochemistry (Accepted January 2025; APGEO-S-24-00661

      Mirzaei Y., Douglas P.M.J., Gélinas Y. (2025) Isotopic and Molecular Analyses of n-Alkanes in a Temporal Study of Coastal Sediment Contributions to Organic Carbon Degradation Induced by Algal Bloom and Terrestrial Runoff. Science of the Total Environment, 958, 178071.

 

      Wang Y., Ahad J., Mucci A., Gélinas Y., Douglas P.M.J. (2025) Modern carbon accounts for the majority of organic carbon burial in the St. Lawrence estuarine system. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 256, 119204, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119204

      Mirzaei Y., Gélinas Y. (2024) Investigating the Kinetics of Marine and Terrestrial Organic Carbon Incorporation and Degradation in Coastal Bulk Sediment and Water Settings through Isotopic Lenses. Science of the Total Environment, 950, 175279, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175279.

       Barber A., Mirzaei Y., Brandes J., Joshani A., Gobeil C, Gélinas Y. (2024) Redox Conditions Influence the Chemical Composition of Iron-Associated Organic Carbon in Boreal Lake Sediments: a Synchrotron-Based NEXAFS Study. 382, 51-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2024.08.018.

      Joshani A., Mirzaei Y., Barber A., Balind K., Gélinas Y. (2024) Organic matter preservation through complexation with iron minerals in two basins of a dimictic boreal lake with contrasting deep water redox regimes. Science of the Total Environment, 925, 171776, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171776

      Qudsi Z., Mucci A., Dang H., Gélinas Y., Chaillou G. (2024). Contrasting Rare Earth Element Concentrations and Mixing Behaviors in the St. Lawrence Estuary and Saguenay Fjord. Marine Chemistry, 258, 104336, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2023.104336.

      Wang Y., Gélinas Y., de Vernal A., Mucci A, Allan E., Seidenkratz M.S., and Douglas P.M.J. (2024). High rates of organic carbon burial along the southwest Greenland margin induced by Neoglacial advance. Nature Communications: Earth and Environment, 5, 335. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01508-2

      Leone F., Imfeld A., Mirzaei Y., Gélinas Y. (2024). Using ¹³C enriched acetate in isotope labelling incubation experiments: A note of caution. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 60:1, 66-73, DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2023.2291460.

      Allan E., Douglas P.M.J., de Vernal A., Gélinas Y., Mucci A. (2023). Palmitic acid is not a proper salinity proxy in Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea but reflects the variability in organic matter sources modulated by sea ice coverage. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 24, e2022GC010837. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010837

      Audet T., de Vernal A., Mucci A., Seidenkrantz M.-S., Hillaire-Marcel C., Carnero-Bravo V. Gélinas Y. (2023). Benthid foraminiferal assemblages from the Laurentian Channel in the Lower Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence, Eastern Canada: Tracers of bottom-water hypoxia. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 53, 1–21.

      Tétrault A., Gélinas Y. (2022). Preferential sorption of polysaccharides on mackinawite: A chemometrics approach. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 337, 61-72.

      Labrie R., Fortin St-Gelais N., Péquin B., Cherrier J., Gélinas Y., Guillemette F., Podgorski D.C., Spencer R.G.M._, Tremblay L., Maranger R. (2022). Deep ocean microbial communities produce more stable dissolved organic matter through the succession of rare prokaryotes. Sciences Advances, 8 (27), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn003.

      Imfeld A., Douglas P.M.J., Kos G., Gélinas Y. (2022). Molecular and stable isotope analysis (δ¹³C, δ²H) of sedimentary n-alkanes in the St. Lawrence Estuary and Gulf, Quebec, Canada: Importance of even numbered n-alkanes in coastal systems. Organic Geochemistry, 164, 104367, 1-11. https://doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2022.104367.

      Corminboeuf A., Montero-Serrano J. C., St-Louis R., Dalpé A., Gélinas Y. (2022). Pre- and post-industrial levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments from the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence (eastern Canada). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 174, 113219, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.113219

      Keenan B., Imfeld A., Gélinas Y., Douglas P.M.J. (2022). Understanding controls on stanols in lake sediments as proxies for palaeopopulations in Mesoamerica. Journal of Paleolimnology, 67, 375–390.

      Findlay B., Zaroubi L., Ozugergin I., Mastronardi K., Imfeld A., Law C., Gélinas Y., Piekny A. (2022) The ubiquitous soil terpene geosmin acts as a warning chemical. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88(7), DOI:10.1128/aem.00093-22.

    Keenan B., Imfeld A., Johnston K., Breckenridge A., Gélinas Y. and Douglas P.J.M. (2021) Molecular evidence for human population change associated with climate events in the Maya lowland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 258, 106904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106904.

    Clayer F., Gélinas Y., Tessier A., Gobeil C. (2020). Mineralization of organic matter in boreal lake sediments: rates, pathways, and nature of the fermenting substrates. Biogeosciences. 17: 4571-4589.

   

    M. Sirois, A. Barber, Y. Gélinas, G. Chaillou (2018) Interactions between iron and organic carbon in a sandy beach subterranean estuary. Marine Chemistry, doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2018.02.004.

Hénault-Ethier, L., Bell, T.H., Martin, V.J.J., Gélinas, Y., 2016. Dynamics of Physicochemical Variables and Cultivable Bacteria in Vermicompost during Steady Food Waste Addition and Upon Feed Interruption. Compost Science and Utilization 24 (2), 117-135. 

Colatriano, D., Ramachandran, A., Yergeau, E., Maranger, R., Gélinas, Y., Walsh, D.A., 2015. Metaproteomics of aquatic microbial communities in a deep and stratified estuary. Proteomics 15 (20), 3566-3579. 

Fines-Neuschild, S., Boucher, É., Vernal, A.D., Gélinas, Y., Leclerc, P., 2015. Accelerated solvent extraction-An efficient tool to remove extractives from tree-rings. Dendrochronologia 36, 45-48.  

 

Moritz, A., Helie, J.-F., Pinti, D., Larocque, M., Barnatche, D., Retailleau, S., Lefebvre, R., Gelinas, Y., 2015. Methane baseline concentrations and sources in shallow aquifers from the shale gas-prone region of the St. Lawrence Lowlands (Quebec, Canada). Environmental Science and technology 49, 4765−4771. 

Stevens, C.J., Juniper, S.K., Limén, H., Pond, D.W., Metaxas, A., Gélinas, Y., 2015. Obligate hydrothermal vent fauna at East Diamante submarine volcano (Mariana Arc) exploit photosynthetic and chemosynthetic carbon sources. Marine Ecology Progress Series 525, 25-39.

Barber, A., Lalonde, K., Mucci, A., Gélinas, Y. 2014, The role of iron in the diagenesis of organic carbon and nitrogen in sediments: A long-term incubation experiment, Marine Chemistry, vol. 162, pp. 1-9.

Lalonde, K., Middlestead, P., Gélinas, Y., 2014. Automation of 13C/12C ratio measurement for freshwater and seawater DOC using high temperature combustion. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 12 (12), 816-829. 

Lalonde, K., Vähätalo, A.V., Gélinas, Y. 2014, Revisiting the disappearance of terrestrial dissolved organic matter in the ocean: A δ13C study, Biogeosciences, vol. 11, no. 13, pp. 3707-3719.  

 Pinti, D.L., Retailleau, S., Barnetche, D., Moreira, F., Moritz, A.M., Larocque, M., Gélinas, Y., Lefebvre, R., Hélie, J.-.F., Valadez, A. 2014, 222Rn activity in groundwater of the St. Lawrence Lowlands, Quebec, eastern Canada: Relation with local geology and health hazard, Journal of environmental radioactivity, vol. 136, pp. 206-217.

Alkhatib, M., Del Giorgio, P.A., Gelinas, Y., Lehmann, M.F. 2013, Benthic fluxes of dissolved organic nitrogen in the lower St. Lawrence estuary and implications for selective organic matter degradation, Biogeosciences, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 7609-7622.

Sánchez-García, L., de Andrés, J.R., Gélinas, Y., Schmidt, M.W.I., Louchouarn, P. 2013, Different pools of black carbon in sediments from the Gulf of Cádiz (SW Spain): Method comparison and spatial distribution, Marine Chemistry, vol. 151, pp. 13-22. 

Wu, H.B., Peng, C.H., Lucotte, M., Soumis, N., Gélinas, Y., Duchemin, É., Plouhinec, J.B., Ouellet, A., Guo, Z.T. Soumis. A Coupled two-dimensional hydrodynamic and terrestrial input model to simulate CO2 diffusive emissions from lake systems. Geosciences Model Developement, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 3509-3556.

Alkhatib, M., Schubert, C.J., del Giorgio, P.A., Gelinas, Y., Lehmann, M.F. 2012. Organic matter reactivity indicator in sediments of the St. Lawrence Estuary. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 102-103, pp. 36-47.

Lalonde, K., Mucci, A., Ouellet, A., Gélinas, Y. 2012. Preservation of organic matter in sediments promoted by iron. Nature, vol. 483, no. 7388, pp. 198-200.

Ouellet, A., Lalonde, K., Plouhinec, J.-B., Soumis, N., Lucotte, M., Gélinas, Y.  2012.  Assessing carbon dynamics in natural and perturbed boreal aquatic systems, Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences., vol. 117, no G3, p.  G03024.

Thibodeau, B., Lehmann, M.F., Kowarzyk, J., Mucci, A., Gélinas, Y., Gilbert, D., Maranger, R., Alkhatib, M. 2012. Erratum to " Benthic nutrient fluxes along the laurentian channel: Environmental controls and impact on the N-budget of the St. Lawrence marine system" [Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 90 (4) (2010) 195-205]. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 107, 165.