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Lab News

November, 2011: Tom Sizmur, Ravinder Pannu, and Sam Edmonds present their research in Mercury session chaired by Dr. O'Driscoll and Jane Kirk at SETAC North America in Boston, MA. Erin Mann also attends and has meetings with Asif Qureshi at Harvard U.

September, 2011: Tom Sizmur presents his research on mercury accumulation in polycheate worms at the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership Conference.

September, 2011: Welcome to new PhD students Lilianne Arsenault and Erin Mann who will be research ring aspects of the Arctic mercury cycle.

September, 2011: Dr. O'Driscoll joins Portuguese-based research teams investigating salt marsh mercury flux over the next 3 years.

http://proflux.weebly.com

http://plantaproject.weebly.com

August, 2011: O'Driscoll Lab members present at Global Mercury Conference in Halifax. Public info session slides here.

June, 2011: Northern Contaminants Program funds work on mercury in Arctic snow in O'Driscoll Lab.

May , 2011: Dr. O'Driscoll and Mercury Lab interview of Breakfast Television: Video LINK

April, 2011: Ducks Unlimited funds work on mercury in polycheate worms in O'Driscoll Lab.

April, 2011: New postdoctoral fellow Tom Sizmur visits O'Driscoll lab (funded by British Ecological Society) to examine mercury accumulation polycheate worms in the Minas Basin.

March, 2011: Dr. O'Driscoll joins PROFLUX team to research mercury dynamics in polluted salt marshes in Portugal.

http://proflux.weebly.com

March, 2011: Sam Edmonds (MSc), as well as Amy Buckland (BSc) and Amy Larkin (BSc) defend their theses. Congratulations!

March, 2011: Sam Edmonds work on rusty blackbirds shows up in On-Nature article:

http://onnaturemagazine.com/rusty-blackbird.html

February, 2011: Ravinder Pannu wins best presentation prize at the AGS conference in Fredericton, NB for his work on mercury volatilization from soil. Congrats Ravinder!

December, 2010: Sam Edmonds wins 1st place for best student platform presentation ($300 prize) from SETAC North America. Congrats Sam!

November, 2010: Sam Edmonds, Ravinder Pannu, and Dr. O'Driscoll present their research at SETAC North America in Portland Oregon. Dr. O'Driscoll co-chairs mercury sessions with Dr. Jane Kirk (Environment Canada).

October, 2010:  Welcome to Hilary White who joins our group. Hilary is co-supervised by Ian Spooner and is working on the Limnology of Tantramar lakes for her MSc in Geology.

October, 2010: Center for Analytical Research on the Environment (CARE) is established bringing together the contaminant labs in the KC Irving Center including the Environmental Biogeochemistry Lab.

October, 2010: Dr. O'Driscoll receives funding from Environment Canada for research in support of air quality LIDAR equipment.

September, 2010: Dr. O'Driscoll gives invited talk at UNB Fredericton

May, 2010: Dr O'Driscoll is a visiting researcher at IPIMAR in Portugal collaborating with Dr. Canario and hosting the trace metals session at SETAC Europe (Seville, Spain).

May, 2010: O'Driscoll lab graduates Jillian Hanmore (Honours BSc) and Stephanie Rogers (MSc) convocation.

May, 2010: NSERC CREATE grant awarded for ~$1.7 Million to 8 researchers including Dr. O'Driscoll (P.I. Dr. Belltrami). Dr. O'Driscoll to collaborate as part of group to train students in climate change impacts and adaptation.

April, 2010: Sam Edmonds paper on mercury in Rusty Blackbirds accepted for publication in Condor. Congrats Sam!

April, 2010: Amy Buckland Nicks receives NSERC USRA for her work on mercury accumulation in dragonflies.

April, 2010: New grants from Ducks Unlimited Canada, Environment Canada, and Natural Resources Canada received. Also new funding from Acadia Research Fund.

January, 2010: Our Carbon Nanotube research interview posted in Water Canada:  http://watercanada.net/2010/playing-catch-up/

January, 2010: Congratulations to Sam Edmonds and Jillian Hanmore who both won student presentation awards from the SETAC North America conference this past November in New Orleans.

December, 2009: New LIDAR air quality system is installed in collaboration with Environment Canada (Dr. Kevin Strawbridge - lead researcher). Newspaper article and radio articles below:

http://www.novanewsnow.com/article-404495-Green-lights-no-aliens.html

http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1156448.html

November, 2009: Discovery awards video is posted on-line:

http://www.loudandclear.ca/video/emerging_HQ.mov

November, 2009: Emma, Sam, and Jill present their research at SETAC North America (New Orleans, USA)  in special mercury session co-chaired by Dr. O'Driscoll.

November, 2009: Asif Qureshi's publication on mercury reduction and oxidation in ocean water is accepted for publication in Environmental Science and Technology.

October, 2009: John Hill's publication on mercury binding to DOC is accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment.

September, 2009: Welcome to PhD student Ravinder Pannu to the O'Driscoll lab. Ravinder will be co-supervised by Dr. Siciliano at U Sask.

August, 2009: Dr. O'Driscoll nominated for Emerging Professional Award by Discovery Center

August, 2009: Mercury book proposal accepted by John Wiley and Sons to be co-edited by Drs Cai, Liu, and O'Driscoll

July, 2009: Carbon nanotube paper is accepted for publication in Water, Air and Soil Pollution. (See Dr. O'Driscoll publications)

July, 2009: Dr. O'Driscoll and lab group collaborate with Environment Canada and St. Francis Xavier to measure mercury flux and green house gases movements on Kingsport salt marsh. Continuous readings for 10 days. See pictures in album.

June, 2009: Amy Buckland and Dr. O'Driscoll return to Gagetown for post-spraying measurements in experimental amphibian ponds.

June, 2009: Gordon McArthur begins mesocosm experiments in KC Irving Center. Replicating tidal cycle on salt marsh to examine variations in  flux of green house gases.

May, 2009: Dr. O'Driscoll presents salt marsh research at Bay of Fundy Ecosystem conference at Acadia.

May, 2009: Emma Vost and Dr. O'Driscoll perform water sampling in Kejimkujik Park, NS. Environment Canada funded project to examine photo-chemical processes in lakes affecting mercury retention and loss. (aee pictures in album)

May, 2009:  Amy Buckland and Dr. O'Driscoll collaborate with researchers examining the effects of glyphosate and UV radiation on amphibian development in large ecosystem experiment in Gagetown, NB (see pictures in album).

April 2009: Congratulations to Stephanie Rogers on being awarded an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell CGS-M graduate scholarship worth $17,500 for her work on fluorescence LIDAR and dissolved organic matter. This prestigious scholarship is for the top ranked NSERC PGS-M applicants. Way to go Stephanie!

April 2009: Congratulations to Emma Vost on being awarded an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell CGS-M graduate scholarship worth $17,500 for her work on mercury photo-reactions. This prestigious scholarship is for the top ranked NSERC PGS-M applicants. Way to go Emma!

April 2009: Welcome to Stephanie Rogers (M.Sc. student-AGRG), Gordon McArthur (M.Sc. student - StFX), and Amy Buckland Nicks (Summer assistant) to the lab group (see current group pictures)!

March 2009: Jennifer, Sarah, Sam, and Emma present their research at the APICS ENVS conference at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Sarah wins "best student presentation award" at APICS (See Pictures to Left).

March 2009: Jill Hanmore awarded NSERC USRA to work on mercury volatilization from soils this summer.

March 2009: Dr. O'Driscoll received funding from Natural Resources Canada (and CARA program) to develop techniques to measure mercury volatilization potential from soils. 

March, 2009: Sarah Haverstock, Jen Herrick, Sam Edmonds, Emma Vost and others to present research at APICS Environmental Science conference at UNB Fredericton.

January, 2009: Welcome Jill Hanmore to the group who will be examining mercury volatilization from soil as her honours thesis.

January, 2009: New course on Contaminants in the Environment (ENVS 3613/ CHEM 4823) is taught by Dr. O'Driscoll.

November, 2008: Welcome to Emma Vost, current lab technician and MSc student starting in 2009. Dr. O'Driscoll chairs mercury sessions at SETAC North America and provides invited talk at Florida International University. Sam Edmonds presents newest mercury in blackbird research at rusty blackbird conference.

September, 2008: Welcome to Sam Edmonds new M.Sc. student  examining mercury concentrations in blackbirds and relationships to wetland water chemistry.

July, 2008: Installation and training for Brooks Rand Methyl Mercury and Total Mercury analysis system in O'Driscoll Lab.

June, 2008: Dr. O'Driscoll teams with researchers from Environment Canada and St. Francis Xavier to examine mercury and green house gas emissions from salt marsh (see Lab Photo album).

June, 2008: Dr. O'Driscoll chairs mercury session at ALSO meeting in St. John's Newfoundland.

June, 2008: Welcome to Asif Qureshi a visiting PhD student from ETH Zurich examining mercury redox reactions and global modeling of oceans.

June, 2008: New publication in ES&T on mercury in frozen lakes.

April, 2008: Dr. O'Driscoll receives funding from Clean Air Regulatory Act (Environment Canada) to study mercury photo-reactions in Lakes.

March, 2008: Sarah Haverstock awarded NSERC Undergraduate Research Award to examine dissolved organic carbon photo-oxidation.

March, 2008: Dr. O'Driscoll's NSERC Discovery grant is funded for $120,000 over a five year period to examine mercury photo-chemical reactions and the role of dissolved organic matter