She is the Jarislowsky Chair in Environment and Health and Professor of Biology at McMaster University and member of the International Joint Commission.

[9] Using this Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council funding, including a Discovery Accelerator Award, Kidd concluded that freshwater lakes in Kejimkujik National Park had increased levels of mercury in food webs, which were directly affecting the yellow perch fish.

[10] In 2017, Kidd was named the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Environment and Health at McMaster University[11] and was selected to sit on the Canadian Water Network's Advisory Panel on Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater.

[12] In August 2017, Kidd released three years of her research studying the Saint John Harbour and concluded that metal contaminants were declining.

[14] Two years later, Kidd co-authored a study with Joshua Kurek of Mount Allison University looking at dated sediments from the bottom of five remote lakes in north-central New Brunswick, Canada.