Alexa Alexander received an honorarium from Health Canada for her efforts in reviewing and providing feedback to Health Canada on the proposed CCME guideline for the pesticide Imidacloprid. As well, Alexa has recently been awarded the 2007 FM Christie Research Fellowship ($1000). Way to go Alexa!
Laura Noel recently had the opportunity to work with Dr. Len Wasenaar and Dr. Geoff Keolher at the National Hydrology Research Centre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to learn oxygen stable isotope determination techniques in water samples. This information can then be used to model the photosynthesis: respiration: gas exchange ratio’s of my research sampling sites located along nutrient gradients of the Saint John River. Laura also was lucky enough to attend some of the lectures of a graduate course that Len and Geoff were teaching on stable isotopes. It was a fantastic learning experience. Laura feels that she has become truly infected with the ISOBUG (the unidentified virus responsible for the onset of the transformation from isodope to isotopeteer).
