Monique Gagnon

Prof. Dr. Monique Gagnon

Ph.D, Ecotoxicology MSc, EcotoxicologyGraduate Diploma in Ecotoxicology
School of Molecular and Life Sciences (MLS)
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Curtin Perth
Professor

Contact Details

Telephone: +61 08 9266 3723
Email: M.Gagnon@curtin.edu.au

Google Scholar: Google scholar link
ResearchID: https://www.researcherid.com/rid/http://www.researcherid.com/rid/P-6078-2014
SCOPUS: Scopus link
ORCID: https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3190-5094

Background

Professor Marthe Monique Gagnon is a well established researcher in Ecotoxicology. She is the Leader of the Ecology Discipline, nested in the School of Molecular and Life Sciences at Curtin University.

Professor Gagnon has a remarkable career in Environmental Toxicology. She has led, and is currently leading, major research projects for industry, government and for the Australian Research Council.  Her excellent reputation has attracted her nominations as leader of long term, large scale research ventures such as investigation of oil spill impacts, and team leader of applied research programs in the north west of Australia. 

Research interests focus on the effects of industrial effluents on fish health, especially on the impacts of petroleum exploration and production on commercial fisheries. Other current research interests include chronic impacts of Oil Spills, pulp and paper effuents, endocrine disruption, and urban contamination. Contamination by specific chemicals are addressed (eg TBT), but also mixture of contaminants are investigated (eg endocrine disruptors, refineries’ effluents).

Academic History

  • PhD (Laval)
  • EcotoxicologyMSc (Laval)
  • EcotoxicologyGraduate Diploma in Ecotoxicology (Concordia)

Research Interest

  • Effects of accidental oil spills, and of petroleum exploration and production on fish health
  • Endocrine disruptors
  • Sewage treatment plants and urban runoffs
  • Toxicity of drilling muds used in the petroleum exploration industry
  • Effects of anti-fouling chemicals on vertabrates and invertebrate populations

Awards

  • NSERC PhD Scholarship, Laval University, Canada
  • NSERC Industrial Fellowship, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
  • Emerginf Research Medal, Curtin University

Selected Publication

A. Book & Book Chapters

  1. Bakhtyar, S., and M. Gagnon. 2012. “Improvements to the Environmental Performance of Synthetic-Based Drilling Muds.” In Handbook of Green Chemistry – Green Processes: Volume 9 – Designing Safer Chemicals, 309-328 Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag & Co.
  2. Gagnon, M. 2011. “Evidence of Exposure of Fish to Produced Water at Three Offshore Facilities, North West Shelf, Australia.” In Produced Water: Environmental Risks and Advances in Mitigation Technologies, 295-309 Springer New York Dordrechl Heidelberg London: Springer New York Dordrechl Heidelberg London.

B. Journal Publications

2023

  1. Spilsbury, F. D., A. G. Scarlett, S. J. Rowland, R. K. Nelson, G. Spaak, K. Grice, and M. M. Gagnon. 2023. “Fish Fingerprinting: Identifying Crude Oil Pollutants using Bicyclic Sesquiterpanes (Bicyclanes) in the Tissues of Exposed Fish.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 42 (1): 7-18.
  2. Wells, F. E., J. K. Keesing, M. M. Gagnon, C. Bessey, F. Spilsbury, and T. R. Irvine. 2023. “Responses of intertidal invertebrates to rising sea surface temperatures in the southeastern Indian Ocean.” Frontiers in Marine Science 10

2022

  1. Tulsankar, S. S., M. J. Foysal, A. J. Cole, M. M. Gagnon, and R. Fotedar. 2022. “A Mixture of Manganese, Silica and Phosphorus Supplementation Alters the Plankton Density, Species Diversity, Gut Microbiota and Improved the Health Status of Cultured Marron (Cherax cainii, Austin and Ryan, 2002).” Biological Trace Element Research 200 (3): 1383-1394.
  2. Lettoof, D. C., J. Cornelius, C. J. Jolly, F. Aubret, M. M. Gagnon, T. H. Hyndman, D. P. Barton, and P. W. Bateman. 2022. “Metal(loid) pollution, not urbanisation nor parasites predicts low body condition in a wetland bioindicator snake.” Environmental Pollution 295
  3. Spilsbury, F., B. McDonald, K. Rankenburg, N. J. Evans, K. Grice, and M. M. Gagnon. 2022. “Multivariate analysis of otolith microchemistry can discriminate the source of oil contamination in exposed fish.” Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part – C: Toxicology and Pharmacology 254
  4. Foysal, M. J., T. T. T. Nguyen, M. Sialumano, S. Phiri, M. R. Chaklader, R. Fotedar, M. M. Gagnon, and A. Tay. 2022. “Zeolite mediated processing of nitrogenous waste in the rearing environment influences gut and sediment microbial community in freshwater crayfish (Cherax cainii) culture.” Chemosphere 298
  5. Wells, F. E., M. M. Gagnon, F. Spilsbury, and C. Whisson. 2022. “Stability and change in a changing environment: Soft-bottom benthic molluscs in the Peel-Harvey Estuary over 42 years.” Marine and Freshwater Research 73 (6): 792-802.
  6. Nelson, R. K., A. G. Scarlett, M. M. Gagnon, A. I. Holman, C. M. Reddy, P. A. Sutton, and K. Grice.. “Characterizations and comparison of low sulfur fuel oils compliant with 2020 global sulfur cap regulation for international shipping.” Marine Pollution Bulletin 180 Inpress.
  7. Tulsankar, S. S., R. Fotedar, A. J. Cole, and M. M. Gagnon. 2022. “Live plankton supplementation improves growth and health status of marron (Cherax cainii Austin 2002).” Aquaculture 558
  8. Spilsbury, F., M. J. Foysal, A. Tay, and M. M. Gagnon. 2022. “Gut Microbiome as a Potential Biomarker in Fish: Dietary Exposure to Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Metals, Metabolic Functions and Cytokine Expression in Juvenile Lates calcarifer.” Frontiers in Microbiology 13

2021

  1. Lettoof, D. C., J. U. Van Dyke, and M. M. Gagnon. 2021. “Evidence and patterns of maternal transfer of metals and trace elements in Western tiger snakes (Notechis scutatus occidentalis) – a pilot study.” Austral Ecology 46 (3): 337-341.
  2. Tulsankar, S. S., A. J. Cole, M. M. Gagnon, and R. Fotedar. 2021. “Temporal variations and pond age effect on plankton communities in semi-intensive freshwater marron (Cherax cainii, Austin and Ryan, 2002) earthen aquaculture ponds in Western Australia.” Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 28 (2): 1392-1400.
  3. Lettoof, D. C., K. Rankenburg, B. J. McDonald, N. J. Evans, P. W. Bateman, F. Aubret, and M. M. Gagnon. 2021. “Snake scales record environmental metal(loid) contamination.” Environmental Pollution 274
  4. Lettoof, D. C., F. Aubret, F. Spilsbury, P. W. Bateman, J. Haberfield, J. Vos, and M. M. Gagnon. 2021. “Plasma biochemistry profiles of wild western tiger snakes (Notechis scutatus occidentalis) before and after six months of captivity.” Journal of Wildlife Diseases 57 (2): 253-263.
  5. Opiyo, K., C. Rawson, M. Gagnon, and I. Saputra. 2021. “Biomarkers in rock oysters (Saccostrea mordax) in response to organophosphate pesticides.” Indonesian Journal of Marine Sciences 27 (1): 7-16.
  6. Tulsankar, S. S., A. J. Cole, M. M. Gagnon, and R. Fotedar. 2021. “Time spent in post-feeding activities including feed preference by different weight groups of marron (Cherax cainii, Austin 2002) under laboratory conditions.” Applied Animal Behaviour Science 241
  7. Tulsankar, S., A. Cole, M. Gagnon, and R. Fotedar. 2021. “Feeding juvenile marron (Cherax cainii Austin, 2002) exclusively on live mixed plankton improves growth, total haemocyte count and pigmentation.” Aquaculture Reports
  8. Gilson, L. N., C. Cooper, P. C. Withers, and M. Gagnon.. “Two independent approaches to assessing the constancy of evaporative water loss for birds under varying evaporative conditions.” Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology Inpress.
  9. Gagnon, M., A. Scarlett, R. Nelson, A. Holman, C. Reddy, and K. Grice. 2021. “Comparison of Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil With Spilled Oil Following Grounding of Mv Wakashio in Mauritius, 2020.” European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference Proceedings IMOG 2021 2021: 1-2.
  10. Scarlett, A. G., R. K. Nelson, M. M. Gagnon, A. I. Holman, C. M. Reddy, P. A. Sutton, and K. Grice. 2021. “MV Wakashio grounding incident in Mauritius 2020: The world’s first major spillage of Very Low Sulfur Fuel Oil.” Marine Pollution Bulletin 171
  11. Spilsbury, F., A. Scarlett, K. Grice, and M. M. Gagnon. 2021. “Discriminating source of oil contamination in teleost fish, Lates calcarifer, using multivariate analysis of a suite of physiological and behavioral biomarkers.” Marine Pollution Bulletin 172
  12. Lettoof, D. C., V. A. Thomson, J. Cornelis, P. W. Bateman, F. Aubret, M. M. Gagnon, and B. von Takach. 2021. “Bioindicator snake shows genomic signatures of natural and anthropogenic barriers to gene flow.” PLoS ONE 16 (10 October)
  13. Wells, F., B. Cindy, M. M. Gagnon, J. K. Keesing, and J. Prince.. “A recurring population of the sea hare Bursatella hirsuta (Gastropoda: Aplysiidae) at Rottnest Island, Western Australia.” MOLLUSCAN RESEARCH Inpress.

2020

  1. Lettoof, D., B. von Takach, P. W. Bateman, M. M. Gagnon, and F. Aubret. 2020. “Investigating the role of urbanisation, wetlands and climatic conditions in nematode parasitism in a large Australian elapid snake.” International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 11: 32-39.
  2. Tulsankar, S. S., A. J. Cole, M. M. Gagnon, and R. Fotedar. 2020. “Effects of seasonal variations and pond age on trace elements and their correlations with plankton productivity in commercial freshwater crayfish (cherax cainii austin, 2002) earthen ponds.” Aquaculture Research 51 (5): 1913-1922.
  3. Long, S. M., D. L. Tull, D. P. De Souza, K. A. Kouremenos, S. Dayalan, M. J. McConville, K. L. Hassell, V. J. Pettigrove, and M. M. Gagnon. 2020. “Metabolomics provide sensitive insights into the impacts of low level environmental contamination on fish health—a pilot study.” Metabolites 10 (1)
  4. Lettoof, D. C., P. W. Bateman, F. Aubret, and M. M. Gagnon. 2020. “The Broad-Scale Analysis of Metals, Trace Elements, Organochlorine Pesticides and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Wetlands Along an Urban Gradient, and the Use of a High Trophic Snake as a Bioindicator.” Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 78 (4): 631-645.
  5. Wells, F. E., and M. M. Gagnon. 2020. “A quarter century of recovery of the whelk Thais orbita from tributyltin pollution off Perth, Western Australia.” Marine Pollution Bulletin 158

2018

  1. Hassell, K. L., C. A. Rawson, and M. M. Gagnon. 2018. “First report of intersex in a lutjanid: the goldband snapper Pristipomoides multidens.” Journal of Fish Biology 93 (2): 428-431.

C. Conference Papers

  1. Nugegoda, D., A. Cohen, and M. Gagnon. 2008. “Alterations of metabolic enzymes in Australian bass, Macquaria novemaculeata, following exposure to petroleum hydrocarbons.” In Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, May 25, 2008, Warsaw, Poland: SETAC.

Professional Associations

  • Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), member
  • Australian Society for Fish Biology, member
  • Australian Council of Environment Deans and Directors, member
  • Steering Committee Member, Applied Research Program in the Browse Basin