Heidi Swanson travelled to Quebec City in December to present her work at the annual ArcticNet conference. She has just returned from Kugluktuk, Nunauvt, where she organized and led a 1-week career and technology studies course for Inuit youth. The youth learned about water quality, fish population, fish health assessment, and climate change and loved learning about otoliths!
In December, Tim Jardine returned to Saint John from his “postdoctoral appointment” with the Australian Rivers Institute and very successfully defended his PhD thesis. He and his wife Laura also had a beautiful baby girl, Edie Lillian Jardine, in September. Congratulations Tim on a very eventful fall!
In the fall, Karen Kidd started at 3-year appointment to NSERC’s Evolution and Ecology Grant Selection Committee, and participated on the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board Ecological Processes and Effects Committee to review methods for deriving water quality criteria for emerging contaminants.
She traveled to beautiful Devon, U.K. in October to give an invited talk at a workshop on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors, and to Tampa, Florida in November to give a plenary lecture at the North American meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
Most recently, she accepted a one year appointment to be a Science Communication Fellow with the non-profit Environmental Health Sciences group in the U.S. (www.environmentalhealthsciences.org). In this position, she will work with 9 other Fellows and several journalists to communicate environmental sciences to the public and to bridge the science – policy gap.
Karen Kidd, Heidi Swanson, Leanne Baker and Monica Finley soaking up some science (honest!) in Tampa, Florida at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry meeting, November 2008
