Recent Happenings - Culp Lab

On May 17th to 22nd the 57th Annual North American Benthological Society (NABS) meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan was attended by CRI members Joseph Culp, Donald Baird, Kelly Munkittrick, Amanda Valois, Colin Curry, Wendy Monk, David Arminini and Alexa Alexander. The meeting was well attended with more than 800 benthic ecologists present at the very swank Amway Hotel.



Highlights included plenary presentations by Paul Ehrlich and David Allan.

From the Culp lab, a platform presentation was made by Alexa:

Alexander, A.C. and J.M. Culp. Nature versus mixture: evaluating changes in benthic assemblages due to insecticides and nutrients.

Drs Joseph Culp (past President of NABS) and Patricia Chambers organized a well-received special session on the impacts of agriculture on stream ecosystems.

A number of AEIRD scientists and their students gave presentations, including:

Developing sediment targets to prevent excessive sedimentation in
agriculturally-dominated watersheds. Joseph M. Culp, Glenn A. Benoy, Robert Brua, Andrew Sutherland, Patricia Chambers.

• Heidi has accepted a teaching position at ABU in Moncton
• Laura G. has completed a draft of her thesis
• Alexa and Allison are gearing up for another field season
• Allison Ritcey is the recent recipient of a 2009-2010 Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research from the Canadian Northern Studies Trust. The scholarship was awarded for her research involving stream processes and food web structures in northern Labrador and the relevance of the research to northerners and northern scholarship.