I am a former graduate student of the Koop lab in the Centre for Biomedical Research at University of Victoria. My project focussed on the development and application of physiological and molecular biomarkers of environmental contaminant-associated toxicity in harbour seals.
Currently, I am working as a Toxicologist for Hemmera, a Western Canadian environmental consulting company. Hemmera carries out human health and ecological risk assessments in contaminated sites as well as remote areas. As a collaborative research project between Hemmera and the Koop lab, I am also doing some laboratory work for an investigation of the impacts of oil spills on fish health.
Interests
Wildlife toxicology
Biomarkers & bioindicators
Education
PhD, University of Victoria, Canada (2006)
BSc/MSc, Wageningen University, the Netherlands (2001)
Publications
Ross PS and L Mos (2007) Impact of environmental pollution on marine mammals. In: Marine mammals and seabirds, edited by Muelbert and Horn (eds.), in Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). Developed under the auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK (Submitted).
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Mos L, Tabuchi M, Dangerfield N, Jeffries SJ, Koop BK, and PS Ross (2007) Contaminant-associated disruption of vitamin A and its receptor (retinoic acid receptor alpha) in free-ranging harbour seals (Phoca vitulina). Aquatic Toxicology 81: 319-328.
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Mos L, Morsey B, Jeffries SJ, Yunker MB, Raverty S, De Guise S, and PS Ross (2006) Chemical and biological pollution contribute to the immunological profiles of free-ranging harbour seals. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry 25(12): 3110-3117.
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Ross PS, Jeffries SJ, Cullon D, Tabuchi M, Mos L et al (2006) Persistent Organic Pollutants in marine mammals inhabiting the transboundary waters of British Columbia – Washington. In: Southern Resident Killer Whale Symposium Proceedings. Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Seattle, WA.
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Mos L, Jack J, Cullon D, Montour L, Alleyne C, and PS Ross (2004) Importance of marine foods to a near-urban First Nation community in coastal British Columbia, Canada: towards a risk-benefit assessment. Journal of Toxicology & Environmental Health A 67(8-10): 791-808.
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Mos L, Ross PS, McIntosh D, and S Raverty (2003) Canine distemper virus in British Columbia river otters as an emergent risk for coastal pinnipeds. Veterinary Record 152(8): 237-238.
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Hamers T, Van den Brink PJ, Mos L, Van der Linden SC, Legler J, Koeman JH, and AJ Murk (2003) Estrogenic and esterase inhibiting potency of rainwater in relation to pesticide concentrations, sampling season and location. Environmental Pollution 123: 47-65.
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Mos L and PS Ross (2002) Vitamin A physiology in the precocious harbour seal (Phoca vitulina): A tissue biopsy-based biomarker approach. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80(9): 1-9.
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Mos L (2001) Domoic acid: a fascinating marine toxin. Environmental Toxicology & Pharrmacology 9(3): 79-85.
